pldiguanaman Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 I installed the full mame rom set and selected to download the bezels. The application appears to download, then start over after some point. (timeout maybe?) If I hit cancel the application seems to be stuck and will not cancel. If I restart the app it starts trying to download again over and over. How can I determine what the issue is causing the download to restart over and over? Is there some way to stop the reattempting besides the cancel which does not seem to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Close LaunchBox. Go to you LB folder \\LaunchBox\Data\ and delete the ImageQueue.xml file. Then restart LaunchBox. Deleting this file will stop the downloads from attempting to start again when you open LaunchBox. Something may have corrupted the file. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 I will try that and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 That kills the download. I tried to restart it several times even selecting only system or only theme bezels but it typically gets about 40% across when it starts over again. Is there anyway to download the bezels outside the app (ftp or something?) and manually place them in a folder? Is there anyway to find out why the download keeps restarting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 7 hours ago, pldiguanaman said: Is there anyway to download the bezels outside the app (ftp or something?) and manually place them in a folder? Yes, you have been able to do this for years with the bezel project, just get them from their github. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) Found them on github: Both zip files are "invalid" and have errors when trying to extract them. bezelproject-MAME-master.zip bezelprojectSA-MAME-master.zip How can you install them manually? Importing image packs does not show an option for "bezel." Discovered that anytime I try to download the files they never get fully downloaded and therefore corrupt. Probably why the failure for the import in Launchbox as well. Edited July 18, 2022 by pldiguanaman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 The two downloads constantly fail through firefox or chrome if trying directly. I've let Launchbox go at it overnight but it never completes. If those files were somewhere else I could likely get it intact but Github is the only site where I cannot complete large downloads. I have to find out why Github keeps failing to download while I can download other sites (with larger files) without an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, pldiguanaman said: The two downloads constantly fail through firefox or chrome if trying directly. I've let Launchbox go at it overnight but it never completes. If those files were somewhere else I could likely get it intact but Github is the only site where I cannot complete large downloads. I have to find out why Github keeps failing to download while I can download other sites (with larger files) without an issue. Yeah, obviously we have no control over github, plus the bezel project isnt us either so we cant control anything there either unfortunately. Not really sure there is anything that our devs can do directly to alleviate the issue as its not on "our end" so to speak unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Friendly A.I Overlord Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 On 7/17/2022 at 4:10 PM, pldiguanaman said: bezelproject-MAME-master.zip bezelprojectSA-MAME-master.zip 2 hours ago, pldiguanaman said: I have to find out why Github keeps failing to download Out of curiosity I downloaded both files directly from Github using Firefox and they extracted without errors using 7-zip. Maybe this is not very helpful to you, but it's probably not Github that is the cause of your failing downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 1 minute ago, Your Friendly A.I Overlord said: I tried using FireFox, Chrome and Edge (ugh) but they all failed to complete. Currently I am trying to clone the project using the GitHub Desktop app. Since there are lots of smallish files it seems to be getting through it so far. I'm not sure why this is an issue with Github. I can download much larger files from various other sites and never have an issue. Out of curiosity I downloaded both files directly from Github using Firefox and they extracted without errors using 7-zip. Maybe this is not very helpful to you, but it's probably not Github that is the cause of your failing downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 I managed to get both folders MAME and SA-MAME downloaded via the Github desktop app in Windows. No zip file but the individual files and folders. I am including a shot of the folder structure (same in both) Can someone tell me what folders to copy to LaunchBox and where they go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon57 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 You can't use the contents of the Github repositories from our Project directly on a Windows machine. Those cfg files included use Linux paths intended for RetroPie. LaunchBox and the bezel project Windows app installer converts the files on the fly for use on a Windows box. Having said that, if you are familiar with Retroarch and the folder structure, you can mass edit the cfg files under the config directories to use the correct path values, but I wouldn't recommend this for most everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 So bottom line is I can't use bezels apparently. Since the download happens with Github and it fails constantly then I have no options. Crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) 43 minutes ago, pldiguanaman said: So bottom line is I can't use bezels apparently. Since the download happens with Github and it fails constantly then I have no options. Crap. Why are you downloading zips of anything? Just grab the exe installer: https://github.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject-Windows/releases Edited July 19, 2022 by fromlostdays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 The exe installer allowed me to get the bezels installed so thank you fromlostdays for that help! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 (edited) Several days later... I discovered that my ISP was somehow throttling my access to Github but no other site. Not only throttling but timing out a lot. They have so far done nothing to resolve the issue. Impossible to download a large file via Github at all. While waiting on them to figure out the issue I decided to make my phone a hotspot and then connect the PC to it only. I was able to download everything normally. I doubt anyone else will ever run into this odd issue again but thought I should make a follow-up post to tell what I did to resolve it. Edited July 28, 2022 by pldiguanaman 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armstrongsfamily Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 On 7/28/2022 at 5:02 PM, pldiguanaman said: Several days later... I discovered that my ISP was somehow throttling my access to Github but no other site. Not only throttling but timing out a lot. They have so far done nothing to resolve the issue. Impossible to download a large file via Github at all. While waiting on them to figure out the issue I decided to make my phone a hotspot and then connect the PC to it only. I was able to download everything normally. I doubt anyone else will ever run into this odd issue again but thought I should make a follow-up post to tell what I did to resolve it. Its been a month plus for this and I am also having the same issue. I even tried to log onto Reddit via browser and still locks up about the same as described. I am using the Bezel Project Setup file and that seems to be working but yes I still think a bug might still be in this part of LB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pldiguanaman Posted September 7, 2022 Author Share Posted September 7, 2022 I don't think it is a bug in LB exactly. The program is trying to download and extract a zip file from Github. Github doesn't support resuming downloads so if there is a failure it has to start all over again. In my case that meant it would perpetually download and never get a valid file. It typically would get around 450 to 550 of the 670MB file. Once I used a hotspot from my phone (instead of the local ISP) everything worked as expected. Something in the routing was killing my download from completing. You can test by trying to download the project Bezel file yourself through your browser and see if it completes. Mine never did. At that point LB is not involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstreifel Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I am having the same problem. I tried downloading while connected to the hotspot on my phone, still gets stuck around 40%ish... sad face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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