[teeedubb]

Anyone know if its possible to be able to launch a rom with two different sets of command line arguments? I want to be able to launch a rom with either the original textures or hi-res textures (mupen64 can do this via a command line switch), maybe two entries for the same rom or a menu asking which version to launch.

[jaochoo]

I'm getting some gaming into my Kodi box and tried RCB but didnt really get it to work. I'm about to move to Advanced Launcher. However, I want to make sure the problem is not with the emus I'm using.

What emulators do you recommend that work well with Kodi and AL? I want to play PS2, N64, SNES and NES.
Could you also share the arguments to make it launch/close seamlessly (and full screen) from Kodi/AL?

Do I need other tools? I read somewhere that people had to fiddle around with Windows automation scripts (AutoIT) to achieve a seamless look and that only certain skins work well with AL..

[bleakassassin]

Anyone know if its possible to be able to launch a rom with two different sets of command line arguments? I want to be able to launch a rom with either the original textures or hi-res textures (mupen64 can do this via a command line switch), maybe two entries for the same rom or a menu asking which version to launch.

The former method you mentioned will work, you just need to make a copy of the ROM so it can be added as its own entity. Then add the command-line options to load the custom textures for that duplicate game entry.

The latter method would require a new implementation into the program. Seeing as Angelscry is no longer supporting it (I don't know the reason why, but I sense it's my fault), someone else would have to put that in.

[Angelscry]

Anyone know if its possible to be able to launch a rom with two different sets of command line arguments? I want to be able to launch a rom with either the original textures or hi-res textures (mupen64 can do this via a command line switch), maybe two entries for the same rom or a menu asking which version to launch.

Manually add the rom to duplicate the entry. Edit the item, go into advanced modification, and use right alternative arguments to start your rom with hi-res textures.

[Angelscry]

The latter method would require a new implementation into the program. Seeing as Angelscry is no longer supporting it (I don't know the reason why, but I sense it's my fault), someone else would have to put that in.

The is no need of a new implementation method. All is here.

[teeedubb]

Cheers guys, missus was using the last night so i couldnt tinker and google didn't give me any hits regarding my queries. I'll add a 2nd rom for hi res textures - its only a handful of them.

[Gaizzie]

I just installed Advanced Launcher on my Android Kodi 14.1 and I'm missing the Create New Category option from the menu.. the only 2 options I see are:
- Add-on settings
- Go to root

Any hints on how to solve it? I already tried switching Skins.

Thanks

[UPDATE] Turned out I somehow installed a wrong .zip file (just downloaded the master from Github as a zip file).. found an "original' 2.5.8 on the interwebz and installed that one.. that didn't work either.. But after uninstalling this one.. deleting the /userdata/addon-data of advanced.launcher and an install again it all worked.

[RyuuSuuke]

Hi everyone,

I wanna have on the same pannel a category (PC) and launchers (Emulators).

I have found something but it doesn't please me, so I hope you got an other solution :
I have created everything in default category
-> Wii, N64, etc... (File Launcher for Dolphin/Project64 ....)
-> PC (Favorite Launcher who point to a category)
Like that i can have a menu with different plateform choice and the games associated with the plateform.

The problem is :
If I go into Default -> Wii and then i wanna go back to Default... good it works !
If I go into Default -> PC and then i wanna go back to Default... Oops nope i'm back on main menu
(Wii = File Launcher, PC = Favorites)

It's not a big deal but I really want something perfect and I'm pretty sure there is a solution to this

I have search, really... I can't find any solutions to my "problem"...

Sorry if my english isn't really good. Hope you still understand my point.

I'm using Kodi on Windows 7 x64.

[Gaizzie]

Okay so I seem to have the same issue that others also see.. the "Cannot create Launchers.xml" error but the launchers.xml does get created and updated.

BTW: Advanced Launcher 2.5.8 / Kodi 14.1 / Android 4.4

Hereby a snippet of the kodi.log

Code:

