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hi. i just try scraper but the thegamesdb.net is down. how can i get games description with picture in emulatorstation ?
thank youWait 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.
thank you so much. yes. i have tons of games. i will wait for thegamedb . thanks again
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
Where do I find the xml, and where do I put the image files?
/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.
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
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.
http://archive.vg/ is online. can i scrape database from there ?
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
Sselphs scraper matches based on hash data not necessarily the game title, but his database may not be complete
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