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kmfdm515 Wrote:i guess i'm totally missing something here. i'm using the installation guide in the OP.

after i install the add-on and then select it, a box says "loading directory. retrieved 0 items" and just hangs forever. i can't even get to the initial launcher creation.

what am i doing wrong?

What skin are you using? Is it supported by ALA or if not, do you have the requisite mod installed to allow ALA to work?

If you have a supported skin the only thing I can think of is to try reinstalling ALA and/or rebooting. You should at least be able to get to a screen to create a launcher.

I use Aeon65, and occasionally ALA will display "loading directory retrieved 0 items" but this usually lasts for 2-3 seconds max, at which point I'm redirected to a list of launchers.

srsobieraj Wrote:What skin are you using? Is it supported by ALA or if not, do you have the requisite mod installed to allow ALA to work?

If you have a supported skin the only thing I can think of is to try reinstalling ALA and/or rebooting. You should at least be able to get to a screen to create a launcher.

I use Aeon65, and occasionally ALA will display "loading directory retrieved 0 items" but this usually lasts for 2-3 seconds max, at which point I'm redirected to a list of launchers.

i was using the default 'Night' skin installed through XBMC - the OP said that was supported?

i'll try to re-install the add-on.

edit: also, what is it that specifically needs to be supported by a skin for this add-on to work? what is stopping me from using this add-on in the Transparency! skin, for example?

Here's what it look like with Mame Plus 0.141 (I compiled it myself and removed all the nag screen at the begining)

I'm running everything in 1080p resolution with Transparency 3.11 on my 42inch LED Tv and it looks great. Here's a mini montage...



Now anybody tried to make the emulator Demul work with this? there is some great arcade game on this.

srsobieraj Wrote:Hey Angelscry,

This seems to be fixed for the text-file import but not for importing a plot from the web.

To see an example, choose GameFaqs as your scraper and scrape for

Code:

Mass Effect (PC)

I still see " in the plot.

Cheers!

I will try to fix all the stings format problem under Advanced Launcher this week-end (scraper import, filename support, etc...).

kmfdm515 Wrote:i was using the default 'Night' skin installed through XBMC - the OP said that was supported?

i'll try to re-install the add-on.

edit: also, what is it that specifically needs to be supported by a skin for this add-on to work? what is stopping me from using this add-on in the Transparency! skin, for example?

No... The skin you select did not have any effect into the way the Advanced Add-on is working. The skins that support Advanced Launcher are only skin that allow programs to display additional program information like fanart, plot, etc...

On thing you can try :

• uninstall the advanced launcher Add-on.
  
• delete the "plugin.program.advanced.launcher" folder into the XBMC/addons directory.
  
• delete any plugin.program.advanced.launcher files into the XBMC/packages directory
  
• delete the plugin.program.advanced.launcher directory into the userdata/addon_data/ folder.
  
• then, reinstall the advanced launcher add-on
  

Even if you manually delete the add-on from XBMC, files related to this add-on still on the computer and could generate errors when you reinstall a different version over them. By doing this you will totally delete any trace of the add-on.

htpc guy Wrote:If anyone is interested I've created some system fanart which will look great in the 1.1 version of Cirrus Extended that will include Right List. It includes N64, NES, PlayStation, Sega Genesis and SNES

There is a Read-me file in the skin that tells you how to use the extra fanart/thumbs. I'm using the third controller image as the icon for the emulator selection.

Thanks for the fanart!

I'm using these images for thumbnails (I think they look a bit better):
http://www.emuxtras.net/gallery/index.ph...ird?page=3

If you don't like the look, that site has them with a gradient background as well as square (rather than poster) orientation.

http://www.emuxtras.net/gallery/

Salut AngelScry, j'utilise XBMC sur Windows XP avec la version 9.10 de Advanced Launcher, et j'ai un problème avec la rom "Lion King, The (World)" sur Genesis, elle ne se lance pas .
Dans XBMC elle apparait sous le nom de "Lion King: The (World)" La virgule est remplacée par ":"
Si je renomme la rom sans virgule elle se lance.
Pouvez vous faire en sorte que la rom se lance sans devoir la renommer s'il vous plait ?

Et aussi, s'il est possible d'ajouter une option pour exécuter une commande avant et après le lancement d'une rom afin, par exemple d'éviter de créer un Loader pour lancer des isos via Daemon Tool avec l'émulateur Neo-Geo CD "NEOGEO CDZ" puis par la suite intégrer ces commandes dans le launcher via XBMC Emulators Wiki, ce qui faciliterait encore la configuration .
Et aussi, vu que je commande XBMC avec une manette via Xpadder,ceci me permettrait de créer une commande qui fermerait Xpadder avant de lancer chaque emulateur et ouvrir ma configuration de Xpadder à la sortie de l'emulateur plutot que de devoir créer un loader pour chaqu'un de mes emus pour le mème résultat.

Quoiqu'il en soi, merci pour cet addon .

john.doe Wrote:Salut AngelScry, j'utilise XBMC sur Windows XP avec la version 9.10 de Advanced Launcher, et j'ai un problème avec la rom "Lion King, The (World)" sur Genesis, elle ne se lance pas .
Dans XBMC elle apparait sous le nom de "Lion King: The (World)" La virgule est remplacée par ":"
Si je renomme la rom sans virgule elle se lance.
Pouvez vous faire en sorte que la rom se lance sans devoir la renommer s'il vous plait ?

J'ai prévu de bosser sur les problèmes des caratères speciaux dans les noms de fichiers, les titres et les descriptions de jeux ce week-end.

john.doe Wrote:Et aussi, s'il est possible d'ajouter une option pour exécuter une commande avant et après le lancement d'une rom afin, par exemple d'éviter de créer un Loader pour lancer des isos via Daemon Tool avec l'émulateur Neo-Geo CD "NEOGEO CDZ" puis par la suite intégrer ces commandes dans le launcher via XBMC Emulators Wiki, ce qui faciliterait encore la configuration.

