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Angelscry · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-23, 02:36 by Angelscry.)

(2012-05-23, 02:16)eoghan Wrote: windows 7 user.first time setting up emulators and roms.i have advanced launcher and zsnes working and it opens mariokart, however mariokart wont open fullscreen.i have it setup to fullscreen in zsnes.so when i open up zsnes outside of xbmc and load mariokart everythings fine but within xbmc it opens it only two thirds of the screen and i cant see the top.i've tried everything i can think of.any help would be appreciated

Please, post here the content of your launchers.xml file using pastebin service. I need to see how you have setup ZSNES (by the command line) from Advanced Launcher, to be able help you.

(2012-05-23, 00:39)fablog Wrote: Doesn't work, I got this:

C:\Users\fabien\Desktop>pssuspend "XBMC.exe"

PsSuspend v1.06 - Process Suspender
Copyright ® 2001-2003 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process XBMC.exe suspended.

C:\Users\fabien\Desktop>cd "Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin"

C:\Users\fabien\Desktop>Dolphin.exe /e "Z:\Emulation\Gamecube\Roms GC\F-Zero GX.
iso"
'Dolphin.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\fabien\Desktop>pssuspend -r "XBMC.exe"

PsSuspend v1.06 - Process Suspender
Copyright ® 2001-2003 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process XBMC.exe resumed.

But, it works like that:
pssuspend "XBMC.exe"
Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe /e "Z:\Emulation\Gamecube\Roms GC\F-Zero GX.iso"
pssuspend -r "XBMC.exe"

What should be the batch file to reach the Dolphine directory and the iso directory with Advanced Launcher?

You may have 2 solutions :

1- Put your .bat file into the Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin\ directory and start it from this directory using Advanced Launcher.
2- Or modify your .bat launcher like this :

Code:
pssuspend "XBMC.exe"

Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe /e "%1"

pssuspend -r "XBMC.exe"

fablog · 2012-05-23, 04:51

[/quote]You may have 2 solutions :

1- Put your .bat file into the Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin\ directory and start it from this directory using Advanced Launcher.
2- Or modify your .bat launcher like this :

Code:
pssuspend "XBMC.exe"

Z:\Emulation\Wii\Dolphin\Dolphin.exe /e "%1"

pssuspend -r "XBMC.exe"

[/quote]

I had already tried those solutions and it wasn't the solution. I found the problem...my batch file was dolphin launcher.bat, when I renamed it launcher.bat it worked Laugh

Hope it will help!

Thanks four your time Angelscry.

djfourmoney · 2012-05-23, 10:34

I'm really get frustrated with game launchers with XBMC.

I followed the video to setup ZSNES in XBMC via Advance Launcher, even unzipped the SMC file (Bill Walsh College Football). No problems setting up the emulator but then I add the game. (1) I get a script error and it won't add the game box for the game even though its been found via scraper. (2) the game won't launch, XBMC for a flash goes into Window mode and then back to full screen, nothing happens. With ePSX, I get a can't launch iso file error.

All emulators work outside XBMC. I thought Hyperspin might do what I want, but it won't. Doesn't support scrappers, don't want to keep the data locally.

Help!

Angelscry · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-23, 14:39 by Angelscry.)

(2012-05-23, 10:34)djfourmoney Wrote: I'm really get frustrated with game launchers with XBMC.

I followed the video to setup ZSNES in XBMC via Advance Launcher, even unzipped the SMC file (Bill Walsh College Football). No problems setting up the emulator but then I add the game. (1) I get a script error and it won't add the game box for the game even though its been found via scraper. (2) the game won't launch, XBMC for a flash goes into Window mode and then back to full screen, nothing happens. With ePSX, I get a can't launch iso file error.

All emulators work outside XBMC. I thought Hyperspin might do what I want, but it won't. Doesn't support scrappers, don't want to keep the data locally.

Help!

1. If you have a script error, please post here the content of the xbmc.log and launchers.xml files (using pastebin service) just after the problem occurred. I cannot help you if I do not have these information.

2. If nothing happen (XBMC flash and back too fullscreen) when you start a launcher, that mean that you have you have something wrong with your launcher configuration. Advanced Launcher start the application as you have configured it. But because the configuration is wrong, the application close (due to error) and XBMC go immediately back to fullscreen. Here again post the content of the xbmc.log and launchers.xml files (using pastebin service). ISO file error with ePSXe could be due to a lot a reason : wrong indicated iso file, corrupted iso file, wrong ePSXe CDROM plugin, etc...

Please get in mind that if Advanced Launcher do not start correctly an application (and that you do not obtain script error) that's mean that you have not configured your application correctly (into Advanced Launcher or into the application itself). You will found some cofiguration example here : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Main_Page

Zellig · 2012-05-24, 09:48

(2012-05-21, 15:03)Angelscry Wrote: Do you have this problem when you start MCE or only when you start MCE with Netlfix. I have made some tries on my system, and I'm not able to reproduce your problem. So I could be related to something wrong on your system.

