[Angelscry]

Hello I am having trouble setting up Dolphin and XBMC. I have Dolphin installed, all the games listed. I have installed the repo for Advanched Launcher, set it up according to the wiki, scrapped my Wii games. When I select a game, it opens Dolphin, but the game does not start? Also, I have a usb bluetooth dongle that I use for my wiimote. Does anyone know of a way that I can set up so that I don't have to keep pairing up the wiimote? Every time I start my computer, I have to go through the process of pairing up and refreshing my wiimotes in Dolphin.

I have not tested yet wii games with the Dolphin emulator (only made the test for gamecube games). And I'm not sure that the command line is exactly the same for the both game systems. For your dongle problem are you under Windows or Linux? BTW, you have to check if you have the possibility to pair and refresh you wiimote using simply command lines. If so, you can create a small launcher script (bash or autoit) that will automatically pair your controller before starting Dolphin.

[Layer0730]

The command-line for Dolphin is the same for both Wii & Gamecube games. (at least for windows)

dolphin rom /e /b

so for Advanced Launcher's arguments just use: "%Rom%" /e /b
The /b is running the emulator in BATCH mode so it will exit the emulator after the game is finished by pressing ESC.

If you find a way to do the pairing I would love to know myself.

[Angelscry]

The command-line for Dolphin is the same for both Wii & Gamecube games. (at least for windows)

dolphin rom /e /b

so for Advanced Launcher's arguments just use: "%Rom%" /e /b
The /b is running the emulator in BATCH mode so it will exit the emulator after the game is finished by pressing ESC.

If you find a way to do the pairing I would love to know myself.

Concerning the blue-tooth pairing, I have found this command line application for windows : http://bluetoothinstaller.com/bluetooth-...ine-tools/

I think it may be possible to pair the wiimote using the btpair command line before starting the the dolphin emulator.

[nelcruz]

Concerning the blue-tooth pairing, I have found this command line application for windows : http://bluetoothinstaller.com/bluetooth-...ine-tools/

I think it may be possible to pair the wiimote using the btpair command line before starting the the dolphin emulator.

Thanks to everyone who kindly took the time to chime in to my query. I will test this tonight when I get home and report the results

[nelcruz]

Hi, this is the arguments that I used to get the Wii to start and automatically shut down...

/e %rom% /b

there may or may not be quotes around the %rom%, I'm at work and don't quite remember

In regards to connecting the Wiimote automatically via Bluetooth, I found this...

http://www.wiimoteproject.com/bluetooth-...onnect%29/

[Verno]

Angelscry, you mentioned you use ePSXe, I'm curious how you handle multi-disc games. I can't think of a solution here.

I'm using Advanced Launcher and ePSXe with the -nogui -loadiso and it works fine so far. Then I get to any multi-disc game and realize the conundrum, with nogui how am I supposed to change the disc? I don't think ePSXe has hotkeys to do it.

The only workaround I can think of is adding each disc individually as an item which is obviously not ideal because it clutters up the file/library views.

Anyways really love the plugin and appreciate any help you can give me in describing how you overcame this issue.

[Angelscry]

Angelscry, you mentioned you use ePSXe, I'm curious how you handle multi-disc games. I can't think of a solution here.

I'm using Advanced Launcher and ePSXe with the -nogui -loadiso and it works fine so far. Then I get to any multi-disc game and realize the conundrum, with nogui how am I supposed to change the disc? I don't think ePSXe has hotkeys to do it.

The only workaround I can think of is adding each disc individually as an item which is obviously not ideal because it clutters up the file/library views.

Anyways really love the plugin and appreciate any help you can give me in describing how you overcame this issue.

I'm not using ePSXe because this emulator have not been updated since 2008 and is now abandoned. I recommend you to use PCSX-Reloaded instead : http://pcsxr.codeplex.com/

Now for the switching of disc image during play, maybe it will be better to ask directly to the emulator devellopers. It may surely possible to them to add the possibility to switch disc images using a specfic key.

You can also use daemon tools command line and write a script (autoit) that will run into background. When a key will be pressed, the script will umount the iso image and mount a new one.

[Verno]

I'm not using ePSXe because this emulator have not been updated since 2008 and is now abandoned. I recommend you to use PCSX-Reloaded instead : http://pcsxr.codeplex.com/

Now for the switching of disc image during play, maybe it will be better to ask directly to the emulator devellopers. It may surely possible to them to add the possibility to switch disc images using a specfic key.

