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RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Desisuperman - 2014-01-10 Will try mednafen. Thanks RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - malte - 2014-01-13 Sorry for not responding for a while. I will try to get back to all unanswered questions from the last weeks. If I overlooked something please remind me. This is only the first part of answers. More will follow in the next days... faroukzidane Wrote:Secondly, I've another issue that really happens to me many times. Many times when I open RCB, the info and fanarts don't appear. However, when I press Down two times (as I'm going to scroll by letters and go back again) the info and fanarts appear.I guess this is skin related. Did you try another one? Scratch Wrote:Hello everyone, I have searched and searched but have not found good instructions on how to manually add artwork for Mame games. Otherwise fantastic add on.A description how to add mame games can be found here. It also explains how to add artwork for these games. Once you have gone through these steps you can add more artwork to your folders and just rescrape the collection again. faroukzidane Wrote:Also, when I open a game and there's a music playing on the background of XBMC, the game launches and the music is still running on XBMC. Is there an option like "Stop media on launching emulators" ?Sorry, not yet. It is on my list for a later release. Komerad Wrote:Ok so when i install this addon (superrepo) I start it, select yes to create a config file, select to scrape online, select platform(snes) and then for the emulator path i get directed to the superrepo url...I guess you have to add your local drives and/or network shares via XBMC file manager first. kidllotus Wrote:I'm having the strangest issue with RCB. When launching a ROM (using SNES 9x for example) I get an "Invalid ZIP archive" error. Here's the info that I have and the troubleshooting steps I've followed.Have you also tried to import your roms from R: and launch it from RCB again? Maybe this is an issue with the smb path. nakaroto24 Wrote:I'm running RCB on windows. I have MAME running pretty good. But one thing is killing me. I used the offline scraping method and the descriptions look pretty good.You are right. This is because of the Image placing options in RCB. It looks like I just forgot to add fanart to the default mame config. You can try to play with it yourself in config.xml. The mame views usually are "gameinfomamemarquee" and "gameinfomamecabinet". ElTerrible Wrote:I tried to add my Windows games as shown in this link: https://code.google.com/p/romcollectionb...aloneGamesSounds like you screwed up your config and/or db during the process. You could delete your config.xml and MyGames.db to start from scratch. If you have a bigger collection and already spent some time to set everything up you could upload your files somewhre and I could try to fix it for you. Komerad Wrote:How to get this working over nfs?You are right, nfs could be a problem. So far I only tested with smb and even this could cause problems in some situations (but it should work in the most). Not sure where the remaining nfs entries come from but RCB only checks the config.xml file during import. Maybe you left one nfs entry in there? Komerad Wrote:And as I continue to torture myself this is my next problem :I saw that you also installed your emulators on a network share. Maybe this causes your issues. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - funtasticguy - 2014-01-14 I would like to thank the developer who created this plugin. For the last 3 years, I had been using GameEx and was happy with it. Recently, however, I upgraded my PC and I decided that I wanted to try something that worked within XBMC (for less overhead and a more seamless experience). Although at times it was tricky to get this to work just right, persistence paid off and everything works just right and more importantly, it looks much fancier than what I had with GameEx. It really looks impressive! My only suggestion would be to add the only feature that I'm currently missing from GameEx (everything else RCB has exceeded GameEx). In GameEx, I was able to assign a button from my gamepad that would tell the emulator to close and return back to GameEx. For example, in one emulator, I could assign the button to close with an ESC command. In another emulator, I could assign the same button to close with an ALT + F4 command. Currently, there is no easy way to exit the emulator if I'm strictly using a gamepad. My current solution is Xpadder but I still like the feature within GameEX since I could assign different exit commands to the same button depending upon the emulator. Consequently, this is a feature that you might want to look into supporting in a future release. Other than that, keep up the excellent work and thanks again for making this wonderful addon! XBMC is so much better because of it! RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - teeedubb - 2014-01-14 I use eventghost to run a batch file to kill any running emulators on a remote keypress, you could easily change it to do it on a joypad button press. Only problem with this is that some emulators don't save any changes if they aren't closed cleanly, but this isn't really a issue because once their setup I never touch them. If you wanted to take it one step further you could use autohotkey instead of a batch file to send a certain keypress or keypress combo depending on which emulator is running, but I prefer using taskkill as it works even if a emulator has frozen/crashed. