oggzee, quick question. Do you have a plan to solve the 3D cover sizing problem with many of the new sites? This is the status of the new servers as far as I can tell:
http://wiicover.gateflorida.com/ : 176x248 only
http://boxart.rowdyruff.net/ : 176x248 only
http://awiibit.com/ : 176x248 only
http://wiitdb.com/ : 160x225 only (I think, not really sure)
http://www.muntrue.nl/ : 160x225 native, but resizing to 176x248 is possible
Seeing as wiitdb doesn't seem to have a full set of covers yet and they are a different size to the other sites, I don't use them. I've also added changes to my config.txt to support the new cover sizes and coordinates at their native resolution.
Now this isn't too bad and it does work, but it has highlighted a few problems and possible improvements:
1: README-CFG.txt states that you don't need to set wcovers_size when setting covers_size, but I have found that you do, or the image doesn't appear correctly (each horizontal line is slightly shifted horizontally from the line above it, probably a rounding error).
2: My tweaks only support large3 as I can't be bothered to find the original coordinates of the other layouts. Is it possible to add a 'covers_coords_offset' global variable that is always added to whichever value of 'covers_coords' is set by the theme to make it work for them all (e.g., shifting every 3D boxart by 8 pixels left and 12 up for the new sizes)?
3: I found you cant really use the {WIDTH} and {HEIGHT} tags in the URLs any more because of the download all option. Could these tags and the covers_size and covers_coords options please be split into 3 (or 4 given imminent full covers) options, one for each style as you did with the URLs?
4: If you do the stuff in 3, it could be possible to show two or more different covers per game on the menu, like the boxart and disc below it (or even on top of each other to fake the disc partially sticking out of the box). The cover_style option would need to change to support multiple choices (with the first being used for the gui, maybe), but that should be doable, right?
As stated earlier, none of these are really that important (except for 1 which seems like a bug), but it would be pretty nice to have them seem pretty easy fixes to make.
Thanks again for all the awesome work you've done so far. Oh, and I guess that wasn't so quick after all
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Edit: Hmm, seems I may have been wrong about the native size for muntrue (I could swear they had 176x248 as native last night). This now makes me consider going back to the smaller size and removing the 176x248-only sites from my list. Makes points 1&2 pretty useless (except for those that prefer the larger size), but 3 and 4 could still be handy, if possible.