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

[cosmo0]

@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

[mathieum]

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

[cosmo0]

@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.

[kooper]

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

[kooper]

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[Cirion]

@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

[paradadf]

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

[Cirion]

@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)

[A Former User]

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

[toniosj]

@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!

[cosmo0]

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.

[Forest Carmel]

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.

[paanjii2]

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

[paanjii2]

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[cosmo0]

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

[cosmo0]

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

[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

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

[cosmo0]

Update release because the wizard wasn't working anymore (oops)

https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases/tag/v7.1

[cosmo0]

After more than two years, I finally found the motivation to work on this project again and improve it.

Download: Release ArcadeManager v25.1

New features

The biggest new feature is the ability to check a romset against a DAT file, and to transform a romset into a non-merged one. Several common DAT files are provided: MAME for the latest Batocera and Recalbox versions, MAME2003 in different flavors, and FBNeo. Merged and split sets are not supported, as they make no sense in the context of this tool.

Other new features:

• Completely rewrote the "top x" lists in the wizard and added some new selections
• Added some new games lists in the wizard (4 buttons, vertical, multiplayer vs/coop)
• Before copying files listed in a CSV, the app now lists the missing ones
• Added the possibility to help translate using Weblate
• New translation in Swedish - please contribute to other languages if you can, it's not hard!
• A new console application has been created, in case you want to automate things
• In the latest MAME versions some files (other than samples and bioses) are needed, they are now copied along with the roms

Fixed bugs

• The Windows zip file version launches the debug window upon starting
• Crash when a CHD file already exists
• 404 link in the help section
• Encoding error in some JS error messages
• Path with "+" doesn't work