Another Gamelist, Roms manager, and Scraper for Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie, Retrobat, EmuELEC, EmulationStation
This wiki corresponds to the old ARRM version ⇐ 1.9.2.9. Old versions are no longer updated.
You can access to the wiki of the new revamped ARRM version >= 2.0.0.1 by clicking on this link : ARRM revamped >= 2.0.0.1
Since version 1.9.2.0 Beta 13, le Multi-Thread on Screenscraper is available
Since version 1.9.0.0, ARRM is able to scrape on the following databases:
Scrap your games for Recalbox, Batocera,Retrobat, Retropie, EmuELEC, EmulationStation with ARRM. Manage your gamelists and organize your Roms
Scrape your roms or systems individually (incremental scrape) or massively
For some time I have been using Recalbox, RetroBat and Batocera. These frontends, which can be used on Raspberry, pc/linux and other platforms, allow you to run emulators of old consoles.
Wishing to modify the descriptions of game roms, add them to favorites or hide them in a simple way and scrape the information and artworks of some roms on Screenscraper, HFS-DB, TheGamesDb.net, LaunchBox, Steam, IGDB , GOG , MobyGames and GameTDB , I wrote this little utility ARRM for my personal use.
Over the versions, many other features have been added, often at the request of users.
I make it available if it can be useful to you. All the input areas as well as the buttons have their Info Bubble in order to know their function. You will find ? in the interface which will bring you back to the dedicated sections of this WIKI.
This software is also compatible with Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie, EmuELEC, EmulationStation, Retrobat…
Here is what you can get on your frontend using ARRM on each of your systems. Many templates are available. (View list of available templates)
BatoceraNation made an English video tutorial on how to use ARRM to scrape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMPB--STsw&ab_channel=BatoceraNation
Watch the BatoceraNation video tutorial
ARRM does not offer gaming ROMs, nor does it allow them to be downloaded; he uses the Roms you own. Pictures and textuals informations recovery is done on the following sites: Screenscraper, HFS-DB, TheGamesDb.net, LaunchBox, Steam, IGDB , GOG , MobyGames and GameTDB
A big thank you to these sites for their database dedicated to video games. Do not hesitate to encourage them.
I invite you to connect to these sites and contribute to the development of their database.
ARRM is a Scraper :
It allows you to retrieve and format (scraper) textual information and graphic media from video games by querying sites offering this information (Screenscraper, HFSDb, TheGamesDb.net, LaunchBox, Steam, GOG, IGDB, MobyGames, GameTDB)
It can thus create gamelist.xml files compatible with many retrogaming distributions (Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie, EmuElec, RetroBat …) and allows, via exports, to create files compatible with other distributions (Pegasus, AttractMode , Hyperspin) and .csv files
ARRM is a gamelist manager :
It allows you to manipulate the recovered data: filter, sort, delete, edit, clean, replace data …
Many built-in utilities allow you to best customize your gamelists and scrapes
Videos Tutorial
General
Scrape
Overlay / Bezels
Template
Roms management
GameList
Tools
and many other features…
Since version 1.8.7.4 beta 5 it is possible to generate videos + overlay based on the templates offered by ARRM. Like the birthday videos offered by Screenscraper on their Facebook. Tutorial video : Creating overlays video
Examples:
Thanks for using ARRM :)
This software required (and continues :)) many hours of work on the part of its author. Listening to user requests, I try to improve ARRM over time. If you enjoy ARRM, you can donate to support its author (Nexusone13) and the JujuVinceBros by clicking on one of the following buttons :
If you donate at least 5 euros, remember to leave a message with your email, you will receive an email allowing you to deactivate the donation reminder popup and to access certain additional features in the ARRM application.
Thank you in advance, it motivates me to continue to improve ARRM, and to respond to your requests as well as possible.
Thank you again for your help :)
Nexusone13 and the JujuVinceBros
You need help ?
Do you want to declare a Bug?
Would you like to add a feature?
Do not hesitate to use our different means to stay in contact: Keep in touch
Try the JVB Quiz game: http://jujuvincebros.fr/hard-soft/reviews/640-jvb-quiz-game
I wrote a little game: JVB_Quiz which offers a quiz based on the media / gamelist available with your Recalbox/Batocera/Retropie/Retrobat installations ….
For those who do not have these frontends, I offer ready-to-use media packs per system (without roms), on the download (All media scraped with ARRM)
It uses the gamelist.xml to display videos and / or images (image, marquee, boxart, screenshot etc … available in gamelists) as well as text questions (over 800) in French or English as desired. On the images, a kaleidoscope effect gradually reveals the image. You can mix image and video in the quiz.
It works under Windows or on Wine or Pygame under Batocera PC.
You can play up to 6 players (4 joypads and 2 keyboards)
Go to Download ARRM Software