Feature Request - Ability to catalog games in a library

[smidley]

This app should be able to see what games you have currently, and for what platform they are for. Much like how sickbeard can see the shows you have and what quality.

I would love to be able to point to a folder like this \Games\Roms\Nintendo\ and have it see all my games.

When a game has been downloaded, it will be moved into the "completed" category, and show up in your games library.

[lad1337]

This is a though one ... To be on the save side I guess I would create something like a platform parser ... Creating a parser for roms should be easier then a parser for pc games ...
These parsers could then have a simple interface like scanYourFolders() and they would return Games much as the downloaders do for the status check ... My only concern is they would need access to the providers so it would be aplugin calling plugins ... As I write this: how do the scrapers that XBMC uses do it ? What info provider do they use (how can we combine information of many providers? (Settings wise we could make another system plugin for specific section like provider info merge settings plugin)

The GUI is another question. Sure there will be a library menu item but how will you list all the platforms? Like sb does for shows and the games like episodes ? Sounds a little dull... I mean games have all kinds of artwork and trailers ( thinking of it: does thegamdb provide or give the option to add some kind of manual ?) surly the table style used right now would not work for this much information... Also do we want fancy Ajax loading

[smidley]

There's a lot to think about here, and this feature may be a ways out while it gets planned. Thegamesdb doesn't have any manuals that we host yet, but that has been asked for before and we'd like to provide them in some way.

I would say this should be organized by platform, then alphabetical for games. Things that could be displayed are the Title, Release Date, ESRB rating, TGDB rating, Number of players, Trailer, etc.

It would be cool if you could also click on a game title, and then have the ability to scrape info / art for the game.

[flexage]

Smidley: "It would be cool if you could also click on a game title, and then have the ability to scrape info / art for the game."

I agree, and if in doubt when scraping for a title, it is always customary to provide a pop-up selection box if a strong match isn't auto-detected.