Other thing you can try is, instead to suspend/resume XBMC you can directly to close/restart it :

...

Hi, Angelscry.

I went through a complete reinstall of XBMC, thinking that may be this is what was causing the crashes, but it's happening again Sad

Again, it launches MCE Netflix fine. Netfix works fine (other than an initial warning box about not being able to connect toserver, which disappears once the Netflix screen populates), I can play video perfectly).

The problem occurs when I press EXIT. The MCE window closes, but the minimized XBMC window just sits there with a spinning cursor and it requires me to force-quit it.

Strangely. exactly the same thing happens when I use PSKILL in the script.

Here is my log with the PSSuspend script, maybe you can tell what's happening:

Code:
33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Starting XBMC (11.0 Git:20120321-14feb09), Platform: Windows , 64-bit (WoW) build 8250. Built on Mar 21 2012 (compiler 1600)

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P9500  @ 2.53GHz

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 59Hz

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Running with restricted rights

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Aero is enabled

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\cache

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Local hostname: HomTheaterPC

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Log File is located: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\xbmc.log

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Setup SDL

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Found screen: Generic PnP Monitor on Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1), adapter 0.

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Primary mode: 1920x1080 @ 59.94 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 640x480 @ 59.94 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 640x480 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 720x480 @ 59.94 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 720x480 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 800x600 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1024x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1152x864 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x600 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x720 @ 59.94 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x720 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x800 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x960 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x1024 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1360x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1366x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1400x1050 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1440x900 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1600x900 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1680x1050 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 23.98 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 24.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 59.94 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 60.00 - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 29.97i - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 30.00i - Full Screen

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: load settings...

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Checking resolution 12

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml)

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0.

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Log level changed to 0

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: Loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer

33:33 T:3384  NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer

33:34 T:3384  NOTICE: initialize done

33:34 T:3384  NOTICE: Running the application...

33:34 T:2520  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

33:34 T:2520  NOTICE: downloader ARGV: ['']

33:34 T:3384  NOTICE: ES: Starting event server

33:34 T:4072  NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777

33:34 T:4072  NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777

33:34 T:944  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

33:34 T:3804  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

33:34 T:3804  NOTICE:  StorageServer Module loaded RUN

33:34 T:3804  NOTICE: StorageClient-0.9.2 Starting server

33:34 T:3804  NOTICE: StorageServer-0.9.2 Storage Server starting C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Database\commoncache.db

33:35 T:4428  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

33:35 T:1552   ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect

33:42 T:3848  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

33:43 T:3848   ERROR: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead

                                              import md5

33:43 T:3848  NOTICE: Launcher: found 1 launchers

Angelscry · 2012-05-24, 14:08

(2012-05-24, 09:48)Zellig Wrote:
(2012-05-21, 15:03)Angelscry Wrote: Do you have this problem when you start MCE or only when you start MCE with Netlfix. I have made some tries on my system, and I'm not able to reproduce your problem. So I could be related to something wrong on your system.

Other thing you can try is, instead to suspend/resume XBMC you can directly to close/restart it :

...

Hi, Angelscry.

I went through a complete reinstall of XBMC, thinking that may be this is what was causing the crashes, but it's happening again

Again, it launches MCE Netflix fine. Netfix works fine (other than an initial warning box about not being able to connect toserver, which disappears once the Netflix screen populates), I can play video perfectly).

The problem occurs when I press EXIT. The MCE window closes, but the minimized XBMC window just sits there with a spinning cursor and it requires me to force-quit it.

Strangely. exactly the same thing happens when I use PSKILL in the script.

Here is my log with the PSSuspend script, maybe you can tell what's happening:

