2016-03-18, 06:56
(2016-03-11, 16:16)Tetriser Wrote: [ -> ]hi
I'm new to both Kodi and RCB.
I want to find a good emulator frontend for my laptop, but none of those I found is useful. The frontends that I found is EmulationStation (broken scraper, cannot find games with punctuation marks like F-Zero or Pac 'n Roll), LaunchBox (since the developer changed the app to include paid features, I've no idea if I want to use this anymore...), AdvanceMenu (customizable, but not really good) and mGalaxy (tad outdated...).
Finally, I downloaded and installed Kodi and RCB. But there's a block that prevents it from working properly.
When I want to scrape infos for a Pokémon game, it wasn't updated. After observing the log file, I've found the problem:
ERROR: C:\Users\Tetriser\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.games.rom.collection.browser\resources\lib\dbupdate.py:692: UnicodeWarning: Unicode unequal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
I'm not sure if I'm correct, but I'm really sure that this could be Python's limitations with Unicode characters (as the word Pokémon has a Unicode character "é", I dunno), so it rollback into an emty response or "null result".
In my list I usually don't have ROMs whose names have accents in them. In LaunchBox the problem is the opposite, it can't scrape Pokémon metadata from my ROMs because it requires the accent.
The plugin itself is fine, but these scraper sucks, not the code's fault but the websites don't function right. Recently TGDB was struck by their host because of data overload, which sucks because it's the most reliable DB. GameFAQs is a walled garden unfortunately, which is why malte didn't even bother coding a scraper for it, and the others are either slow or broken.
The LaunchBox DB will be open to contribution but I have some bad suspicion that they won't allow anyone but LaunchBox itself to scrape it for data, since if you can use a free program that looks better and integrates better with Kodi instead of the $20 BigBox then what is the point of BigBox, right?
Nevertheless, if the RetroPlayer manages to make its way into Krypton 17 then these launcher addons will become obsolete, I think.