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fr500 Wrote:Yes all my launchers are standalone. Is there a difference on the XML between both? I haven't found one, even on standalone launchers it adds empty <rom> tags

For stand alone launchers you do not need to pass the path of the roms as arguments. So it is normally more simple.

I was able to reproduce your error with firefox. You can use this "bug" to pass parameters to firefox or vlc. For example if you put "http://www.xbmc.org" as argument for firefox it will open the XBMC.org at start.

What is it strange is that I have never touch the way the stand alone launchers were started since the old version of the launcher. I will make some tests and try to use the same method I actually use to with roms .

Ok, let me know if I can be helpful.

Also seems no matter what I do BOXEE can't be launched from your launcher, It just crashes lol but it's totally unrelated

fr500 Wrote:Ok, let me know if I can be helpful.

Also seems no matter what I do BOXEE can't be launched from your launcher, It just crashes lol but it's totally unrelated

I have just make some tests, using different method to start Firefox, using subprocess.call() or System.Exec() function, by removing the arguments support, etc... Firefox always start with the firefox.exe content. Really strange...

Angelscry Wrote:I think there is a problem of configuration with your Nestopia launcher. Could you post here the content of your launchers.xml file? (using pastebin service for example).

Oups... missed copy/paste. Here is the ZSNES wiki page link : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?ti...ES#Windows

Ya for sure!

Where is it located?

Angelscry Wrote:I have just make some tests, using different method to start Firefox, using subprocess.call() or System.Exec() function, by removing the arguments support, etc... Firefox always start with the firefox.exe content. Really strange...

Can you try VLC? vlc is enqueing the contents of it's startup dir...pretty weird.

Can I contribute to your wiki? I have a batch file and a method for launching steam games and then closing steam without any user interaction

Angelscry Wrote:It's strange, for me it is the opposite. ESC is doing nothing and Echap is working. I'm using the same Windows version as you. Seems that if is related to the language version of Nestopia. Echap if the french translation of ESC. I will fix the wiki page. Thank you for your feedback.

Your French right? Probably has nothing to do with Nestopia. More likely its the regional setting for windows. For English Escape is ESC. For you it would be ECHAP. Both are right, it just depends on where you live.

Is this Advanced Launcher available for Plugin Download directly from xbmc 10 ?
I see Launcher, but not Advanced Launcher !

osirisjem Wrote:Is this Advanced Launcher available for Plugin Download directly from xbmc 10 ?
I see Launcher, but not Advanced Launcher !

Go to the first page of this thread. Download the XBMC-Repository file. Unpack it into your Addons folder.

After that it will pop up when you search the list of addons in the programs section.

Angelscry Wrote:It's strange, for me it is the opposite. ESC is doing nothing and Echap is working. I'm using the same Windows version as you. Seems that if is related to the language version of Nestopia. Echap if the french translation of ESC. I will fix the wiki page. Thank you for your feedback.

Into Option/Preferences menu you need to unchek the "Confirm Exit" box. The corresponding line to the nestopia.xml file is :

Code:
<confirm-exit>no</confirm-exit>
I will complete the wiki page with this new configuration need.

This one is a problem with XBMC settings. You need to go to the XBMC "Settings" menu, then "System menu" and here activate the "Use a Fullscreen Window Ratherthan true fullscreen" option. I will also complete the wiki page.

Again ,thank you for your feedback. It will help me to complete the wiki page and will help the other users (and you also).

Thanks, worked like a charm. Laugh

Here is a little tutorial for those who have steam and launch and depend on it for your gaming needs.

Step 1: Create a shortcut to the game on the desktop (on steam right click and create desktop shortcut) the launcher will have a .url extension since steam registers itself as a protocol and launchers are steam://rungame:appid

Step 2: Move the shortcut to the place where you have your launchers or artwork or whatever

Step 3: Create a batch file like this:

Code:
@echo off

"C:\PATH_TO_LAUNCHER\launcher.url"

timeout 60

rem set the next variable to the game imagename 

rem (found on task manager while the game is runnimg

set process_1="gamename.exe"

set ignore_result=INFO:

:1

set var=notrunning

for /f "usebackq" %%A in (`tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq %process_1%"`) do if not %%A==%ignore_result% set var=running

echo variable %var%

if %var% == running goto :1

rem uncomment the next line if you want to kill steam after closing game

timeout 10

rem if %var% == notrunning taskkill /F /IM steam.exe

exit

Step 4: Create your XBMC launcher pointing to the batch file you created

Step 5: If you want to get rid of the ugly DOS window you need to be redundant and create a shortcut to your batch file and point ALA to that instead of the .bat. This has to be done editing launchers.xml since ALA does not allow you to select .lnk files as executables

Hope it's helpful this should work for any app that spawns another process under a different imagename or to track any process that is causing ALA not to come back

BORIStheBLADE Wrote:Go to the first page of this thread. Download the XBMC-Repository file. Unpack it into your Addons folder.

