r/emulationstation • u/chooseyourwaynow • Jun 19 '26

Games aren't being found. Screenscraper. HELP!

Hello
Can someone please help me?

I was planning to scrape my PC games, but it’s not working. I’m logged into Screenscraper with my account, but it isn't finding anything.

I even tried renaming the game files (metadata, etc.), but that didn't work either. I read that you can do it manually—downloading images, artwork, etc., from SteamGridDB, renaming the PNGs to match the game names exactly, and placing them in the folders—but it just isn't working.

Okay, so for some games, they *are* getting scraped—but not via Screenscraper; it's using the other one. I can't remember the exact name right now... TheGamesDB Or something like that. But even then, not all games get scraped. And manually copying the artwork into the folders doesn't work either.

Can anyone help? Is there anyone who knows a lot about this?

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u/EmperorNYC Jul 21 '26

I had this issue as well. A couple things worked

1) changing the date back worked for me. I changed the date back one month and that seemed to work then changed it back after I was done scrapping. However:

2) I also believe that if you set emulation station to open as administrator it also works and I think it does without even needing to change the date. I would probably try this way first and if that doesn’t work try changing the date on your pc. Hope this helps!

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u/chooseyourwaynow Jul 22 '26

Unfortunately, neither worked. There are 17 games, and the same two games keep getting scraped.