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

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.8.6.2 (05/09/2020)

Add a button 'Use ARRM gamelist' which allows you to use the gamelist_ARRM.xml file (created when saving a gamelist) instead of the gamelist.xml which could have been modified by the frontend and thus was able to delete the custom tags used by ARRM. Wiki : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=tags_lost_en
Addition of a checkbox 'ZIP gamelist.xml' in the tab 'Gamelist Options' which allows to zip the gamelist.xml
Addition of a button 'Create M3U' to create .M3U files used for the multi-disc. See Wiki: http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=create_m3u_en
Addition of a checkbox 'Pad to Keyboard cfg' in the tab 'Scrap Options', allowing to recover, on Screenscraper, for a Rom the configuration file .p2k.cfg. This file allows to assign keyboard keys to a gamepad. Useful for computers on Recalbox. Usable in the next version of Recalbox. For more information see: https://recalbox.gitbook.io/documentation/v/francais/user-avance/configurations/pad-to-keyboard
Addition of a 'Pad 2 Keyb' button for systems and Roms allowing to edit the .p2k.cfg file
Addition of the tag <genreid> (numeric id) in the gamelist.xml. It allows you to normalize the genre (only 1 genre) and can be used in a future version of Recalbox to make filters on this <genreid>. The <genreid> is recovered during the scrape. The <gender> tag remains present.
Addition of the tag <adult> in the gamelist (set to true if one of the genres contains adult otherwise to false) which will be used in a future version of recalbox
Fixed a bug that caused the Mix'Me module to crash after a template change (thank you Nordicpower)
Ability to capitalize textual info when saving the gamelist.xml (button: 'XML in uppercase' under the gamelist.xml creation button) Request from Pegoncology. Please note: you can only go back to lower case by rewriting the texts.
Export test of the gamelist.xml in hyperspin format (button: 'Export as Hyperspin XML' under the create button of the gamelist.xml)
Correction of a sorting problem when clicking on the columns of the database
Correction of a bug on the Dev preview overlay when a priority overlay was present
Various bug fixes

If you already have version 1.8.5.0 you can download only the executable alone + some configuration files here: http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/12-arrm-executable-only

Download link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

Patch page between two versions and Beta : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif

ARRM WIKI : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=Start-en

nexusone13

Hi @mitu
Could you tell me the path to put in a custom collection file for Retropie

On batocera the path to a game is like this

Custom-arcade.cfg file:
/userdata/roms/mame/1942.zip
/userdata/roms/atari2600/pacman.zip

Thanks :)

mitu

@nexusone13 On Retropie, the roms folder is in /home/pi/RetroPie. So the custom collections should containt paths like:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/1942.zip
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/pacman.zip

EDIT: if users are using a custom/manual installation, it's possible they may use a different username, but the paths would be similar (/home/<username>/RetroPie/roms).

nexusone13

@mitu Thanks :)

Krakatoa

So I used this to download some games screens etc, and now when I use Emulationstation and try to jump to a letter in game set in only show the number 1 or 2. Somehow it messed up the jump to feature. Is this a known issue?

nexusone13

Hi @Krakatoa
Go there

Check the 'Remove sortname tag' checkbox then save your gamelist again

I use the tag to allow sorting of the database by adding an index to the sortname. The jump feature seems to use the sortname tag when it is present

Krakatoa

@nexusone13 thank you.

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.8.6.3 (05/12/2020)

Addition of an 'Add to collection' button in the database which allows Batocera & Retropie users to select the Roms to put in an existing collection or one of its choice. If collection exists, Roms are added. See WIKI : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=add_collection_en

If you already have version 1.8.5.0 you can download only the executable alone + some configuration files here: http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/12-arrm-executable-only

Download link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

Patch page between two versions and Beta : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif

ARRM WIKI : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=Start-en

Krakatoa

How do I stop ARRM from creating duplicate games? When it scrapes Atomiswave games, it creates a image for both the bin and lst file, resulting in two games in emulation station. Can I filter this out somehow?

nexusone13

Hi @Krakatoa , look at the wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=remove_extensions_gamelist_en
And choose one of the 2 methods.

