Sranshaft Wrote:Just wanted to say thanks a lot for the great work you've done so far in getting this to work. Of all the emulator launcher, this one is by the easiest to setup and is the only one to actually work for me.
I'm glad you like it!
Sranshaft Wrote:I wanted to ask a quick question though regarding the covers it uses for the games. Is there any chance you'd be able to add in the ability to use the images found with the roms for the covers?
I've spent the last 2 days getting high quality images for all of my games and at the moment it seems to have been time wasted with the low quality images the addon pulls from GiantBomb. I have all of my images set up as {name of game}_thumb.jpg as I suspect a lot of users do. Perhaps a quick look to see if the file exists while scraping the library kind of what XBMC does when adding movies to its library?
While I do want to add support for local covers/description/etc, I have not decided exactly how to do this yet. I might add several methods; one way to manually add information from within XBMC (using the context menu, for example), and another way to somehow import batches of data for many
games at once.
Anyway, I will have to think a while about how to do this before I implement it. In the mean time, the only thing you can really do is to upload your images to GiantBomb. In a way, this is the best solution, since it means everyone can enjoy your high quality images. If you decide to do this, do note that the scraper prioritizes release images over article images for cover art (
these images, rather than
this image) (if you worry that release images are scaled down to low resolution, don't worry, the API can fetch the original high resolution images).
Sranshaft Wrote:Also, some of the games I have do not seem to appear in the list after letting the addon scrape. I'm not sure if this is because they aren't available on GiantBomb but it would seem like a good idea to ignore the missing info and add them any way. This is mostly occurring with my NeoGeo CD games.
This is strange though. By default, if a
game can not be scraped, it is simply left in the list using the file name (sans extension) as the title. It could be that the
game was assigned a different title due to some sort of mismatch though.
An example:
Say I have a ROM named "Probotector". Contra was released under this name in Europe on the NES. When searching on giantbomb for "Probotector", it will match an alias on the
game "Contra". Thus, the title assigned to the
game will be "Contra", not "Probotector" (it chooses the main title over the aliases).
There is a setting under the general settings category that turns off this behavior, and instead always uses the file name as a
game title.