Make online thumbnail database scanning case insensitive

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1-2 days
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Issue type
Bug
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No file or test is named in the report; start by tracing the online thumbnail database scanning and exact-name matching path. Reproduce the RoboCop Versus The Terminator example with differing letter case, and consider the work done when the matching thumbnail is found regardless of case.

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scanner thumbnails

The exact name matching is pretty strict and sometimes causes issues.

For example, retroarch wouldn't download thumbnails for the genesis game "RoboCop Versus The Terminator", no matter which region I renamed it to.

I then noticed that it was all because of the letter "V". The game in the rom DB uses an uppercase "V", but in thumbnail DB, it uses a lowercase "v".

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