
Just wanted to update on some of the large strides we've made with 'promo images' (in this case, official screenshots) in recent weeks, thanks to
FireFang9212 (on PlayStation platforms) and
Maner76 (for Nintendo platforms!)
Recently, FireFang9212 has been
going backwards through the PS3 releases we have adding promotional images from PlayStation.com. This is easier now that we support 'vanilla' PlayStation.com game page URLs in addition to PlayStation Store pages. He's doing a great job, having added
almost 7500 images in the past few weeks, yay. In
many cases these database entries had no screenshots at all, so it's a major win.
Additionally, Maner76 has been doing similarly for Nintendo DS games, and has got
over 2500 images added, which is an amazing total - again including many games that were completely lacking in-game visuals in our system until now.
If
anyone would like to help them out, we're looking for people to
tackle PSP, PS Vita or PS4 entries systematically by going alphabetically through and putting PlayStation.com URLs in to our easy 'scraping' system for each game. If anyone wants to
add Wii/Wii U & 3DS promo images, we could also do with some help there - although some scraping has occurred for some of the above platforms.
Just mention it in the thread attached to this news, and work methodically, so we don't step on each other! And for games we don't have in our database at all, look for a scraping-related announcement/advancement on this soon. (Also, we just added the ability to scrape JP.PlayStation.com URLs, if anyone would like to help on Japanese-only titles or if screenshots differ on the Japanese version of PlayStation.com.)