Angelscry Wrote:Add "import plot from text file" option: Because there is no simply way to edit long texts directly from XBMC and because scrapers will never be able to report the plot for all games, this option will give you the possibility to import any common text files as game plot information. I think this option could be improved (I'm not totally satisfied). If you have any suggestion or a better idea, do not hesitate to share.

ShockViper Wrote:Can you make something like NFO files for video where all the information will be stored like plot, genre, publisher etc.

• automatically scrap games infos from Internet,
  
• manually edit all games infos directly from XBMC,
  
• and manually edit the launchers.xml file which contain all the games infos?
  

joelones Wrote:I'm trying to change a thumbnail via the addon and the addon.py script is failing. This is the error message and seems like a smb thing.

Code:

ERROR: "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py", line 20, in ?
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 133, in __init__
                                                self._edit_rom(os.path.dirname(launcher), os.path.basename(launcher))
                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 257, in _edit_rom
                                                self._scrap_thumb_rom(launcher,rom)
                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 318, in _scrap_thumb_rom
                                                _update_cache(img_url,file_path)
                                              File "/home/xbmc/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 1613, in _update_cache
                                                shutil.copy2( file_path , cached_thumb )
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/shutil.py", line 93, in copy2
                                                copystat(src, dst)
                                              File "/usr/lib/xbmc/system/python/python24.zip/shutil.py", line 68, in copystat
                                                os.utime(dst, (st.st_atime, st.st_mtime))
                                            OSError: (1, 'Operation not permitted', '/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/f/ff216be2.jpg')

(sorry for the indentation)

The thumbnail directory is on a smb share and mounted as:

Code:

//server/xbmc/Thumbnails /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails cifs credentials=/home/xbmc/.credentials,_netdev,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

The xbmc user has write permission in the share, not quite sure what's going on as I assume the script runs as the current user (xbmc). There should be no error.

• Run Windows, Linux and OSX applications and emulators with auto-suggested arguments.
  
• Start any game from specified directory using selected emulator.
  
• Collect information of applications and games using AllGame, GameFAQs, MobyGames and MAWS databases (auto/manual).
  
• Collect images of applications and games using GameFAQs, MobyGames, MAWS and Google Images search engines (auto/manual).
  
• Scan option for new added games (with image and information auto-collect).
  
• Add, remove and edit options of applications and games directly form XBMC
  
• Complete MAME games support (data and images).
  
• Search applications and games by name.
  

joelones Wrote:EDIT: Actually the problem is a lot worse. The plan was to put all the roms on my share via the same method (using smb) as above with the thumbnails. Having tried one rom on the share and having zsnes bail when trying to play the rom has lead me to believe this is not best solution. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Has anyone been able to play roms from a share instead of storing all roms local? Specifically via smb? Thanks

Sebastatu Wrote:Any skin I use.. like the ones showing on initial post shows info. I'm using shade and it does not show anything but the icon and name..does not show any info like the picture above....