2010-11-01, 16:07
@ali2k1: Must be this:
@all:
Next test version is available: 0.7.5.
Changes:
All 0.7.4 databases and config files are still valid, all older versions should be made compatible automatically on first run. Just make sure that your old db is available in RCBs addon_data directory. To launch games you have to make one change in config.xml manually: Move the params of your emuCmd to the new property "emulatorParams".
About the new scraper: http://thegamesdb.net is a community project similar to thevideogamedb.com and has some really nice fanarts for a lot of games. It has been initiated by ghostelement, a user here in the forum. Please check out this site and start to contribute! Right now there is no option to download boxart in a 100% platform specific way, so I decided to disable this feature (same with giantbomb.com). If accuracy does not matter you can easily reenable it by removing the xml comments in the scraper files (RCB installdir/resources/scraper).
To activate the new scraper you can use this config.xml as a start or just add the missing parts to your existing config (new filetype fanart and new scraper elements):
I think there will be one more test version before the current release will go into the repo. Features in mind: simple config.xml creation wizard (only online scraping scenario as a start), make giantbomb scraper platform save, option to store and reimport scraped data as nfo files, create a list of all missing games or missing artwork, option not to import games with missing artwork. Please let me know if you have more ideas.
Thank you all for testing and giving feedback.
Regards,
malte
Code:
RCB_ERROR: Import Settings: Error in config.xml. Configured romPath /home/user/roms in RomCollection zsnesw does not exist!
@all:
Next test version is available: 0.7.5.
Changes:
- automatic update of MyGames.db and config.xml: All versions from 0.6.0 up should be compatible now.
- new scraper: thegamesdb.net
- navigation between top menu and bottom menu changed from circular to linear.
- added some more html codes to the unescape table (replaces codes like #27; in your game names)
- disabled boxart download for giantbomb.com and thegamesdb.net (there is no platform check for boxart atm)
- small scraping changes and bug fixes to get more accurate results
All 0.7.4 databases and config files are still valid, all older versions should be made compatible automatically on first run. Just make sure that your old db is available in RCBs addon_data directory. To launch games you have to make one change in config.xml manually: Move the params of your emuCmd to the new property "emulatorParams".
About the new scraper: http://thegamesdb.net is a community project similar to thevideogamedb.com and has some really nice fanarts for a lot of games. It has been initiated by ghostelement, a user here in the forum. Please check out this site and start to contribute! Right now there is no option to download boxart in a 100% platform specific way, so I decided to disable this feature (same with giantbomb.com). If accuracy does not matter you can easily reenable it by removing the xml comments in the scraper files (RCB installdir/resources/scraper).
To activate the new scraper you can use this config.xml as a start or just add the missing parts to your existing config (new filetype fanart and new scraper elements):
Code:
<config>
<RomCollections>
<RomCollection id="1" name="SNES">
...
<mediaPath type="fanart">PathToArtwork\SNES\fanart\%GAME%.*</mediaPath>
<scraper name="thegamesdb.net" replaceKeyString=" III, II" replaceValueString=" 3, 2"/>
...
</RomCollection>
</RomCollections>
<FileTypes>
...
<FileType id="5" name="fanart">
<type>image</type>
<parent>game</parent>
</FileType>
</FileTypes>
<ImagePlacing>
<fileTypeFor name="gameinfobig">
...
<fileTypeForMainViewBackground>fanart</fileTypeForMainViewBackground>
<fileTypeForMainViewBackground>boxfront</fileTypeForMainViewBackground>
...
</fileTypeFor>
</ImagePlacing>
<Scrapers>
...
<Site name="thegamesdb.net">
<Scraper parseInstruction="02 - thegamesdb.xml" source="http://thegamesdb.net/api/GetGame.php?name=%GAME%" replaceKeyString="%REPLACEKEYS%" replaceValueString="%REPLACEVALUES%"/>
</Site>
...
</Scrapers>
<config>
I think there will be one more test version before the current release will go into the repo. Features in mind: simple config.xml creation wizard (only online scraping scenario as a start), make giantbomb scraper platform save, option to store and reimport scraped data as nfo files, create a list of all missing games or missing artwork, option not to import games with missing artwork. Please let me know if you have more ideas.
Thank you all for testing and giving feedback.
Regards,
malte