[Jachin99]

I bet thats it, thanks for the help.

[fazendas]

Hi,

TheGamesDb and ScreenScraper stop working for me.

Error messages:
TheGamesDB - "HTTP code None message "Unknown/unspecified error"
ScreenScraper - "Bad HTTP status code None"

It happen last night, both at the same time and still doens't work.
Someone knows what could be the problem?

Thanks.

[Wintermute0110]

Hi,

TheGamesDb and ScreenScraper stop working for me.

Error messages:
TheGamesDB - "HTTP code None message "Unknown/unspecified error"
ScreenScraper - "Bad HTTP status code None"

It happen last night, both at the same time and still doens't work.
Someone knows what could be the problem?

Thanks.

I just tested the scrapers from Tokyo, where I live, and everything looks OK. If both scrapers stopped working simultaneously maybe it was because an internet problem. Keep in mind that with half of the humanity secluded at home streaming video, making videocalls, etc., there are a lot of network bottlenecks everywhere. Does the problem persist?

[fazendas]

It's solved.
I think it was small free space(around 500mb).

[fazendas]

Hi,

Can you tell me how can I get the information of the game plataform and icons, marked in red in the picture below?
I have all roms info and covers, but I don't have any for the plarforms. 



Thank you.

[Wintermute0110]

Hi,

Can you tell me how can I get the information of the game plataform and icons, marked in red in the picture below?
I have all roms info and covers, but I don't have any for the plarforms. 



Thank you.

Are you making some views for a skin? If so, AEL infolabels are documented here. Also, I recommend you visit my sking mod Estuary AEL and diff with the vanilla Estuary branch to see the changes.

[fazendas]

Hi,

Can you tell me how can I get the information of the game plataform and icons, marked in red in the picture below?
I have all roms info and covers, but I don't have any for the plarforms. 



Thank you.

Are you making some views for a skin? If so, AEL infolabels are documented here. Also, I recommend you visit my sking mod Estuary AEL and diff with the vanilla Estuary branch to see the changes. 

No, just trying to have a nice and complete rom collection.
The addon is amazing by the way

I'm using Aeon Silvo skin, mandatory, is the only one that I really like.
My question is, how can I scrape(don't know if it's the correct term), the covers and info from the several plataforms(GBA, GENESIS, etc), like I did for the roms.

I see in the launchers the option:
Edit Launcher->Edit metadata, but just the option for the nfo file, and not the option to scrape from GamesDB for example.

[Wintermute0110]

Hi,

Can you tell me how can I get the information of the game plataform and icons, marked in red in the picture below?
I have all roms info and covers, but I don't have any for the plarforms. 



Thank you.

Are you making some views for a skin? If so, AEL infolabels are documented here. Also, I recommend you visit my sking mod Estuary AEL and diff with the vanilla Estuary branch to see the changes. 

No, just trying to have a nice and complete rom collection.
The addon is amazing by the way

I'm using Aeon Silvo skin, mandatory, is the only one that I really like.
My question is, how can I scrape(don't know if it's the correct term), the covers and info from the several plataforms(GBA, GENESIS, etc), like I did for the roms.

I see in the launchers the option:
Edit Launcher->Edit metadata, but just the option for the nfo file, and not the option to scrape from GamesDB for example.

Ok. Use the AEL Asset Library. Read the first post carefully.

[huzzein]

hello wintermute!

i have some problems with the addon. i'm using kodi 18.4 with ael 0.9.9 btw. also i'm using the rapier skin. i usually launch pc games through the frontend. the launching works most of the times - about 98% - but that's the games' problem.

i'm scraping with mobygames (i requested an api key from them), when i test the scraper, it turns out to be okay, but when i scan for new roms, it always exits with an error. i managed to dig up the error, it was an unhandled exeption in python:

https://paste.kodi.tv/basuyigoki.kodi

previously, when i was using 0.9.8, the mobygames metadata scraping worked fine, but when i added new games, it was really hard to manage to add new media manually (boxfronts and fanarts) to the games, as there is not any option to scrape for new media for multiple titles, only for per game.

also what i noticed while scraping with mobygames is that moby wants the search for titles to be punctuated correctly (with colons), but i can not write that into the filenames (ntfs filesystem), so the scraping always fails for more complex named titles (eg: override: mech city brawl, door kickers: action squad), unless i type in every game's name by hand.

[Wintermute0110]

hello wintermute!

i have some problems with the addon. i'm using kodi 18.4 with ael 0.9.9 btw. also i'm using the rapier skin. i usually launch pc games through the frontend. the launching works most of the times - about 98% - but that's the games' problem.

i'm scraping with mobygames (i requested an api key from them), when i test the scraper, it turns out to be okay, but when i scan for new roms, it always exits with an error. i managed to dig up the error, it was an unhandled exeption in python:

https://paste.kodi.tv/basuyigoki.kodi

previously, when i was using 0.9.8, the mobygames metadata scraping worked fine, but when i added new games, it was really hard to manage to add new media manually (boxfronts and fanarts) to the games, as there is not any option to scrape for new media for multiple titles, only for per game.

also what i noticed while scraping with mobygames is that moby wants the search for titles to be punctuated correctly (with colons), but i can not write that into the filenames (ntfs filesystem), so the scraping always fails for more complex named titles (eg: override: mech city brawl, door kickers: action squad), unless i type in every game's name by hand.

1) Please paste the full debug log following the instructions of the first post. I need to see the string (ROM name) that causes the crash.

