libretrofuzz 2.7.6

Fuzzy Retroarch thumbnail downloader

In Retroarch, when you use the manual scanner to get non-standard games or hacks in playlists, thumbnails often fail to download.

These programs, for each game label on a playlist, download the most similar named image to display in retroarch.

There are several options to fit unusual labels, but you can just run them to get the most restrictive default.

If you use libretro-fuzz, it will download for a single playlist by asking for the playlist and system if they’re not provided. If you use libretro-fuzzall, it will dowload for all playlists with standard libretro names, and will skip custom playlists.

Besides those differences, if no retroarch.cfg is provided, both programs try to use the default retroarch.cfg.

If chafa is installed, the program will display new thumbnails of a game, with grey border for images already in use and with green border for new images. Chafa works better with a recent release and on a sixel or kitty compatible shell.

Example:

libretro-fuzz --no-subtitle --before '_'

The Retroplay WHDLoad set has labels like MonkeyIsland2_v1.3_0020 after a manual scan. These labels don’t have subtitles and all the metadata is not separated from the name by brackets. Select the playlist that contains those whdloads and the system name Commodore - Amiga to download from the libretro amiga thumbnails.

Note that the system name you download from doesn’t have to be the same as the playlist name.

If the thumbnail server contains games from multiple releases for the system (like ScummVM), be careful using extra options since it is easy to end up with ‘slightly wrong’ covers.

Example:

libretro-fuzz --no-meta --no-merge

After downloading ScummVM thumbnails (and not before, to minimize false positives), we’d like to try to pickup a few covers from DOS thumbnails and skip download if there a risk of mixing thumbnails from DOS and ScummVM for a single game. Choose the ScummVM playlist and DOS system name, and covers would be downloaded with risk of false positives: CD vs floppy covers, USA vs Japan covers, or another platform vs DOS.

Because of this increased risk of false positives with options, the default is to count everything except hack metadata as part of the match, and the default pre-selected system name to be the same as the playlist name, which is safest.

False positives will then mostly be from the thumbnail server not having a single thumbnail of the game, and the program selecting the best match it can which is still good enough to pass the similarity test. Common false positives from this are sequels or prequels, or different releases, most often regions/languages.

Example:

libretro-fuzz --no-subtitle --before '_' --filter '[Ii]shar*'

The best way to solve these issues is to upload the right cover to the respective libretro-thumbnail subproject with the correct name of the game variant. Then you can redownload just the updated thumbnails with a label, in this example, the Ishar series in the WHDLoad playlist.

libretro-fuzzall/libretro-fuzz [OPTIONS] [CFG]

CFG:

Path to the retroarch cfg file. If not default, asked from the user.

Linux default: ~/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg

Windows default: %APPDATA%/RetroArch/retroarch.cfg

MacOS default: ~/Library/Application Support/RetroArch/config/retroarch.cfg

--playlist <NAME libretro-fuzz only>

Playlist name with labels used for thumbnail fuzzy matching. If not provided, asked from the user.

--system <NAME libretro-fuzz only>

Directory name in the server to download thumbnails. If not provided, asked from the user.

--delay-after FLOAT

Seconds after download to skip replacing thumbnails. No effect if called with –no-image. [1<=x<=10]

--delay FLOAT

Seconds to skip thumbnails download. [1<=x<=10]

--filter GLOB

Restricts downloads to game labels globs - not paths - in the playlist, can be used multiple times and matches reset thumbnails, –filter ‘*’ downloads all.

--no-image

Don’t show images even with chafa installed.

--no-merge

Disables missing thumbnails download for a label if there is at least one in cache to avoid mixing thumbnails from different server directories on repeated calls. No effect if called with –filter.

--no-fail

Download any score. To restrict or retry use –filter.

--no-subtitle

Remove subtitle after ‘ - ‘ or ‘: ‘ for mismatched labels and server names. ‘:’ can’t occur in server names, so if the server has ‘Name_ subtitle.png’ and not ‘Name - subtitle.png’ (uncommon), this option doesn’t help. To restrict or retry use –filter.

--no-meta

Ignores () delimited metadata and may cause false positives. Forced with –before.

--hack

Matches [] delimited metadata and may cause false positives, Best used if the hack has thumbnails. Ignored with –before.

--before TEXT

Use only the part of the label before TEXT to match. TEXT may not be inside of brackets of any kind, may cause false positives but some labels do not have traditional separators. Forces metadata to be ignored.

--verbose

Shows the failures, score and normalized local and server names in output (score >= 100 is succesful).

--install-completion

Install completion for the current shell.

--show-completion

Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.

--help

Show this message and exit.

To install the program, type on the cmd line

Latest release	pip install --force-reinstall libretrofuzz
Current code	pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/i30817/libretrofuzz/archive/master.zip

In windows, you’ll want to check the option to “Add Python to PATH” when installing python, to be able to install and execute the script from any path of the cmd line.