Image url redirects
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 9:01 pm
I am one of the developers who helps maintain the RetroPie fork of EmulationStation. In the last couple of days we have been getting reports from users that the built in scraper is failing to download images. The root cause is because EmulationStation wasn't handling http redirects. We are working to correct this, but that will only help users who know to update.
Would it be possible to make an adjustment on your end to help mitigate this? When we retrieve a games metadata there is a baseImgUrl property (http://thegamesdb.net/banners/) that we use to construct the image urls. If that value could be updated to reflect the new base url (http://legacy.thegamesdb.net/banners/) then the problem would be fixed for all users.
Would it be possible to make an adjustment on your end to help mitigate this? When we retrieve a games metadata there is a baseImgUrl property (http://thegamesdb.net/banners/) that we use to construct the image urls. If that value could be updated to reflect the new base url (http://legacy.thegamesdb.net/banners/) then the problem would be fixed for all users.