[zachmorris]

Hi, is there some way to get the Game Trailer to stop playing when you exit the Rom Info Page.

The closest I've got is using the keymap below BUT being global it has side effects, in that once you exit then esc doesn't still go any further back

<keymap>
<global>
<keyboard>
<escape>Stop</escape>
</keyboard>
</global>
</keymap>

For movies I can use this. Is there an equivalent non global option that will restrict it to the Rom Info Page?

<keymap>
<FullscreenVideo>
<keyboard>
<escape>Stop</escape>
</keyboard>
</FullscreenVideo>
</keymap>


Also does IARL work in the Kodi 18 retroplayer test build without retroarch? I tried but the iarl setupwizard wouldn't run without oath to retroarch setup (path option has vanished on kodi 18 also?).

The trailer should auto-stop when you close the rom page. It does for me. If it doesn't for you please post a debug log.

As far as I know, IARL should work with retroplayer or retroarch or a mix of both. You can run both if you want, but in order to do that, at least currently, you should select external retroarch in settings and enter the paths and whatnot, and then manually change each system you want to use retroplayer with.

[virgopunk]

Hi, I wonder if you may be able to help me out. I've used IARL in the past on my Nvidia Shield and I've been trying to get it up and running on my Win 10 PC (Kodi V18 Leia).

When I try and configure the addon before running the wizard I get a "Setup not ready" alert telling me that I need to set the path to RetroArch first.

However, on the External Launchers tab I'm only seeing the following:
"My System Type" (which incidentally doesn't show as set on the "Setup Wizard" tab)
"RetroArch System Folder" (which I set to the system folder location within the main RetroArch folder)
and then three "Additional Emulators" fields.

On my Nvidia Shield the external launchers tab has the all the fields present (Kodi 17.4) but not in v18. Is there anything I'm not doing right?

I've downloaded the latest zip directly from the GitHub.

Grateful for any advice or help.

Many thanks.

[polo_joe]

I'm using IARL on latest milhouse build on rpi3.
If I start eg a game boy advanced game and I press left button on controller in the game I'm set back to the beginning of the game.
Do I have to install further software/external launchers,...?
I configured the controller in kodi, downloaded IARL then selected the game and took an emulator.

[Jönke]

same here, left always restart game on both nes and snes

[zachmorris]

Hi, I wonder if you may be able to help me out. I've used IARL in the past on my Nvidia Shield and I've been trying to get it up and running on my Win 10 PC (Kodi V18 Leia).

When I try and configure the addon before running the wizard I get a "Setup not ready" alert telling me that I need to set the path to RetroArch first.

However, on the External Launchers tab I'm only seeing the following:
"My System Type" (which incidentally doesn't show as set on the "Setup Wizard" tab)
"RetroArch System Folder" (which I set to the system folder location within the main RetroArch folder)
and then three "Additional Emulators" fields.

On my Nvidia Shield the external launchers tab has the all the fields present (Kodi 17.4) but not in v18. Is there anything I'm not doing right?

I've downloaded the latest zip directly from the GitHub.

Grateful for any advice or help.

Many thanks.

Apparently the settings system in the v18 alphas isn't fully functional yet. See here. You should be able to manually edit the settings file to use it in v18 for the time being. It is working in the latest stable version of Kodi and I'd be hesitant to change anything until v18 is more mature.

Second option:
Replace the settings.xml in path_to_kodi/addons/plugin.program.iarl/resources/settings.xml with the contents of this file. This will just make all settings visible. It's just a temporary hack until v18 settings are more stable.

[nihilisticEevee]

Thanks for all your hard work, this works great! I'm now ablet to leave my big external hdd at home when i go to my friends house!

Any chance you could add the mame software list from internet archive? I see there's a few sets on there.

[zachmorris]

Thanks for all your hard work, this works great! I'm now ablet to leave my big external hdd at home when i go to my friends house!

Any chance you could add the mame software list from internet archive? I see there's a few sets on there.

Any particular system you'd like to see? There's already a few with good compatibility that I included in IARL (Coleco, Intellivision, etc)

[nihilisticEevee]

Thanks for all your hard work, this works great! I'm now ablet to leave my big external hdd at home when i go to my friends house!

Any chance you could add the mame software list from internet archive? I see there's a few sets on there.

