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

nexusone13

@MeduZaPaT sorry not :( it's a .Net application. Maybe with Mono, but linux is not familiar to me unfortunaly :(

morenr1

Great tool!!! Now I can manage my collection with a graphical interface without problems. Congratulations.

@nexusone13 , I have noticed that in all gamelist that I have modified always appears the section <sortname> , even if the Add Index option is unmarked. Could you please check this issue? I would prefer the alphabetic order.

Thanks a lot for the work!!

nexusone13

@morenr1 Thanks for using ARRM and for you comment :) . Currently the 'sortname' tag is always written in the gamelist.xml. 'Add Index' option is only for 'frontend' that does no support <sortname> tag like Recalbox / Batocera. When 'add index' is checked the name of game is changed too (adding '1 =- name of the game' etc...) . Retropie recognize the 'sortname' tag, so 'add index' doesn't have to be checked. When you save the gamelist.xml, the 'sortname' tag will be created according to the sort criteria of the database, that you can change by clicking on 'Sorting Database' button (just below the database), and select your criteria. This criteria will apply everytime you'll load a system. Gamelist.xml will be saved according to the database sorting criteria.

morenr1

@nexusone13 Thank you. Much clear now. Do you have planned add "without video" as a filter option?

nexusone13

@morenr1 No yet, cause, as you can see, I have not put this field in the database. (I used to work with Recalbox and Batocera which not recognize this 'video' tag) If it can be useful, I'll add it in a future release :)

morenr1

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

@morenr1 Thanks for using ARRM and for you comment :) . Currently the 'sortname' tag is always written in the gamelist.xml. 'Add Index' option is only for 'frontend' that does no support <sortname> tag like Recalbox / Batocera. When 'add index' is checked the name of game is changed too (adding '1 =- name of the game' etc...) . Retropie recognize the 'sortname' tag, so 'add index' doesn't have to be checked. When you save the gamelist.xml, the 'sortname' tag will be created according to the sort criteria of the database, that you can change by clicking on 'Sorting Database' button (just below the database), and select your criteria. This criteria will apply everytime you'll load a system. Gamelist.xml will be saved according to the database sorting criteria.

I have check it in my rasp with Retropie and works as you said, but the problem is that if you use <sortname> tag starting with a number, you can not jump to a letter in emulationstation. interfeface, you only have numbers. Sometimes you want to go to rom that starting with an especific letter.

Hope this is helpful for you in order to improve your fantastic tool

Regards

nexusone13

@morenr1 hmmm I see, is there any workaround ? Does Retropie apply his own sorting, or Retropie can use the sorted gamelist.xml (without the 'sortname tag' ) ? Because Batocera and Recalbox apply automaticaly an alphabetical order whatever the sorting applied in the gamelist.xml

I you want I can add a checkbox (remove sortname) if you want. I'll do this and send you the executable

morenr1

@nexusone13 I'm not an expert with Retropie, but it seems that uses <sortname> tag to make the order. I will be glad to test it.

mitu

@nexusone13 RetroPie's Emulationstation has an additional node (sortname) to sort the games, instead of sorting alphabetically only. Simply put, if a game has a sortname, its contents is used in the alphabetical sort instead of the name tag. The display name though it's still the name contents.
By default, this node is not populated automatically by Emulationstation, but can be set manually or by a scraper/organizer.

nexusone13

@mitu if the user want to jump to a letter (in the example given by @morenr1) , Retropie uses the sortname or the name tag to do this ?

mitu

@nexusone13 I'm not sure, but it should use the name.

nexusone13

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nexusone13

@mitu So i can use an Index in the 'sortname' tag like "1 - xxxxxx" , "2 - xxxxxxx" without perturbing the jump to a letter ?

morenr1

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

Batocera

I think that if <sortname> tag appears, Retropie's Emulationstation uses it. The problem is that if you add numbers in the <sortname>, <sortname> 0001 -XXXX in all games, you are unabled to jump to a letter, because you won't have letters to jump. :)

nexusone13

@morenr1 Here is the executable only with a "remove sortname tag" checkbox : http://dl.free.fr/ioMYKtRWt

mitu

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

@mitu So i can use an Index in the 'sortname' tag like "1 - xxxxxx" , "2 - xxxxxxx" without perturbing the jump to a letter ?

Yes, you can to that. Jump to letter in this case doesn't always make sense - the sorting might not alphabetical so jumping to a letter would go to the 1st game starting with that letter, but not necessarily to the section of the games starting with that letter (since they could be sorted non-alphabetically).
If your goal is to sort alphabetically the games, then sortname is not necessary.

morenr1

@nexusone13 Works well, now <sortname> doesn't appear and I can use "jump to a letter without problems. I hope you keep this option in future releases.

Thank you

nexusone13

@morenr1 of course :)

nexusone13

For you @morenr1 , here is the 'Without video' button. It's executable only, so replace the old one by this one. http://dl.free.fr/brqVUct42

morenr1

@nexusone13 Great!!! Due to Retropie supports videos, I think that this option is useful for Retropie users.
If I can help you in your development, please let me know.