Screeenscraper fails for special characters in game name in 7.2

[VJ]

I have noticed that some scrappings fail, looking for the cause I noticed that the game name usually has special characters that cannot be used in filenames, eg:
Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins

root@pi4:/recalbox/share/roms/psx$ cat gamelist.xml |grep "Alundra 2"
 
                 <path>Alundra 2.PBP</path>
                 <video>media/videos/Alundra 2 : The New Legend Begins_9e0a5dda8df9bee0be15dce4a0df3677.mp4</video>
                 <image>media/images/Alundra 2 : A New Legend Begins_126d6c6f357139b618712655ecbb71a8.png</image>
                 <name>Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins</name>
 

My conclusion is that even though the rom was found and the metadata saved in gamelist.xml the files cannot be saved because they use characters incompatible with the filesystem.

I understand that it is possible to optimize the scrapping code using the ROM name in the image and video name to avoid this problem.

root@pi4:/recalbox/share/roms/psx$ df -Th /recalbox/share
Filesystem           Type            Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2       fuseblk       234.3G    216.3G     18.0G  92% /recalbox/share

Here is my question, is this adjustable?

[Xglacius]

I have the same problem. The images are not stored on the games with "-" or ":" on their names for example.

[VJ]

@xglacius
I just fount that it is a bug
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/24634/scraper-does-not-download-coverart-when-there-is-a-colom-in-the-gamename/4
As a workaround I fix it by manual downloading the files form http://screenscraper.fr and the updates on the gamelist.xml using vim ;

or could use https://www.skraper.net/ to scrape it ...

[Xglacius]

@vj thanks! They say it's going to be fixed on 7.3, nice!