2010-12-09, 06:14
luke255 Wrote:Well firstly great job with this. I've been on a Googling marathon for the past few hours learning about RomCollectionBrowser, resurrectionxtras, thegamedb etc.
My ideal situation, and what I believe is the ultimate goal for most (correct me if I'm wrong), is to have a way to import ROMs into XBMC and have all that lovely meta data fetched automatically. Maybe even a system to "link" emulators to XBMC with RCB having all the command line variables etc needed for the most popular ones.
After some research I find resurrectionxtras which sounds awesome except that the target machine is the XBOX. I get it, use that and everybody has the same hardware. I figure I can just download the ROMs I want from resurrectionxtras and configure RCB to get all the data from there. I'm not sure if this is doable plus I don't have a demonoid account!
So I'm left really impressed with all the work that has gone into these projects but disappointed that a more friendly system is so close but not there yet.
Am I missing something? Are there plans for scraper integration in RCB? Would the resurrectionxtras torrents be compatible with RCB (after creating a suitable config.xml)? Are there any other options?
Thanks for any help I get and sorry for the noob-like post, we've all been noobs at some point remember!
I know this is a long thread, but all your answers are contained herein. I'll answer the best I can.
Quote:Am I missing something?Yes. I think you must be using the version in the XBMC repository. It's been greatly improved since that version.
Quote:Are there plans for scraper integration in RCB?There are already scrapers built in to the latest version. (The version in the XBMC repository is not the latest version.)
Quote:Would the resurrectionxtras torrents be compatible with RCB (after creating a suitable config.xml)?Yes, they are totally compatible.
Quote:Are there any other options?There are many many options, although I think that resurrectionxtras is the easiest. Especially if you are starting from scratch.