[SOFT] Arrm (Another Recalbox Roms Manager)

[nexusone13]

Hi All

New version available for ARRM

1.7.2.0 (04/14/2019)

• bug fixed: on the Recalbox, the button 'stop the emulation station' and 'restart the recalbox' did not work properly.
• add the suffix _USA for qd a media USA is found and the checkbox media_USA is checked (Secamfr request)
• Added a tab "Tools"
• Added button "Sort es_systems.cfg" in the tab "Tools" which displays a module allowing to sort the file es_systems.cfg on 6 possible criteria. (cf WIKI)
    A backup of the old file is created for security.
    The systems are referenced in a pre-configured systems_sorting.txt file that you can edit to add your systems present in your es_systems.cfg but missing from this file.
• Added a "Backup configuration files" button in the "Tools" tab which makes it possible to make a backup of the files present in "%appdata%\roaming\nexouille soft\arrm\database" which you could have modified / personalized.
    Use before uninstalling the application if you have modified some of these files.
• Taking into account the systems present in Recalbox 6
• Bug fix: In order for the auto template for a system to work, the Auto association template had to be checked; corrected. Both operate independently
• Added a 'Missing Overlays' button to highlight games whose name appears in the 'missing_overlays% SYSTEM% .txt' file created during a previous overlay search.
• Updated emulators/cores for Recalbox and Batocera used with the 'Reset Core/Emu' button.

Download link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

[nexusone13]

Hello everyone

Some features of ARRM

• Compatible with Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie and EmulationStation
• Interface in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian
• All buttons have bubble info to guide the user
• Ability to automatically scrape Roms by unit or in mass automatically roms on ScreenScraper.fr, MameDb.org and TheGamesDb.net with recovery of media and information
• Can retrieve 2D or 3D boxart info, screenshot, wheel, cartridge, video and put them in the gamelist.xml with customizable tag names (useful for custom themes)
• Retrieving text information in the chosen language.
• A Mix'Me module allows you to choose the images you want (drag & drop possible) and apply them to the chosen template (cf WIKI)
• Upgrading the gamelist.xml based on the roms files on the disk
• Setting favorites, hidden, normal for Roms in mass
• Ability to Sort of the gamelist according to 5 levels of criteria if 'sortname' tag taken into account by the frontend.
• Filter roms without images, without description, on genres, or on a string contained in the name file / title of rom / description.
• Ability to force a scrape with an MD5 entered by the user.
• Modification of various informations of a Rom (cf WIKI)
• Bulk deletion of image files that do not match any rom in the gamelist
• Backup of gamelist.xml from all systems
• Backup of modified gamelist.xml via the program
• Moving roms from one system to another while retaining the scraped information (cf WIKI)
• Can add the disk number, face or k7 after the name of the game (if present in the file name)
• Missing list for games not found
• Can specifically retrieve Japanese or US media
• Export the gamelist to a file in .csv format
• Possibility to use predefined templates (or create them yourself) for mixed images (screenshot + boxart + marquee + cartridge) and customize them via XML configuration files: (cf WIKI)
• Application of a template of your choice without rescrape by using the images previously downloaded via ARRM (use of the 4 images recovered via the option "extra tags" of ARRM) (cf WIKI)
• ARRM automatically retrieves images from other scraps, or created manually if present in the downloaded_images directory: (([cf WIKI] (cf WIKI)
• Mix Scrape with 10 possible layers (layers)
• Several templates are available and customizable
• Ability to move items (the, the, and those of other languages ​​ES / POR / GER / FR) at the end of the name. Examples: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time -> Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time or The Bard's Tale -> Bard's Tale, The
• Calculating the hash for Netplay games (cf WIKI)
• Find the core / emulator for arcade games (uses BestArcade4Recalbox)
• Change Emulators / Core for selected Roms
• Customization of subfolders with image and description (cf WIKI)
• Retrieving game manuals
• Possible recovery of scraps made after an application crash
• Mass MD5 calculation
• Mass Removal of METADATA
• WIKI available with concrete cases for better handling of the software: (cf WIKI)
• Recovery of overlays with automatic creation of overlays configuration files for Batocera and Recalbox by automatic recognition of the Viewport zones (zone where the game screen must appear in the overlays) (cf WIKI)
• Possibility of automatically resizing overlays 1080 to 720 with recalculation of viewport areas
• When scrap (multi or single system) possibility to associate a template to a system via a configuration file
• Sorting module es_systems.cfg file on 6 possible criteria. (cf WIKI)
• And various other options to discover in the WIKI

