PS2-Archive-Org-Downloader

Bash script for easily downloading ps2 games from archive.org. Script won't download already downloaded files so its safe to update the yaml file and rerun.

Dependancies

1. axel downloader used to speed up the downloads from archive.org available in repos apt get install axel.
2. bash and other basic linux comandline tools that should already be installed.

Interactive

Run ./autorun.sh for an interactive session. Ok for first time use but I recommend manually calling scripts later on.

Manual

1. ./get_urls.sh will download the download links from archive.org into urls.txt, urls2.txt and all_urls.txt
2. ./convert_urls.sh will convert all_urls.txt into a readable file game_names.txt
3. cp game_names.txt game_names.yaml and edit game_names.yaml by uncommenting what games you want to download. when finished make a backup of game_names.yaml just incase you use the autorun.sh script later on and accidentally press y when it asks you to create a game_names.yaml file.
4. ./build_download_urls.sh this will convert game_names.yaml back to proper urls and save the output to download_urls.txt
5. Finally ./download_all.sh will download everything from download_urls.txt

Config

You can edit download.sh to your liking as it is just a wrapper for axel. As is axel will use a random user agent each time it downloads, it will use 6 connections per download by default as I had issues with 10 on archive.org. It will also skip already downloaded files so you can safely rerun the script without it downloading everything again. And it will use an alternative graph so that it doesnt spam the display like the default one.

Convert 7z to gz

Convert 7z to gz for emulators. you can run the script convert_all_zips.sh to convert all downloaded 7z into gz. The script will create empty 7z files in place of the originals so that you dont waste disk space and so that the download all script skips them.

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