(2014-01-22, 05:15)tadbitnerdy Wrote: Sorry for the late reply. I can't get to the XML file currently (wife watching netflix). However, I did see that the it uses ActivateWindow, rather than PlayMedia, to launch the favorite. Does that help?

(2014-01-22, 11:59)tonesmalone Wrote: Hi All,

I'm using Advanced Launcher to fire up some emulators, works great. However the Advanced Launcher setting 'Minimise XBMC' keeps changing itself. I set it to off, and it turns itself back on. I'm using XBMC on Windows.

Any ideas?

(2014-01-22, 15:49)tonesmalone Wrote: Wow, awesome. Thanks for the quick reply.

One other small thing. When scraping rom info using semi-auto the results show items from different consoles, despite this being set for the launcher. Am I missing something here? Wouldn't it be simpler to only show results that are from the console set?

hope that makes sense

(2014-01-22, 23:26)Bedwyr Wrote: Hi Angelscry.

I'm referencing this post: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=85724&pid=677745#pid677745

I've run into trouble trying to use either Nestopia or JNES. In the former case I am getting the same "Can't start! Direct3D is busy!" error message as that other user in the post. In the latter case I am getting a message that says "DirectDraw: Unable to create surface lpDDSPrimary". As both of these are DirectX errors, I'm assuming that XBMC isn't properly releasing resources for the emulator to run. I've done the following so far:

- XBMC is in fullscreen-windowed mode.
- I have both the JNES and Nestopia launchers with the "toggle XBMC into windowed mode" option set to ON.
- I have also set the toggle to OFF and attempted to launch games with XBMC fully windowed.
- I have launched XBMC both with Exporer.exe as the current shell and with XBMCLauncher as the shell. (XBMCLauncher starts at boot time. I can try troubleshooting by disabling it.)

Any thoughts on what's happening?

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Also, other emulators do not have this type of problem. It appears only these two are have problems. And yes. They are starting just fine from a windows folder or shortcut.

• Start Nestopia/JNES emulators from Advanced Launcher using a .bat script that will close XBMC before starting them : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6
  
• Try to look into Nestopia/JNES emulators setups is you can use another rendering engine for the display, (like OpenGL for example).
  
• Use another NES emulator : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=NES
  

• Fix Minimize option save.
  

(2014-01-26, 03:23)keyblade4321 Wrote: Hi guys,

I have been searching the internet for the last several days trying to find a solution to my problem. I have a lot of regular PC games on my computer and have the shortcuts to the launchers on my desktop in a folder called Games. When I saw the screenshots of Advanced Launcher on the beginning of this thread I knew it would be really cool to configure XBMC to display thumbs, banners, developer, plot information on each PC game. So I followed the given steps in several videos to add a standalone launcher and pointed it to the shortcut files (.lnks) in my Games folder but the problem is these games are regular PC games and there is not PC game option in the platform menu so I just select PC Booter. So when it tries to run the scrapper (which is the The Game DB scrapper) it says "no thumbnails found." So when I try to select PS3 instead to try to troubleshoot, it finds pictures but instead this time it says "impossible to assign thumbnails." I'm really frustrated and even tried to this on Cirrus Extended. I really want to get my Game library like in the screenshots of this thread. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance guys.

Running Frodo and Aeon Nox skin.

(2014-01-26, 03:42)keyblade4321 Wrote: Ohhhhh alright thanks!

Do you have a solution for the "impossible to assign thumbnails" thing? Or will this fix that?