Thumbnail downloader alternatives?

RetroArch General
#1

I’m trying to download thumbnails using the Online Updater in 1.5.0. I tried to download the Final Burn set several times unsuccessfully. It’s extremely slow… I have a 100mb/sec fibre connection. It seems to get to 10-15% and then stop (and this takes about 1 hour). If the file is really so huge, I’m not sure it’s actually suitable to download from the Retroarch GUI?

Anyway is there another way to download these? I checked on github and I can see all the files there but I don’t see a way to download an entire folder like Final Burn or whatever. There has to be a way to externally download the same .zip file that the Online Updater is trying to download?

#2

you can use the ‘clone or download’ button to download the repo and delete the ones you don’t want.

#3

Ok, tried that about 5 times and every time the download fails after about 600mb with error NETWORK_FAILED. Tried Firefox and Chrome. I thought it could be something with my connection so I went to archive.org and downloaded a 2gb file without any problems. So I have no idea why I can’t download the complete repo.

#4

I don’t think it’s possible to download the whole repo as a zip file. I tried on two different connections on two different computers. I think its a github limit or something since its a 32gb download.

Anyway, for someone else who has the same problem I found a direct link to the system thumbnail .zip files so you don’t have to download the whole repo http://thumbnailpacks.libretro.com/

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#5

There were some needlessly huge box art images being used for thumbnails (some were well over 1000px height or width). So, I resized all of them to be no wider than 256px and no taller than 512px – then converted them to 256 color as well. The quality is still great and, most importantly, it resulted in a considerable size reduction. The MAME collection alone went from 7.18gb to 2.9gb.

I just uploaded them to DropBox in case anyone else might be interested …

Please feel free to share the link.

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#6

Hey Manga, your link is not available anymore. Any chance you could repost them somewhere else? Maybe a Google Drive shared folder, maybe?