Open nemo93 opened 10 years ago
Let me add a final item related to the location where images are saved. Currently it's within the ".emulationstation/downloaded_images/" folder. Problem is that it's not a shared drive and to modify/change images I have to use FTP :( If the default directory for downloaded images could be the same as to where the roms are this would be awesome.
to 2. I would suggest an additional entry in the scraper settings menu. it should look like
PRIMARY SCRAPER < THEGAMESDB / ARCHIVE.VG / ... > ALTERNATE SCRAPER < NONE / THEGAMESDB / ARCHIVE.VG / ... >
my two cents as the UI designer of this project.
Scrapers are written in C++. All the relevant code can be found here, I don't have a tutorial for writing one.
I opted to keep downloaded images in the ~/.emulationstation folder because I know some people don't like ES-specific files cluttering their games folder (myself included). If you want to move the folder to a shared drive, move the downloaded_images folder to your shared drive, then use the ln
utility to create a link with something like ln --symbolic /mydrive/downloaded_images ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images
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Just a quick update. I tried to create a symbolic link "If you want to move the folder to a shared drive, move the downloaded_images folder to your shared drive, then use the ln utility to create a link with something like ln --symbolic /mydrive/downloaded_images ~/.emulationstation/downloaded_images." but the scraper wants to "mkdir" the folder so it seems that it doesn't consider it as a hard link.