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

cdaters

I highly recommend this scraper! And if you are able, I suggest sending @nexusone13 some love! ARRM has so many more features than Skraper, (which seems to have stalled,) and development of this scraper app is very active.

ARRM makes short work of managing your gamelist files, and it works with different foundational platforms such as Batocera or Recalbox too. Unlike some additional setup steps to use Skraper on your PC (as opposed to directly on your Pi) ARRM allows you to work directly on your PC with whatever gamelist.xml file you give it.

The templates that you have access to for mix-art is amazing and configurable. Everything is configurable! There is in-line help, and/or the Wiki for more information/how-tos.

nexusone13

Thank you very much @cdaters for your encouragement, it makes me very happy.
Thank you also for identifying problems and suggesting improvements.

morenr1

Hi,

@nexusone13 for this excelent piece of software and for the continue improvement of the tool.

My question is related to subdirectories. I have some subfolders with artwork and samples with zip files inside. When I create the gamelist these samples and artworks appear in gamelist as a new entry.

Is there any way to avoid it, just scan the rom directory (parent directory) without subfolders?
workaround is mark as hidden these entries, but I wondering if there is other alternative.

Thanks
moren1

nexusone13

Hi @morenr1 ,
If .zip is one of the searched extensions, ARRM will display it. It is not possible to indicate only the parent, since it is quite common to place roms in subfolders. That would be too many scenarios to handle. The solution to put in 'hidden', as you indicate, remains the solution. sorry

I just sent you an email (check your spam)

nexusone13

Hi, @morenr1
Could you contact me Nexusone13#8474 on our ARRM discord: https://discord.gg/p7QsBTS channel #arrm or in private
Thank you

nexusone13

Hi everyone,

A new version of ARRM is available:

1.9.1.3 (04/30/2022)

Added: Unitary or mass translation of Game Descriptions in the language of your choice. See wiki: http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=translate_description_en (thanks Schmurtz for the url)
Added: When several systems are checked, it is now possible to choose the scrape engine you want and no longer only Screenscraper
Added: When creating video with overlays, if auto template is not checked, ARRM will look in the 'templates_video' directory for a template with the same name as the template currently used by ARRM. If not present, ARRM will take the currently used template it finds in 'templates'. See Wiki : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=video_overlay_en
Added: Checkbox 'compress video+overlay' allowing to compress 'video+overlay' during their creation (the 'Compress video' checkbox no longer applies to 'video+overlay'
Added: In templates, layers can be applied depending on the format (Portrait, Landscape, CD) of Screenshot/Boxart/Cartridge/Boxback. See example with the mix_splash_MAME template from TVsIan (see wiki: http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=create_template-en#conditional_layers)
Added: In templates, screenshot can take Portrait, CD or Landscape attributes. See wiki: http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=create_template-en#screenshot (see TVsIan template : mix_splash_MAME)
Added: When scraping on HFSDB if the game is not found with its MD5, a file %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\temp_missing_HFSDB_MD5_%system%.txt is created which could be useful to feed the HFSDB DB . See wiki: http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=scraper-hfsdb-en#list_of_md5_not_found (look at template : cd portrait landscape sample)
Added: 'Round Wheel (HFSDB / Screenscraper)' button in the 'Images Options' tab allows to recover the 'round wheels' on HFSDB and Screenscraper in the wheels directory. For Screenscraper the type (carbon or steel) can be selected in the 'Assignment media Screenscraper' module
Modification: Adaptation of certain forms so that essential information can be displayed on a resolution of 1280x720
Fixed: STOP button on multi-system scrape was not acting as expected
Fixed: Steam multi-system scrape not working
Fixed: A crash could occur when ARRM wanted to use a template referenced in template_association.txt when it no longer existed
Fixed: On Steam, some artwork found was not downloaded
Fixed: the 'Hide cue/gdi/m3u' button did not have the expected behavior (the files did not take the <hidden> tag when they were in subdirectories) thank you cdaters

Donwload links:
Full version via arrm_setup.exe (remember to uninstall the previous version): http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager
Full version without using arrm_setup.exe. (Allows you to install or update the application by copying files): http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/12-arrm-executable-only

Changelog : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=changelog-en
Beta versions page: http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif
ARRM WIKI: http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=Start-en
Videos tutorial playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwA4JmSgv-PtLlzwPMOad5Ti96UfsbSzK
Keep in touch : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=contact-en
Discord ARRM: https://discord.gg/p7QsBTS
Donations : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=donations-en

ZzackK

hi Program is great job.

I have two small problems.
-I can not skip by letter
-Some games are not sort alphabetically

nexusone13

Hi @ZzackK ,
Thanks,
you should find anwser for your problem in the wiki .
this is relative to the sortname tag option.
So Check the "Remove Sortname Tag" and save your gamelist again

wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=settings-en&s[]=add&s[]=index

ZzackK

thx

ZzackK

I want use only "clear name" for my gamelist but I do not scraping all roms. Is possible do it fast?

nexusone13

@ZzackK

Select options you want in 'Scrape Options',
Select the roms you want
then click on 'Check Roms'

If you leave your mouse over each button, you'll see a tooltip that explains the feature

ZzackK

@nexusone13 thx

Is too many options for beginning :)

ExarKunIv

@ZzackK yes all the options are over whelming but it is so worth it with how powerful this tool is.

It is the only one I use now.

Also with how responsive @nexusone13 is. Is such a big help and he is always updating it to make it even better

nexusone13

Thank you so much @ExarKunIv for your comment

ZzackK

~~file "SecondSamurai_v1.3a_AGA_1624.lha" with "activete cache" crash ARRM ;)~~

Works but needed rechecking option.

ZzackK

Powerful tool! Now Amiga and PC-Dos are easy :)

ps
Please add AmigaCD.

ps2
And add support emumovies.

nexusone13

Hi @ZzackK

You can adapt the ARRM configuration files to take your systems into account.
Follow the wiki: http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=different_systems_name_en

ZzackK

I cant add few games to collection. I try do it like in tutorial video and select few but in file is only one.

nexusone13

Hi @ZzackK
your right, I need to fix that

nexusone13

@ZzackK
Fixed in the last 1914 Beta 6

Changelog : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=changelog-en
Download Beta link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif

!! You must have at least 1.9.1.3 version installed !!
Copy this files over your existing files.