[p0cth]

Salut,

A défaut d'avoir à ce jour une version Arrm compatible avec Linux, j'ai testé la version sur Windows voici mon retour :

Une interface graphique sur un seul onglet avec toutes les fonctions c'est un très bon choix.

Des infos bulles pour nous guider sur les choix c'est très bien. (prise en main assez simple après quelques minutes)

Un accès simple et intuitif au share/rom distant de Recalbox.

J'ai d'abord testé sur un dossier avec peu de roms pour essayer différents réglages (nombreux, variés et très satisfaisants).

Le résultat des recherches ne m'a pas retournés d'erreurs sur l'affichage des images mix ou sur le nom des roms.

L’édition automatisé des gamelist dans le répertoire correspondant est géniale. On nous laisse le choix de remplacer le gamelist existant ou pas pour finaliser le résultat.

Les raccourcis à l’écran pour visualiser les dossiers des roms c'est parfait.

A ce jour c'est l'application de scrap externe qui me convient le mieux et la plus aboutie.

Bravo et merci @nexusone13 (Franck) ainsi que les premiers utilisateurs et testeurs qui permettent de faire progresser le développement de cette application.

Je suis très reconnaissant de votre investissement.

[nexusone13]

@p0cth un grand merci pour ce retour. Sincèrement

[nexusone13]

Hello everyone

New version available : 1.7.3.0

• Acceleration of image processing
• Download of the video is available without obligation to activate the '4 images' mode
• Added Mix RB V1 and Mix RB V2 button to recover V1 and V2 mixes (pre made) on Screenscraper. Available only on Screenscraper using the V2 API.
• Added a checkbox "remove sortname tag" in the tab 'Gamelist Options' (used on Retropie) (request of morenr1 on forum Retropie)
• Added a button 'without video' in the filters (request of morenr1 on forum Retropie)
• Added a checkbox in the sorting module of the es_systems.cfg file to differentiate or not the portable consoles from the home consoles

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager use 'Mirror Link1' if you get an 'Invalid Token' error message.

[jorgemagana]

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[jorgemagana]

Hello, I have a doubt about which options I have to check (or uncheck) in order to have only the Arcade Profile picture, without the flyer (circled in yellow). Thanks!

[nexusone13]

@jorgemagana Hi,
In your example, The boxart (wor) is the one displayed on your screenshot.
On 'screenscraper' there is another boxart available boxart (SS) : (SS) media are specifically created by 'screenscraper', but are not 'official' if I understood correctly.
I'm working on a new release with a ' Force SS media' checkbox (another one ) to force ARRM to grab (SS) media. I'll send you a beta version on pvt chat.
For now you can check the 'Box 3D' to display a boxart which look nicer

[jorgemagana]

@nexusone13 Thanks for your answer, I found a solution doing this:

1. Select "Show mix model"

2. Select "Edit XML file"

3. Delete "boxart" in Data- Element-Layer4

I got the "arcade profile" image!

[nexusone13]

@jorgemagana Well done
I thought you still wanted the boxart. I misunderstood
I advise you to create your own mix, by copying the directory of this mix under another name and editing as you did the data of the xml, and especially by changing the name of the mix in this tag <name>Arcade Profile</name>. Because during an uninstall of the application to install a new version, the original mixes are replaced, but not the mixes created by the user.

[jorgemagana]

@nexusone13 ok, thanks!

