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Blueberry Pancakes - Rob Loach - 2010-12-13 rbrohman Wrote:From your example, would you get all three Super Mario Kart roms consolidated to a single entry in AL? That sounds very useful. But wouldn't I still have the same issue with the scraped content - in that I'd have to manually select the US images? Does having the three versions consolidated change the search criteria when AL scrapes?I haven't had a problem with it. Here's a screenshot of the Dat-o-matic NES merged collection: Adventures of Lolo 3 (Europe).zip ---- Adventures of Lolo 3 (Europe).nes ---- Adventures of Lolo 3 (USA).nes ---- Adventures of Lolo 3 (Japan).nes Adventures of Tom Sawyer (USA).zip ---- Adventures of Tom Sawyer (USA).nes ---- Tom Sawyer no Bouken (Japan).nes "Get Info" does ask for which region to use though (US, JP, etc) as it searches for the straight title of the cartridge, without the region in it. - Robert de Clair - 2010-12-13 @Angelscry did you think about kind of favourites mark in rom database? I.E. marked rom could be displayed at separate launcher/folder called favourites or my best games or whatever just like user call in own language. Marked titles could be games who im currently playing and games who are recently played by me. Just like a making favourite movies or music folder to main menu in xbmc but only for launcher. i hope you understand what i mean Favourites - Rob Loach - 2010-12-13 Robert de Clair Wrote:@AngelscryYou can already right click, and "Add to favourites" on games. It'll show up in your quick launch bar. Angelscry Wrote:This new version of the Advanced Launcher bring the support for MAME roms with MAWS data and images scrapers. Because MAME roms files cannot be renamed as for the other game emulators, the MAWS scrapers use the rom filename for the search instead of the rom title name.If you're still looking for potential scrapers, Games Database might be a good candidate: http://gamesdbase.com/list.aspx?DM=0&searchtext=mortal%20kombat&searchtype=1&system=sega_genesis&sort=Game http://gamesdbase.com/gamedetail-sega_genesis.mortal_kombat.1993.midway_games.fighting.acclaim_entertainment.aspx Might work as a system scraper, if you're still considering that too: http://gamesdbase.com/systems.aspx - zippenpipper - 2010-12-14 I am having trouble actually even starting the plugin in XBMC. I am running 9.11 and I have extracted repository.angelscry.xbmc... and plugin.program.advanced.launcher to my plugins/programs folder, but all I can do is see them. I cant change any settings or execute anything. - rausch101 - 2010-12-14 zippenpipper Wrote:I am running 9.11 That's the problem. This is for Dharma...the official version will be released very shortly but you can install the current RC version now - Robert de Clair - 2010-12-14 Code: 08:06:19 T:2788 M:1582116864 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> Code: <settings> i was update to 0.8.2 and i cant run my old launcher (root) so i was delete old files config and launchers and make new. There are same thing. AL 0.8.2 XBMC D RC2 Repo 1.2.0 what doing Code: Clean Game Titles (Remove version infos) because i have problem with translate this. Its cleaning infos who is get by scrapers? polish translation file r114 http://www.mediafire.com/?x9wexjs1cvfec33 - Angelscry - 2010-12-14 Robert de Clair Wrote:Do you have the error with the english version or only with your polish translation? The code error is related to missing strings and I think it is related to the revision 101 of the strings.xml file (line 8 to 11). For the Clean Game Title option it remove any information related to the version of the rom. For example : Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (Euro 980123) Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past [JUE][!] will appear like this : Marvel Vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past If you want to use different version of a same game it will be interesting to keep the version information. But if you only use one version for each game, you could remove the version information. - Robert de Clair - 2010-12-14 @Angelscry you have right, i must miss few strings :/ ill try to find missing parts and ad it as soon as it possible (im in work @now) @Rob Loach but a favourites in main XBMC isnt what i mean i think about a kind of folder in AL with favourites games it could be just kind of shortcuts but in LA not in main menu, because fav games could be 100-200 from few thousands of titles. - Angelscry - 2010-12-14 Rob Loach Wrote:"Get Info" does ask for which region to use though (US, JP, etc) as it searches for the straight title of the cartridge, without the region in it.That is exactly what I will try to add into the next version but the option will be into the settings (under the thumbs scraper selection). Robert de Clair Wrote:did you think about kind of favorites mark in rom database?Yes I have already think