Code:
00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Starting XBMC (11.0 Git:20120321-14feb09), Platform: Windows , 64-bit (WoW) build 8250. Built on Mar 21 2012 (compiler 1600) 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9500 @ 2.53GHz 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 59Hz 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Running with restricted rights 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Aero is enabled 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\ 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\cache 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Local hostname: HomTheaterPC 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Log File is located: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\xbmc.log 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Setup SDL 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Found screen: Generic PnP Monitor on Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1), adapter 0. 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Primary mode: 1920x1080 @ 59.94 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 640x480 @ 59.94 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 640x480 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 720x480 @ 59.94 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 720x480 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 800x600 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1024x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1152x864 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x600 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x720 @ 59.94 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x720 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x800 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x960 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1280x1024 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1360x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1366x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1400x1050 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1440x900 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1600x900 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1680x1050 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 23.98 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 24.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 59.94 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 60.00 - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 29.97i - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Additional mode: 1920x1080 @ 30.00i - Full Screen 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: load settings... 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/ 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now... 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Checking resolution 12 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml. 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml. 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping. 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml) 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: No settings file to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml) 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Default DVD Player: dvdplayer 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Default Video Player: dvdplayer 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Disabled debug logging due to GUI setting. Level 0. 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Log level changed to 0 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: Loading media sources from special://masterprofile/sources.xml 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer 00:33:33 T:3384 NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer 00:33:34 T:3384 NOTICE: initialize done 00:33:34 T:3384 NOTICE: Running the application... 00:33:34 T:2520 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:33:34 T:2520 NOTICE: downloader ARGV: [''] 00:33:34 T:3384 NOTICE: ES: Starting event server 00:33:34 T:4072 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777 00:33:34 T:4072 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777 00:33:34 T:944 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:33:34 T:3804 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:33:34 T:3804 NOTICE: StorageServer Module loaded RUN 00:33:34 T:3804 NOTICE: StorageClient-0.9.2 Starting server 00:33:34 T:3804 NOTICE: StorageServer-0.9.2 Storage Server starting C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Database\commoncache.db 00:33:35 T:4428 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:33:35 T:1552 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect 00:33:42 T:3848 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:33:43 T:3848 ERROR: C:\Users\HomeTheater\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\plugin.program.advanced.launcher\resources\lib\launcher_plugin.py:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 00:33:43 T:3848 NOTICE: Launcher: found 1 launchers

Thank you for the script, but it will not help. There is no error. If you encounter the problem even using the script with PSKILL that's mean that it is a compatibility problem between MCE, Windows and XBMC. A last thing you can try is to check if the "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen" option that is present into XBMC system settings is activated. If not... activate it.

g.scholtens · 2012-05-24, 17:01

Want to play windows games in xbmc (windows ultimate 7)

Advanched launcher is working good, and the game i want to play is now in Advanched launcher. But when i start a game.

The games are not opened in a maximized window. On the Properties from the .exe file i've set the settings to maximalize the window. But once I open the game in xbmc, he opens it in a normal window. If I exit the game, then I'm not going backwards in xbmc full screen. Xbmc I see minimized in the taskbar.

Please help

Angelscry · 2012-05-24, 17:59

(2012-05-24, 17:01)g.scholtens Wrote: Want to play windows games in xbmc (windows ultimate 7)

Advanched launcher is working good, and the game i want to play is now in Advanched launcher. But when i start a game.

The games are not opened in a maximized window. On the Properties from the .exe file i've set the settings to maximalize the window. But once I open the game in xbmc, he opens it in a normal window. If I exit the game, then I'm not going backwards in xbmc full screen. Xbmc I see minimized in the taskbar.

Please help

To fully use Advanced Launcher under Windows operating system, you will need to activate the Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen option that is present into XBMC system settings. It you check this option does it solve your problem?

gfur732 · 2012-05-25, 16:43

Angelscry, I was wondering, is there any chance we could see a custom rename option for multi-cd game's in the future? There are some multi-cd games where the discs aren't really named numerically but instead by content.

A couple examples from the original PSX would be Resident Evil 2 (Leon's disc and Claire's disc), Rival Schools (Evolution and Arcade discs) and Gran Turismo 2 (Arcade and Simulation discs).

It wouldn't have to be GUI based. It would probably actually be better if it wasn't as that would require more work on your end and would probably make the set up more time consuming on the user's end. Maybe something like if the romname ends in "-cdx" then it looks for a name in the preceding brackets. For example,
"Gran Turismo 2 [Arcade] -cdx" would result in a menu entry named "Arcade" instead of "Disc 1".

As a bonus, this could also be used for adding other extra content to the menus. An example would be naming a bat file "Gran Turismo 2 [Manual] -cdx.bat" and having it load the game's manual in a document viewer. It could also be used to make options for loading the game by different methods (different emulators or mounting vs passing the file as an argument). Specific examples aren't important, the point is that it would just add the possibility for greater customization.

Anyways, whether or not you like the idea, thanks again for all of your work with AL. It's the most important addition to my XBMC installation.

tinybutstrong · 2012-05-27, 17:20

How to import/load thumbs and artwork from local folder? nfo was imported correctly, but no images.

launchers.xml bellow with two roms for testing:

http://pastebin.com/9XrvgBVY

I don't want to edit manually my 900 SNES roms.

All image are .png with same name of rom files.

Help please.

Thanks!

Angelscry · 2012-05-27, 17:49

(2012-05-27, 17:20)tinybutstrong Wrote: How to import/load thumbs and artwork from local folder? nfo was imported correctly, but no images.

launchers.xml bellow with two roms for testing:

http://pastebin.com/9XrvgBVY

I don't want to edit manually my 900 SNES roms.