After that it will pop up when you search the list of addons in the programs section.

Thanks.
Is there a short story why this Launcher isn't listed in the Programs Plugins from the XBMC interface ?

AHHH THANK YOU Angelscry, that was my fault LOL for having that unchecked it looked like it was checked in the lolskin I was using.. >< Anyway, new issue, it stops scraping midway through and just decides to scrape nothing. WHat file do you need me to show you to aid this issue? THank you soooo much for all the tech support =)

BORIStheBLADE Wrote:I was thinking about it, but
1- don't know how hard it will be to use a xbox 360 controller
2- not sure if I van play NES and SNES.
3 - don't know how hard it us to setup the emulator.

My HTPC in my living room is XBMC LIVE, but my Linux experience is minimal.

1. It's working out of the box, but with xboxdrv installed it's even better
2. Sure, just use mednafen (NES, GB) and zsnes
3. It's very easy

Just follow this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=533217&postcount=1 and you're set.

Thanks for the links guys for mupen64plus and mame.

But there are a few problems with the wiki.

On linux sdlmame and mame is the now same in the repos.

Code:
sudo apt-get install sdlmame

Code:
sudo apt-get install mame

will give you the same.

And the directory /usr/bin/sdlmame is no longer valid.
It's now just /usr/games/mame for the executable
and the ini file is found here: /etc/mame

And with mupen64plus:
If you just do

Code:
sudo apt-get install mupen64plus

you get the 1.5 version which works just fine.

Also you should add for rom extensions n64, on the wiki it's just z64 and zip so it would be
n64|z64|zip

If you choose to use 1.99 which is not in the repos so you cant do apt-get install. You need to download the package from the official site
and unpack it some temp place. Go into the mupen64 directory you unpacked and Then install with the install script:

Code:
sudo sh install.sh

This gives you mupen64plus v1.99

But i bellive there is problems due to what i found here on the web:

Code:
Describe the problem:

With default installation location Mupen64plus fails to start with the

following error messages - 

dlopen('libmupen64plus.so.2') error: libmupen64plus.so.2: cannot open

shared object file: No such file or directory

dlopen('./libmupen64plus.so.2') error: ./libmupen64plus.so.2: cannot open

shared object file: No such file or directory

AttachCoreLib() Error: failed to find Mupen64Plus Core library

Please provide any additional information below.

Workaround is to create link in /usr/local/lib

    libmupen64plus.so.2 -> libmupen64plus.so.2.0.0

and add environment variable

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

I do bellive this is the problem for me but im no linux guru and dont now how to actually perofrm the workaround in terminal.
Any linux peaople who can spoonfeed the commands ?
Would be nice to see if this fixes my problem and we could update the wiki.

Okay got vice c64 to function also Smile

So i post info here if someone else want to try.

First of all:

Code:
sudo apt-get install vice

Add the vice emulator to advanced launcher, navigate to
the following location /usr/bin/x64

then add the following startup arguments:
-fullscreen -autostart "%rom%"

Then add some roms on desired location, you should add a few since
i discovered that som of my roms didnt load.

You need also to add the needed bios files. Download the source package
from this link
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/c...2.2.tar.gz

Unpack the tar.gz file and find the directory data\c64
you need to copy the following files:
kernal
basic
chargen

Copy these 3 files into /usr/lib/vice/C64

x64 should now launch.

use a mouse and right click the emuscreen and choose
"save Settings" from that menu. You must do this to get a config file
in the following location: \home\username\.vice
if default live install it would be \home\xbmc\.vice

Now tweak this config file to get better display

Code:
sudo nano /home/xbmc/.vice/vicerc

I editet the following:
SaveResourcesOnExit=0
ConfirmOnExit=0
WindowWidth=1280
WindowHeight=720
UseFullscreen=1
VICIIDoubleScan=1
VICIIDoubleSize=1
VICIIFullscreen=1
VICIIXRANDRFullscreenMode=1
VICIIVidmodeFullscreenMode=1

Three problems is still unsolved:
Getting my gamepad working
a way to use gamepad to quit vice
no sound

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