about it. But I don't think I will add this kind of functionality. The goal of the ALA is to launch applications not to manage games. If you have thousands of roms, but only play with 10-20 on them... just put those 10-20 games into the launcher. And for those you really play a lot, add them as favorite into XBMC. Robert de Clair Wrote:If you're still looking for potential scrapers, Games Database might be a good candidate:Great database but did not have game description. So less complete than already implemented data scrapers. - rbrohman - 2010-12-14 Robert de Clair Wrote:@Rob Loach but a favourites in main XBMC isnt what i meanI really like this idea too. Angelscry Wrote:Yes I have already think about it. But I don't think I will add this kind of functionality. The goal of the ALA is to launch applications not to manage games. If you have thousands of roms, but only play with 10-20 on them... just put those 10-20 games into the launcher. And for those you really play a lot, add them as favorite into XBMC. Games differ from movies, TV, etc in that you typically spend a bunch of time on a small handful of games before moving on to new ones. I think it would be really useful to have a sort of "dashboard" or home screen within ALA that gives you quick access to a small subset of games across a number of different systems. You could even expand upon this by allowing the creation of user created "collections". For example, I play games with my kids. It would be hugely useful if I could build a "collection" of good kids games, or good 2-player games. From ALA's dashboard, you could drill into these collections and launch games from multiple systems. But stuff like this would definitely take ALA from being a launcher to being a rom/games manager. So if that's not where you see this heading, I understand. - Angelscry - 2010-12-14 rbrohman Wrote:Games differ from movies, TV, etc in that you typically spend a bunch of time on a small handful of games before moving on to new ones. I think it would be really useful to have a sort of "dashboard" or home screen within ALA that gives you quick access to a small subset of games across a number of different systems.For quick access you already have the search engine and the favorite option. rbrohman Wrote:You could even expand upon this by allowing the creation of user created "collections". For example, I play games with my kids. It would be hugely useful if I could build a "collection" of good kids games, or good 2-player games. From ALA's dashboard, you could drill into these collections and launch games from multiple systems.You maybe not know it, but by renaming the Advanced launcher, for example plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 instead of plugin.program.advanced.launcher you can install ALA several time into XBMC. Their is no limit. Like this could manage several launchers.xml file and so you could already create several games "collections". For multiple installations you have to edit the plugin.program.advanced.launcher.zip file by renaming the folder ant edit the addon.xml file. Then install it from XBMC. If you have renamed it like plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 the corresponding launchers.xml file will be into a plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 folder. rbrohman Wrote:But stuff like this would definitely take ALA from being a launcher to being a rom/games manager. So if that's not where you see this heading, I understand.Yes I want to keep ALA as a simple application launcher and do not want it manage roms and limit it only to games. - rausch101 - 2010-12-14 Angelscry Wrote:Yes I want to keep ALA as a simple application launcher and do not want it manage roms and limit it only to games. I think it is good to hold your ground on this. There have been so many attempts at a games database/games launcher and they've all fizzled out due to the daunting requirements and endless feature requests. It's important for people to understand that this is not your full time job! Priority is definitely a fully function mostly bug-free core. - Angelscry - 2010-12-14 rausch101 Wrote:I think it is good to hold your ground on this.Actually ALA is mostly where I want to bring it. It still some errors to fix, some improvement to add to the scrapers (region selection for covers), but most of all the functionalities I want to add to the standard launcher are here. - Robert de Clair - 2010-12-14 Angelscry did you check my translation to r114? As i look all new strings are translated :/ im confused because there are still errors even with this translation. With English translation everything seems to be ok U have kind of debug to say me which string is reason of error? - Angelscry - 2010-12-14 Robert de Clair Wrote:Angelscry did you check my translation to r114?Your polish strings.xml file miss %s in the string 30105. %s indicated where strings 30111, 30112 and 30113 will be added. |