[nexusone13]

Hi All

New version available : 1.7.5.2 (05/14/2019)

• Typing on a letter in the database (if sorted in alphabetical order), positions the index on the first name of game found starting with this letter (request from Zing forum Recalbox)
• Following the deletion of Rom, the index is positioned on the next element and does not come back to the beginning of the list (request from Zing forum Recalbox)
• System Sorting / The sorting of the es_systems.cfg is now possible on Retropie.
• Added a 'retropie' checkbox to launch the 'Stop and Reboot EmulationStation' scripts, to manage the specificities of overlays Retropie, and the SystemSorter specified to Retropie (request of morenr1 on the retropie forum)
• Can retrieve and create overlays configuration files for Recalbox, Batocera and Retropie
• Added a 'filter duplicate games' button on the Game name or on the file name which allows to filter the Roms whose name of the game or the file name (without extension) appears on other Roms. Example for ARRM: 1943 and 1943kai will be listed as duplicated because 1943 appears in 1943kai (thanks to Zing for testing)
• Added a 'Screen Title' checkbox to get the game's Screen Title instead of the screenshot. If checked, it can be used as a Screenshot or in the Mix. (request of ExarKunIv on Retropie forum)
• Add a "Europe Media" checkbox to retrieve Europe's special media if present. (Lucinda's request on recalbox forum)
• Added an 'SS Media' checkbox to force SS media recovery (specifically created by Screenscraper)
• Added a checkbox 'add country' that adds the country, at the end of the game name, if this information is present in the name of the rom file.
    If the MD5 of the game is filled in, ARRM can retrieve on screenscraper the information of the Country of Rom, during a scrap or during a 'Verif name via MD5' (API V2 only)). With the MD5 the country information will be more complete.
• Tag Marquee and Video are now written in the gamelist.xml, in order to use these features in Batocera v5.21 and Retropie.
• Textbox to indicate a way for the videos (request of morenr1 forum retropie)
• If the mode '4 images' is not selected, only the tags 'image', 'video' and 'marquee' are now saved (previously boxart, screenshot, marquee, mix, cartridge were saved in the gamelist.xml) (request from kevinnash forum Recalbox)
• His played (Back to the Future locomotive) at the end of a scrap. The sound can be activated via a checkbox 'Its end scrap' in the tab 'General options' (request of Kevinnash forum Recalbox).
• Line breaks and tabs are taken into account in the textbox 'description'. (bug brought back by Zing)
• Backup paths for overlay images, overlay configuration files and input_overlay 'can be set via a config file
• Fixed inconsistencies in media search (by country) using API v2
• Change the path to recover the original es_systems.cfg file on Batocera v5.21
• Fixed a bug when validating a nonexistent screenscraper account
• Added additional information about ScreenScraper user account (screenscraper login module)
• Remove redundant 'add disk / tape / side' button with 'Check Roms' which already applies the following checkboxes: 'Clean Name', 'Add Disk', 'Keep Rom Name', 'Add Country'
• Fixed bug on auto-assignment of template with 'Recompose image'
• Fixed various bugs
• Adding an Amstrad GX4000 template

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager use 'Mirror Link1' if you get an 'Invalid Token' error message.

[appa84]

Arrm 1.7.5.2 Downloaded. The program does not open. What should I do.

[nexusone13]

@appa84 Hi sent you a file in pvt chat

[nexusone13]

For those having trouble launching the application, here is a workaround (have to fix that soon). Grab this file (registry key) i found the bug, some trouble creating registry key. Get this one : http://dl.free.fr/nHWkEIygo
unzip it and register .reg file, then launch app.. Some trouble with the new version creating the reg key. I'll work on that very soon and release a bug free version.
Only occurs with new users

[nexusone13]

@appa84 bug fixed. Online application updated. You can download it again

[nexusone13]

Hi All

New version available : 1.7.5.3 (05/17/2019)

• Fixed the bug that prevented the v 1.7.5.2 application from getting started with new users.
• Added a splashScreen at launch.

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager use 'Mirror Link1' if you get an 'Invalid Token' error message.

