🔶 Achievement Watcher Fork

Important

This fork is maintained by Darktakayanagi and adds personal improvements and new features on top of the original Achievement Watcher by Xan105.

This fork is not a takeover, replacement, or official continuation of the original project. It is intended for public use under the LGPL-3.0 license.

Notable Changes

• Steam API key no longer required
• Play button to run games from within the app
• video souvenir now captures also the moments before triggering an achievement, possible with OBS Studio (developed by the OBS Project & licensed under the GNU GPL v2. Source code)
• Chromium Notifications (developed by @PSerban93)
• Support for GOG/EPIC/UPLAY games
• Support for more Steam emus

Planed Features

• Support for RetroAchievements (From Atari 2600 to PlayStation 2, and everything in between.)
• Support for PS4 and Xbox360
• Controller UI Navigation

Features Overview

(WIP - Video here)

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Original README

⚠️ NB: The cache server was shutdown over a year ago. You need a Steam Web API key for the app to be able to fetch data from Steam. You can acquire one by filling out this form. Enter your key in Settings > Advanced.

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A sexy achievement file parser with real-time notification, automatic screenshot and playtime tracking. View every achievement earned on your PC whether it’s coming from Steam, a Steam emulator, and more. To see the full list of what this app can import please see the Wiki/Compatibility.

The original idea behind this app was that some steam emulators generate a text file where your unlocked achievements are stored. But they aren’t very friendly to know which is which, here is an example :

[NEW_ACHIEVEMENT_1_1]
Achieved=1
CurProgress=0
MaxProgress=0
UnlockTime=0000000000
[SteamAchievements]
00000=NEW_ACHIEVEMENT_1_1
Count=1

So which achievement is NEW_ACHIEVEMENT_1_1 ? You’ll have to ask the steam API or look online in a site like the steamdb to find out. So let’s just do that automagically :)

Notification on achievement unlocking

Not as sexy as a directX Overlay but it’s the next best thing. Display a notification when you unlock an achievement via

• Toast notification (Windows 8 / 10)
• Websocket (Usage example: Twitch overlay)
• GNTP (Growl) (Recommended for Windows 7)

⚠️ Please verify your system settings for this to work properly. More info You can test notification in Settings > Debug to make sure your system is correctly configured or seems to be. There is a lot of things to check so make sure to have a look at the wiki before asking for help.

📸 If you have enabled the souvenir option(s) then a screenshot and/or video will be taken when you unlock an achievement.

📖 Wiki and troubleshoot

There is a lot to say about this app. So for more info, configuration, troubleshoot, common issues etc ... Please kindly see the Wiki, thank you.

Translation Help

I do my best to translate everything for every supported language by Steam, but it’s rather difficult and I don’t speak that much languages. Fluent in another language ? Any help to add/modify/improve would be greatly appreciated.

More details here

How to build

Prequisites:

You will need Node.js 14.x in x64 with NPM installed. Innosetup 5 unicode with preprocessor and Inno Download Plugin (building the setup)

For Node.js you globally need asar and json :

npm install -g asar json

There will be some native_module to compile so you’ll need : VS2017 / C++ build tools, Python 2.7 3.x (node-gyp), and the Windows SDK 10.0.17134.0 (1803 Redstone 4)

Build:

Install node_modules folders with npm install.cmd or do it yourself with npm ci in /app, /service/updater and /service/watchdog. Use buildme.cmd in the root folder to build.

Notes:

Most of the native code is now shipped as prebuilt binaries. If you want to compile them yourself I invit you to check out their corresponding repo. NB: Golang cgo requires a gcc compiler installed and set in PATH (recommended : http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download).

Innosetup is expected to be installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 5 if that is not the case then update buildme.cmd with the correct path.

If NPM gives you some trouble, try to delete every package-lock.json.

Legal

⚠️ Software provided here is purely for informational purposes and does not provide nor encourage illegal access to copyrighted material.

Software provided here is to be use at your own risk. This is provided as is without any express or implied warranty. In no event or circumstances will the authors or company be held liable for any damage to yourself or your computer that may arise from the installation or use of the free software aswell as his documentation that is provided on this website. And for anything that may occur as a result of your use, or inability to use the materials provided via this website.

Software provided here is not affiliated nor associated with any cracking scene groups.

Software provided here is not affiliated nor associated with Steam, © Valve Corporation, Uplay, © Ubisoft and data from theirs API is provided as is without any express or implied warranty.

Other trademarks, copyright are the property of their respective owners. No copyright or trademark infringement is intended by using third-party resources. Except where otherwise specified, the contents of this project is subject to copyright.