2016-09-07, 19:43
Hi Guys,
First off, just want to say the work that has been done for Rom Collection Browser is Amazing! This was exactly the solution that I was looking for in regards to taking all my emulators with me whereever I go on what ever device I want to use (I usually export out the config.xml & mygames.db to my dropbox and then sync that to my other devices.) which allows me to setup the games and system on one device and then copy these config files to other devices so that I wouldn't have to rescrape or resetup additional devices.
So my setups basically consist of an android device (fire tv stick, Android tv box, & nexus player) & a nas drive (WD Mycloud 3tb). Using the addon settings of "make local copy" I am able to play the majority of my emulators via my nas drive/cloud setup (bonus, use FTP instead of SMB as your source in Kodi and you'll be able to take this setup on the road outside of your home network).
The issue that I am running into are in relation to this setup and MAME/NEO GEO. These system requires BIOS files to be downloaded in order for the ROMS to play. So when I am launching console emulator games (snes, nes, gba, n64, etc), this setting works fine because it will copy the rom.zip file locally and launch these roms from the local tmp location. For Neo Geo roms (via Neo.EMU), I get the error (cannot find neogeo.zip or something along those lines) because when it is selecting the rom can copying it locally for the emulator to play, it is only grabbing the rom and not the required neogeo.zip so the emulator gives an error. I can pre-copy the neogeo.zip file and place it into the /tmp folder that the locally copied roms are running from however every time the emulator launches again, all the contents of the /tmp folder gets deleted so I have to recopy the neogeo.zip file into the /tmp folder again before I can launch the rom.
Is there a work around for this or is there a config file or something that can be read by mame/neogeo emulator to locate the neogeo.zip file or any other required bios in a different location. So in other words, I can still leave my rom files hosted via MyCloud, but have the bios files already on my device that can be read by the emulator so that when I select my game, it will download the game file locally to the tmp folder where it is ran but also meet the required neogeo.zip file because I had placed that file in a separate location?
My end goal here is to be able to play mame/neogeo games which requires bios files to run on an android device such as firetv stick via my Network Share Drive using the "Make Local Copy" feature. I have gotten this to work on all other emulator that doesn't require bios files. How do I handle emulators that needs bios files to run?
First off, just want to say the work that has been done for Rom Collection Browser is Amazing! This was exactly the solution that I was looking for in regards to taking all my emulators with me whereever I go on what ever device I want to use (I usually export out the config.xml & mygames.db to my dropbox and then sync that to my other devices.) which allows me to setup the games and system on one device and then copy these config files to other devices so that I wouldn't have to rescrape or resetup additional devices.
So my setups basically consist of an android device (fire tv stick, Android tv box, & nexus player) & a nas drive (WD Mycloud 3tb). Using the addon settings of "make local copy" I am able to play the majority of my emulators via my nas drive/cloud setup (bonus, use FTP instead of SMB as your source in Kodi and you'll be able to take this setup on the road outside of your home network).
The issue that I am running into are in relation to this setup and MAME/NEO GEO. These system requires BIOS files to be downloaded in order for the ROMS to play. So when I am launching console emulator games (snes, nes, gba, n64, etc), this setting works fine because it will copy the rom.zip file locally and launch these roms from the local tmp location. For Neo Geo roms (via Neo.EMU), I get the error (cannot find neogeo.zip or something along those lines) because when it is selecting the rom can copying it locally for the emulator to play, it is only grabbing the rom and not the required neogeo.zip so the emulator gives an error. I can pre-copy the neogeo.zip file and place it into the /tmp folder that the locally copied roms are running from however every time the emulator launches again, all the contents of the /tmp folder gets deleted so I have to recopy the neogeo.zip file into the /tmp folder again before I can launch the rom.
Is there a work around for this or is there a config file or something that can be read by mame/neogeo emulator to locate the neogeo.zip file or any other required bios in a different location. So in other words, I can still leave my rom files hosted via MyCloud, but have the bios files already on my device that can be read by the emulator so that when I select my game, it will download the game file locally to the tmp folder where it is ran but also meet the required neogeo.zip file because I had placed that file in a separate location?
My end goal here is to be able to play mame/neogeo games which requires bios files to run on an android device such as firetv stick via my Network Share Drive using the "Make Local Copy" feature. I have gotten this to work on all other emulator that doesn't require bios files. How do I handle emulators that needs bios files to run?