Je pense que l'ajout d'une telle option est de moins en moins réaliste. Si tu as besoin de lancer des commandes intermédiaires avant et après le lancement d'une application via XBMC le mieux et le plus efficace reste d'utiliser des scripts/loaders intermédiaires (.bat sous windows ou .sh sous linux). Ces scripts pouvant tout aussi bien être ajoutés au Wiki.

john.doe Wrote:Et aussi, vu que je commande XBMC avec une manette via Xpadder,ceci me permettrait de créer une commande qui fermerait Xpadder avant de lancer chaque emulateur et ouvrir ma configuration de Xpadder à la sortie de l'emulateur plutot que de devoir créer un loader pour chaqu'un de mes emus pour le mème résultat.

Que tu doives crée un script/loader pour chaque émulateur ou que tu doives entrer dans XBMC les commandes correspondante pour chaque émulateurs, je ne vois pas vraiment ce que l'on y gagnerait.

PS: si tu veux me poser des questions dans la langue de Molière fait le sur le forum correspondant : http://passion-xbmc.org/forum/. Merci

ECEC Wrote:So no one is dealing with 7z roms at the moment?

All my roms are in their own .7z file. There are lots of Emulators, like Nestopia, that will open those just fine.
I configured Advanced Launcher to look for .7z files and it works without a problem.

Can anyone tell me how to launch Dalphin in Linux Lucid 10.4 through the command line?

• From the terminal I can type: dolphin-emu and it will launch the gui
  
• If I type dolphin-emu -h it gives me the help information
  
• It tells me the argument -e is used to launch a file i.e. .iso
  
• I tried typing dolphin-emu -e /home/htpc/Documents/Wii Roms/New SUPER MARIO BROS. Wii.iso and it returns the help screen and says Unexpected parameter "Roms/New"
  
• I removed all spaces from the file name and path
  
• Now it launches the gui but it returns an error The specified file path/filename.iso does not exist
  

Any Thoughts? I can run the game through the gui just fine (sound doesn't work though)

Never Mind. I was doing this through VNC and I guess it wasn't liking that. I got it working. Now lets see if ALA will do it.

Sweet!

Here is my launchers.xml file entry for Dolphin
I'm using the applaunch.sh script to launch it so I get the best frame rates possible.

There doesn't seem to be a quick exit option so I'm still looking into this. If anyone knows how to quit the emulator without returning to the Dalphin GUI that would be great.



Now, about my sound issue? Can anyone help me out.
I've tried setting the sound usage to Alsa and PulsAudio and neither work

htpc guy Wrote:Can anyone tell me how to launch Dalphin in Linux Lucid 10.4 through the command line?

• From the terminal I can type: dolphin-emu and it will launch the gui
  
• If I type dolphin-emu -h it gives me the help information
  
• It tells me the argument -e is used to launch a file i.e. .iso
  
• I tried typing dolphin-emu -e /home/htpc/Documents/Wii Roms/New SUPER MARIO BROS. Wii.iso and it returns the help screen and says Unexpected parameter "Roms/New"
  
• I removed all spaces from the file name and path
  
• Now it launches the gui but it returns an error The specified file path/filename.iso does not exist
  

Any Thoughts? I can run the game through the gui just fine (sound doesn't work though)

Never Mind. I was doing this through VNC and I guess it wasn't liking that. I got it working. Now lets see if ALA will do it.

Ok... I did not have test Dalphin under linux at all but I think that a command line with quotes will be better, like this :The other problem could be the "." into the title that can make Dalphin identify the file extension as " Wii.iso" instead of ".iso". So try to remove the "." after BROS and start the emulator like this:

dragomanjk Wrote:All my roms are in their own .7z file. There are lots of Emulators, like Nestopia, that will open those just fine.
I configured Advanced Launcher to look for .7z files and it works without a problem.

Well, I've already extracted them so I don't have the problem anymore. But the issue is that Nestopia would prompt the user to select which file they wanted to play, and I couldn't find a good way to select the file without getting out a mouse (boooo!). Non-issue now, though.

Hi,

I was trying to get the Launcher work with xmame. The emu starts out of the box but the cover/fanart download stucks on script error.

How can i fix this ? Im on a ASROCK330 Nettop/yavdr/xbmc machine.

Here is the error log


sorry for my bad english. I hope you all understand what i mean.

Greets dudurma

dudurma Wrote:Hi,

I was trying to get the Launcher work with xmame. The emu starts out of the box but the cover/fanart download stucks on script error.

How can i fix this ? Im on a ASROCK330 Nettop/yavdr/xbmc machine.

Here is the error log

Code:

21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744    INFO: -->Python script returned the following error<--
21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744   ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.TypeError
21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744   ERROR: Error Contents: not all arguments converted during string formatting
21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744   ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/var/lib/vdr/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py", line 20, in ?
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "/var/lib/vdr/.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 "/var/lib/vdr/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 276, in _edit_rom
                                                self._scrap_fanart_rom(launcher,rom)
                                              File "/var/lib/vdr/.xbmc/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 373, in _scrap_fanart_rom
                                                xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.Notification(%s,%s, 300000)" % (__language__( 30000 ), __language__( 30072 ) % (nb_images,self.launchers[launcher]["roms"][rom]["name"])))
                                            TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744    INFO: -->End of Python script error report<--
21:32:27 T:2841336688 M:1631391744    INFO: Python script stopped

sorry for my bad english. I hope you all understand what i mean.

Greets dudurma

Do you using the Advanced Launcher in English or in another language?