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Yeah that sounds a bit suboptimal, but good to know you're aware of it and trying to solve it.

For the time being, I'll probably just fetch the full info for any games that have an artwork update, to ensure I have a consistent database. Too many ways the guessing/inferring could be wrong.

Just thought of another potential issue. How do I know if the above entry is a new image or a replacement for an existing image? And how do I know if an image has been deleted?

Maybe I'm just being dumb, in which case feel free to let me know =)

A call to /Games/Updates might yield an entry like this: { "edit_id": 13604, "game_id": 60548, "timestamp": "2018-08-03 21:49:33", "type": "boxart", "value": "boxart/front/60548-1.jpg" } As you may have noticed, it's mis...

How can I figure out if a game has been deleted? Is this reflected in the /Games/Updates API call somehow? For new games, an update entry with type "game" and value "[NEW]" is returned, maybe deleted games return "[DELETED]"? Relatedly, is there a list somewhere of all ...

If it was just a simple bitmask, it'd be really hard to change the fields because changing a single bit to mean something else would create incompatibilities/inconsistencies that might not be noticed by the API user. And if the actual changed data wasn't returned in the Updates request, you have to ...

I'm not sure how you'd get 20000 games from 1000 requests, but maybe your math is better than mine. I can't load games by ID from the app as it doesn't yet know the IDs during scraping, so it has to search for every game. I think most monthly limits could potentionally be a problem for the power use...

Hi awesome people! I'm the developer of ARC Browser, an emulator frontend for Android. Currently using your old API, but I'm of course interested in switching to the new API once it comes out of beta. I'd like to know more about how you intend to limit API/key access, if you've made any decisions ye...