Right but I mean how did you personally get around it? Did you do the autoit script thing you mentioned below? I'm trying to find a workaround that will work within the confines of XBMC and Advanced Launcher.

You can also use daemon tools command line and write a script (autoit) that will run into background. When a key will be pressed, the script will umount the iso image and mount a new one.

Wouldn't you have to create a different script for every potential disc swap in the game library?

Thanks for indulging me on this, I realize its a bit out of scope for your plugin, I just wanted others experience and how they overcame the problem.

[Angelscry]

Right but I mean how did you personally get around it? Did you do the autoit script thing you mentioned below? I'm trying to find a workaround that will work within the confines of XBMC and Advanced Launcher.

Wouldn't you have to create a different script for every potential disc swap in the game library?

Thanks for indulging me on this, I realize its a bit out of scope for your plugin, I just wanted others experience and how they overcame the problem.

I personnaly did not get around this... because I'm not really using advanced launcher to play PSX games and also games that need disk switch are a minority. So I have not done this kind of script, but if I found time could a look to create an autoit script.

This disk switch fonctionnality is not directly linked to XBMC or Advanced Launcher. Advanced launcher is starting appplication. If the application (like ePSXe) need to use different images disk and is not able to manage them simply and correctly that's not the goal to advanced launcher to correct this lake. Moreover when you know that other application (like WinUAE) are able to manage several disk image at the same time.

So, I think the first way is try to ask the the emulator devellopers to add this functionnalty into their emulator.

BTW, it may be possible to create an autoit script to do this. Not a script by game, but 1 auto script for each emulator using multi-disk. This script may work like this :

• First, iso files could be identified like this : image_cd1.iso, image_cd2.iso, image_cd3.iso, etc... and located into the same directory.
  
• Then we start the script using the first iso file name as one of the parameters (image_cd1.iso)
  
• Then the script is incrementaly scanning the folder for files named like this image_cd#.iso (image_cd1.iso, image_cd2.iso, image_cd3.iso, etc...) and determine the number of images file. For example if the image_cd5.iso is not found, so the game have 4 disks.
  
• We define a variable that will correspond to the active disk number and set to 1 for script start. Then we mount the correspoding iso image (image_cd1.iso) using Daemon Tools and start the emulator.
  
• At the same time the script still running into background waiting for a key press action.
  
• When a specific key is pressed (could be defined), the script unmount actual disk, increment disk number. If the disk number is higher than the number of disk, it will be set to 1. Then the script mount the new corresponding image.
  

I think a script like this may works. Now someone must take time to create it.

[Verno]

Thanks for the in-depth reply and your patience Angel. I will look into AutoIT scripting and see if I can come up with something that works for when people like me pop in here to ask

Thanks again for the great plugin.

[zugol]

Hi,

Can somebody please tell me how I can enable or find a log or debug for launcher ? I'm using launcher to run several old games and everything is ok except for neogeo games.

When I chose a neogeo game nothing happen. No message from mame.

I have a valide neogeo.zip bios for sdlmame 0.142 and can run flawlessly fatal fury and other SNK games with other frontend like qmc2.

So maby my path is wrong or something like that... I'm using XBMC standalone over Ubuntu 10.10.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edit : several SNK/NeoGeo game are running... (Metal Slug 1 & 3...)


ps: sorry for my English, I'm actually a French.

[zugol]

I fxed it.
It was nothing to deal with de rom or path.
It was a name's problem. Those games was containing a "/".

[Angelscry]

I fxed it.
It was nothing to deal with de rom or path.
It was a name's problem. Those games was containing a "/".

I will try to see what I can do, but generally the "/" character is used into path to indicate folders. The "/" is into the game title of into the game filename?

[zugol]

Thanks for answering me !

The "/" is in the game's name. It's the name provided by mame. Not in the filesystem. I replaced every "/" by "-" and everything is now ok.
I think that "/" is a forbiden character in file name so, there is no problem for somebody who use import function. I have created my own launcher.xml using data provided by mame exe.

[Angelscry]

Thanks for answering me !

The "/" is in the game's name. It's the name provided by mame. Not in the filesystem. I replaced every "/" by "-" and everything is now ok.
I think that "/" is a forbiden character in file name so, there is no problem for somebody who use import function. I have created my own launcher.xml using data provided by mame exe.

I will try to fix Advanced Launcher to automatically replace "/" by "-". Could you tell me witch mame game contain a "/" character? It will make me gain time. Thank you.