2011-02-20, 01:28
virgahyatt Wrote:I had this same problem. I just ended up removing the game it froze on and ran it again. Not sure what happens but I think it's waiting for a response from mobygames that never comes and it doesn't time out.No, I think it is related to encoding problems in the script. There are unhandled exceptions when importing games with characters that are not supported by the given encoding. Unfortunately these error cause the script to freeze. We will fix this with the next version (I hope).
virgahyatt Wrote:The only games I had a problem with were some really off the wall ones so I didn't sweat it. Though it was a pain to have to run it from scratch multiple times.It should not be necessary to rescrape the games that are already imported. Usually RCB should skip all games that are already in db and starts scraping only new games. Check the setting "Rescan imported games" if this is not the case for you.
Angelscry Wrote:Hi, Malte, MobyGames has slightly modified the code of their result pages. I have been forced to correct my MobyGames scrapers to make them works again. So, it may be also the cause of your actual problems.Thanks for the hint. But I made a quick test with my scraper and it still works fine. I will do some more tests but it may be that this change does not hit me.
andlinux Wrote:I tried again importing games but now I removed Mobygames out of the list and replaced it with another one. I have to say that importing was a lot faster but then it stopped again at 45%, it was the game Mickey's Ultimate Challenge where it stopped at.As said above, I don't think it is the mobygames scraper that is causing the problem. I think it is a problem with characters in the game description. Maybe there was a description on mobygames that caused the error and so it worked as you removed the scraper.
So I ftp'ed to my S1-AT5NM10E and removed that game.
Then again, I started importing the games and reached 100%.
Mobygames is the slowest available scraper because the content is split about several sites so RCB has to make several requests to get all the data. Additionally mobygames has the most artwork types, so RCB will download more artwork from there. As mobygames is the most complete and accurate database currently available I would not recommend to remove it from the selection.
andlinux Wrote:But I noticed that I have no sound in my games now, with a few games I heard sound for maybe 1 second when they started but then it was silent...Sorry. No idea how to help you here. Maybe related to your sound environment or emulator settings but quite sure not caused by RCB. But I often read about similar problems so it may be worth to search around for emulator sound problems here in the forum.