Krakatoa

@nexusone13 Thank you, that worked

retromoonman

First off, this program is fantastic. Thank you for all the time and effort you've put into developing it.
However, there are two issues I'm having that are keeping me from moving off of Skraper.

The scraped screenshots used in image mixes are quite blurry. For example, here is what Skraper scrapes, but here is what ARRM scrapes. There are no differences even when turning off the image compression.
I've tried creating my own mix template to add a cartridge image, and this is what it looks like. If you noticed from the images mentioned in the previous issue, ARRM is unable to get cartridge or 3D box images when the box has the portrait orientation; it only gets the marquee. Landscape boxes are fine.

Any help here? Is my template syntax just wrong? I'd really love to use ARRM for everything!

nexusone13

Hi @retromoonman . Sorry for the delay, I'm on vacation. I will have a look at this issue asap. I tried to reproduce this bug, but screenscraper is down for now. I'll try later.

nexusone13

@retromoonman I tried to scrape the game in your example with your created template and it works fine. For this game most of media are only available in japanese, so you ll have to add jp in your media order. See wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=media-assignation-en#order_of_priority_of_the_media_according_to_the_country

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.8.7.2 (10/04/2020)

Added new Recalbox 7.0 systems
New "Folders" tab in which you can configure the paths for each of the media (image, screenshot, boxart, wheel, cartridge, titleshot, map, fanart, manual, video)
Media names have been shortened. Examples:
- Before : A.E. (USA) (Proto)_screenscraper_boxart_arrm.png, A.E. (USA) (Proto)_screenscraper_screenshot_arrm.png...
- Now : A.E. (USA) (Proto)-boxart.png, A.E. (USA) (Proto)-screenshot.png...
Added TAGs: MANUAL, MAP, FANART and TITLESHOT (available on Batocera 5.27)
In the "Images Options" tab, addition in the "Force Media Download" section of MAP, FANART and TITLESHOT media
In the form 'Assignment of media Screenscraper, addition of TAGs: MAP, FANART and TITLESHOT. It is now possible to reference, in the MIX templates of ARRM, the FANART and TITLESHOT tags.
Mix'Me module now accepts FANART and TITLESHOT
Addition of a button "Check for missing images when loading gamelist.xml": When a gamelist.xml is loaded, if Media Tags are empty, ARRM tries to find the missing media locally.
Added a button "Manual (magnifying glass)" and "Manuel +" to read a manual or add one to a Rom
Some options have been put in drop-down lists to save space ("Folders" tab, "Images Options", the filters and "ROM Information")
Removed a bug when using the "Delete Image" button
In the filters, addition of WITH and WITHOUT to filter the TAGS WITH or WITHOUT media
Addition of a "Query" combobox, in the Filters panel, which allows you to compose your own filter and find the history of personalized filters. Click on the? to know the syntax and the eye icon to see the history of custom filters. See wiki http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=interface-en#the_database_list_of_roms_3
in the "Search" tab, the "Genre" combobox is replaced by a 2 combo box (combo box on the available fields, and combobox on the values associated with this field). It is also possible to type the text you want in the combobox (Nordicpower suggestion)
Taking into account of the systems 'model2', 'model3', 'mugen' under Batocera.plus.
Addition of a 'Force' checkbox in the 'Gamelist Options' tab which allows to save the gamelist.xml without displaying the dialog box (Nordicpower suggestion)
Fixed a bug which renamed the rom file in lowercase when moving rom to a subfolder (thanks Nordicpower)
Addition of a BatoceraPlus checkbox in the 'Batocera/Screenscraper/TGDB' tab to manage the 'Windows', 'Linux' system with the .plus extension and the 'Flash' system with the .swf extension
Fixed various bugs
Added new Recalbox 7.0 systems

If you already have version 1.8.6.4 you can download only the executable alone + some configuration files here: http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/12-arrm-executable-only

Download link for full version : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

Page of Beta versions : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif

ARRM WIKI : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=Start-en

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.8.7.4 (10/27/2020)

