AssM - Arkadyzja savestates Manager

It is a piece of software that assists in creating entries for Arkadyzja savestates repository. It allows creating and editing README files for games that will have savestates uploaded to the repository. Those savestates will then be available for Arkadyzja.

⚠️ Requirements

For the application to work .NET framework 8 is required.

Application is developed and tested on Windows 11 OS. In theory should also work on Linux/Mac hovewer it was not tested on those platforms (only a bit on Linux and not at all on Mac) and currently only Win and Linux builds are released (see below).

📦 Releases

Each release starting with 1.4.0 has four variants:

• Windows x64 version with .NET 8 framework bundled (AssM_X.X.X_with_dotnet-win-x64.zip)
• Windows x64 version without .NET 8 framework bundled (AssM_X.X.X-win-x64.zip)
• Linux x64 version with .NET 8 framework bundled (AssM_X.X.X_with_dotnet-linux-x64.zip)
• Linux x64 version without .NET 8 framework bundled (AssM_X.X.X-linux-x64.zip)

Linux releases are highly experimental, use at your own risk!

The application has some basic new version check implemented. When it detects that new version is available, this button will be shown:

Clicking it will open default browser on the latest release page.

🪧 Usage

• get latest version of the application from Releases page
• unpack to some empty directory
• run the AssM.exe file (or AssM for Linux)

First you should select Output directory, where the created README files will be stored. The files are created in a specific directory structure: OutputPath\Platform\GameID.
The output directory is saved between sessions, so when you start the application next time it will be automatically read and existing entries inserted into the table.
You should not modify existing directory structure if you plan to use the output directory again later! The fields Title and Description can be freely edited, the changes are reflected immediately in the table.

Then you can use Add and Add folder buttons to add more source .cue files

When you click Start processing the application will go through the list and perform required operations according to the configuration.

⚙️ Configuration

• Get game title from CUE file name - by default game name is extracted from cue/bin image, this option uses CUE file name instead
• Use Game ID as name for CHD file - by default game title (as set by previous option) is used for CHD file name, this option uses Game ID instead

Other configuration options should be self-explanatory.

📝 TODO

• some nice icon
• you tell me

🔗 Dependencies

This application uses the following external libraries:

• Avalonia UI for user interface creation.
• Avalonia.Labs.Gif for animated GIF display
• DiscTools for reading metadata from game images (with some modifications from original)