Game screenshots in Emulationstation

[taekwonjudo]

I LOVE everything this community & developers have done for the retro gaming community so please, everyone accept my thanks!

One of the things I enjoy most about this entire setup is the themes in Emulationstation. It's great to see an image of the game along with all of the details/description of the game... but something I would love to see incorporated would be adding a screenshot of the games to the DB at gbd.

Is this something that could be incorporated? I'm not a programmer but I am a graphic designer... If I can assist by compiling screenshots to be added, I'd be happy to do so.

Just my $0.02. Keep up the great work everyone! Know it's GREATLY appreciated!

[herb_fargus]

@taekwonjudo

I wrote up a guide on doing just that:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Take-and-Scrape-Your-Own-Screenshots/

There are also flags in the scraper (manually) that you can set to pull screenshots instead of box art.

The libretro team also already has a substantial set of metadata and screenshots in their databases:

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-thumbnails

I've talked with sselph about possible integration with libretro's databases but that may be a ways down the road after some more pressing matters are attended to.

[taekwonjudo]

Thanks Herb @herb_fargus

After I posted this I noticed that a bunch of people were already pulling screens in their own custom Themes.

I'll check out your guide! Thanks for doing that by the way :)

[herb_fargus]

@taekwonjudo but yeah if you do get them feel free to upload any missing screenshots on thegamesdb and/or https://screenscraper.fr/