ARC Browser

LDX Technology

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 [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

(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.

This app is excellent! I was able to turn my Android TV box into a fantastic emulation machine. May I make a request? I would very much appreciate it if you could add the Android version of the Duckstation PS1 emulator as an option for the PS1 systems. Also, is there a way to have a single, consistent backgroud? Preferably, one of my choosing?

Love it, but have a problem. Sometimes the games are launched instead of bringing up the game card. This means that in those instances I can't add the game to favorites, change the name and rescrape, watch the YouTube video, etc... It just launches. Please help! Thanks in advance!!!

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