21:25:48 T:1782645208  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: 803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee category folder > Launcher list
21:25:48 T:1910514712  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:25:49 T:1910514712 WARNING: static XFILE::IFile* XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader(const CURL&) - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/folder.jpg?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:25:49 T:1777969176   ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee
21:25:49 T:1777969176   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee) failed
21:25:49 T:1794074160  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:25:49 T:1794074160  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:25:49 T:1794074160  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:25:49 T:1794074160  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:25:49 T:1794074160  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: 803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee category folder > Launcher list
21:25:49 T:1908548160  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:25:49 T:1908548160 WARNING: static XFILE::IFile* XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader(const CURL&) - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/folder.jpg?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:25:58 T:1908548160  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:25:58 T:1908548160  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:25:58 T:1908548160  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:25:58 T:1908548160  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:26:09 T:1908548160   ERROR: /mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py:2824: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
                                              xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog.__init__( self, *args, **kwargs )
21:26:09 T:1777969176   ERROR: Control 3 in window 13000 has been asked to focus, but it can't
21:26:14 T:1912356808  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:26:14 T:1912356808  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:26:14 T:1912356808  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:26:14 T:1912356808  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:26:14 T:1912356808  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: 803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee category folder > Launcher list
21:26:14 T:1910596056  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:26:14 T:1910596056 WARNING: static XFILE::IFile* XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader(const CURL&) - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/folder.jpg?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:26:34 T:1885061712  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:26:34 T:1885061712  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:26:34 T:1885061712  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:26:34 T:1885061712  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:26:42 T:1798390096  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:27:10 T:1920602504  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 12 times.
21:27:10 T:1920602504  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
21:27:14 T:1920806328  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:28:02 T:1920602504  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
21:28:02 T:1920602504  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
21:28:02 T:1875266280  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 10 times.
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:28:23 T:1875266280  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: 803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee category folder > Launcher list
21:28:23 T:1913886544  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:28:23 T:1913886544 WARNING: static XFILE::IFile* XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader(const CURL&) - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/folder.jpg?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:30:46 T:1910069728  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:30:46 T:1910069728  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:30:46 T:1910069728  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:30:47 T:1910069728  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:30:52 T:1910548960  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
21:30:52 T:1910295104  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:30:52 T:1908218504  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
21:30:56 T:1910069728   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
                                            Error Contents: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py", line 20, in <module>
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 160, in __init__
                                                self._edit_launcher(launcher)
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 1188, in _edit_launcher
                                                shutil.copy2( image.decode(get_encoding(),'ignore') , file_path.decode(get_encoding(),'ignore') )
                                            TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
21:31:02 T:1917033816  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:02 T:1917033816  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:31:02 T:1917033816  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:31:02 T:1917033816  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:31:02 T:1777969176   ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:31:02 T:1777969176   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597) failed
21:31:02 T:1893062208  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:02 T:1893062208  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:31:02 T:1893062208  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:31:02 T:1893062208  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:31:02 T:1893062208  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: 803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee category folder > Launcher list
21:31:02 T:1797665880  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:31:02 T:1797665880 WARNING: static XFILE::IFile* XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader(const CURL&) - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.program.advanced.launcher/folder.jpg?803a59ed58d2592d71e2bcf4c485b2ee%2f43c32cc004d8797757415bc99f54b597
21:31:11 T:1893037832  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:11 T:1893037832  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:31:11 T:1893037832  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:31:11 T:1893037832  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:31:16 T:1797557784  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:31:23 T:1893037832  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 2 times.
21:31:23 T:1893037832   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
                                            Error Contents: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/addon.py", line 20, in <module>
                                                plugin.Main()
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 160, in __init__
                                                self._edit_launcher(launcher)
                                              File "/mnt/internal_sd/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py", line 1188, in _edit_launcher
                                                shutil.copy2( image.decode(get_encoding(),'ignore') , file_path.decode(get_encoding(),'ignore') )
                                            TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
21:31:28 T:1885218360  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:28 T:1885218360  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:31:29 T:1885218360  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Load launchers.xml file
21:31:29 T:1885218360  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Initialisation
21:31:29 T:1885218360  NOTICE: AdvancedLauncher: Advanced Launcher root folder > Categories list
21:31:29 T:1908625648  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
21:31:31 T:1908625648  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
21:31:31 T:1908625648  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

[mingooski]

Edit for other question

I would like to close Project64 with escape like i can with the other emulators but i realy dont know if its possible or what i have to change in my script.
Right now i have this: (it works for dolphin and pcsx2)

Code:

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

If $CmdLine[0] == 1 Then
    Run ( '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Project64 2.1\Project64.exe" -fullscreen "' & $CmdLine[1] & '"', "C:\Program Files (x86)\Project64 2.1\" )
    While 1
        Sleep(100)
    WEnd
EndIf

Func Terminate()
    ProcessClose ( "Project64.exe" )
    Exit 0
EndFunc

I guess the argument is not correct? or i need to lose quotes somewhere?
I have "%rom%" and i tried without quotes. (with quotes it gives error but load emulator, but without quotes it doesnt do nothing)

If someone could help that would be awesome!

Someone has script for this? Or maybe someone can share what they have for Mugen64 with escape close?

[J7AYU]

Does Advanced Launcher support network shares for rom locations, I have all my game collections on my NAS and when I select a network share as a location for where my games are stored, when I launch the game I get an error, however when I change the location to a local path everything runs fine. If it doesn't support network shares is there a workaround?

[Cinder]

What is the correct way of adding MAME roms to the library? When I scrape with ArcadeHITS I often get several versions of the same game in the library..?

[teeedubb]

Does Advanced Launcher support network shares for rom locations, I have all my game collections on my NAS and when I select a network share as a location for where my games are stored, when I launch the game I get an error, however when I change the location to a local path everything runs fine. If it doesn't support network shares is there a workaround?

From memory you needed to mount the network shares at the operating system level.

[J7AYU]

Cheers teeedubb I figured it out, I was trying to add my mapped network drive to my sources the default way and it wouldn't show the drive, however when I added the source through Advanced Launcher it was there. All sorted, now I have HyperLaunch working with Advanced Launcher, main reason for wanting it setup this way is for 7z support and the nice fade screens. Just need to get Xpadder auto profile switching working properly now.

[pattyg]

Is there a way to automatically add video game trailers instead of manually adding them, any help would be much appreciated thanks