All image are .png with same name of rom files.

Help please.

Thanks!

Into Advanced Launcher settings, before perform a scan, you must be set "Local Images" as sources for both Thumbs and fanarts.

Angelscry · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-27, 19:22 by Angelscry.)

Version 1.8.2 : This new version of Advanced Launcher bring 2 small improvements. First, it add the support of 8.3 DOS format path format for windows XP users. Second, it improve the launcher information save during scan. Now if an error occurs during scan all the already scanned items will be already saved. No need for the user to rescan all the items again form the beginning.

Changelog :

Add 8.3 DOS format support (Windows XP).
Improve scan saving.

(2012-05-25, 16:43)gfur732 Wrote: Angelscry, I was wondering, is there any chance we could see a custom rename option for multi-cd game's in the future? There are some multi-cd games where the discs aren't really named numerically but instead by content.

A couple examples from the original PSX would be Resident Evil 2 (Leon's disc and Claire's disc), Rival Schools (Evolution and Arcade discs) and Gran Turismo 2 (Arcade and Simulation discs).

It wouldn't have to be GUI based. It would probably actually be better if it wasn't as that would require more work on your end and would probably make the set up more time consuming on the user's end. Maybe something like if the romname ends in "-cdx" then it looks for a name in the preceding brackets. For example,
"Gran Turismo 2 [Arcade] -cdx" would result in a menu entry named "Arcade" instead of "Disc 1".

As a bonus, this could also be used for adding other extra content to the menus. An example would be naming a bat file "Gran Turismo 2 [Manual] -cdx.bat" and having it load the game's manual in a document viewer. It could also be used to make options for loading the game by different methods (different emulators or mounting vs passing the file as an argument). Specific examples aren't important, the point is that it would just add the possibility for greater customization.

Anyways, whether or not you like the idea, thanks again for all of your work with AL. It's the most important addition to my XBMC installation.

That's seems a good idea. I think it will not be to difficult to add this feature into Advanced Launcher. Thank you. Wink

gfur732 · 2012-05-28, 20:14

Very cool. I'm definitely looking forward to its potential inclusion then. Thanks again Angelscry.

djfourmoney · 2012-05-29, 11:46

(2012-05-23, 14:37)Angelscry Wrote:
(2012-05-23, 10:34)djfourmoney Wrote: I'm really get frustrated with game launchers with XBMC.

I followed the video to setup ZSNES in XBMC via Advance Launcher, even unzipped the SMC file (Bill Walsh College Football). No problems setting up the emulator but then I add the game. (1) I get a script error and it won't add the game box for the game even though its been found via scraper. (2) the game won't launch, XBMC for a flash goes into Window mode and then back to full screen, nothing happens. With ePSX, I get a can't launch iso file error.

All emulators work outside XBMC. I thought Hyperspin might do what I want, but it won't. Doesn't support scrappers, don't want to keep the data locally.

Help!
1. If you have a script error, please post here the content of the xbmc.log and launchers.xml files (using pastebin service) just after the problem occurred. I cannot help you if I do not have these information.

2. If nothing happen (XBMC flash and back too fullscreen) when you start a launcher, that mean that you have you have something wrong with your launcher configuration. Advanced Launcher start the application as you have configured it. But because the configuration is wrong, the application close (due to error) and XBMC go immediately back to fullscreen. Here again post the content of the xbmc.log and launchers.xml files (using pastebin service). ISO file error with ePSXe could be due to a lot a reason : wrong indicated iso file, corrupted iso file, wrong ePSXe CDROM plugin, etc...

Please get in mind that if Advanced Launcher do not start correctly an application (and that you do not obtain script error) that's mean that you have not configured your application correctly (into Advanced Launcher or into the application itself). You will found some cofiguration example here : http://www.gwenael.org/xbmc/index.php?title=Main_Page

Okay, I tried running them again to get a log, here it is -

http://pastebin.com/SQ7S6VZ7

g.scholtens · 2012-05-29, 17:39

(2012-05-24, 17:59)Angelscry Wrote:
(2012-05-24, 17:01)g.scholtens Wrote: Want to play windows games in xbmc (windows ultimate 7)

Advanched launcher is working good, and the game i want to play is now in Advanched launcher. But when i start a game.

The games are not opened in a maximized window. On the Properties from the .exe file i've set the settings to maximalize the window. But once I open the game in xbmc, he opens it in a normal window. If I exit the game, then I'm not going backwards in xbmc full screen. Xbmc I see minimized in the taskbar.

Please help
To fully use Advanced Launcher under Windows operating system, you will need to activate the Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen option that is present into XBMC system settings. It you check this option does it solve your problem?

No, problem is still there. But xbmc stays in fullscreen now after going back. But the games are still not open in full screen.