- On most occasions you want to use ScreenScraper and not TheGamesDB. But for PC titles scraping from TheGamesDB might be better.
- You will need to register an account on [ScreenScraper.fr](https://www.screenscraper.fr/) to scrape (support them on Patreon for faster downloads, more scrapes per day and priority scraping).
- Login to your Screenscraper.fr account inside of the ES-DE interface in RetroDECK
- Choose what content you want to scrape (remember that each content you choose could take up several mb of data per game).
- Do an initial scrape of all the games you want to scrape.
- If some games are missed do a more narrow scraping by enabling `Scraper -> Other Settings -> Interactive Mode -> On`& Scraper -> `Other Settings -> Auto-Accept Single Game Matches -> On` and choose to scrape by games missing metadata. This will allow you to select each game from a list and also tweak the searches of the missing games.
- In some cases you need to remove certain aspects of the name like if a rom comes both with a Japanese name and English name, you could try to remove one of the names to find a better result.
The ES-DE Wiki has [Instructions: Manually copying game media files](https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/blob/master/USERGUIDE.md?ref_type=heads#manually-copying-game-media-files) on adding your own media.
There's a handy spreadsheet that explains each media type:
[Spreadsheet: Media Types in ES-DE](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18VJAL44aNxsFOd4pVAONmdWwa7srCSzr2Z2SJEiNKnE/edit?gid=1812680930#gid=1812680930)
- Remember that on Linux filenames are case sensitive.
- The file extensions must be in lower case in ES-DE (`.png` instead of `.PNG` / `.Png`).
- The media files names must correspond exactly to the game files name.
- For directories interpreted as files games (like ScummVM) you will need to add the folder file extension to the media file name example: `dig.scummvm.png`.
- Supported image file extensions are: `.jpg` and `.png`.
The error message mentions something about quota. You have a quota limit on how much you can scrape each day from [Screenscraper](https://www.screenscraper.fr/) where each item you scrape counts as 1 quota of the daily total.
You can pay them to get a bit more daily quota and show your support or just wait 24 hours.
Yes, if you want for example launch one of the PSX games with Duckstation instead of RetroArch.
First navigate to the game in the gamelist, then open the `Gamelist Options Menu` - `Edit This Game's Metadata` - `Alternative Emulator` - `Set the emulator here`.
