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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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    • 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 ๐Ÿ™‚ Let me know if it fixes it ๐Ÿ™‚

        And sorry, I didn't test my program with Linux ๐Ÿ˜ž 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... ๐Ÿ˜• I've made things automagical for Windows and MacOS but Linux looks too hard ๐Ÿ˜ž

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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

          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 ๐Ÿ˜‰ hence my suggestion ๐Ÿ˜„

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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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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

                Yep, will do ๐Ÿ™‚

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                • mathieum
                  mathieum last edited by

                  Hi ! Nice app.
                  But i sรฉe 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 ๐Ÿ™‚ 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 ๐Ÿ™‚ 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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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                                • toniosj
                                  toniosj Spanish moderator @cosmo0 last edited by

                                  @cosmo0 We miss you!!

                                  The best software to download overlays for our Recalbox.

                                  Hopefully one day you can get an updated version.

                                  Thanks for your work!

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                                  • cosmo0
                                    cosmo0 last edited by

                                    New version 5.1

                                    https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases

                                    New features

                                    • Can now convert MAME DAT files to CSV
                                    • Small help pages improvements
                                    • Upgrades libraries to latest versions

                                    Bugfixes

                                    • Fixes some CSV parsing bugs
                                    • Make everything work (again?) with latest Recalbox release (7.1)

                                    Known bugs

                                    • Overlays installation doesn't seem to be working on Linux. It will require quite a lot of work to fix.
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                                    • Forest Carmel
                                      Forest Carmel last edited by

                                      The Information you shared above is great. I have been reading all you shared here. In this you explained everything very well. If i want any further guideline we will contact you here https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/13964/soft-arcade-manager-install-overlays-and-manage-roms-in-a-user-friendly-fast-teatimeresults-and-cross-platform-gui/30?lang=en-GB. I am going to bookmark this thread.

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                                      • paanjii2
                                        paanjii2 last edited by

                                        this is really good post, thank you for sharing this information with us

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                                          • cosmo0
                                            cosmo0 last edited by

                                            New version, converted to .Net and fixes a bunch of bugs: https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases

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