SELECTIONS

Presentation

In this tab, you will be able to make selections (highlighting) of roms that meet the following criteria:

Roms with missing media
Roms with missing text
Roms with missing overlay
Roms with missing Pad2Keyb

Roms with missing media

Before launching a scrape on the roms with missing media, you can make a selection here of the roms concerned, in order to avoid processing all the roms (saving time)

Click on the button Roms with missing media

in order to highlight the roms whose media checked in the Images options tab are missing

Roms with missing text

Before launching a scrape on the roms with missing text, you can make a selection here of the roms concerned, in order to avoid processing all the roms (saving time)

Click on the button Roms with missing text

in order to highlight the roms with checked texts (on olive color background) in the panel Roms information are missing:

Only these texts can be checked for verification:

Game name
Description
Note
Year
Developer
Editor
#Players
Editor
Gender
Regions
Language

Roms with missing overlay

This button allows you to select roms that do not have an overlay/bezel.

Click the Roms with missing overlay button

to highlight the roms whose bezels have not been downloaded.

For Retrobat, ARRM checks for the presence of the tag <bezel>

Roms with missing Pad2key

This button allows you to select roms that do not have a Pad2key file.

Click the Roms with Missing Pad2key button

to highlight roms where the Pad2key file does not exist.

Select Alternative Roms

This button allows you to select alternative roms.

Alternate roms are different versions of the initial rom. They are often represented by a letter/number (tag) in square brackets [] at the end of the file. The list of alternative tags is defined in the Alternative Rom Tags text box on the Configuration Files tab.

These tags are found in this file: %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\Database\alternative_rom_tags.txt

example :

[a];[a1];[a2];[a3];[a4];[a5];[a6];[b];[b1];[b2];[b3];[b4];[b5 ];[b6]

Click on the Select Alternative Roms button to highlight alternative roms. You can, if necessary, delete them for example.

Select the 'Best Roms'

Available since ARRM 2.0.2.1 beta 6

This button allows you to select the 'Best Roms'

The best roms for each system are defined in the top_games_%systeme%.txt files located in the %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\Database\top_games folder.

Examples of files in the folder: %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\Database\top_games

top_games_megadrive.txt
top_games_zxspectrum.txt
top_games_gamecube.txt
…

they contain the rom titles:

example with top_games_n64.txt

1080 TenEighty Snowboarding
Banjo
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Diddy Kong Racing
F-Zero
Goldeneye 007
....

You can add your own rom titles in these files.

Simply select the Roms that you consider to be 'Best Roms' and click on the Add to 'Best Roms' button in the Selected Roms tab.

The game titles will be added in the top_games_%systeme%.txt file located in the %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\Database\top_games folder for the current system.

Since you may not have the same system names, an association file allows you to associate your system names with the correct top_games file.
This file: systemes_topgames.txt is located in the folder %appdata%\Nexouille Soft\arrm\Database

It comes in this form

3DO Interactive Multiplayer|top_games_3do.txt
3do|top_games_3do.txt
3ds|top_games_ds.txt
64dd|top_games_n64.txt
a2600|top_games_atari2600.txt
a5200|top_games_atari8bits.txt
a7800|top_games_atari7800.txt
a800|top_games_atari8bits.txt
....

Click on the Select 'Best Roms' button

to highlight the best roms for the selected system.

You can apply the treatment you want to these selected Roms, such as putting them in Favorites for example via the Tag as Favorites button in the Roms Selected tab.