To get individual cover images you can use: http://www.gog.com/mix/ajax?a=getGame&description=&selOrder=2&gameId=4

Unfortunately the GOGmix approach doesn't work for games that have been removed from the catalog, or for "unbundled" box art - though I suppose you could just put those image URLs directly the script, if you can dig them up somehow (I may have a list somewhere...)

Maybe GOG will give us direct access to this stuff if we ask nicely? Eh. Maybe not.

Ha, I hadn't noticed this. It is indeed odd that it's the default view that breaks.


Are you referring to a browser add-on or S/W in general? Doesn't really matter though, as far as I can tell, the answer is no in both cases.

I'm currently stuck with my old monitor on a 1024X768 resolution.

The only thing I suspected of getting in the way was a userstyle that slims down the nav-bar, but I've disabled it and it didn't make much of a difference - see attached screenshots, first is with the userstyle enabled, second with it disabled.

The issues starts slowly with the second row (they're a tiny bit lower which makes them look as if they're a tad more to the front), gets pretty noticeable at the fifth, and it keeps going downhill from there.


EDIT: Forgot to mention that I also checked on SWare Iron (Chrome fork) where I only have BE and AF installed, and the result's the same.

Thanks!
That should help quite a bit :)

Yeah... somehow I doubt it, I did ask support about the black shelf but still waiting to hear back...

I could understand if the playing around with the margins and padding that I needed to do had put it off somehow, but why the normal view should have stopped working I'm not sure (I did need to change it slightly so it could switch between the two, but it's just basically reloading it so it shouldn't effect it)

Yeah, just add ons or plug ins for the browser really...
I've just tried changing my resolution to 1024 x 768 and it didn't make any difference to the view, so that's not it.

It sounds like a problem with the margins... I'm not sure why, but when I was playing around trying to get it right if the margins were off by a pixel or two I had the same issue... but once I found the perfect numbers it stopped (which is odd in itself, if each box has the same margin then there should be no drift...)

I'll keep working on it, thanks for the info :)

I am so very happy to have been a help! I really hope you can make it work, because getting those beautiful old shelves back would be awesome! Good luck and don't work too hard.

Just because you're the only one to report it so far doesn't mean you're the only one who will get it...
And as one of my main testers and contributors I wouldn't feel right not getting it working for you :)
I've changed the way the shelf works slightly (to try and fix issues with different zoom levels and screen sizes, which it didn't) which may help... I'll probably push a little update with some tweaks on Sunday, still haven't figured out why the details thing isn't opening correctly though, and that's far too annoying to leave...

Just started on the list, I've added all the games down to B... it will take a while, but not too long. Then I'll just need to remember to maintain it.. (or find a way to do it automatically...)
Anyway, it seems to solve a lot of the issues with the legacy shelf, although there will be some games that will be missing (the ones removed from the catalogue and the unbundled ones, as plagren pointed out) but it may be possible to get details for those and maintain that as a variable in the script... or something.

I'll start working on the actual view probably on Sunday and see where I can get to.

Edit: I stand corrected.. there is clearly a limit on games added to mixes and I have crossed it... so that's not going to work... :/
I'll probably need to use the link plagren provided, although it will mean a lot more AJAX calls (which will be a problem once I can implement more games per page...)
I'll figure something out...

I've been meaning to do this for a while anyway, so... I worked out the URLs for all the old box art I know of, left out what's already available through the GOGmix interface, and was left with these: http://larkku.iki.fi/nongogmixboxart.html

[EDIT: Yeah, I'm just listing *all* the links now, whether they're on the GOGmix thingy or not.]

Since I'm matching the covers with game IDs manually, there's probably some errors.
Even if not useful for the script, maybe someone besides me will find these interesting. :-P

Good work. +1.

About IDs you do not know, the method I use is to refer to Barry_Woodward's wiki page ([url=http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Barry_Woodward]http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/User:Barry_Woodward[/url]). He buys all games shortly after release and updates his page religiously (thanks, Barry), so the data is usually up to date. Barefoot_Monkey added a data-id field to each game, which you can see through "view source".

Additionally, there's this link which collects data about all the GOG games, also courtesy of Barefoot: [url=http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Special:GogExtensionData]http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/Special:GogExtensionData[/url], but it's sometimes difficult to differentiate between catalogue game IDs and library game IDs (often the same, but not always, due to unbundled games, but also other reasons (e.g. all Bethesda games)).

Thanks a lot, much needed scripts!

As much as I appreciate your dedication, it's hardly worth the time and effort if it turns out that I am the only one actually having this issue. It could still be something something at my end, and I just can't pinpoint it. Perhaps wait and see if anyone else reports having it before spending more time on it?

And yes, GOGmixes have a limit, and it appears to be set pretty low too.



Bookmarked, +1!

Small suggestion, you may want to remove the _bbC_20 part of the url, since that is the lower res image. One should be able to resize the image on display, if needed.
Now to grab them all.

Ah, yes - all links now point to full-size versions for convenient backing up. :-)
If anyone needs the evenly sized versions for scripts/whatever, they can just put that part back in.

Thanks! I'll start going through those once I wake up...

Thanks for this, it will help a lot :)

So are these basically the URLs missing from elsewhere? (The unbundled games and the removed ones)
As the GoG Mix method isn't going to work, and I'd rather not have to make 100 AJAX calls a page to get the box art, I think the best method will just be to build my own lookup list of IDs and URLs (as you have done here) and just save it as .json and load that when required.

So I just need to get a list of all the GoG game IDs (which, if it doesn't exist somewhere already I'm sure I can pull from Barry's wiki page.

Pretty much. When the "new and improved" library page was coming out, I backed up all the old covers I could find from my library, GOGWiki etc. Probably missed a few, but that should be most of them.

I'm getting a headache thinking about all the unbundling stuff. Damn you, GOG!