2) MobyGames search engine is very picky. It does not support punctuation. For example, if you are scraping the PSP game "Tomb Raider: Adventures of Lara Croft" AEL will remove the ':' character, but MobyGames does not do a fuzzy search and may not find anything. What I usually do is to remove the trailing of the string until the first special character "Tomb Raider" as the search string, and the choose the game from the list.

MobyGames is a very good scraper for manual scraping and fine tuning of your collection, but not a good scraper for the scanner. I strongly recommend to use ScreenScraper and TheGamesDB for the scanner. TheGamesDB has a low allowance, if you have big collections use ScreenScraper. I hope this helps.

EDIT: 3) AEL includes now a "Scrape ROMs artwork" option in the Manage ROMs of the Launcher context menu. You can change the scraper settings and then use that option. Always set the policy "Local Images + Scrapers" to not download assets you already have. I have not tested that option much but it should work OK.

If you use ScreenScraper and have No-Intro collections you should get about 95% of the artwork correctly. If you only have common games (by common I mean the best 50 games of the catalog of each system, for example) you will get 100% matches with SS. SS uses SHA1 checksums to identify games which is the most accurate way. The only fews games without artwork are obscure ROMs or prototypes. Then, for my Favourites and ROM Collections I always used context menu scraping for fine tuning. For MAME download the full artwork collections or torrents.

[huzzein]

1) Please paste the full debug log following the instructions of the first post. I need to see the string (ROM name) that causes the crash.

2) MobyGames search engine is very picky. It does not support punctuation. For example, if you are scraping the PSP game "Tomb Raider: Adventures of Lara Croft" AEL will remove the ':' character, but MobyGames does not do a fuzzy search and may not find anything. What I usually do is to remove the trailing of the string until the first special character "Tomb Raider" as the search string, and the choose the game from the list.

MobyGames is a very good scraper for manual scraping and fine tuning of your collection, but not a good scraper for the scanner. I strongly recommend to use ScreenScraper and TheGamesDB for the scanner. TheGamesDB has a low allowance, if you have big collections use ScreenScraper. I hope this helps.

EDIT: 3) AEL includes now a "Scrape ROMs artwork" option in the Manage ROMs of the Launcher context menu. You can change the scraper settings and then use that option. Always set the policy "Local Images + Scrapers" to not download assets you already have. I have not tested that option much but it should work OK.

If you use ScreenScraper and have No-Intro collections you should get about 95% of the artwork correctly. If you only have common games (by common I mean the best 50 games of the catalog of each system, for example) you will get 100% matches with SS. SS uses SHA1 checksums to identify games which is the most accurate way. The only fews games without artwork are obscure ROMs or prototypes. Then, for my Favourites and ROM Collections I always used context menu scraping for fine tuning. For MAME download the full artwork collections or torrents. 

thanks for the quick reply!

how's the situation in tokyo?

1: here's my debug log:
https://paste.kodi.tv/ofefuvumos.kodi

2: ok, i'll stick with thegamesdb. maybe you could add a simple google search for fanart?

3: i don't emulate roms and consoles, i have a different hardware and launcher for that. but that scrape artwork option is good to know.

[Wintermute0110]

thanks for the quick reply!

how's the situation in tokyo?

1: here's my debug log:
https://paste.kodi.tv/ofefuvumos.kodi

2: ok, i'll stick with thegamesdb. maybe you could add a simple google search for fanart?

3: i don't emulate roms and consoles, i have a different hardware and launcher for that. but that scrape artwork option is good to know.

Situation here is not bad but getting worse by the day. I'm doing well, fortunately I can telework but staying secluded home is kind of weird. Thanks for asking.

OK, now the log is useful and I can solve the problem. Give me some days to find time and fix the scraper.

[huzzein]

Situation here is not bad but getting worse by the day. I'm doing well, fortunately I can telework but staying secluded home is kind of weird. Thanks for asking.

OK, now the log is useful and I can solve the problem. Give me some days to find time and fix the scraper. 

thanks for your work!
stay safe!

[huzzein]

EDIT: 3) AEL includes now a "Scrape ROMs artwork" option in the Manage ROMs of the Launcher context menu. You can change the scraper settings and then use that option. Always set the policy "Local Images + Scrapers" to not download assets you already have. I have not tested that option much but it should work OK.

where is this manage roms and scrape artwork option that you mentioned above? i cannot find it.

[chrisism]

Alright, some might already know, but in short I have been helping out on android support for AEL and specially support for Gamestream on Nvidia Shield, my own favorite box. Getting all this to work with this excellent plugin from @Wintermute0110. So we did quite some rework on the whole inner workings of AEL and that is the reason why we have an unstable master. Try to keep it as up to date as possible with the last releases, but still a lot of things to do/fix. But in this new version we introduce a whole lot of new cool features.

So now I like to show a sneak peak of what we are heading to. A little clip showing AEL in action with a Retroarch launcher and Nvidia Gamestream launcher using Titan Mediabrowser Mod skin where I have added buildin game view support for AEL. This is the current master branch version and I am running it on a chromebook, using Moonlight as the client for gamestreams. Normal setup is AEL on Nvidia Shield and using its own gamestream launcher. Both got Retroarch installed.

Check out the clip: https://streamable.com/drjw2n

Important!! Master branch is still unstable and work in progress. Moving from a stable release to the master can break your configuration. For stable release check @Wintermute0110's official releases.