Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My collection is not pulling box art for games that I have searched for on TheGamesDB.net and know they have box/cd art for every game and I'd like to fix it.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add some kind of menu or method to manually search for a game on TheGamesDB.net and select a box art. Something like a right click menu on desktop or a long press menu on Mobile.
The menu would show a bar to enter the game name and search TheGamesDB.net and then show some search results for that game. Selecting the game would then pull up different box/disc art options
You would select the box art you want for that game from the search and this would override the record in flycast-gamedb.json with the selected box art from the search.
This would also let someone to manually choose Box Art vs Disc art, it seems some games pull Box Art but others seem to pull Disc Art and not sure why, but for my collection I'd like to make it consistent.
Another idea would be to allow adding an image file manually by just opening a file explorer and letting you choose a file it would then copy that file to the data/boxart folder and add entry in the flycast-gamedb.json
Describe alternatives you've considered
I can manually add the box art by editing the flycast-gamedb.json but it's difficult and slow to edit manually. This would be much faster and more user friendly to be able to do it from inside the user interface.
Additional context
There could be other uses for this menu such as accessing achievements or loading a state from the main menu vs opening the game first, but right now all I'd like is to be able to easily fix the box art.
All the options in the menu below are things that show up after you load a game and then press tab to open the Flycast Menu, but here you can access them without loading the disc first. Just some other ideas on how it could be used, like a way to see retro achievements without having to load the disc.
It's possible this doesn't need to be a menu like this but I think this would be the most intuitive way to do it.
Here's an example of what the menu could look like once opened, Here I'm searching for Rayman 2 and getting all the results that come up on the first page of the results for Rayman 2. I could then choose the NTSC-U one and then it would show all the possible image choices.
IDK if TheGamesDB.net API lets you filter for just the Dreamcast version but that could be a checkbox that is enabled by default to just show Dreamcast entries. Then it would just show the PAL, NTSC-J, and NTSC-U versions for the Dreamcast.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My collection is not pulling box art for games that I have searched for on TheGamesDB.net and know they have box/cd art for every game and I'd like to fix it.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add some kind of menu or method to manually search for a game on TheGamesDB.net and select a box art. Something like a right click menu on desktop or a long press menu on Mobile.
The menu would show a bar to enter the game name and search TheGamesDB.net and then show some search results for that game. Selecting the game would then pull up different box/disc art options
You would select the box art you want for that game from the search and this would override the record in flycast-gamedb.json with the selected box art from the search.
This would also let someone to manually choose Box Art vs Disc art, it seems some games pull Box Art but others seem to pull Disc Art and not sure why, but for my collection I'd like to make it consistent.
Another idea would be to allow adding an image file manually by just opening a file explorer and letting you choose a file it would then copy that file to the data/boxart folder and add entry in the flycast-gamedb.json
Describe alternatives you've considered
I can manually add the box art by editing the flycast-gamedb.json but it's difficult and slow to edit manually. This would be much faster and more user friendly to be able to do it from inside the user interface.
Additional context
There could be other uses for this menu such as accessing achievements or loading a state from the main menu vs opening the game first, but right now all I'd like is to be able to easily fix the box art.
All the options in the menu below are things that show up after you load a game and then press tab to open the Flycast Menu, but here you can access them without loading the disc first. Just some other ideas on how it could be used, like a way to see retro achievements without having to load the disc.
It's possible this doesn't need to be a menu like this but I think this would be the most intuitive way to do it.
Here's an example of what the menu could look like once opened, Here I'm searching for Rayman 2 and getting all the results that come up on the first page of the results for Rayman 2. I could then choose the NTSC-U one and then it would show all the possible image choices.
IDK if TheGamesDB.net API lets you filter for just the Dreamcast version but that could be a checkbox that is enabled by default to just show Dreamcast entries. Then it would just show the PAL, NTSC-J, and NTSC-U versions for the Dreamcast.