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

[nexusone13]

Hi All

New version available :

1.7.6.5 (06/10/2019)

• Added translation of the interface in Chinese (thank you Lyon00)

1.7.6.3 (06/10/2019)

• The logs are centralized in a subdirectory (logs_arrm) of the selected system.
• When 'Keep rom name' is checked, 'Add disk' & 'clean name' are disabled
• Database update: rom / core arcade compatibility (BestArcade4Recalbox-19-05-09).
• Add in the tools tab of a textbox to modify the compression parameters of pngequant (request of Ismaily T. M. on the JujuVinceBros facebook page)
• Added in the tools tab a button 'Update Best Arcade Core' to update the database with the best core arcade based games. Uses the files 'fba_libretro.csv', 'mame2003.csv', 'mame2010.csv' from BestArcade4Recalbox-19-05-09 list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5tBguhRxpj1AQcnDWF6AVSx4av_Gm3cDQedQB7IECk/edit?usp=sharing. These files are located in '%appdata%\nexouille soft\arrm\database'. The 'Update Core' button uses this database.

1.7.6.1

• When adding disk taking into account of [Part x of x] in the file name
• When adding disk taking into account references memory sizes (16k) (48k) (128k). I use it for my collection of Roms Zx Spectrum which proposed 3 sizes different memories and therefore slightly different Roms.
• Taking into account the video during a recompose image if the video file is present (Jay's request)
• Ability to add a video manually to a Rom via the 'Video' button in the game card (Jay's request)
• Ability to stop the various treatments applied to selected Roms.
• Ability to modify the timeout value on web requests (via the 'Tools' tab). Increase the value when scrap server is overloaded.
• Use the 32bits or 64bits version of pngequant (compressor PNG) depending on your environment.
• When recovering Video only, '4 images' mode does not need to be activated.
• Ability to recover the 'cartridge' as the default image.
• When launching a scrap with overlay, the previous file "missing_overlays% SYSTEM% .txt" is saved with the current date.
• Added the SNES CD template

1.7.5.4 (05/18/2019)

• Fixed a bug that crashed the application when duplicate search returned too many items.
• Fixed bug when searching with keywords and with filters
• Changed path for systems overlay path for recalbox in 'overlays_path.txt' file : /recalbox/share/system/configs/retroarch/overlays changed to /recalbox/share/system/.config/retroarch/overlays

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager use 'Mirror Link1' if you get an 'Invalid Token' error message.

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

[nexusone13]

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.7.7.0 (10/05/2019)

• Automatic association of templates by system via the template selection menu. You no longer need to edit the template_association.txt file manually.
     Operating mode: select a single system, then click on 'Show Mix Model' to select the desired template, then confirm.
     The system / template association will be saved in the template_association.txt file
     If you wish to modify the default template: Do not select any system and click on 'Choose Mix Template', then confirm.
• Added several templates: Famicom, DOS (profile), MSX TurboR, Othello Multivision, Sega Mark III, Sharp X1, Spectravideo, Super Famicom, TurboGrafX, Box Marquee Cartridge and Box cartridge
• fix bug when filtering game title containing a simple quote (thx virus-man)
• Update systems for Recalbox / Batocera
• update of the core / emulator for Batocera / Recalbox

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en

[nexusone13]

Hi All,

New version of ARRM available :

1.7.7.5 (10/31/2019)

• Added templates for Myst's Next_Pixel 1.3 theme for Recalbox (https://samystudio.github.io/es-theme-next-pixel/). See Wiki : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=templates_available_en
• Added Rom file renaming button with game name (Ninjaw request)
• Add a video preview of the snap video if present (the sound is deliberately cut) Right click on the video to access full screen, play / pause, etc ...
• Added video button that appears in the game card when a video is present. By clicking, it opens the media player associated with the extension of the video. (Ninjaw asks)
• Added a checkbox in the 'Tools' panel to compress video with handbrake whose encoding parameters are modifiable in 'Handbreak parameters', making them compatible with OMX player for Retropie (Morenr1 request via mail). See Wiki : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=settings-fr#tools
• The template file allows to manage differently the display of boxarts according to their format (portrait, landscape (style N64), CD). See the Next_Pixel templates for an example.

Download Link : http://jujuvincebros.fr/telechargements2/file/10-arrm-another-recalbox-roms-manager

ARRM Wiki (with some practical cases) : http://www.jujuvincebros.fr/wiki/arrm/doku.php?id=start-en