Thanks man. This worked with downloading the scraper. Really appreciate the help. Finally got everything working great. I swapped out my xbox controller for a ps4 controller and it is so much better. Paired right away and works great with the games. When I'm playing a game is there an easier way to get back to my ES rom list instead of exiting retroarch every time? For example, when I don't want to play a game anymore, I have to press the playstation button. That takes me into retroarch. I have to scroll through the menu and go down and exit retroarch to get back to ES. Just wondering if there was an easier way to do this.
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try to run script as administrator..if it doesn t work try to create a folder on your windows 10 and run script in there so it downloads the scraper and then move scraper to mapped roms folder..
option 2 will be instead of mapping your nas roms drive try to map the LE mounted emulators folder to windows..
Tried everything you mentioned and still the same result. I'm thinking it has something to do with mentioned here Fails to set version, fails to download with manual inclusion of version... · Issue #16 · paradadf/recaltools · GitHub, but I'm trying to make sense of it or figure out what I need to edit.
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Ok thanks. I got the script to run but now it's not downloading the scraper. The screenshot is below.
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OK..let me try to go step by step...
From your windows PC go to file explorer_network and browse to your nas folder named roms...right click on that folder and choose "map network drive.."
Windows should give that folder a drive letter and after that it should show as a drive on My Computer or This PC in windows 10.
Lets say you have windows 10....go to This PC and open the mapped drive should look something like roms(\\192.168.0.10) (G:)
Copy the fastscraper.bat to the roms folder...should look like this
Before you run the scraper just enter the screen scraper user and pass..
In line 18 of the script enter which artwork you want to download...if you want to download 3d boxart you enter 3b as I showed you earlier...
If you want to also download screenshots first remove or rename the "downloaded_images" folder so you don t overwrite the downloaded images..
run the script....it should download sselph scraper and then you will choose which subfolder you want to scrape example nes or snes etc...
after that it should start scraping
When done scraping you should have a gamelist.xml and a folder with artwork
You put the gamelist.xml in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/game.emulationstation/gamelists/(nes or whatever)
You can put the downloaded images on your nas in the roms folder...put images in different folders for each emulator..
the gamelist.xml should look something like this
My image path looks a bit complicated because I have more artwork then just images for ES ....I m using the same images for ES,RA and AEL..
Anyway just ask if you get stuck..
Thank you very much for this. It is very much appreciated. However, I have the drive mounted and the batch file in the roms folder. When, I try to run the script it runs the script very quickly and closes out. I am able to stop it before it closes if I click the mouse really fast to catch it. I was able to get an attached screenshot of what it is saying. It says "It says it is not recognized as an internal or external command" for every line. I even tried to run this on a separate computer (windows 10 also) and got the same result. I tried turning off antivirus, firewalls, etc...still the same. I even googled this problem, followed this article A command is not recognized as an internal or external command, and still got the same result.
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I've tried a different things, but still getting the same result when I try to run the script. The command box opens up, runs through a bunch of lines quickly and then closes. I do not get a chance to actually read what its going through because it flashes so quickly.
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I scraped mine long time ago and I just keep backups now but from what I can remember to do it from windows I had to first browse from windows networks to the roms folder and map network roms folder...
On line 17 of script you choose what you want to scrape...for 3d boxarts and screenshots you enter
Codeset consoleImg=-console_img="3b,s"You can also set the paths in the script but I prefer to edit games.xml with notepad after..
Then you go to the roms folder from mapped drive and you place the script in the main roms folder..
Run script and it should download sselph.exe on first run..
when you r asked which system do you want to scrape you enter the name of the roms subfolder ex nes or snes..
and it should start scraping.
It my roms folder, am I supposed to have a gamelist.xml document with all my roms for each emulator? I remember when I created a folder for each emulator (in Storage/Emulators/Roms) to match the gamelist file structure I didn't carry over the gamelist.xml file for each one.
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Strange, I think I got it to run now. Not really sure what the problem was before. It closed pretty quick after running through the script. I looked on emulation and don't see any covers or metadata.
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Strange...its working for me..just tried it now...What OS are you on? Windows?
Yes, I'm trying to run it on windows.
