ARC Browser
3.9star
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About this game
ARC Browser is a rom collection browser and emulator frontend that maintains a database of all your games, presented in a user friendly way, and let's you play them using your favorite emulators. Suitable for both phones and tablets (provided you have a gamepad), Android-powered arcade cabinets and of course Android TV!
FEATURES
* A searchable database of all your games, indexed by systems and categories
* Automatically scrape data about your games and download boxart and background images
* Integration with RetroAchievements - View the achievements available for your games and track your progress
* Support for native Android games
* Roms with the same filename (excluding text in parenthesis or brackets) are automatically grouped and presented as a single game. When you press Play you can choose which version to load. Useful not only when you have different versions of a game, but also for multi-disc games
* More than 200 configuration templates for different emulators and RetroArch cores
* Can be used as default launcher
* Support for Android TV channels
IMPORTANT
* Gamepad highly recommended - Touch screen navigation works, but has some issues. If you need to use the app without a gamepad, Arcade is the recommended layout mode for that.
* Screenshots in the Play Store have been blurred or otherwise altered to avoid copyright and trademark infringement
* This application does not include any emulators or games
* Artwork and metadata scraping from online databases may require the availability of third-party services. The developer of this app is not responsible for the availability of such services
SCRAPING
Your roms should be named as close as possible to the original game name. There are however multiple settings that you can use to fine-tune the scraping process. For example, converting ", The" in a filename to "The " and ignoring text withing parenthesis and brackets. If no match is found, it will also try replacing any instance of " - " in the filename with ": " automatically.
BOX ART, BACKGROUNDS, THEMING AND MORE
All of the images in ARC Browser, including but not limited to box art and background, can be customized. For example, if you don't like the automatically scraped box art, you can use your own. You can also further change the look and feel of the app with themes.
LANGUAGE
The app is in English only. Support will be given in either English or Swedish.
MORE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
Documentation is available at https://arcbrowser.com
If you're having issues and need help, feel free to send an e-mail to support@ldxtech.net
FEATURES
* A searchable database of all your games, indexed by systems and categories
* Automatically scrape data about your games and download boxart and background images
* Integration with RetroAchievements - View the achievements available for your games and track your progress
* Support for native Android games
* Roms with the same filename (excluding text in parenthesis or brackets) are automatically grouped and presented as a single game. When you press Play you can choose which version to load. Useful not only when you have different versions of a game, but also for multi-disc games
* More than 200 configuration templates for different emulators and RetroArch cores
* Can be used as default launcher
* Support for Android TV channels
IMPORTANT
* Gamepad highly recommended - Touch screen navigation works, but has some issues. If you need to use the app without a gamepad, Arcade is the recommended layout mode for that.
* Screenshots in the Play Store have been blurred or otherwise altered to avoid copyright and trademark infringement
* This application does not include any emulators or games
* Artwork and metadata scraping from online databases may require the availability of third-party services. The developer of this app is not responsible for the availability of such services
SCRAPING
Your roms should be named as close as possible to the original game name. There are however multiple settings that you can use to fine-tune the scraping process. For example, converting ", The" in a filename to "The " and ignoring text withing parenthesis and brackets. If no match is found, it will also try replacing any instance of " - " in the filename with ": " automatically.
BOX ART, BACKGROUNDS, THEMING AND MORE
All of the images in ARC Browser, including but not limited to box art and background, can be customized. For example, if you don't like the automatically scraped box art, you can use your own. You can also further change the look and feel of the app with themes.
LANGUAGE
The app is in English only. Support will be given in either English or Swedish.
MORE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
Documentation is available at https://arcbrowser.com
If you're having issues and need help, feel free to send an e-mail to support@ldxtech.net
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Ratings and reviews
3.8
563 reviews
A Google user
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April 2, 2019
ARC Browser is very promising, but has a lot that needs to be improved upon. Echoing previous comments, the configuration is tedious especially when compared to other front ends. The app needs to search for installed emulators instead of having to assign it for each and every system, show systems based on files types in the ROM directory, touch screen support is a must, replace the scraper with something faster AND allow it to run in the background so the device can be usable.
11 people found this review helpful
LDX Technology
April 3, 2019
Thank you very much for your comments. I agree that the app has a lot of improvement potential, especially when it comes to the "getting started" part. That's the most common complaint. I can't promise anything regarding touch screen support, but that is definitely an eventual goal. I'll keep your comments in mind when designing future versions.
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April 23, 2020
(Pardon the formatting, Google will not allow for page breaks for me). I do like this frontend, quite a bit, but there are a few reasons I'm not using it any more, using DIG instead: 1.) The reliance on controller support to the detriment of using it via just the touchpad. This is a requirement for me now that I'm on a tablet rather than my old GPD XD. 2.) Visually, you can't do as much as you can with DIG. I like each system having its own screen with its own wallpaper and music track. You also get more icon layout options with DIG. 3.) All scanned images are contained in a not-so-easy to access format, that, when you have enough images, can increase instability with the application. Using your own images can help with this. With those aside, I will say that this is likely the better emulator for support - you can choose what file types to include and ignore, and create custom systems if you so choose. I heartily recommend this frontend, especially to those who exclusively use controllers.
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Tyler Baker
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December 4, 2020
WARNING FOR THOSE WANTING THIS FOR THEIR PHONE: If you don't use a game pad, use something else. It doesn't really work with touch screen. However, if you do use a gamepad, after figuring it out and getting it set up, it's my personal favorite front end. They're more or less all gonna run about the same, but I really like the layout and some of the options this be gives.
21 people found this review helpful
LDX Technology
December 5, 2020
If you need to use it with a touch screen only, the Arcade layout should work pretty well with that. But yeah it does say in the description that a gamepad is highly recommended. I'm glad you like the app!
What's new
* Support for custom input mapping
* Support for .arcmeta files to customize launch parameters for individual games
* Option to delete scraped media for single game
* Setting for whether to search in hidden systems
* Improved music playlist randomness
* Bugfixes
* Switched to Android API 33
Full release notes at https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
* Support for .arcmeta files to customize launch parameters for individual games
* Option to delete scraped media for single game
* Setting for whether to search in hidden systems
* Improved music playlist randomness
* Bugfixes
* Switched to Android API 33
Full release notes at https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
