So I finally finished the torrent and...nothing. UI launches, and I've got a list of games, but "install" button does nothing, nor does the scan. They're clearly there, all 17 gigs of them, but for some reason the UI isn't seeing them. Guess I could try the original mega, but it's a pity after all this time spent downloading.
Aaand the Mega is predictably capped at 5 gigs, so that's not happening any time soon. What's so infuriating is that I seem to have all the pieces here. Clearly the database was imported, I can see all the games listed in the GUI. Clearly the GAMES were imported, they're in the library folder. And yet scanning for them gives "0 games found." What?!
Update the 3rd: Turns out if you go into the metadata for an entry and manually toggle it to "installed", it works. Huh. Bit of a hassle, but I guess. Maybe there's a way to toggle that for all of them. Also, this reveals another disappointment, which is that this is NOT an actual flash player in any way: it's just a prettier alternative to having a bunch of swf files in folders. Launching a game just tries to load the swf in whatever desktop flashplayer you have installed, and if the answer is "none", or in my case a glitched one, you get nothing. Just disappointing as I was hoping for a fully integrated package. Guess it's off to see if anyone knows how to fix the desktop flash player from a decade ago.
Update the 4th: Ahh, you have to unzip EVERY SINGLE ZIP in the Library folder. The instructions made it sound like there was one single zip you were extracting to that folder during initial setup. Also, if anyone else has the desktop Flash Player problem I've had for years (click an swf to load it, get the player with a whitescreen, have to drag the swf onto the player to start it), the fix is outline here:
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. Don't use his version though, it's a bit outdated. Just do the hex edit on a "new" version (currently 32).
Anyway, after all that, it does seem to be working smoothly. There's a hell of a lot of metadata here, so that's certainly nice to have, along with the library itself. Sure beats scouring through ad and malware-infested sites to find these, as was often the case.