TheCookieAddict Wrote:Although sometimes when I launch a game in RCB, and then close that window when I want to return to XBMC, the screen freezes and won't do anything. Luckily this isn't happening all the time, I'd say about 25% of the time.

TheCookieAddict Wrote:The thing I have now is, only like 1/3 of all my SNES games have the corresponding boxfront artwork

TheCookieAddict Wrote:I have already found some SNES artwork collections, but the artwork was in .png which didn't work in RCB.

TheDeadSerious Wrote:Unfortunately, when I launch RCB from the according menu, XBMC just freezes and I have to restart it. I already read through the Google code wiki and tried to reinstall (via the integrated add-on browser), but to no effect. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

malte Wrote:Can you provide a log file when this happened? Without it is hard to guess what is going wrong on your system. If you already restarted xbmc, I will need the xbmc.old.log.

Quote:13:34:13 T:2981301104 M:2858684416 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
13:34:13 T:2981301104 M:2858684416 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

Quote:13:39:32 T:2939538288 M:2901700608 WARNING: CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
13:39:36 T:2961177456 M:2909577216 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

TheDeadSerious Wrote:Maybe it's also worth to mention that on the first press on RCB in the addon menu, it just seems to ignore the operation, while the second keypress leads to xbmc ui locking up

malte Wrote:On my system it looks like this:

Code:

16:05:40 T:4184 M:973623296  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
16:05:42 T:3036 M:939073536 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - Unsupported protocol(addons) in addons://more/executable.tbn
16:05:43 T:5956 M:937922560  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
16:05:44 T:5956 M:928763904  NOTICE: RCB: init log level
16:05:44 T:5956 M:928755712  NOTICE: RCB: current log level: 2
16:05:44 T:5956 M:928755712  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Init Rom Collection Browser: C:\Users\malte\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\script.games.rom.collection.browser

So all the RCB stuff does not appear in your log? Can you try to reproduce this with XBMC and RCB in debug mode and then pastebin the complete log and post the link here? Maybe there is something else that could be of interest. (You can set RCB to debug in Addon settings)

If you want to fully remove and reinstall RCB, also make sure to remove the zip file from XBMC/addons/packages. I guess XBMC just reinstalls this one if it is still present.

TheDeadSerious Wrote:Oddly, in my previous, failing install the config menu had a couple of submenus (tabs) on the left side, while now I have all config on a single page - even though the package in addons/packages was clearly named 0.8.3.

malte Wrote:What scrapers did you use? I would expect it to find minimum 2/3 boxfronts and more than 90% action screenshots if you use mobygames, giantbomb and thegamesdb.

malte Wrote:Why not? I have a lot of .pngs working fine here. Are the files imported correctly? You must make sure that the filenames match with your romnames. You should use %GAME%.* as media file mask (should already be the default) and the image files should be named like "MyGame.png" if the rom name is "MyGame.zip" or "MyGame.smc".

malte Wrote:One more trap: If you already have imported the game and it just did not find all artwork, RCB won't scrape this game again by default. You must set Always rescan imported games to "True" in Addon settings.

A hint to save time when just adding artwork to existing games:
- Set "Always rescan imported games" to "True" (otherwise it won't work)
- Set the scraper to "local nfo" (this will not waste any time with searching online again)
- [optional] Set Allow Update to "False". This will not overwrite existing game infos in db, just adding new artwork files. Note: This option is only available via config.xml, not yet available in the UI.

DigiTech Wrote:since the beggining it started making the file list really slow like 2 hours even it isnt a huge psx rom collection, then it started scraping everything ( i always choose accurate then i choose a second pass choosing myself) apparently all was ok, it took like 3 hours to finish scraping

DigiTech Wrote:Holy crap i couldt find the PSX new scanned rom collection in RCB interface nowhere, i closed the appication and restarted XBMC,then all was the same but here is the most strange thing, in the RCB console list it have listed PlayStation but when i see the correspondent roms all i found was game boy advance roms then checked the console list again to try to find the way back already scraped GameBoyAdvance Collection and it isnt,no GBA in console list it was replaced by "PlayStation" with GBA Roms to choose when i try to open a rom it chooses the PSX emulator that obviously cant do it, i doublechecked the config.xml and everything looks ok! the path to PSX,GBA, and other emulators are with the correct routes, RCB just doesnt show the recently scraped PSX collection even that it was scraped ok (it made the game image folders in the route i specified) but GBA collection roms is still there just listed under The "PlayStation"console,,

TheCookieAddict Wrote:I used exactly those scrapers and a lot of the times I didn't get any boxfronts, even though the title of the game was spelled correctly

TheCookieAddict Wrote:but when I changed the artwork of a single game and restarted RCB it wouldn't show the updated artwork, very weird...

TheCookieAddict Wrote:And the last hint you mentioned, can that be used to permanently change the titles of some games in RCB? Because I tried setting the scrape mode to "Interactive: select matches" (or something like that) but then I have to keep selecting those correct matches everytime I re-import the ROM collection, which is kind of a waste of time, I'd like them to stay labeled as the game that I just selected during the import process (or I just need to change the titles of those ROMS to how they are spelled in the scraping process).

malte Wrote:I am afraid that the searchGameByCRC option is "True" by default. This means that RCB tries to compute crc values for all your roms and as psx games have large files this takes a lot of time. You could disable this feature in config.xml.


Maybe there is an error with the rom collection ids in config.xml? Sounds like PSX collection has the same id as the GBA collection and the games of both collections are mixed together. Did you create the PSX rom collection by hand in config.xml or per wizard?

If not, please upload your config.xml and a RCB debug log after starting the UI. If this all does not help you could send me your MyGames.db. Maybe I can find and fix the error in the db.

DigiTech Wrote:all the games images and info are scraping again from the web, all the psx images and roms info are still locally on their respective folders, when the scraper find that info is it going to scrape again? or will use the already downloaded data and only scrape new data?

DigiTech Wrote:What could cause the new PSX rom collection to use the same last ID created for the game boy advance collection (ID10)?
Could it be something with the new version 0.83 ? i havent added a new rom collection since 0.81.
The new PSX collection was created by the wizard, today was the first time i changed something in config.xml

Dekthro Wrote:Is there a list of skins that support this?