nelcruz Wrote:Hello I am having trouble setting up Dolphin and XBMC. I have Dolphin installed, all the games listed. I have installed the repo for Advanched Launcher, set it up according to the wiki, scrapped my Wii games. When I select a game, it opens Dolphin, but the game does not start? Also, I have a usb bluetooth dongle that I use for my wiimote. Does anyone know of a way that I can set up so that I don't have to keep pairing up the wiimote? Every time I start my computer, I have to go through the process of pairing up and refreshing my wiimotes in Dolphin.

Layer0730 Wrote:The command-line for Dolphin is the same for both Wii & Gamecube games. (at least for windows)

dolphin rom /e /b

so for Advanced Launcher's arguments just use: "%Rom%" /e /b
The /b is running the emulator in BATCH mode so it will exit the emulator after the game is finished by pressing ESC.

If you find a way to do the pairing I would love to know myself.

Angelscry Wrote:Concerning the blue-tooth pairing, I have found this command line application for windows : http://bluetoothinstaller.com/bluetooth-command-line-tools/

I think it may be possible to pair the wiimote using the btpair command line before starting the the dolphin emulator.

Verno Wrote:Angelscry, you mentioned you use ePSXe, I'm curious how you handle multi-disc games. I can't think of a solution here.

I'm using Advanced Launcher and ePSXe with the -nogui -loadiso and it works fine so far. Then I get to any multi-disc game and realize the conundrum, with nogui how am I supposed to change the disc? I don't think ePSXe has hotkeys to do it.

The only workaround I can think of is adding each disc individually as an item which is obviously not ideal because it clutters up the file/library views.

Anyways really love the plugin and appreciate any help you can give me in describing how you overcame this issue.

Angelscry Wrote:I'm not using ePSXe because this emulator have not been updated since 2008 and is now abandoned. I recommend you to use PCSX-Reloaded instead : http://pcsxr.codeplex.com/

Now for the switching of disc image during play, maybe it will be better to ask directly to the emulator devellopers. It may surely possible to them to add the possibility to switch disc images using a specfic key.

Quote:You can also use daemon tools command line and write a script (autoit) that will run into background. When a key will be pressed, the script will umount the iso image and mount a new one.

Verno Wrote:Right but I mean how did you personally get around it? Did you do the autoit script thing you mentioned below? I'm trying to find a workaround that will work within the confines of XBMC and Advanced Launcher.

Wouldn't you have to create a different script for every potential disc swap in the game library?

Thanks for indulging me on this, I realize its a bit out of scope for your plugin, I just wanted others experience and how they overcame the problem.

• First, iso files could be identified like this : image_cd1.iso, image_cd2.iso, image_cd3.iso, etc... and located into the same directory.
  
• Then we start the script using the first iso file name as one of the parameters (image_cd1.iso)
  
• Then the script is incrementaly scanning the folder for files named like this image_cd#.iso (image_cd1.iso, image_cd2.iso, image_cd3.iso, etc...) and determine the number of images file. For example if the image_cd5.iso is not found, so the game have 4 disks.
  
• We define a variable that will correspond to the active disk number and set to 1 for script start. Then we mount the correspoding iso image (image_cd1.iso) using Daemon Tools and start the emulator.
  
• At the same time the script still running into background waiting for a key press action.
  
• When a specific key is pressed (could be defined), the script unmount actual disk, increment disk number. If the disk number is higher than the number of disk, it will be set to 1. Then the script mount the new corresponding image.
  

zugol Wrote:I fxed it.
It was nothing to deal with de rom or path.
It was a name's problem. Those games was containing a "/".

zugol Wrote:Thanks for answering me !

The "/" is in the game's name. It's the name provided by mame. Not in the filesystem. I replaced every "/" by "-" and everything is now ok.
I think that "/" is a forbiden character in file name so, there is no problem for somebody who use import function. I have created my own launcher.xml using data provided by mame exe.