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

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

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.