Angelscry Wrote:Do you have some MAME roms filenames with 3 characters or less? . It could create an error.

Death-Axe Wrote:If that is causing the error, could you fix it? there are loads of roms with names with 3 chars or less lol.

jpreville Wrote:yea.. i think its missing those 3 character or less mame roms.. mk.zip mortal combat

but on the plus side it did find 5000 out of 8799 which is totally awesome!

John

Pinhead Wrote:I'm using 0.8.2 now. The cancel button when searching for new files doesn't work. It hasn't before either. Does anyone else have this problem?

Angelscry Wrote:Do you still have this problem with the version 0.8.2?

hyperspinme Wrote:Still no luck unfortunately. It's dying in the same place. The error has changed though:

07:48:52 T:2236 M:817025024 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.AttributeError
07:48:52 T:2236 M:817025024 ERROR: Error Contents: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'
07:48:52 T:2236 M:816947200 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\XBMC\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 20, in ?
plugin.Main()
File "C:\Users\XBMC\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 169, in __init__
self._import_roms(launcher)
File "C:\Users\XBMC\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 942, in _import_roms
if ( romname.lower().find(ext3) > 0 ):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'

The last file it works on is bubsympu. The file it seems to die on is captaven. I have deleted that file and several after it, and stills dies though, so I don't know what's going on. There aren't any <3 filenames around where it seems to die.

rbrohman Wrote:I'm not sure if this is a SNES only problem, but how might we deal with the different region releases in terms of auto scraping the thumbs and fanart/screens?

For example, a LOT of snes games were released in Japan, Europe and the US. When manually scraping the images, I'd just scroll through the few different images and select the US ones. With the auto-scraping now enabled, I see that a large chunk of the games come in with the Japan box art.

The majority of box images (I've only looked at my snes collection thus far, but would imagine this to be the same for many systems) seem to be using the naming convention of "Game Name (xx)" where (xx) is either JP, EU or US. I believe that currently AL just takes the first image on the list. Is there a way for AL to select the desired region based on a setting - globally or by launcher?

Fanart/screens don't seem to employ the same (xx) regional coding, but I don't find these as important, since the game play is typically the same, whereas the box images will have game name in a foreign language.

rbrohman Wrote:The majority of box images (I've only looked at my snes collection thus far, but would imagine this to be the same for many systems) seem to be using the naming convention of "Game Name (xx)" where (xx) is either JP, EU or US. I believe that currently AL just takes the first image on the list. Is there a way for AL to select the desired region based on a setting - globally or by launcher?

Angelscry Wrote:I'm not sure that you could use 2 different kind of paths into the same command line (C:\### and smb://). The first one is specific to Windows and the second one is specific to Linux and Networks. I'm not sure that Windows emulators can use paths under Linux or Networks format.

If you plan to use XBMC under windows the first thing to do is to map your network drive under windows like this. After this you will be able to access your network drive using a drive letter path like this for example :
Z:\\tower\Game/Emulator\SNES\ROMS\Chrono Trigger (U).zip
. Then all your command lines will be homogeneous and I think it will solve your problem.

Rob Loach Wrote:I find the Datomatic naming works quite well. Merging the clones with the originals via RomCenter or other tools will also help. Using P/Clone, and merging all your roms will make your life easier.... Ends up giving you:

2020 Super Baseball (USA).zip
---- 2020 Super Baseball (USA).sfc
---- 2020 Super Baseball (Japan).sfc
Super Mario Kart (Europe).zip
---- Super Mario Kart (Europe).sfc
---- Super Mario Kart (USA).sfc
---- Super Mario Kart (Japan).sfc

EmuMovies uses the same No-Intro naming convention, so it ends up working quite well for the titles/snaps artwork when linked up with XBMC Advanced Launcher.