AppID generation changed?!

[derbroti]

I am trying to script adding non-steam games on Steam on the Deck but the way everyone explains how the appID is generated does not work for me.

I want to also assign grids but the id that steam generates when I add grid images from the GUI is not the crc32 of the "Exe" and "appname" fields.

I tried steamtinkerlaunch but that just uses random numbers.

NOSTAIDRHX="$(printf "%03x%03x%02x\n" $((RANDOM%4096)) $((RANDOM%4096)) $((RANDOM%256)))"

I tried Dummy/simple values:

Exe: "/var/A"
appname: A
appID (from shortcuts.vdf): 0xb2dfebe5 | 3001019365

But I couldn't get any combination of crc, path and name to generate this number...

"/var/A"A - 8a3a2b89
/var/AA   - c72e40a2
...

What am I missing?

Btw: I also tired to use the random appIDs of steamtinkerlaunch but using those ids in the grid folder made steam not recognize the images...

Edit: Okay, the id might either have a dynamic component (time?) or is simply random...
I deleted my dummy game and re-added it, and got a new id:

 0xbbeafc90 | 3152739472

Edit2: Nevermind... it still works, I made a mistake while creating the ids - funnily enough, steam itself does create the ids differently.

[Giorgino]

sent you a friend request, i am doing the same thing and getting crazy around steamAppId