There's something I'd like to know if RCB can do or not.
I have two rom collections, one for NES and other one for PS1. On my NES collection, I have a lot of rom hacks from SMB, and I've organized the collection by zipping all these games and adding .ZIP extension to the list of supported files. This way, when I select SMB, a menu will show up with all romhacks from SMB. That's a great feature to avoid showing a lot of repeated games on my collections.
However, on my PS1 rom collection, I have some rom hacks and game translation and I'd like to do the same thing I've done on my NES collection. However, zipping ISO files will make XBMC slower, since it'll need to extract a big file everytime I want to play that game.
I know I can do something similar by using "Disk Indicator" parameter, but I don't know if I can have multiple "Disk Indicator" parameters for a rom collection. I mean, I'm already using that parameter on my PS1 rom collection for games with multiple disks, such as Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2. I just need a way to do the same thing for my romhacks and translations, by inserting a suffix to my ISO filenames such as "_hack" or "_translated".
Is there a way of doing it besides zipping file? Or maybe a special parameter I need to pass to "Disk Indicator" to make it recognize another games on a folder.
(2014-06-15, 06:52)malte Wrote: joebloggs12 Wrote:@malte. out of curiosity how hard would it be to add a systems menu , Is it a matter of creating a new menu with links to system id
(im probably talking bollocks)
It depends on how I will implement it. I have two methods in mind:
1. Just add an option to launch RCB with a Rom Collection as parameter. RCB wil launch as usual but it will set the filter to the given Rom Collection. This way you would be able to edit your Home screen and add several start entries for RCB each one launching a different Rom Collection.
2. Create a complete new (RCB) main screen. This screen will contain infos about all Rom Collections including statistics (number of games, favorite games, ...). From this screen you can only launch your favorite (or last/most played) games or you can go on to RCBs current main screen.
To implement no 1 should be easy and not take much time. I guess that it will be available with one of the next releases. No 2 is a lot more work. But it is a feature that I really like to include, so I hope that I can start working on this soon.
I'm very excited for the implementation of option 1. That would be very useful for multiple rom collections on a standalone XBMC installation.