[SOFT] ARRM : Another Gamelist, Roms manager, and Scraper for Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie

robotronman

@nexusone13 great work! I successfully scraped my MAME 2003 Plus collection and it worked well.

Unique benefits I really enjoy with your tool:
1: Sortable Rom list and gamelist.xml editor/exporter . Ability to scroll through all and modify in bulk or by single rom. This is a huge help when you need to just make a few modifications to your set etc.
2: Simple single screen tool.
3: works well!

Suggestions:
1: GUI is a bit confusing and could be simplified with a wizard/setup function and moving setup config items to drop downs or separate screens. There is a nice simplicity to the single screen GUI though once you start using it. Nothing is hidden right now which helps.
2: Allow the GUI to be full screen or at least the rom list area. Would love to go full screen with the rom list to see all columns, and take bulk actions with more view if area.

Thanks again for sharing your fantastic tool, and look forward to your future enhancements.

nexusone13

@robotronman Many thanks for your Feedback. :)
You're right, I have to re-think the GUI for future releases
Regards.

ExarKunIv

took me a little to figure out all out, but once i did. it is a nice system

the only suggestion i have is to have the option to pull a title screen too.

other then a simplified GUI like the other post. you have it all

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv hi. Is there a specific tag in the gamelist for the screen title ?

ExarKunIv

@nexusone13

not mine. i just have it in place of box art

 <game id="37561" source="ScreenScraper.fr">
  <path>./2020bba.zip</path> 
  <name>2020 Super Baseball (set 2)</name> 
  <desc>In the year 2020, baseball finally evolved. There is no longer conventional professional baseball in 2020. Baseball designed by the Super Baseball Association has been very popular and is the best sport. However, the truth is that the association has used a colossal sum of money to promote Super Baseball as show business. They have manipulated each player's ability using the control computer to secretly decide victory or defeat in every game. The players who knew this removed the connecting parts of the computer to play their own game of baseball. Finally, a fair game is going to be played at Cyber Egg Stadium. In 2020 Super Baseball is a fast-paced game with new rules, where you can select 1 of 12 individual men, women, or robot players. During play, you can make your team stronger with prizes earned from amazing catches.</desc> 
  <rating>0.6</rating> 
  <releasedate>19910101T000000</releasedate> 
  <developer>Pallas</developer> 
  <publisher>SNK</publisher> 
  <players>1-2</players> 
  <hash /> 
  <image>./media/images/2020bbh.png</image> 
  <video>./media/videos/2020bbh.mp4</video> 
  </game>

sorry cant be any more help

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv Ok you use image tag , but could you show me a sample picture to show me what is a 'Screen Title'. I know Screenshots, Marquee/Title, but 'screen title'.... :)

ExarKunIv

@nexusone13 sure

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mitu

@nexusone13 It's what ScreenScraper refers as 'Screen Title' - the start screen of the game. The media name is 'sstitle' on ScreenScraper site, e.g.

_https://www.screenscraper.fr/image.php?gameid=1286&media=sstitle&hd=1&region=jp&num=&version=&maxwidth=338&maxheight=190` produces

Thorr69

@mitu That one is definitely a translation hiccup. I would imagine that 'sstitle' is intended to mean Screen Shot: Title. But the term 'screen title' is really Title Screen in English. Of course, French adjectives come after the noun, so it's pretty obvious how they got to 'screen title' since it was probably 'ecran titre' in French.
(I know, not useful info. I just wanted to make the observation.)

nexusone13

Thank you for these clarifications :)
So @ExarKunIv you want this 'Title Screen' in place of 'Screenshot' (I should use the tag 'screenshot' in the gamelist.xml or there is another tag for this in retropie @Mitu) ?

mitu

@nexusone13 said in [SOFT] ARRM : Another Gamelist, Roms manager, and Scraper for Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie:

I should use the tag 'screenshot' in the gamelist.xml or there is another tag for this in retropie @Mitu

Well, there is a 'thumbnail' tag to hold an image, but I think it's used as an alternate to the 'image' tag - i.e. if thumbnail is set, then show it, otherwise use image.
See here for a list of possible XML children that a game node can have.

I think @ExarKunIv might want to use the sstitle media type from ScreenScraper to be used in the image tag.

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv Ok I'll add it in the next release :)

ExarKunIv

@nexusone13 cool :)
it was just a suggestion. i know that depending on the theme one is using having box art looks kinda out of place, but that's probably just me :)

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv I'll make sure we can choose the screentitle alone, or embeddable in the mix image

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv Hi, could you send me your mail @ nexusone13@gmail.com so I coud send you a test version with the 'screen title' option, please

nexusone13

Hi @mitu ,
Could you tell me what are the right paths, on retropie, for systems overlays and games overlays please. Thank you :)

mitu

@nexusone13 RetroPie doesn't come with overlays and doesn't have any special path reserved for it.
I think you can use the RetroArch defaults - $HOME/.config/retroarch/overlay for storing the images, $HOME/.config/retroarch/config/<CORE>/<GAME>.cfg for game overlay config.
You can take a look at how TheBezelProject does it (see for Atari 2600) and use their convention and approach.

nexusone13

@mitu thanks mitu for your quick reply :)

nexusone13

@mitu
For example, if I have this file for Atari 7800 in this directory :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/prosystem/ Activision Decathlon, The (USA).cfg

containing this line :
input_overlay = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/atari5200/16-9/Activision Decathlon, The (USA).cfg"

And this 2 files in this directory :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/atari5200/16-9/Activision Decathlon, The (USA).png
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/overlay/atari5200/16-9/Activision Decathlon, The (USA).cfg

It should be okay ?

thx

mitu

@nexusone13 This looks fine, though I'd say try to use the same system name everywhere (i.e. atari7800 instead of prosystem). There might be differences between ES in RetroPie to what is configured in Recalbox/Batocera w.r.t. system names - you can find RetroPie's list here.