Fix connection problems on Screenscraper
Addition of a 'Video+Overlay' button allowing to create Video + Overlay (like the birthday videos of Screenscraper) based on the ARRM templates. They have the suffix -mixvideo. See WIKI : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=video_overlay_en
Improved media management in the MixMe module (the selected media are no longer copied into the destination directory with their original name)
Fixed bug in mass replacement
Stop loading if corrupt gamelist.xml
Addition of GenreID in the 'ROM Informations' Panel
Addition of a combobox displaying the label of the genreID. It is possible to choose the genreID via the combobox or by writing it in the dedicated textbox. By clicking on the eye you can view the genreid? label association file
Addition of a contextual menu on the database (right click on the database to make it appear)
The 'Check ARRM updates' button now indicates the presence of a Beta / Patch
Fixed the 'systemes_tgdb.txt' file which generated an error when scraping with 'TheGamesDb.net'
Fixed a bug when moving game from one system to another
During a complete installation the file "template_association.txt" is copied as "template_association.ARRM". When executing ARRM, if no existing "template_association.txt" file is present, the "template_association.ARRM" file is copied into "template_association.txt". This is in order not to overwrite your personalization of the file.
Addition of an "All maps" checkbox in the 'images options' tab which allows you to retrieve all the available maps. Only the first will be assigned to the <map> tag of the gamelist
The button 'Delete unused images and videos' can be applied on multisystems (several systems checked)
Fixed a bug when changing the interface language (switching from French or English to other languages causes a blockage)
Added corrected templates_association for new Recablox 7.0 systems
Correction of the media path when they do not start with ./ in gamelist.xml (case of media scraped via the internet scraper Recalbox 7.0, which prevented ARRM from displaying the media scraped via Recalbox) (Thank you Flomartin)
Addition of a "Replacements" tab which allows you to filter and then apply modifications / replacements on the database. See wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=interface-en#replacements (Suggestion Nordicpower)

If you already have version 1.8.7.2 or 1.8.7.3 you can download only the executable alone + some configuration files here: http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/12-arrm-executable-only

Download link for full version : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

Page of Beta versions : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/category/11-arrm-update-correctif

ARRM WIKI : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=Start-en

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ExarKunIv

@nexusone13 Nice list of fixes and additions. Now that i know how to use it. i just love it.

ExarKunIv

@nexusone13 so i updated to the latest version and i have a problem

when i try to load the games in the PC folder for my dos box. nothing comes up.

yes i have gone and fixed the extensions to include .sh which is how i start all my Dosbox games and still nothing comes up.

in the prosses window i get this

 Start : 10:50  2020-10-30

Replacing \\RetroPie\roms\pc\gamelist.xml with content of \\RetroPie\roms\pc\gamelist_ARRM.xml
Loading XML into database In progress
Comparing ScummVm DOS files with XML
Applying template : C:\Users\eceise.000\AppData\Roaming\Nexouille soft\arrm\ressources\templates\Next_Pixel_1080_computer\Next_Pixel_1080_computer.xml (auto associated)
Backing up C:\Users\eceise.000\AppData\Roaming\Nexouille soft\arrm\database\systemes_extensions.txt
Backing up C:\Users\eceise.000\AppData\Roaming\Nexouille soft\arrm\database\systemes_extensions.txt finished

i think is has something to do with this
Comparing ScummVm DOS files with XML

hope this is a easy fix for you. till then i will get a older version and go from there

nexusone13

@ExarKunIv hi

could you show me your PC folder directory structure. I want to see how games are named inside this directory
Does it works on previous version , which one ?
On batocera or recalbox, folders of games inside PC folder must be names like this :

Aces of the Pacific.pc
Alone In The Dark 2.pc
etc...

They thus appear in the gamelist, without having to indicate a .bat or .sh file, cause Recalbox/Batocera frontends knows how to handle it.

You can join the ARRM textual Discord : https://discord.gg/p7QsBTS , it will be easier and more reactive to discuss

Warning: old versions of ARRM can no longer connect to Screenscraper, at least version 1.8.7.4 is required

WIKI ARRM : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en
ARRM textual Discord : https://discord.gg/p7QsBTS

nexusone13

Hi @mitu ,

for DosBox, in DOS or PC folders, is it necessary to indicate the full path to a .sh file in the gamelist

<path>./Silent Service (1985).pc/Silent Service (1985).sh</path>

or (like batocera/recalbox) the path to the folder is sufficent for retropie to launch the .sh file

<path>./Silent Service (1985).pc</path>

Thanks