frellAn Wrote:The only thing that's missing with this plugin is the ability to browse by genre, studio or year in my opinion. What's you thoughts about that?

Angelscry Wrote:Go to Launcher context menu, select "Edit Launcher" option, then select "Change Thumbnails Image", finally choose "Select a Local Image" and select the image you want to be used for your MAME launcher.

HeWhoWas Wrote:On another note, none of my roms have fanart at all. I see the files in the fanart folder but the picture isn't displayed - just a fade to white colour splash.

Angelscry Wrote:Will be maybe implemanted when I will foundtime to work on the advanced search options.

Angelscry Wrote:With this 3 "new" variables I think we will be able to cover all the emulators command line possibilities. It will not be so difficult to add this 3 variables which will be all automatically deducted from the <filename></filename> tags. The only change will be into the <args></args> tags of the emulator where the %rom%, %romfile% and %romname% will be necessary.

Angelscry Wrote:In parallel, of those improvements, I think I will also start to write wiki pages concerning the configuration of the emulators and Advanced Launcher in collaboration with malte the creator of the Rom Collection Browser.

htpc_guy Wrote:Question on how ALA handles games with multiple discs, i.e. Final Fantasy VII or Metal Gear Solid for PSX

htpc_guy Wrote:I downloaded the RCB addon and it comes with a script that works in Linux Windows or Mac. No modifications were needed for the script and it works flawlessly.

frellAn Wrote:That's probably skin dependent.

htpc guy Wrote:Quick note, [Linux]

I had issues with XBMC running in the background while playing Mupen64plus roms. The frame rate was terrible. I tried running the Launcher.sh script (discussed in the last launcher thread and several other threads, I'm sure you've seen it) and I never got it to work. I downloaded the RCB addon and it comes with a script that works in Linux Windows or Mac. No modifications were needed for the script and it works flawlessly. I use the RCB AppLauncher.sh script as the emulator and then use the emulator path and normal arguments to launch the rom. It kills xbmc, loads the emulator and then reopens xbmc after the emulator is closed. I highly suggest this method for more powerful emulators like mupen or pcsx. I can now run these games with system resources and I don't drop any frames.

malte Wrote:Happy th share (did not write it on my own): Windows, Linux, Mac. Code to launch (needs some rework): link.

rbrohman Wrote:htpc_guy,

I've been struggling to get N64 emulation going myself - poor performance when using ALA with M64+. Would you mind elaborating on exactly how you've set your system up? Which of the scripts that malte linked to are you using? perhaps you could post your launchers.xml entry for n64?

thanks

HeWhoWas Wrote:Another bug :-)

Code:

11:50:40 T:2611026800 M:3554881536  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
11:50:40 T:2611026800 M:3554881536  NOTICE: Mode AddOn ON
11:50:40 T:2611026800 M:3554881536  NOTICE: /home/tv/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.advanced.launcher
11:50:40 T:2611026800 M:3554881536  NOTICE: -1
11:50:40 T:2611026800 M:3551379456  NOTICE: Launcher: found 4 launchers
11:50:50 T:2611026800 M:3553701888  NOTICE: /media/Apps/Games/ROMS/Wii/thumbs/toyStoryl.jpg
11:50:50 T:2611026800 M:3553701888  NOTICE: http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/all/boxshots2/945066_166343.jpg
11:50:50 T:3021707136 M:3553701888   ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: /media/Apps/Games/ROMS/Wii/thumbs/toyStoryl.jpg
11:50:53 T:2611026800 M:3553607680   ERROR: Previous line repeats 2 times.
11:50:53 T:2611026800 M:3553607680  NOTICE: 6
11:50:53 T:2611026800 M:3553607680  NOTICE: 1
11:50:53 T:3021707136 M:3553607680   ERROR: ClearBlock: Trying to clear non existent block /home/tv/.xbmc/userdata/
11:50:55 T:2611026800 M:3554197504   ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.IOError
11:50:55 T:2611026800 M:3554197504   ERROR: Error Contents: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
11:50:55 T:2611026800 M:3554197504   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/home/tv/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py", line 20, in ?
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "/home/tv/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 132, in __init__
                                                self._edit_rom(os.path.dirname(launcher), os.path.basename(launcher))
                                              File "/home/tv/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 247, in _edit_rom
                                                self._scrap_thumb_rom(launcher,rom)
                                              File "/home/tv/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 310, in _scrap_thumb_rom
                                                h = urllib.urlretrieve(img_url,file_path)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/urllib.py", line 89, in urlretrieve
                                                return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/urllib.py", line 222, in retrieve
                                                fp = self.open(url, data)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/urllib.py", line 190, in open
                                                return getattr(self, name)(url)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/urllib.py", line 426, in open_file
                                                return self.open_local_file(url)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/urllib.py", line 440, in open_local_file
                                                raise IOError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
                                            IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ''
11:50:58 T:3021707136 M:3554226176   ERROR: GLX: Same window as before, refreshing context

I was trying to import a thumbnail from GameFAQs manually. On another note, none of my roms have fanart at all. I see the files in the fanart folder but the picture isn't displayed - just a fade to white colour splash.

HeWhoWas Wrote:Having never looked at python in any depth, just from reading the source I'm assuming you'd call it like "applaunch.sh 'mupen64plus %ROM%'". You may have to play around with it.

Malte only posted 1 script (Win32 and Linux), and then he linked to a section of code in Rom Manager that is calling the scripts as an example.

ALL applaunch.sh does is close XBMC, blindly run whatever command it's given, and then when the app exits it restarts XBMC.

Edit - Just gave it a shot, works just as I thought. If you pass this through: sh applaunch.sh /usr/games/mupen64plus (Linux) or whatever the windows equivilant is (Shouldn't be too different.)

It closed down XBMC (Even though it wasn't called from it, which made my gf unimpressed) and started mupen with no rom loaded. Close mupen and XBMC pops back up.

KiSUAN Wrote:Hi, I have one silly request if possible, to have the option to set a Fanart & Thumb Folder by Addon options and not to have to point every time I add something, that would spare me a lot of time. As I delete and later install again many games I place the Fanart & Thumb in a separate folder so I don't have to be careful to delete and search again for them also. And of course that automatic scan to search from that folder, dunno if it would work, think so as it saves the images with the application name, so I guess it search by specific name, not just fanart/thumb.jpg.

Thank you in advance and happy festivities.

Angelscry Wrote:That's actually my reflexion about how we could improve the command line support of the Advanced Launcher. If you have any suggestion, idea comment concerning this future improvement, feel free to share it here.