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- flxfxp - 2009-07-29 22:53
blittan Wrote:I know I wouldn't use that, looks cool a few times, but it's not usable.. same thing in USBloader GX for Wii, tried that view for a few times, then switched back to listing.
I do agree. However, I seek the "interactivity" that it gives. The xport emulators for xbox 1 were brilliant since they were highly interactive and polished, whilst using a existing emulation engine.
- blittan - 2009-07-29 23:04
I wrote emulauncher a long time ago, for xbox .. So it is possible to write a frontend in python, but this games library is more than a frontend.
- flxfxp - 2009-07-29 23:12
Personally i'm only interested in the retro side. I love playing my emulators on my old xbox. But now with my new ion platform, I'd like to have the same experience on it.
On the old xbox I created this:
![[Image: 3539388005_4444919b3b.jpg]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/3539388005_4444919b3b.jpg)
Simple, but effective, because the emulators hold all the roms.
Anyway, is there already a spec sheet outlining the features that are wanted? Mockups? etc?
- redtapemedia - 2009-07-30 00:17
blittan Wrote:I know I wouldn't use that, looks cool a few times, but it's not usable.. same thing in USBloader GX for Wii, tried that view for a few times, then switched back to listing.
It's actually really good on a proper cabinet, using with a joystick it scrolls through the games really well, and is not hard to locate games you want to play. I wouldn't like to use Hyperspin with a remote though, but it's easily the best to use in an arcade cab.
It's written in actionscript which means it's not cross platform. Their game list format is quite good though (XML based), and there is an online game list they use called Hyperion.
- flxfxp - 2009-07-31 19:12
As questioned earlier, is there already a spec sheet outlining the features that are wanted? Mockups? etc? Is there a dev team for this yet? If so, I'd like to apply.
- spiff - 2009-07-31 19:30
no outline, it's pretty much up to what we get devs for. but the idea would be to build a library like we have for videos and music. we have scrapers in place.
also we can use the playercore stuff to define emulator "player cores".
code speaks extremely well to us, much better than anything else
i am willing to give pointers but i have no personal interest in working on it
- Nicezia - 2009-08-01 10:06
Currently working on a scraper for giantbomb.com which will be a grand addition to this project.
its also got a ConsoleSearch option which downloads info on the console for which the game/program is for
however, the allgame scraper for somereason doesn't seem to be working for me, if i load a page into my editor from a save file it pulls results just fine, but downloading the search page is problematic it returns the empty search page (and yes i'm using post - in the same manner i use it for allmusic.com for artist and album searches) I'm sure its a problem of my web functions i just can't lay my fingers on it, any suggestions on what the difference might be?
- sho - 2009-08-01 11:22
flxfxp Wrote:As questioned earlier, is there already a spec sheet outlining the features that are wanted? Mockups? etc? Is there a dev team for this yet? If so, I'd like to apply.This is the closest you can get I guess.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Games_Library_Ideas
feel free to update.
- flxfxp - 2009-08-01 13:35
I would if I could, however only sysops can edit that page : /
- blackadaberry - 2009-08-02 14:09
flxfxp Wrote:Personally i'm only interested in the retro side. I love playing my emulators on my old xbox. But now with my new ion platform, I'd like to have the same experience on it.
On the old xbox I created this:
Simple, but effective, because the emulators hold all the roms.
Anyway, is there already a spec sheet outlining the features that are wanted? Mockups? etc?
Any chance you could pass this on to me.....i kinda like it....