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - malte - 2014-01-14 Ok, next round. I hope I have everything covered. Remind me if I have lost somebody. paltry Wrote:I have been able to import rom collections (in order: zsnes, windows, mame) with all my roms working.Damn, you are right. Thanks for reporting. paltry Wrote:Another issue is that after I imported the zsnes through online scrapers, I cannot edit (and create) the offline scraper for the purpose of updating those roms without online artworks. The "Edit Offline Scraper -> Add scraper" simply doesn't work.I could reproduce this. I will see if I can fix this. But what are you trying to achieve? You coulad also use the local nfo scraper without the need to create an extra offline scraper for it. bungie240 Wrote:Hi folks, I'm new to RCB and having a couple of problem...I cannot seem to find solo mode in the settings, i'm running the latest stable vesion of RCB!You get this option in addon settings. Just go to the list of addons and highlight RCB. Then press "C" on the keyboard or "Menu" on the remote and you should see the context menu. Choose "Addon settings" (or similar). You could also access these settings from inside RCB. It should be at the end of RCBs inner context menu. C-Fu Wrote:I've been trying so hard to scrape my SNES roms and figuring out for the past hour or so as to why on Earth the scraped rom infos are sometimes ok and sometimes the whole roms' infos went missing, save for one or two roms.Everything is working here with the mouse. Are you sure you did not choose different scraper settings by accident? Can you show me a log file after a broken import? Powerhouse Wrote:I've encountered some issues with the latest RCB (2.0.10), which I thought I would share. I was just trying to add some Mame Roms that are stored on my Network share. Well it turns out there are some things that need to be done to your system before this will work in RCB.Thanks for reporting. Some of your issues are already covered in the FAQ but I will try to add the missing ones. funtasticguy Wrote:My only suggestion would be to add the only feature that I'm currently missing from GameEx (everything else RCB has exceeded GameEx). In GameEx, I was able to assign a button from my gamepad that would tell the emulator to close and return back to GameEx. For example, in one emulator, I could assign the button to close with an ESC command. In another emulator, I could assign the same button to close with an ALT + F4 command. Currently, there is no easy way to exit the emulator if I'm strictly using a gamepad. My current solution is Xpadder but I still like the feature within GameEX since I could assign different exit commands to the same button depending upon the emulator. Consequently, this is a feature that you might want to look into supporting in a future release.Unfortunately I can't do this from RCB. GameEx is a Windows application and has much better access to system resources. RCB is just an XBMC addon and somehow limited to what XBMC has to offer. Also in solo mode XBMC/RCB won't even run while you are running your emulators. I am sorry but the only solution is to get along with external programs like XPadder or eventghost. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Sourcesys - 2014-01-17 Hey, im new to the RCB thing, can someone explain me why my game isnt opening when i start it via RBC? Its just opening the Dolphin Emulator Windows and nothing happens RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - bungie240 - 2014-01-17 (2014-01-17, 17:09)Sourcesys Wrote: Hey, im new to the RCB thing, can someone explain me why my game isnt opening when i start it via RBC? Its just opening the Dolphin Emulator Windows and nothing happens I would also like to know how to start a wii iso with dolphin in RCB. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - tonkyhonkin - 2014-01-17 I use RCB for all my emulators too but for me the wiki for Advanced Launcher was a huge help for setting up the correct arguments for each emulator and configuring them for xbmc. Here is about example for the Dolphin emulator http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Dolphin#Windows RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - teeedubb - 2014-01-17 config.xml for dolphin should look something like <emulatorCmd>C:\emulation\emulators\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe</emulatorCmd> <emulatorParams>/b /e "%ROM%"</emulatorParams> RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Sourcesys - 2014-01-18 (2014-01-17, 23:44)teeedubb Wrote: config.xml for dolphin should look something like Works, Nice one. Thanks. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Maleficium - 2014-01-18 hey malte, Any chance to update the MobyGames scraper ? They changed their web to the old state again. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - tranfa - 2014-01-19 (2010-09-26, 15:45)spyvsspy Wrote: Hi, Hi everyone, I'm looking to scrape my collection of C64 roms (pretty much similar to the Gamebase64 DB) withot having to rename all the files... The attached (albeit quite old...) seems the right way, scraping offline with the Gamebase64 synopsis....but the links aren't working... Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - ragedogg69 - 2014-01-19 So twice now I have had my collection disappear just by running the Add-On. I assume it gets corrupted somehow. The only way to get it back is to delete mygames.db and re import all my games. A quick search of the thread did not give me any similar posts. Log: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=112494 mygames.db: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_sNfUkwGFEHZFpDZVhEb1Y0YlU/edit?usp=sharing Any ideas? RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Daeymon - 2014-01-21 Hey Malte, you should check this thread out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578612 We've got RCB working on Android and we love it!!! RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Angelscry - 2014-01-22 (2014-01-19, 02:26)ragedogg69 Wrote: So twice now I have had my collection disappear just by running the Add-On. I assume it gets corrupted somehow. The only way to get it back is to delete mygames.db and re import all my games. A quick search of the thread did not give me any similar posts.I think some user report the same problem several months ago. The same problem also occurs with Advanced Launcher... After a certain random time, data are sudendly wiped/corrupted. As RCB and Advanced Launcher are the rare add-on that allows to manage content from XBMC GUI, they are the most touched by this problem. There is a long time ago A try to found out the cause... but I'm still not able to found it. There is no related error message into the xbmc.log file. And as it is a random error... it is quite difficult to identify and fix it. |