About ARC Browser
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...
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
[email protected]
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of ARC Browser since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-26 13:25:35.
The latest version is 1.26.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-01 17:13:58. See below the changes in each version.
ARC Browser version 1.26.1
Updated At: 2024-02-11
Changes: * 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
ARC Browser version 1.25
Updated At: 2022-12-11
Changes: New settings:
* Which media types to use for different displays
* Make game suggestions random
* Which intent flags to use when starting an emulator
New theme setting: Arcade.GameInfo.WidthPercent
Support for downloading disc images
Custom media directory for disc images
Roms in subdirectories are now considered deleted if the "Include subdirectories" setting is off
Fixed crash issues with search and settings
And more...
Full release notes at https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
ARC Browser version 1.24.4
Updated At: 2022-04-30
Changes: VERSION 1.24.4
* Important bugfixes and minor improvements
ARC Browser version 1.24.2
Updated At: 2021-10-25
Changes: VERSION 1.24
* Many new theming options and UI related settings
* UI improvements
* Region settings for scraping
* Game suggestions
* Option to merge genres
* Bugfixes and optimizations
And much more! Full release notes at https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
VERSION 1.24.1 / 1.24.2
* Optimizations
* Bugfixes
ARC Browser version 1.24.1
Updated At: 2021-09-28
Changes: VERSION 1.24
* Many new theming options and UI related settings
* UI improvements
* Region settings for scraping
* Game suggestions
* Option to merge genres
* Bugfixes and optimizations
And much more! Full release notes at https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
VERSION 1.24.1
* Bugfixes
ARC Browser version 1.23.3
Updated At: 2021-02-27
Changes: Added more platforms for scraping
Renamed RetroArch64 to RetroArch Plus in the template menu
Added option to not mute background music when a video is playing
Added option to hide the Arcade system list after X seconds of inactivity
Added per-system option for fallback scraper database
Hopefully fixed issue with browsing to the SD card (and sometimes internal storage) on Android 11 devices
Game sort names can now be edited via the Edit game info menu
https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
ARC Browser version 1.23.1
Updated At: 2020-11-15
Changes: VERSION 1.23.1
* Bugfix
VERSION 1.23
* (Beta) Integration with RetroAchievements.org - View the available achievements for your games and track your progress
* Support for using a different image for the selected item on the Arcade system select screen
* Support for matching developer/publisher names when searching
* Options to access Search, Favorites and Recently Played from the Arcade tools menu
* Bugfixes and behind-the-scenes improvements
https://arcbrowser.com/releasenotes
ARC Browser version 1.22.2
Updated At: 2020-08-16
Changes: VERSION 1.22.2
* Fixed an issue that could cause the app to crash during startup under certain conditions
* Other bugfixes and minor adjustments
ARC Browser version 1.22.1
Updated At: 2020-06-24
Changes: VERSION 1.22.1
* You can now add a separate per-system background image that will be used on the Arcade game selection screen: background_arcade_game_select.png
* background_search.png will now be used on the search screen
* Audio from background videos will now play (can be muted in settings)
* Added option to stretch background videos to fill the screen
* The Android apps system now has its own custom media directory, separate from the Android games system
* Bugfixes
ARC Browser version 1.22
Updated At: 2020-05-17
Changes: VERSION 1.22
Changelog: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/211410/arc-browser/2730122/
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