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Support fetching images directly from Steam's static assets for sideloaded games
Problem description
I've recently found a game that doesn't have any images uploaded in its steamgriddb entry, so sideloading it results in the default heroic_card-mjvSE_Ga.jpg image being applied.
Feature description
Steamgriddb supports displaying the original assets from Steam, so those could be used instead. And in fact, that should probably be the default as those original assets would probably be preferable to whatever alternative images are uploaded by users.
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Not sure if it suffices but on the next release you will be able to pick any image on your computer on the sideload dialog.
Well, to be honest even without this new image picker things were already sufficient for me, in the sense that I very rarely sideload games anyway (mostly for stuff like OpenMW and other mod launchers) and when I do Heroic can almost always fetch the correct image for them from SteamGridDB, and even in the very rare case that it can't, such as in this case, it's much easier for me to find an online picture and use its URL directly as the source in Heroic instead of downloading it and then using it as a local image.
But objectively speaking, if sideloading stuff is to be considered a first-class citizen in Heroic, then I guess that this new image picker is not really sufficient as a fix, and at some point in the future this issue should be properly addressed.