Image Loader & Game Mounting - Client Update 12/11/2025

Improved Image Loader

In the past, the image loader had trouble working on certain sites which meant you had to try multiple image URLs before finding one that’d work. Today’s update resolves this by implementing SteamHTTPRequests as a fallback for loading images less-than 10MB. This means that pretty much any image URL you throw at it will be able to successfully load the images as textures in-game! (The UI menus may still have trouble displaying images from certain sites, but they’ll work on the in-game objects regardless.)

Fixed Game Mounting

It turns out the old way that AArcade detected mountable game’s install paths relied on the user having taken the Steam survey at least once, which resulted in many people needing a custom gameinfo.txt in order to mount their other games. Today’s update resolves this by improving the way AArcade asks Steam for the install paths of other Source engine games. Now it’ll be able to find & mount your other Source engine games automatically, even for 1st-time users who’ve never ran a Steam Survey before.

Steam Store Wizard Fixed

Steam’s recent website upgrade broke the way AArcade detects that you are looking at a spawnable Steam game when using the wizard. Today’s AArcade update fixes this so that you’ll be able to spawn not only individual games from the Steam Store wizard, but also fixes the batch-import of all your Steam games (or just of your recent Steam games.) Just note that when batch-importing Steam games from your profile, you’ll have to scroll to the bottom of the games list BEFORE hitting Import Steam Games to make sure it detects them all.

As usual, the batch-import options can be found in Main Menu > Settings Menu > Import tab > Steam Games button.

Other Wizard Improvements

Wizards are what let you easily spawn items from the in-game browser from specific sites. Sometimes the sites associated with Wizards become obsolete or the JavaScript used to spawn items from the sites becomes outdated. Today’s update hides some of the known obsolete wizards to tidy up the list some. The following wizards have been auto-hidden from the lists in today’s update: DC Universe, Giant Bomb, Oculus Store, and Origin.

The only wizards considered vital & always kept in working order are the Steam Store and The Movie DB wizards. Several of the other wizards still work, but aren’t routinely tested so your milage may vary. You can expect more tweaks to the Wizards system (as well as improvements to the drag & drop features of AArcade) in future updates.

You can CTRL + V paste URLs in to spawn them while in walking around mode, and you can always customize your items in the Edit Item menu or with the drag & drop features. Wizards are mostly being phased out, other than the ones considered vital.

Moon Jump

Do you want to jump high, man? Does Pinocchio have wooden knees? Now you can adjust how much air you get in your jumps with the new convar “jump_power”, default set to 1.0 Set it to 2.0 to get twice as much air! Or even higher if you’re feeling froggy.

Under-The-Hood

There were various other tweaks & additions (listed in the full change log) that mostly just apply to advanced users who write their own UI mods or dig deep with their key binds. “Full Media Library” exports of an arcade now properly include prop data. The “petattach” command now accepts “-1” as a target to