Any particular system you'd like to see? There's already a few with good compatibility that I included in IARL (Coleco, Intellivision, etc)

Nothing in particular, I just thought since they were available on archive it would be cool to have it. But i understand if its a lot of extra work for systems most people wouldn't use. Even with a parser script to get all the data in the xml format it would be a tedious endevour.
The main advantage at least for me is to be able to play a random obscure mame game without having to have the whole set and messing with the hash and bios files.
I Understand if the answer is no. Thank you for your time

[zachmorris]

Thanks for all your hard work, this works great! I'm now ablet to leave my big external hdd at home when i go to my friends house!

Any chance you could add the mame software list from internet archive? I see there's a few sets on there.

Any particular system you'd like to see? There's already a few with good compatibility that I included in IARL (Coleco, Intellivision, etc)

Nothing in particular, I just thought since they were available on archive it would be cool to have it. But i understand if its a lot of extra work for systems most people wouldn't use. Even with a parser script to get all the data in the xml format it would be a tedious endevour.
The main advantage at least for me is to be able to play a random obscure mame game without having to have the whole set and messing with the hash and bios files.
I Understand if the answer is no. Thank you for your time

I'm down to add more systems, just need to know what systems people are interested in. I think I got most of the popular ones in there and the ones that MAME / MESS have the best compatibility for, but I'm always up to look at adding more.

[nihilisticEevee]

http://nonmame.retrogames.com/
This is a good reference website, it was a list of systems mame has that are either the best emulator or a just as good as a standalone emulator.
Of the list i'd like to see:
coleco adam,
cdi
fm towns marty
Sega Computer 3000 (SC-3000)
Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000)
supergrafx
x1
game.com

nonmame systems i'd like to see would be:
gamecube(theres a redump set on archive)

hope thats not too many.

[Berl]

I love this addon so much I created my first Kodi build using it as its core.

install from [removed]

add source:
[removed]

*please don't link to repos that contain piracy add-ons! - dangelus

[Berl]

Thanks for all your hard work, this works great! I'm now ablet to leave my big external hdd at home when i go to my friends house!

Any chance you could add the mame software list from internet archive? I see there's a few sets on there.

Any particular system you'd like to see? There's already a few with good compatibility that I included in IARL (Coleco, Intellivision, etc)

I'm happy with the current linup but want to suggest using screenscraper.fr api for boxart/fanart.

https://screenscraper.fr/webapi.php?alpha=0&numpage=0

(i know its French but its pretty cool)

i used Universal XML scraper which uses screenscraper.fr api to scrape my retropie box art and unlike the RetroPie built in scraper UXML scraper found 100% out of over 15k games.

also supports multi thread scraping if you contribute. i wrote a few synopsis and made a few labels and got 4 threads.

[Copeyboy]

Okay, I've set up IARL on a couple of systems, but never on Windows 10. I'm attempting to do this now, but am unable to navigate to the appropriate folder for the retroarch exe file and the BIOS file. It's in the /users/myusername/appdata/roaming file. However, I cannot get to that particular folder from within Kodi. Not sure what to do with this. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks for what you can do, dude.

[sectune]

Okay, I've set up IARL on a couple of systems, but never on Windows 10. I'm attempting to do this now, but am unable to navigate to the appropriate folder for the retroarch exe file and the BIOS file. It's in the /users/myusername/appdata/roaming file. However, I cannot get to that particular folder from within Kodi. Not sure what to do with this. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks for what you can do, dude.

Did you activate the display of hidden files in Kodi settings? I believe somewhere along the path windows marks the folders as hidden.

[zachmorris]

Okay, I've set up IARL on a couple of systems, but never on Windows 10. I'm attempting to do this now, but am unable to navigate to the appropriate folder for the retroarch exe file and the BIOS file. It's in the /users/myusername/appdata/roaming file. However, I cannot get to that particular folder from within Kodi. Not sure what to do with this. Any advice would be awesome. Thanks for what you can do, dude.

Did you activate the display of hidden files in Kodi settings? I believe somewhere along the path windows marks the folders as hidden.

Yep, you got it. The default for Kodi is to not show hidden files and folders. You just have to turn that on in Kodi settings. See the settings under "File lists": http://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Appearance