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- Death-Axe - 2010-12-17

Couple of things:
Tip: for mame, if your roms are in another folder other than the default \roms dir in the mame folder you need to launch mame on its own with -cc arguments, and it will generate an ini file. In here you can set rom paths etc as otherwise it wont find your roms, even if it's set as your rom path in the addon.

Bug: scanning for mame roms still doesn't work, gets stuck, script.py gets an error and if you try to close xbmc at any point after your script has errored you will be waiting 10-20 mins for it to close. You can manually add games however, but with the thousands of games in the mame rom set, you will be at it all day.

will this ever be fixed or what?


- Mart - 2010-12-17

Im very new in this.It is possible to play Nintendo DS game with advanced launcher ?


- Angelscry - 2010-12-17

Death-Axe Wrote:Couple of things:
Tip: for mame, if your roms are in another folder other than the default \roms dir in the mame folder you need to launch mame on its own with -cc arguments, and it will generate an ini file. In here you can set rom paths etc as otherwise it wont find your roms, even if it's set as your rom path in the addon.

Bug: scanning for mame roms still doesn't work, gets stuck, script.py gets an error and if you try to close xbmc at any point after your script has errored you will be waiting 10-20 mins for it to close. You can manually add games however, but with the thousands of games in the mame rom set, you will be at it all day.

will this ever be fixed or what?
If nobody report me clearly bugs and error messages (including XBMC crash log and launchers.xml files) I will not be able to fix anything.


- Angelscry - 2010-12-17

Mart Wrote:Im very new in this.It is possible to play Nintendo DS game with advanced launcher ?
It there is a Nintendo DS emulator that recognize command line and works in full-screen, yes it may be possible.


- Angelscry - 2010-12-18

Version 0.8.3
This new version of the Advanced Launcher add the cover region selection option for the GameFAQs scraper. You can select the region cover you want (All, US, EU or JP) from the Advanced Launcher settings. The All option will return the first found cover. The others options (US, EU or JP) will retunr the first found cover of the selected region.

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You will see below the results obtained for scans with the All option and with the US option.

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Feedbacks and bugs reports on this new feature are welcomes. If most of them will be positive I will also try add this feature for the MobyGames scraper.


- Sebastatu - 2010-12-18

Hi sorry if I don't provide much information. but whenever I try to get fanart/thumbnail I get script failed.py doesn't happen with all the games and it works fine as far as executing the program, but I can't download any art/thumbnail for some games, sometimes. What gives?


- Robert de Clair - 2010-12-18

angelscry please check mame frontend plugin (official repo). there is in config choosing a mame application folder. this plugin isnt affected by only external sources bug when dvd or any other usb drive are inserted/connected.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tep0rmkc2scjtgs
polish translation r123 (0.8.3)

p.s. translation couldnot be fully because of All variable Smile US/JP/EU/All all with this context AFAIK means:
in polish: Wszystkie
in germany: Alles
in french: Tout


- ghostelement - 2010-12-18

Is anyone using Aeon MQ2 with this add-on? If so, do you know how to make the fan-art full screen instead of just a little box in the upper left corner? Thanks.


- Angelscry - 2010-12-18

Sebastatu Wrote:Hi sorry if I don't provide much information. but whenever I try to get fanart/thumbnail I get script failed.py doesn't happen with all the games and it works fine as far as executing the program, but I can't download any art/thumbnail for some games, sometimes. What gives?
Then the "script failed.py" error messages appear, those errors are logged into the xbmc crash log files. Those files are located into /home/user/ directory under linux or into /Users/user/Application Data/XBMC/ under Windows. This is the contain of this file that you have to send me. The better way to do it is to copy/paste the contain on the pastebin website and report me the generated link here. Thank you for your help !!!! Wink


- Angelscry - 2010-12-18

Robert de Clair Wrote:angelscry please check mame frontend plugin (official repo). there is in config choosing a mame application folder. this plugin isnt affected by only external sources bug when dvd or any other usb drive are inserted/connected.

http://www.mediafire.com/?tep0rmkc2scjtgs
polish translation r123 (0.8.3)

p.s. translation couldnot be fully because of All variable Smile US/JP/EU/All all with this context AFAIK means:
in polish: Wszystkie
in germany: Alles
in french: Tout
Thank you for the information concerning the mame frontend plugin. I will try to see if I can found the difference between it code and mine to browse the directories. Thank you for your help. Thank you also for the translation and for the unlocalised string. I will add all this into the next version. Wink


- Angelscry - 2010-12-18

Robert de Clair Wrote:angelscry please check mame frontend plugin (official repo). there is in config choosing a mame application folder. this plugin isnt affected by only external sources bug when dvd or any other usb drive are inserted/connected.
Ok, I have checked. First the mame frontend addon is not working on my system, but I have take a look at the code. The selection of the mame application is made from the addon settings menu and not from the addon itself. It is ok if you have only one application file to select. But in the case of the Advanced Launcher, where you have an infinite number of possible launchers, is is not possible to add them from the addon settings menu. We will have to found another way*... Oo


- hyperspinme - 2010-12-19

Angelscry Wrote:Version 0.8.3
This new version of the Advanced Launcher add the cover region selection option for the GameFAQs scraper. You can select the region cover you want (All, US, EU or JP) from the Advanced Launcher settings. The All option will return the first found cover. The others options (US, EU or JP) will retunr the first found cover of the selected region.

Image

You will see below the results obtained for scans with the All option and with the US option.

Image Image

Feedbacks and bugs reports on this new feature are welcomes. If most of them will be positive I will also try add this feature for the MobyGames scraper.
I just updated, and the Mame issue seems to have gotten worse. It's now immediately failing.
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848879616 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.TypeError
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848879616 ERROR: Error Contents: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'bool' and 'NoneType'
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848801792 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\xmbc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\addon.py", line 20, in ?
plugin.Main()
File "C:\Users\xmbc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 169, in __init__
self._import_roms(launcher)
File "C:\Users\xmbc\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py", line 928, in _import_roms
if ( app.lower().find('mame') > 0 ) & ( self.settings["ignore_bios"] ) & ( self._test_bios_file(f[:-len(ext)-1]) ):
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'bool' and 'NoneType'

Since the problem seems to be in the ignore bios settings, I tried turning it off, but neither option made any difference. It fails on the first file. I even deleted and remade the mame emulator, thinking there might be some missing leftover missing setting from the last version, but no luck.


- Angelscry - 2010-12-19

hyperspinme Wrote:I just updated, and the Mame issue seems to have gotten worse. It's now immediately failing.
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848879616 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.TypeError
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848879616 ERROR: Error Contents: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'bool' and 'NoneType'
23:23:01 T:1436 M:848801792 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 928, in _import_roms
if ( app.lower().find('mame') > 0 ) & ( self.settings["ignore_bios"] ) & ( self._test_bios_file(f[:-len(ext)-1]) ):
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'bool' and 'NoneType'

Since the problem seems to be in the ignore bios settings, I tried turning it off, but neither option made any difference. It fails on the first file. I even deleted and remade the mame emulator, thinking there might be some missing leftover missing setting from the last version, but no luck.
Thank You. I have tried to clean a little the code but it seems that I have added some errors. Sorry. It will be fixed in the next version. Thank oyu for your feedback.


- Death-Axe - 2010-12-20

How do I get it to auto scan and retrieve covers? I can only get it to do it on a per game basis, and its... tedious.


- Angelscry - 2010-12-20

Death-Axe Wrote:How do I get it to auto scan and retrieve covers? I can only get it to do it on a per game basis, and its... tedious.
You have to go into the add-on settings and activate automatic scrap options for thumbs and fanarts.