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    [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI

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    • Olliko
      Olliko @cosmo0 last edited by

      @cosmo0 i use fba_libretro.

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      • cosmo0
        cosmo0 @Olliko last edited by

        @olliko said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

        @cosmo0 i use fba_libretro.

        Well that's what I used too... weird...

        Anyone else had the same problem ?

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        • gnubit
          gnubit @cosmo0 last edited by gnubit

          @cosmo0

          Thanks for the app, but I`m having troubles with it also.

          The overlays are downloading to /recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro (when I tell the app the roms are located at "/recalbox/share/roms/fba_libretro") which is great, but the .cfg files are referring to an incorrect path.
          the *.zip.cfg are located at /recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro

          As example (3countb.zip.cfg) lists this in the file:

          input_overlay = /recalbox/share/overlays/fba_libretro/arcade-artwork/3countb.cfg
          input_overlay_enable = true
          input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
          input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

          ie: not referring to "/recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro/arcade-artwork" where the artwork is located

          I have tried in the configs setup in the app to use "/recalbox/share/system/configs" and
          "/recalbox/share/system/configs/retroarch/overlays" (where another overlay path is used, for example zover4recalbox `s overlay) with the same result.

          I am currently using pack01-clean-1080 from zover4recalbox for my libretro cores which work. Is there a conflict with them, or just the *.zip.cfg are referring the wrong path?, or perhaps I`m just doing it wrong and need a little guidance.
          Thanks in advance.

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          • Substring
            Substring last edited by

            Stupid question as i was really lazy to read the whole topic and test the software : can it check roms against dat files ?

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            • cosmo0
              cosmo0 @gnubit last edited by

              @gnubit said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

              @cosmo0

              Thanks for the app, but I`m having troubles with it also.

              The overlays are downloading to /recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro (when I tell the app the roms are located at "/recalbox/share/roms/fba_libretro") which is great, but the .cfg files are referring to an incorrect path.
              the *.zip.cfg are located at /recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro

              As example (3countb.zip.cfg) lists this in the file:

              input_overlay = /recalbox/share/overlays/fba_libretro/arcade-artwork/3countb.cfg
              input_overlay_enable = true
              input_overlay_opacity = 0.900000
              input_overlay_scale = 1.000000

              ie: not referring to "/recalbox/share/system/configs/overlays/fba_libretro/arcade-artwork" where the artwork is located

              I have tried in the configs setup in the app to use "/recalbox/share/system/configs" and
              "/recalbox/share/system/configs/retroarch/overlays" (where another overlay path is used, for example zover4recalbox `s overlay) with the same result.

              I am currently using pack01-clean-1080 from zover4recalbox for my libretro cores which work. Is there a conflict with them, or just the *.zip.cfg are referring the wrong path?, or perhaps I`m just doing it wrong and need a little guidance.
              Thanks in advance.

              Hello

              The overlays should actually be downloaded to /recalbox/share/overlays/fba_libretro/.

              Are you telling the software to download to /recalbox/share/system/configs/, or is it doing that automatically?

              @substring said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

              Stupid question as i was really lazy to read the whole topic and test the software : can it check roms against dat files ?

              Nope 🙂 it doesn't rebuild romsets.

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              • gnubit
                gnubit @cosmo0 last edited by

                @cosmo0

                Thanks for the reply. It looks like it may be doing it automatically.

                I tried again with these inputs:

                Roms folders
                /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=XXX.XXX.X.XXX/recalbox/share/roms/fba_libretro

                Config share
                /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=XXX.XXX.X.XXX/recalbox/share/system

                with the same result. 0_1526081918778_Screenshot from 2018-05-12 09-05-06.png

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                • Substring
                  Substring @cosmo0 last edited by

                  @cosmo0 i dont mean "rebuild", i mean simply check if the rom is valid

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                  • cosmo0
                    cosmo0 @gnubit last edited by

