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

nexusone13

Hi @Vlad

Could you try this :

backup your gamelist first
In 'main options' tab, fill the right directory for image/videos
In 'images options' tab, check 'Screenshot'
in 'Scrap Options' tab, uncheck 'Ignore local search' and check 'Screenshot' in 'Images found locally considered as'. Depending the format of your image files, check or uncheck 'Image as Rom file' (image file name same as rom file name or not)

Then select your Roms and click on 'Recompose' Button

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I hope that the format of your image file name and rom file name will allow the program to make the right associations

Vlad

thanks but I don't see options at the right on scrap option tab ... (I use 1.8.3.0 version), it is normal ?

and another question please, if I use image, snap(video) and marquee in my theme, does the marquee will be take into account ?(I'm wondering because there is no field to indicate the directory of marquee...)

edit : and if I have sub-directory for each type of images, what I must indicate, just the name of sub-directory or the path (from roms directory)?

Vlad

@nexusone13 Can I contact you for suggestion ? I have made quickly an example of what I searched in result, and it could be a very good feature I think (not sure it's currently possible) . I'm French , bravo déjà pour le travail réalisé !

nexusone13

@Vlad sorry arrm only search for image in the directory mentioned

nexusone13

@Vlad you have to uncheck 'ignore recherche locale'

Vlad

Thanks. I have exposed a concret idea on your dedicated forum. (by advance , sorry if all are already possible , "tant mieux" :) )

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available:

1.8.4.0 (03/08/2020)

Adding an Undock / Dock button above the database allowing to Attach or Detach the window from the database of the main window, and which can thus be resized.
Memorization of the size of the database window during an undock.
Addition of information in the space freed up by the database following an undock
Addition of Requestsperday and KoRequestperday info in the Scrap options tab
When scraping on screenscraper, check if the user does not exceed the quotas (max request per day and max ko request per day). Scrape stop if overshoot.
Fixed a bug when adding disc AND adding country, when the title of the disc in the filename is DISC instead of DISK

If you already have version 1.8.3.0 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

ratedrguy

@nexusone13 Thanks for making and sharing such a great app.

Could you provide me with guidance on the following...
I noticed after scraping my mixed images with video, I do not have the marquee. Is it possible to scrape the 3 mix + video + marquee?

I notice when I go into image options - if I click 'marquee,' it deselects 'mix'- it will not allow for both to be selected at the same time. Perhaps I am doing something incorrectly?

Also, now that I have scraped a category - is it possible to scrape for just missing media items like a marquee (if I already have the mix + video)? or is it necessary to rescrape everything all over again?

Your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks again.

nexusone13

Hi @ratedrguy

You have to enable 'activation of the recovery of 4 images' via Extra Tag + Default image button in 'Main Options' Tag
Then in the same tab, click on assignment of media 'screenscraper' then select which media you want for the official tag 'Marquee', 'Thumbnail' and 'Image' see wiki : http://jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=media-assignation-en

nexusone13

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.8.5.0 (04/16/2020)

The bezels / overlays now follow the rules of prioritization by country
If user doesn't have windows media player, application will not crash anymore, but video will not display
Addition of the maximum speed according to the number of participation on Screenscraper in the form 'Login Screenscraper'
Adding a button 'Force MD5 before scraping' in the tab 'Scrap Options' allows to calculate the MD5 (if not already present), before the scrap. The research of information will be done in priority via the MD5 of the Rom
if MD5 is used, search doesn't use systemeID anymore, nor the filename. This makes it possible to recover the visuals and textual info of identical Rom but belonging to another platform.
If the preset media order = "** manual **" is selected, the order information entered manually will be taken into account.
If speedup is activated (Tools tab) the TheGamesDB tables are not loaded at launch. Faster launch

If you already have version 1.8.4.0 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

AkiAfroo

hi,
zip files? source code? im not so fan to run installer in my pc.

Loquo

Hi! I just discover your FANTASTIC tool and I am starting to manage with it. I'm following the wiki but I have a problem...

¿How can I connect ARRM to my RasPi? I don't know how to put the folder name in "System Stuff --> System Folder"

Neither of these work at all:
sftp://pi@192.168.0.19/home/pi/RetroPie/roms (copying URL from filezilla)
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms (copying URL from WinSCP)
//home/pi/RetroPie/roms
\home\pi\RetroPie\roms
...

What's the way to input the remote path correctly??

Thanks in advance!!

EDIT: FORGET IT! I FIND THE WAY!

I have another doubt. I prefeer edit this post for not double posting:

How can I put the actual forlder for my gamelist??

Retropie save the gamelists in this path.
\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\

Where can I tell to the ARRM the actual folder for gamelist to continue working with my previous gamelist without starting all over again?

Thanks!

nexusone13

Hi @Loquo , sorry, for the moment, ARRM (originally written for Recalbox and Batocera) saves gamelist.xml in the system folder (example atari2600 \ gamelist.xml)

mitu

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

Where can I tell to the ARRM the actual folder for gamelist to continue working with my previous gamelist without starting all over again?

You can copy the gamelist.xml file from the \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists to the ROM's folder, they should take over and you can also edit them from ARRM.

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