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The MAME Downloader was a quick tool to download the contents of the 0.202 archive. The tool is a command line tool that allows you to specify the location of the library, the target folder, and allows you to resume a download session at a particular file. Since the download now totals more than 60 gigs, it can take a while.
Usage of the tool:
MAMEDownloader.exe --help
will display the various command line options. Reasonable defaults have been provided so if you just run the tool on the command line with no parameters, it will start downloading version 0.202 of the MAME archives and place the files in a MAME\ROMS folder under your downloads folder.
The tool will check for the basic space requirements but these calculations are not exact since they are dealing with estimated file sizes instead of exact file sizes.
There currently is no progress feedback on individual file downloads. You just get updates as each individual file is downloaded. Some of the files can be quite large, into the gigabytes, so you might not have any feedback for quite some time depending upon your internet connection speed. The idea behind this was simply to set it and forget it -- start it up and let it grind away until it has finished.