ARRM settings for Batocera, Retrobat, Recalbox etc...

You use Batocera / Retrobat and want to scrape your media with ARRM.

You can take inspiration from this example to configure ARRM for your scrape for Recalbox or other frontends

Here is an example showing how to configure ARRM to generate a simple gamelist like this:

   <game id="19269">
     <path>./Castlevania Symphony of night.chd</path>
     <name>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night</name>
     <sortname>5 =- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night</sortname>
     <family>Castlevania</family>
     <mode>Playable solo</mode>
     <desc>Return of the legend.
Awakened from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil lackeys of the Prince of Darkness. Using your vampire power and the weapons, potions and other magical relics you find on your way, do everything you can to reverse the outcome of the battle. This adventure mixes action and role-playing and includes many hidden areas and secrets. Will you be able to find them all?</desc>
     <rating>0.80</rating>
     <releasedate>19971101T000000</releasedate>
     <developer>Konami</developer>
     <publisher>Konami</publisher>
     <genre>Platform</genre>
     <genreid>257</genreid>
     <players>1</players>
     <region>us</region>
     <favorite>true</favorite>
     <image>./media/images/Castlevania Symphony of night-image.png</image>
     <video>./media/videos/Castlevania Symphony of night-video.mp4</video>
     <thumbnail>./media/thumbnail/Castlevania Symphony of night-thumb.png</thumbnail>
     <marquee>./media/marquees/Castlevania Symphony of night-marquee.png</marquee>
     <fanart>./media/fanarts/Castlevania Symphony of night-fanart.jpg</fanart>
     <manual>./media/manuals/Castlevania Symphony of night_(us).pdf</manual>
     <bezel>./media/bezels/Castlevania Symphony of night-bezel.png</bezel>
   </game>

with the following tags:

Tag	media	Note
<image>	screenshot	via the form Media Assignment of Screenscraper or Media Assignment of Launchbox or Media Assignment for other srape engines + Choice of desired image TAG
<video>	video	via the form Media Assignment of Screenscraper + checkbox video
<thumbnail>	3D boxart	via the form Media Assignment of Screenscraper or Media Assignment of Launchbox or Media Assignment for other srape engines + checkbox thumbnail
<marquee>	wheel	via the form Media Assignment of Screenscraper or Media Assignment of Launchbox or Media Assignment for other srape engines + checkbox marquee
<fanart>	fanart	via the form Media Assignment of Screenscraper or Media Assignment of Launchbox or Media Assignment for other srape engines + checkbox fanart
<manual>	manual	checkbox Get the Manual
<bezel>	bezel	checkbox Overlays

The media chosen for <image> (here screenshot) will be downloaded with the dedicated suffix (here -image) in the folder dedicated to images (here images) but also in the folder dedicated to screenshots (here screenshots) with the dedicated suffix (here -screenshot)

If you don't want to keep this screenshot file, you can delete it after scraping.

Another example: if you had chosen for <image>: titleshot, a folder dedicated to titleshots (here titleshots) would have been created containing an image with the dedicated suffix (here -titleshot)

Batocera / Retrobat recognize other TAGs that you can select in ARRM

ARRM settings

General Options

'Screenscraper' media assignment

Here is how to configure it to obtain the desired media when scraping with the Screenscraper engine

'Launchbox' media assignment

Here is how to configure it in order to obtain the desired media during a scrape with the Launchbox engine

Media assignment for other scrape engines

Here is how to configure it to obtain the desired media when scraping with other scrape engines

Only HFS-DB and GameTDB offer 3D boxes in these Scrape engines

Folders

Images Options

Assignation of image Tag

<Image> TAG will take the media corresponding to the assignment made in the Assignment of Screenscraper / Launchbox media panel.
In the example below <image> take as value the media assigned to SCREENSHOT which corresponds to SS on Screenscraper or to Screenshot - Gameplay on Launchbox

ARRM (Another Gamelist, Roms manager, and Scraper for Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie, RetroBat, EmuELEC, Emulationstation)

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