Avatarass Wrote:Well, I am pretty sure what you did in 1.0.5 version works only on Windows. In order to make it work on Linux machine I had to change it to:

proc=subprocess.Popen([cmd], shell=True)
proc.communicate()

tjcinnamon Wrote:Also, another thing I noticed is that with Aeon Nox 3.5 the filter names don't appear in the side bar. So when I go to change consoles it's a little unclear of what filter I'm using because they are unlabeled. I know the top is console but it took me a while to figure it out.

dkplayaclub Wrote:OK. I figured out how to get my PC games working. It was just an error in my settings. Now when I scan the games XBMC finds fanart for each game, but when I display them in showcase, there are no thumbnails (cover art). How can I add these manually?

UPDATE : Tried adding a .jpg in each of the folders created for artwork for all my emulator games, but none of them showed up in XBMC. Also, where is the option to show only games of one type?

Maleficium Wrote:Any chance to have a scrapper for GameFAQ in the next releases ? Most of the titles published only for the japanese market can't be found with the current scrapers (at least for SNES, NES, Genesis) and image files either (even with EmuMovies). GameFAQ have the biggest covers database (sometimes not the best quality) that I know.

Maleficium Wrote:Another good option its the capacity to place the Articles ("The", "A") at the end of the filename.

(2012-09-03, 16:49)malte Wrote: I won't add a scraper for GameFAQ. They explicitly forbid you scraping in their terms of use unless you ask and they allow it. I did ask some months ago but they did not answer (so they did not allow me scraping their site).

(2012-09-04, 09:22)st graveyard Wrote: Hello all,

I don't want to mess up this thread, but I don't know where else to post.

I have an idea to create some kind of nfo/artwork packs for rom collections in RCB. I know that most of you think this is already available @ hyperspin and this is partly true.

Currently I have completed the Genesis collection based on the hyperspin dat file. I have the following artwork :

3D box (from hyperspin)
2D box front (the highest quality I could find on the net, mostly from thecoverproject)
2D box back (the highest quality I could find on the net, mostly from thecoverproject)
Titlescreen (From emumovies or created myself)
Action screenshot (From emumovies or created myself)
3D cart (from hyperspin)
Logo (from hyperspin - maybe Malte will implement game logo's one day in RCB ;-) )
preview movie (from emumovies)
nfo file for each game (scraped using RCB)

Now, I know the preview movie I can not share, so I won't (you have to be a member of emumovies), but all the other art is freely available on the net (and from the hyperspin website).
Why did I do this (and not just use the artwork from hyperspin?). Because the 2D artwork overthere is small and low res and there is no backside scan of the box.

So in conclusion, in RCB I have linked 3D box on the main screen together with the preview movie. In the infopanel I have the 2D front and back scan, and the title and action shot. This looks really cool.

This way of working seems to me the best way for local scraping, all data, including info files is there...

As I stated, my Genesis collection is complete and I am missing only about 15 backscans, that's it. For all 781 games I have all artwork. I'm now working my way through the SNES collection, which is harder. But I already have all artwork for snes from thecoverproject cropped and linked.

Is there any interest out there? I would gladly share the work. If there are people out there who like to help out, let me know ... It is just stupid if we would do the same work :-)

dkplayaclub Wrote:OK. I figured out how to get my PC games working. It was just an error in my settings. Now when I scan the games XBMC finds fanart for each game, but when I display them in showcase, there are no thumbnails (cover art). How can I add these manually?

UPDATE : Tried adding a .jpg in each of the folders created for artwork for all my emulator games, but none of them showed up in XBMC. Also, where is the option to show only games of one type?