game scraper problem

[cengherbogdan]

hi. i just try scraper but the thegamesdb.net is down. how can i get games description with picture in emulatorstation ?
thank you

[mikeveli20]

Wait until it’s back up, or you can add them yourself by manually editing the xml file. I’ve had to do that for a few games where for whatever reason the scraper won’t pick up the game from thegamesdb. Mobygames.com is a good alternate source that I use for images and descriptions. If you have tons of games to scrape though I would just wait for thegamesdb to be up otherwise it will take forever.

[cengherbogdan]

thank you so much. yes. i have tons of games. i will wait for thegamedb . thanks again

[mikeveli20]

Hopefully it’s back soon. This outage has been longer than any previous ones that I can remember.

Edit: Likely won’t be for awhile according to this latest update: https://www.facebook.com/thegamesdb/posts/1058742734182457

[newparadise]

Where do I find the xml, and where do I put the image files?

[mikeveli20]

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

Then you’ll see a ‘downloaded_images’ folder and a ‘gamelists’ folder. Within each will be a folder for each system.

[newparadise]

Cool, thanks. Found it, do you know if there is an example out there of what the layout/formatting is? They are all blank right now.

EDIT: nm, found it

[zitrax]

If you use https://github.com/sselph/scraper you can pass skip_check and use_ovgdb or similar on the commandline. Worked for me, see its help output.

[cengherbogdan]

http://archive.vg/ is online. can i scrape database from there ?

[newparadise]

I don’t see a downloaded_images folder, just gamelists. Inside gamelists, I go to mame-advmame, and open gamelist.xml. It was empty, just had </gameList>. So I opened up mame-mame4all even though I don’t use it anymore. There is path, name, playcount, and lastplayed. I don’t see any place for image though. Any help appreciated thanks!

[mikeveli20]

You’ll have to create the folder if you haven’t scraped any games yet. It should go in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation folder.

Once inside the xml, add an <image> tag to your game with the path to the image.

E.g. <image>/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/Super Mario World-image.jpg</image>

There’s also a symlink that will take you to the emulationstation folder which is a bit shorter to type: /home/pi/.emulationstation

[zerojay]

thegamesdb is back up, btw.

[mydriaze]

Tricky one: I’m playing F-Zero on SNES. How to edit metadata? F-zero spelling find nothing. Neither F Zero, neither FZEro. I’m lost, I don’t know how to match this game with the database!

[crbrx]

Press select on the game and scroll down to edit metadata. It lets you do it for individual games. If that doesn’t work, make a manual entry in the proper folder, as referenced above.

[herbfargus]

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

[mydriaze]

Thanks for your reply. I’m not saying i don’t know how to use/scrap metadata, i’m saying that the F-zero spelling did not work properly with the scraper: FZERO, F ZERO, F-ZERO spelling didn’t match anything.

[herbfargus]

Sselphs scraper matches based on hash data not necessarily the game title, but his database may not be complete

[mydriaze]

I will give a try, thanks for the hint. ;)

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