Scraped game images are not displaying in the frontend from NAS.

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Reporter - 2026-07-12 07:35 UTC

Sorry, I have to bring this up again. I've now tried both options:
ZapScraper in MiSTer
Skraper
Then I imported it into the frontend, but unfortunately it just doesn't show anything for me. I have my games on a NAS, but I don't think that should be a problem. I don't know where to look for the error anymore.
The files are on the NAS under “media,” and the gamelist.xml file is there as well.

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Reporter - 2026-07-10 11:10 UTC

I have only a normal Image and the name but no image Is this something you can give me some advice on?

User B - 2026-07-10 11:18 UTC

It’s still new. You must follow some steps https://zaparoo.org/docs/frontend/scraping/

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Reporter - 2026-07-12 07:45 UTC

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Reporter - 2026-07-12 07:48 UTC

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Reporter - 2026-07-12 07:57 UTC

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[wizzomafizzo]

Investigated the supplied gamelist.xml, support log, and media.db.

The database contains 33,332 Arcade media rows, but zero Arcade image properties and zero Arcade scraper sentinel tags, so the frontend has no Arcade artwork to display. Existing scraped records belong to other systems.

The supplied gamelist targets MAME ZIP paths such as ./1941.zip, while Core indexes MiSTer Arcade launch entries as .mra files under /media/fat/_Arcade/.... The gamelist scraper reads gamelist.xml from each indexed system root and associates artwork with indexed media, so a MAME-oriented gamelist stored beside NAS ROM ZIPs will not currently map to those MiSTer .mra entries.

Could you confirm exactly where gamelist.xml and its media directory are located on the MiSTer filesystem? For example, are they under /media/fat/_Arcade, or only beside the NAS MAME ROM ZIPs?

Based on current evidence, this looks like an unsupported path/media mapping rather than a frontend image-loading failure. Supporting MAME/Skraper set-name mapping to MiSTer MRA entries may need a separate feature request.