[natethomas]

+1
I feel like this is the last missing piece on the old Xbox.

Well, I need to go change my pants now. Seriously, this would be really awesome.

[Gamester17]

More Game FanArt backdrops can be found here:
http://desktopgaming.com/
and here:
http://orioto.deviantart.com/gallery/#Videogame-Remakes



Anyone care to download, crop/resize if needed, and upload to?:
http://www.htbackdrops.com

[digitalhigh]

Already downloaded the files, just don't have time to sort out what's for what game. Hopefully this saves somebody some trouble, at least.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yzkzmwtgkte

[seedzero]

+1

[rausch101]

Leo has picked up the thread where Awen left off, Awen is busy in his personal life atm, but has stated he will return.

That's great news. Leo seems very talented so I'm sure a collaboration with Awen will go a long way.

So it is more important than ever to populate htbackdrops in preparation.

agreed

[Gamester17]

Here are almost 300 games FanArt images, anyone care to sort and upload them to htbackdrops.com for us?
http://rapidshare.com/files/148078074/games.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/152016852/Ga.....zip.html

[rudeboyx]

+1 - last fanart needed.
not only would it look awsome but its just common sence.

[canyonquest]

I haven't really been following the games library project, but has there been any progress? Seems like a monumental task with the different OSes, emulators, etc. I'd be content if the Games/Programs section would just recognize fanart.jpg within the directories.

[Nicezia]

Currently sorting through the fanart, and will be assisting in uploading these to HtBackdrops.


This project really interests me since my scraper library will be (externally from xbmc) supporting game scrapers more extensively(for more than just the XBox platform), if anyone is still working on the games library and extending the scraper engine to support it i'd definately like to discuss the extent to which the support is taken since i play more emulated games on my Xbox than actual Xbox Games, i'm more interested in extending this to xupport(and launch) emulated games from Xbox.

[digitalhigh]

Currently sorting through the fanart, and will be assisting in uploading these to HtBackdrops.


This project really interests me since my scraper library will be (externally from xbmc) supporting game scrapers more extensively(for more than just the XBox platform), if anyone is still working on the games library and extending the scraper engine to support it i'd definately like to discuss the extent to which the support is taken since i play more emulated games on my Xbox than actual Xbox Games, i'm more interested in extending this to xupport(and launch) emulated games from Xbox.

You should talk to leo2, last I knew he was doing what he could with the game library branch...

[Nicezia]

yeah i pm'ed him, no response yet, but i'm sure he actually has a life, so no rush on that.

[Tuxie]

MobyGames and AllGame have TONS and TONS of cover art, screenshots, descriptions and reviews for about every console and computer system there was so they should definitely have scrapers. Unfortunately MobyGames watermark their high resolution cover art (but not screenshots) and AllGame have somewhat limited resolutions on theirs, but it's a good start.

What we really need is a thetvdb.com type of site for games.

[ShinobiZ]

+1 for this game fanart project.

I am not a HTPC user, yet, but I am still a XBMC/MC360 user on my xbox for a couple years now. I registered right after seeing this post. I have been hoping for something like this ever since I first saw screen shots of Aeon. My kids and I still play my xbox games along with all the old school emulators games. I would really like something like this that I can just have the xbox boot straight into the games library with all the fanart backdrops associated with each game.

Not being a programmer myself, is it difficult to have the xbmc recognize a backdrop with each game that is loaded onto the xbox's hd? I've been trying to read up on this as much as I can to fully understand what is going on. Is fanart backdrops possible to do locally without the need of a scraper?
thanks

[spiff]

sure, they can be local

[DGMurdockIII]

im not sure if you now about these site but theses might help when trying to do this

http://www.vgrebirth.org/games/
http://www.mobygames.com/home