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

mitu · 5 Jun 2019, 22:16

@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 · 6 May 2019, 23:13

@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 · 7 May 2019, 18:37

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 · 5 Jul 2019, 20:02

@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 · 7 May 2019, 19:11

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

ExarKunIv · 7 May 2019, 19:29

@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 · 7 May 2019, 21:06

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

nexusone13 · 8 May 2019, 08:21

@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 · 9 May 2019, 13:28

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

mitu · 9 May 2019, 14:10

@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 · 9 May 2019, 14:29

@mitu thanks mitu for your quick reply :)

nexusone13 · 9 May 2019, 17:38

@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 · 9 May 2019, 17:53

@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.

nexusone13 · 9 May 2019, 18:35

@mitu Ok I thought the <CORE> you mentioned here: $HOME/.config/retroarch/config/<CORE>/<GAME>.cfg refered to the retroarch core used for a system.
So <CORE> can be the retropie ID of the system (atari7800, snes, genesis, neogeo...) ? that's right ?

Thanks for the Retropie systems ID list, it will be useful :)

mitu · 9 May 2019, 18:52

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

Ok I thought the <CORE> you mentioned here: $HOME/.config/retroarch/config/<CORE>/<GAME>.cfg refered to the retroarch core used for a system.

You're right - yes, that's correct.
But be aware that the Libretro core name might be spelled differently. For instance lr-fbalpha is FB Alpha, the lr-prosystem core name is ProSystem (see here). I think the core info files (see the previous reference) are the definitive info source.

nexusone13 · 12 May 2019, 07:24

@mitu Hi , is there a way to have access via a 'net use command' from Windows to the '/opt/retropie' directory ? As we can do with \\retropie\roms ? thanks :) .

nexusone13 · 12 May 2019, 10:41

@nexusone13 I answer to myself : it's already reachable via \retropie . sorry :)

mitu · 12 May 2019, 10:52

@nexusone13 Not exactly, it's just the configs folder that's available (exported), not the whole /opt/retropie.

nexusone13 · 12 May 2019, 11:37

@mitu yes you're right, But I just need to have access to 'configs', so I can upload overlays generated by arrm.

nexusone13 · 14 May 2019, 17:21

Hi All

New version available : 1.7.5.2 (05/14/2019)

Typing on a letter in the database (if sorted in alphabetical order), positions the index on the first name of game found starting with this letter (request from Zing forum Recalbox)
Following the deletion of Rom, the index is positioned on the next element and does not come back to the beginning of the list (request from Zing forum Recalbox)
System Sorting / The sorting of the es_systems.cfg is now possible on Retropie.
Added a 'retropie' checkbox to launch the 'Stop and Reboot EmulationStation' scripts, to manage the specificities of overlays Retropie, and the SystemSorter specified to Retropie (request of morenr1 on the retropie forum)
Can retrieve and create overlays configuration files for Recalbox, Batocera and Retropie
Added a 'filter duplicate games' button on the Game name or on the file name which allows to filter the Roms whose name of the game or the file name (without extension) appears on other Roms. Example for ARRM: 1943 and 1943kai will be listed as duplicated because 1943 appears in 1943kai (thanks to Zing for testing)
Added a 'Screen Title' checkbox to get the game's Screen Title instead of the screenshot. If checked, it can be used as a Screenshot or in the Mix. (request of ExarKunIv on Retropie forum)
Add a "Europe Media" checkbox to retrieve Europe's special media if present. (Lucinda's request on recalbox forum)
Added an 'SS Media' checkbox to force SS media recovery (specifically created by Screenscraper)
Added a checkbox 'add country' that adds the country, at the end of the game name, if this information is present in the name of the rom file.
If the MD5 of the game is filled in, ARRM can retrieve on screenscraper the information of the Country of Rom, during a scrap or during a 'Verif name via MD5' (API V2 only)). With the MD5 the country information will be more complete.
Tag Marquee and Video are now written in the gamelist.xml, in order to use these features in Batocera v5.21 and Retropie.
Textbox to indicate a path for the videos (request of morenr1 forum retropie)
If the mode '4 images' is not selected, only the tags 'image', 'video' and 'marquee' are now saved (previously boxart, screenshot, marquee, mix, cartridge were saved in the gamelist.xml) (request from kevinnash forum Recalbox)
sound played (Back to the Future locomotive) at the end of a scrap. The sound can be activated via a checkbox 'end scrap sound' in the tab 'General options' (request of Kevinnash forum Recalbox).
Line breaks and tabs are taken into account in the textbox 'description'. (bug brought back by Zing)
Backup paths for overlay images, overlay configuration files and input_overlay 'can be set via a config file
Fixed inconsistencies in media search (by country) using API v2
Change the path to recover the original es_systems.cfg file on Batocera v5.21
Fixed a bug when validating a nonexistent screenscraper account
Added additional information about ScreenScraper user account (screenscraper login module)
Remove redundant 'add disk / tape / side' button with 'Check Roms' which already applies the following checkboxes: 'Clean Name', 'Add Disk', 'Keep Rom Name', 'Add Country'
Fixed bug on auto-assignment of template with 'Recompose image'
Fixed various bugs
Adding an Amstrad GX4000 template

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

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