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When I try
I have all my roms and artwork on a connected hdd so not sure about that but my first guess is that you should mount the folder on your nas which has your roms to storage/emulators/roms
Regarding scraping I don't use the built in scraper.I use sselph scraper with fastscraper and then mass edit with notepad++ where needed.
All you have to do is create an account at screenscraper.fr
Then get the script from here and insert your account user and psword and edit the script to get your artwork...I got mine set to download 3d boxart and screenshots but you can set it up how you like..
Lesson learned make sure you always keep backups of your setup as you save loads of time and work...
When I try to run the batchfile I get this error.
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With my rpi I use system.d to mount network folders..I assume it s the same with nuc
So you mount ip_of_your_nas/emulators to storage/emulators and you should see the content of your nas emulators folder in storage/emulators on Libreelec..then you browse to storage/emulators/roms from ES addon settings...you can just mount the roms folder only but I think its better to mount main emulators folder so you can leave everything on your nas.bioses and assets...artwork etc
Thanks, this worked perfectly.
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This is the closest thing I could find, but this documentation is for the pie Running ROMs from a Network Share · RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup Wiki · GitHub. Do you think I need to add some kind of autostart.sh script to have emulation station pull from the network share?
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I have all my roms and artwork on a connected hdd so not sure about that but my first guess is that you should mount the folder on your nas which has your roms to storage/emulators/roms
Regarding scraping I don't use the built in scraper.I use sselph scraper with fastscraper and then mass edit with notepad++ where needed.
All you have to do is create an account at screenscraper.fr
Then get the script from here and insert your account user and psword and edit the script to get your artwork...I got mine set to download 3d boxart and screenshots but you can set it up how you like..
Lesson learned make sure you always keep backups of your setup as you save loads of time and work...
So, I created the file structure on the synology with the roms. Emulators/roms. I still haven't been able to get emulation station to load the roms from the NFS on emulation station. It gives me the no systems found file error. I made sure to create the file structure like you mentioned before with the gamelist.
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Check my post on this thread #741 to fix audio issue.
Thanks for this, got the sound working. A few other things now. I want to pull my roms from my synology nas for emulation station. Is there a way to do this? My guess is that I would have to do something like mount each network folder somehow. Also, I'm not getting any scraper information from emulation station.
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Update: The lag was being caused by my 4k tv issue. I enabled a setting in retroarch FGso and it worked for the lag. But, I still am unable to get any sound.
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I'm using an intel nuc pc running librelec. I get sound if I just load a rom in kodi and play it, but not retroarch. I will try play around with the audio settings in retroarch.
I went back through and made sure I updated everything with online updater. Now, I am able to get the games to launch through emulation station as well as retroarch. But, the video is playing back in almost slow motion and is not smooth. I still do not have sound and have been unable to figure that out as well. I even bypassed the receiver and hooked the hdmi up directly to the tv and still no sound, so the problem still lies within retroarch. Btw, as far as the wireless xbox controller. I was finally able to get that to work by turning off the controller and restarting it after the game launches. It will be annoying to have to do that everytime, but I will take that versus a wired controller.
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Are you using Rpi?
Usually if you set audio device to hw:0,1 in retroarch audio settings it should work trough Hdmi.
I'm using an intel nuc pc running librelec. I get sound if I just load a rom in kodi and play it, but not retroarch. I will try play around with the audio settings in retroarch. I am using a yamaha receiver though. I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it.
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Before you get ES working you need to get RA working properly as ES uses RA to launch roms.I can't help you much with the controler issue as I only have a couple of wired snes controllers.
I also do not get any sound with retroarch after the rom launches. I've tried using different emulators and different sound drivers from within retroarch with no luck. I also have updated everything with online updater from within retroarch.
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do you have retroarch setup and working?
With retroarch, it seems to be having some issues with my xbox one wireless controller. In the menu screen it finds my wireless xbox controller and recognizes it in port #0 and I can use it. However, when I start a rom game it loses all functionality and all I get a little small mouse cursor on the screen. So, it does seem retroarch is working, but I haven't been able to actually play a game on it yet because I can't solve this. When I first tried to use the xbox one wireless controller, I couldn't even get it stay connected, so I am using an autostart.sh script.