Vectrex issue

[Anonymous]

Hello, I’ve just started uploading images and games info to GamesDB for the GCE Vectrex hoping I could then use the scraper to populate my Vectrex games list within Retropie. My problem is that when I try and run the scraper on the Vectrex system I get the follwing error – Warning: Some of your selected systems do not have a platform set. Results may be even more inaccurate than usual.

If I let it run it populates the games with artwork and info from random systems – and also renames the games.

I’ve checked the ES_SYSTEMS.cfg file and the Vectrex entry definately has “Vectrex” listed in the platform tags. Just wondering if anyone else is having a similar issue. Is there anywhere else that I can check to see if a platform is associated with the Vectrex.

I am running the latest RetroPie build (v3.2.1) on a Raspberry Pi 2.

[sselph]

I don’t have the es_systems.cfg in front of me, but if you look at other systems you’ll notice a platform id, like snes is 6, If you add something similar for Vectrex that should help. The ID for Vectrex is 4939.

[Anonymous]

thanks for the info but I just checked my es_systems.cfg file but there are no platform ID numbers – for Vectrex or any other systems either.

here is the entry for Vectrex

<system>
<name>vectrex</name>
<fullname>Vectrex</fullname>
<path>~/RetroPie/roms/vectrex</path>
<extension>.vec .gam .bin .zip .VEC .GAM .BIN .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ vectrex %ROM%</command>
<platform>vectrex</platform>
<theme>vectrex</theme>
</system>

and here is the entry for SNES

<system>
<name>snes</name>
<fullname>Super Nintendo</fullname>
<path>~/RetroPie/roms/snes</path>
<extension>.bin .smc .sfc .fig .swc .mgd .zip .BIN .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC .MGD .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ snes %ROM%</command>
<platform>snes</platform>
<theme>snes</theme>
</system>

they appear to both hold the same information.

[sselph]

Hmm I apologize, I thought I remember there being a platform_id type tag in the xml that told ES the platform but it doesn’t appear to do that. It instead pulls from this file https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/646bede3d9ec0acf0ae378415edac136774a66c5/es-app/src/PlatformId.cpp

[Anonymous]

OK – thanks – just checked there and there’s no Vectrex listed so I’m guessing that’s where the error is coming from.

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