                    @gnubit said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

                    Config share
                    /run/user/1000/gvfs/sftp:host=XXX.XXX.X.XXX/recalbox/share/system

                    Config share should be just recalbox/share, not /system 🙂 Let me know if it fixes it 🙂

                    And sorry, I didn't test my program with Linux 😞 every distro seems to have a different method for accessing , and apparently even the same distro can change the path to access Samba share from version to version... 😕 I've made things automagical for Windows and MacOS but Linux looks too hard 😞

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                    • cosmo0
                      cosmo0 @Substring last edited by

                      @substring said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

                      @cosmo0 i dont mean "rebuild", i mean simply check if the rom is valid

                      No, sorry.

                      First, because CLR Mame Pro already does that, and it works under all platforms (using Wine for Mac/Linux). Despite the... complicated interface, I'm not a fan of doing things that have already been done.

                      And second, because this tool was designed for Retropie at the beginning, and this feature wouldn't make sense in Retropie, between the "arcade" folder, the multiple MAME versions, etc. As you're probably aware, Retropie is... complicated 😄

                      I might do it in a later version, though, it's not really complicated (open a zip file, checksum the files inside, check against data in an XML...).

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                      • Substring
                        Substring @cosmo0 last edited by

                        @cosmo0 said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

                        I might do it in a later version, though, it's not really complicated (open a zip file, checksum the files inside, check against data in an XML...).

                        Indeed 😉 hence my suggestion 😄

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                        • gnubit
                          gnubit @cosmo0 last edited by

                          @cosmo0

                          Yippie! it works with the config share as /recalbox/share

                          You may want to mention the config share path in the help section for linux on your next release.

                          Many thanks 🙂

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                          • cosmo0
                            cosmo0 @gnubit last edited by

                            @gnubit said in [SOFT] Arcade Manager : install overlays and manage roms in a user-friendly, fast and cross-platform GUI:

                            @cosmo0

                            Yippie! it works with the config share as /recalbox/share

                            Glad to hear that 🙂

                            You may want to mention the config share path in the help section for linux on your next release.

                            Yep, will do 🙂

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                            • mathieum
                              mathieum last edited by

                              Hi ! Nice app.
                              But i sée on net something quite interressing : the bezel project. But for retropie. Maybe You Can use it to update your app.

                              https://github.com/thebezelproject

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                              • cosmo0
                                cosmo0 @mathieum last edited by

                                @mathieum hey !
                                Thanks but I already saw it. They don't have as many overlays as I do 🙂 They do have a few more but they're not 16:9.
                                The big difference is that they have copied all overlays for the clones, and they have generic ones when no one exists. So it looks like they have 6000 overlays but on reality there are less than 1000, and I have more than 1200 unique ones.

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                                • kooper
                                  kooper Banned last edited by

                                  Thank you very much for the good program you have done. It's good work.

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                                    • Cirion
                                      Cirion @cosmo0 last edited by

                                      @cosmo0 This Arcademanager is GREAT! Pretty cool stuff! Now, I do agree that you should look into "The Bezel Project". They have a lot of individual bezels for a lot of systems! Because of you and your Arcademanager I was able to use them manually 🙂 I had no way of making it work, and the Recalbox wiki is plain wrong. It does not work. But the way you did it with a subfolder for the config + image, and use a config file to point to that work great. I now am able to manually add bezels fom "The Bezel Project". Add those bezels to your manager and make it easy for every system available 🙂

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                                      • paradadf
                                        paradadf Staff @Cirion last edited by

                                        @cirion the wiki is editable by anyone, so you can help the community by correcting it ;).

                                        If your question was answered, please mark it as solved: Topic Tools -> Ask a question + Topic Tools -> Mark as Solved

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                                        • Cirion
                                          Cirion @paradadf last edited by

                                          @paradadf I have done it... But I suck at getting it to look right, feel free to clean up my info. Look at the bottom:
                                          https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Retroarch-setup-overlays-(EN)

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Hi! I use this software a lot and I would appreciate an update for Recalbox 6. Thanks 🙂

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