2010-12-14, 17:11
rbrohman Wrote:Games differ from movies, TV, etc in that you typically spend a bunch of time on a small handful of games before moving on to new ones. I think it would be really useful to have a sort of "dashboard" or home screen within ALA that gives you quick access to a small subset of games across a number of different systems.For quick access you already have the search engine and the favorite option.
rbrohman Wrote:You could even expand upon this by allowing the creation of user created "collections". For example, I play games with my kids. It would be hugely useful if I could build a "collection" of good kids games, or good 2-player games. From ALA's dashboard, you could drill into these collections and launch games from multiple systems.You maybe not know it, but by renaming the Advanced launcher, for example plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 instead of plugin.program.advanced.launcher you can install ALA several time into XBMC. Their is no limit. Like this could manage several launchers.xml file and so you could already create several games "collections".
For multiple installations you have to edit the plugin.program.advanced.launcher.zip file by renaming the folder ant edit the addon.xml file. Then install it from XBMC. If you have renamed it like plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 the corresponding launchers.xml file will be into a plugin.program.advanced.launcher2 folder.
rbrohman Wrote:But stuff like this would definitely take ALA from being a launcher to being a rom/games manager. So if that's not where you see this heading, I understand.Yes I want to keep ALA as a simple application launcher and do not want it manage roms and limit it only to games.