Notes on Thumbnails

Here’s some technical information about thumbnails. This information is applicable to Arcadem LE 2.x and Arcadem Pro 2.0 to 2.6. Arcadem Pro 2.7 and above still supports these details, but there will be a new thumbnail system implemented in 2.7 and above that will support large thumbnails.

Anyway, the following rules apply:

• Thumbnails only work when placed in the /arcade/img/ folder
• Thumbnails only work if they have the same name as the game
• The preferred image format is PNG, although JPG, GIF, and BMP have been shown to work.

Category Images

Category images are typically displayed using home.php, but this is not allows the case. If you copy the code from the AdvancedArcade script for home.php, the thumbnails for each category are pulled from /includes/images/

Files must be PNG, and they must exactly match the name of your category, including case. For example, if you had a category called SNES, the image would have to be /includes/images/SNES.png meaning that the following all would not work:

/includes/images/snes.png

/includes/images/SNES.jpg

/includes/images/SNES.gif

/arcade/img/SNES.png