Beta - Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi

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FEATURE  [COLLECTIONS] When exporting ROM Collections assets are always exported. The option

         to export only metadata has been removed. When importing assets are also always

         imported to the ROM Collection asset directory.



FEATURE  [COLLECTIONS] Current way of storing the collection artwork, in a unified JSON file,

         is not good. Think of a good way to exporting collections (for example, store the

         artwork in a subdirectory).



FEATURE  [COLLECTIONS] Do not consolidate Collection artwork before exporting. Also, when

         importing always import to the Collection artwork directory. Exported artwork

         collection filenames in the JSON file must be relative, not absolute paths.



FEATURE  [COLLECTIONS] Store Collection ROMs artwork as filename_platformCompactName_assetType.png

         and not filename_ROMID_assetType.png. This solves a lot of problems of duplicate

         artwork. ROMs with same name are allowed on different platforms but not on the

         same platform, which makes sense. Collection own artwork use the special

         platform name 'collection'.



FEATURE  [CORE] Rename offline scraper XML databases to use new platform name.



FEATURE  [CORE] Changed the Offline Scraper XML fields. Now the XML files are not compatible

         with HyperSpin but they make more sense.



FEATURE  [CORE] Update the platform icons. Github issue #112.



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] MAME offline scraper: include NPlayers field. Take it from nplayers.ini



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] Store when there is a bad JSON from the scrapers for further

         analysis. Working for ScreenScraper scraper.



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] Update MAME Offline Scraper database to version latest version 0.219.



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] Include isBIOS, isDevice, isMechanical in AOL MAME database. This is

         required to filter BIOSes and Devices in MAME launchers.



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] Filter MAME BIOSes, Devices and Mechanical machines with the new

         Offline Scraper JSON databases. Use the offline scraper DB to determine what

         is a BIOS/Device/Mechanical in MAME.

         See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2697000#pid2697000



FEATURE  [SCRAPERS] Add a delay of 1200 ms between downloads to ScreenScraper scraper

         to avoid scraper overloading. This is configurable in the scraper object.

         See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2923181#pid2923181



FEATURE  [CORE] New Utility "Check Launcher ROMs sync status"



FEATURE  [CORE] New Utility "Check ROMs artwork image integrity"

         Sometimes the scrapers download wrong/corrupt data, or produce 0 sized files

         if a file is open() and there is an exception. Sometimes a JPG image is renamed

         as PNG, etc. Check that all artwork have correct file extensions, etc.



FEATURE  [CORE] Extra ROMs directory. Extra ROMs are not audited. The extra ROMs directory

         is intended for ROM translations and hacks that should not be taken into account

         in the ROM audit.



FEATURE  [CORE] New Utility "Show detected No-Intro/Redump DATs"

         This utility shows the automatically detected No-Intro/Redump DATs.

         Create addon settings for the No-Intro DAT directory and the Redump DAT directory.



FEATURE  [CORE] New Utility "Check Retroarch Launchers" This utility checks all Retroarch

         launchers to verify if the core set with -L exists.



FEATURE  [CORE] Remove the LAUNCHER_DMODE_1G1R Launcher display mode. The Launcher display

         modes will be LAUNCHER_DMODE_FLAT and LAUNCHER_DMODE_PCLONE, like AML.



FEATURE  [ROM AUDIT] Current way of doing the ROM audit is inconvenient. User has to set a DAT

         file. Create two new settings: a) directory for No-Intro DATs, b) directory for Redump

         DATs. AEL must be able to choose the DAT file according to the platform.

         Some fields in categories.xml have been changed.



FEATURE  [ROM AUDIT] Create a tool to select the No-Intro/Redump DAT file automatically for

         each platform. This will be very useful for the new Offline Scraper database and

         for the ROM tag histogram.



FEATURE  [CORE] In the "Global ROM Audit statistics" report show only the audited launchers.



FEATURE  [CORE] Increase the number of platforms to include all No-Intro, Redump and

         Libretro platforms. This is in preparation of the Kodi Games Database.



FEATURE  [CORE] Settings to hide Utilities and Global Reports from root window.



FEATURE  [CORE] Setting for skin kiosk mode. See pull request in Github.



FIX      Fixed crash when setting display_launcher_roms was True.



FIX      When fixing ROM Collections the order of the ROM list is lost. Repaired items are

         placed at the end of the list and the original order is lost.

         This was a very long standing bug.



FIX      Fix crash when using "Export ROM metadata to NFO files"

         Crash was related to the deprecated kodi_busydialog_ON()



FIX      TheGamesDB URL API has changed. Verify that the scraper is working OK. Github issue #109.

         See https://forums.thegamesdb.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=2228



FIX      ScreenScraper crashes for aliased platforms. Github issue #113.