ARC Browser v1.27

LDX Technology

About this app

Developer Description

Turn your Android TV or handheld into the emulation station it was meant to be!

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

What's New

* Scraping from gamelist.xml files
*** Requires ES-compatible gamelist.xml file in the system rom directory
*** Tested with files generated by ES-DE and Skyscraper

* New options
*** Show recently added games
*** Show favorite games at the top of the Arcade game list
*** Show the rom subdirectory when selecting a rom to load for multi-rom games
*** Import favorite and hidden status when scraping (mainly for gamelist.xml)
*** Collapse genres when scraping (mainly for gamelist.xml)

Version Information

Version: 1.27
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Aug 27, 2025
Released: Jul 26, 2015
Requires: Android 4.2

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ARC Browser users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Tyler Baker

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.

★★★★

s g

Please update systems to include yuzu. Thanks

★★★

Andy Morrison

Incredible but...the touch controls are horrendous! It's functionally a gamepad only app. That's often fine, but sometimes I'm adjusting things and don't have my controller. Please fix the touch controls, they are utterly broken! Otherwise this is the best emulation front end for Android--and I've tried them all! Very customizable and feature rich. Gives you a lot of freedom without being overcomplicated. Definitely worth the money if you can handle the autrocious touch controls.

★★

Adam Gorman

Just doesn't seem reliable. I try to use it with Retroarch and the games just won't launch consistently. 2 in 10 times it works, the rest of the time, black screen or just takes you to the Retroarch main menu. Frustrating because it could be excellent. Expensive as well for a flaky experience.

★

Joey Fortier

This app looks great until you use it and realize you're gonna have to spend hours googling tutorials on how to do the most basic thing this app should let you do .... add roms. I'm using a shield and I'm unable to add my external drive. RetroArch can do this in 2 clicks, and its free ... save your time and money.