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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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    • 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 πŸ˜„

      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 πŸ˜‰ hence my suggestion πŸ˜„

        Former dev - Please reply with @substring so that i am notified when you answer me
        Ex dev - Merci de me rΓ©pondre en utilisant @substring pour que je sois notifΓ©

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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 πŸ™‚

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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 πŸ™‚

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

            Yep, will do πŸ™‚

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            • mathieum
              mathieum last edited by

              Hi ! Nice app.
              But i sΓ©e 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 πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ™‚

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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 πŸ™‚

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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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                                        • cosmo0
                                          cosmo0 last edited by

                                          New version, because the previous one had a breaking bug.

                                          https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases/tag/v6.2

                                          Also adds support for roms in .7z format, and adds CSV lists for MAME 2003+ and FBNeo 1.0.0.2

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                                          • cosmo0
                                            cosmo0 last edited by cosmo0

                                            New version: with a wizard ! It allows you to easily copy a selection of great games in a few clicks.

                                            https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases/tag/v7.0-rc1

                                            home

                                            The app is now translated; for now only in french, let me know if you can help!

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