support for screenscraper website as a second source of thumbnail
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Description
Hi,
The site https://www.screenscraper.fr is a huge source of screencopies and boxart for retro games. Many other frontend enables the user to set an account to be able to download screencopies and boxart from this site.
It could be very nice to have the current official thumbails source but also a way to set an account for https://www.screenscraper.fr so that the user can choose both of them, or which one first to try.
Regards
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how RetroArch currently obtains official thumbnails and where user account settings are stored, then determine how a second source and source ordering would fit. Done means users can configure Screenscraper credentials and choose or prioritize it alongside the existing source.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100