Is there some other way to download files?

Retrodog

I just tried to download it one more time and its as if the floodgates opened on the bits. i pulled it down in 4min+ I'm downloading from Texas so its probably not ideal for a UK download site. Its a relief to get past this all day hurdle, finally. I tried using Firefox (my preferred browser) and Edge (only because i haven't installed Chrome yet) and both were doing the fail monkey dance until just now.

briankross

I'm in Virginia.

Glad it's fixed!

Enjoy RetroPie and these forums, these guys are amazing!

herb_fargus

@Retrodog while our site is hosted in the UK the images are actually hosted on github which has its servers in the US. The 4.0 image will be smaller as well which should help a little bit.

briankross

@herb_fargus said in Is there some other way to download files?:

@Retrodog while our site is hosted in the UK the images are actually hosted on github which has its servers in the US. The 4.0 image will be smaller as well which should help a little bit.

4.0, nice! :-)

wedwo

I've tried over the past week to download the latest but it fails at under 100Mb. I'm in South Africa. I don't have any general internet issues and other sites work just fine. I haven't tried Github yet.

backstander

@wedwo

@PetroRie setup a Torrent download option. Here's the thread talking about it:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4400/torrent-download-retropie

wedwo

@backstander Thanks, unfortunately I'm finding no seeders. My torrent client is set to force encryption and ditch legacy so perhaps that's it. Trying the main download with DownThemAll in FF now.

PetroRie

@wedwo I'm the one who created the torrent for RetroPie. There are already 3 people seeding this, I have an upload speed of 1.5mb per second. I leave my computer on for almost the entire day, except when I go to bed I can't sleep because of the noise lol.

mikeperalta

@PetroRie Brother ... why don't you turn a new raspberry pi into a legal seedbox? I already have one seeding various linux ISOs. It's too bad this site hasn't posted an official torrent/magnet yet or I'd be seeding that too, already. Blargh.

PetroRie

@mikeperalta said in Is there some other way to download files?:

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I wanted to do it only if they added the torrent to the download page. I asked a mod about this but he didn't reply. So far with the last torrent I have seeded 32gb and there are 10 other seeders. If the torrent would be on the download page it would reach more people.

mikeperalta

@PetroRie I agree. I found someone's torrent (yours?) on a different thread and am already seeding that... but a torrent on the Download page would be so so much more helpful both to the admins and to new users, especially those with spotty connections.

My new plan is just to annoy them with repeated posts until they get excited about it (or do it anyway out of sheer aggravation).

PetroRie

@mikeperalta Yeah I created that topic I found it kinda strange that there was no torrent after some people complained that they wanted a torrent because they could not download the image from the site.

Yeah I wish they did, its not like they have to put so much work in it. All they have to do is add the torrent to the download page. I'm willing to seed every new version of RetroPie if it would become more populair I would buy a new raspberry and use it as a seed box.

wedwo

I found that using a download manager sorted my hassles out - I had downthemall on Firefox. Eagleget should work too - both are free. As for torrenting, allowing legacy connections and not forcing encryption works too (default settings for uTorrent).
I really am surprised at the retropie folk not giving this a little more attention... also the issue of booting into Kodi first then getting the black screen when you open Retropie settings page - still struggling with that.

PetroRie

@wedwo You see, that is why I don't update RetroPie anymore. I'm on v4.0.0.2 and everything works fine for me. Only thing I dislike about Kodi is whenever I connect the PS4 controller to my Pi and run Kodi it glitches. They will fix this in the next update of Kodi.

wedwo

@PetroRie Aah I see - I'm about to connect my Ps4 controller as well. Thanks for the heads up!

backstander

I don't know if this helps anyone here but I read on another thread that some people are having trouble downloading RetroPie because of Anti Virus programs (like AVG) thinking there's a virus in it (false positive):
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6027/cant-download-retropie-for-raspberry-pi-zero

PetroRie

@backstander It's just a false alarm, I never liked AVG. Back in 2001 I had Norton, it even blocked my internet. Since that day I changed to Avira and never looked back. Avira is a free antivirus and its extremely good never had any problems with it.

backstander

@PetroRie

I never liked AVG

Me either.

Back in 2001 I had Norton, it even blocked my internet.

I've seen that so many times working IT. Just running that official Norton Removal Tool fixes it every time :)

Since that day I changed to Avira and never looked back. Avira is a free antivirus and its extremely good never had any problems with it.

I agree and I use Avira as well. It's what AVG should've been! Even put it on my father-in-law's computer and he was using AVG and he likes Avira much better!

mikeperalta

Bros, you need to switch to desktop linux!

PetroRie

@backstander I did many Windows installation for friends and the first thing I do is install Avira.

@mikeperalta Boooooo! I love Windows so much that I would donate my heart to Bill Gates if he wanted. Nah just kidding, I'm also a PC gamer games I play cannot run in Linux. Beside I hated Windows Vista so much, just the first day when I used it I was having my lunch and just staring at my computer screen and Windows Vista literally crashed while I didn't even do anything. So it was back to Windows XP again, I used XP until they didn't support it anymore. Now I'm on Windows 7, never had any problem.