Thumbnails for RetroArch, split into individual repositories to ease maintenance.
Check out the repository, with all submodules, into RetroArch's thumbnails directory:
cd ~/.config/retroarch
git clone --recursive --depth=1 http://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/libretro-thumbnails.git thumbnails
To bring in the latest thumbnails across all systems, use:
git pull --recurse-submodules
git submodule update --remote --recursive
Or by using the script which will maintain shallow clones (depth=1) and checkout master:
sh update_modules.sh
- Thumbnails are installed into RetroArch config's
thumbnails
directory - There are three types of thumbnails:
Named_Snaps
are in game snapshotsNamed_Titles
are title screen snapshotsNamed_Boxarts
are the boxes or covers for games
- Thumbnails follow the following naming convention:
thumbnails/Playlist Name/Named Type/Game Name.png
- The following characters in playlist titles must be replaced with _ in the corresponding thumbnail filename:
&*/:`<>?\|"
- Images must be
.png
format - Image resolution guidelines:
- Images with native width larger than 512px should be scaled down to 512px wide
- Images with native width of 512px or less should be added as-is
- Substitute promotional material is acceptable when no official boxart is available
- Use libretro-thumbnails-check to check for missing thumbnails
To check for files with invalid file names, use the following command....
find . -name '*[&\*:`<>?\\|"*]*'
The libretro-thumbnail server provides two functions...
The .index files allow RetroArch to list the files available in the given directory. To build the .index files, run the following command...
make index
The art provided has many different sources. Thank you to many of the contributors and sites who have made this possible...