[RESOLVED] Steam, GameEx, and EmuMovies

[Scott Petty]

GameEX is able to pull up a list of my Steam games, but I am unable to find the executables or correct directory which contains my Steam games to pass to the Emumovies Download Service. So... I am unable to get artwork and video snapshots in GameEx for my Steam games.

Has anyone been able to figure this out?

Thanks,

Scott

[Draco1962]

I believe that Steam content (video or still snaps) is pulled from Steam and not EmuMovies Download Service.

You may want to try this workaround by Stu1983 to see if it will refresh the content for you. If not, please submit a copy of your log.txt and gameex.ini file so we may quickly assist you. Please refer to this link for additional information.

[Scott Petty]

Thanks Draco!

So... ummm... unbeknownst to me I've always had the option for GameEx to automatically download artwork turned off. So I have always used the Download Service tool that comes with my Emumovies account to download all of the art, manuals, and video snaps for all games on all systems. Will GameEx do all of that automatically? If so, where does it store all of that data (I had upwards of 75 GB in the Download Service folder!)?

Thanks again,

Scott

[nullPointer]

Hi Scott

By default all Steam artwork is downloaded into the following directory:

...\GameEx\MEDIA\STEAM

There you'll find sub-directories for Banners (labeled as Boxes I believe), Snaps, and Videos. Occasionally I have an issue with Steam artwork in which the Store page is behind a Date of Birth verification screen. In this circumstance I've had to manually download artwork and rename according to the numeric Steam game identifier of the associated game. So if you're only getting half your artwork that might be something to consider as well as the solution linked by Draco.

The integrated artwork download feature basically does the same thing as the standalone artwork utility, it just works behind the scenes. So your artwork downloaded in this fashion will be downloaded to whatever artwork directories you've configured for your emulators.

[Scott Petty]

Thanks very much nullPointer!

Scott