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- silvers46 - 2011-09-28

the mame.ini has the right path but not sure on what you meant on inipath in emu params if you mean %ROM% then yes but if you meant something else then im not sure how would i check thanks


- malte - 2011-09-28

It should be
Code:
-inipath "C:\Program Files\MAME" "%ROM%"
or whereever you installed mame on your system.


- Tomkun - 2011-09-28

malte Wrote:Maybe you can show me the log when you are back home. I don't think there is anything that I could do but maybe I have an idea what could be the cause.

Code:
16:54:19 T:4528   ERROR: Error evaluating boolean expression $INFO[ListItem.Property(isfavorite)] == 1
16:54:19 T:4528   ERROR: Control 500 in window 13000 has been asked to focus, but it can't
16:54:19 T:4416  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin onInit
16:54:19 T:4416  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin loadViewState
16:54:19 T:4416  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showGames
16:54:19 T:4416  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: helper.buildLikeStatement
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::Render()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: m_pD3DDevice->BeginScene() failed. 8876086C - D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (Invalid call)
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: exception in CApplication::FrameMove()
16:54:20 T:4528   ERROR: CApplication::FrameMove(), too many exceptions

This is the relevant part of the log. It crashes XBMC completely to desktop and only happens with RCB although I don't think it's the script at fault. I just can't work out what it might be.


- malte - 2011-09-29

@Tomkun: This error may occur if there are errors creating the GUI. Maybe a mixture of a bug in XBMC and something "not well-done" in RCB.

I had similar problems some weeks ago: see here.

Are you on newest XBMC, RCB from SVN and Windows? I will also update my Eden version to test this the next days. Will see if I can reproduce it here.


- silvers46 - 2011-09-30

first off just want to say thanks malte for all the help i really do appreciate it

next issue is when using solo mode rom loads up fine but then when i close mame it wont open xbmc says xbmc: error CApplication::Create() failed - check log file and that it is writable now i tried the "explorer" trick and that didnt work now honestly i could live without solo mode if need be but off the top of your head i didnt know if you knew another fix for this issue if so id b glad to know thanks again


- Tomkun - 2011-10-01

malte Wrote:@Tomkun: This error may occur if there are errors creating the GUI. Maybe a mixture of a bug in XBMC and something "not well-done" in RCB.

I had similar problems some weeks ago: see here.

Are you on newest XBMC, RCB from SVN and Windows? I will also update my Eden version to test this the next days. Will see if I can reproduce it here.

Am using nightly builds, Windows 7 64bit and stock RCB 9.1.

It seems to work correctly when using default view settings, but as soon as I change view, quit and reenter RCB it crashes.


- Xaranx - 2011-10-02

Do you have a timeframe of when you will begin working on Eden compatibility? I remember you said you didn't want to update python during the nightly phase (with good reason).


- malte - 2011-10-02

XBMC team just announced a feature freeze and will start to release first beta releases. This is a good point to start working on compatibility more intensively.

But with Eden we will have some problems with external libraries because we can't rely on a specific python version available on the users system. We have to find a way to ship several libraries for the different versions or build the libraries compatible with all versions (not sure if this is even possible). But we will try our bestSmile


- sunfizz98 - 2011-10-03

How do I get screenshots working like the "four small" or video for windows games? I have imported at least 4 screenshots into the thegamesdb site and I know that the giantbomb site has 50+ screenshots. I also made sure all of the games in thegamesdb had videos associated for each game.

From what I noticed in 9.1 RCB and the latest nightly (Oct 2,2011), RCB seems to only scrape the following for my games.

thegamesdb - fanart, frontcover
giantbomb - only one screenshot
mobygames - I have no games from this site.

Here's an example
Touhou 07 - Perfect Cherry Blossom


- malte - 2011-10-03

@sunfizz98: I guess screenshots weren't available when I implemented thegamesdb scraper or I just missed them. I will add them soon.

Will also check how the youtube link could be supported in RCB.

giantbombs api isn't platform safe. So I disabled download of images to avoid download of wrong images.

On mobygames I find a game "Touhou 07 - The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil". Not sure if this is what you are searching for.


- stress.t - 2011-10-03

Hello.
I have many (over 4000) mame roms in collection.
List loaded is very long (~ 2 minutes). But if window xbmc small (tested 320x240) list loading faster 25% (from full screen).

Mai be can cached list?

PS sorry for me ENGLISH.


- malte - 2011-10-04

There are some caching options but I am not sure if they will do what you want. Try to play around with addon settings.


- malte - 2011-10-05

Tomkun Wrote:It seems to work correctly when using default view settings, but as soon as I change view, quit and reenter RCB it crashes.
I found the reason, but no good solution.

It will work if you change the line:

Code:
<control type="wraplist" id="50">

to:

Code:
<control type="list" id="50">

and

Code:
<control type="wraplist" id="58">

to:

Code:
<control type="list" id="58">


But I still have to find out what has changed and why I can't use wraplists anymore.


- stress.t - 2011-10-05

malte Wrote:There are some caching options but I am not sure if they will do what you want. Try to play around with addon settings.


Yes not fo me. I need cache list games... not build him all time.
Example:
1. We scan collection
2. rcb create list for xbmc
3. xbmc display list
4. quit

5. run xbmc
6. run rcb
7. rcb get cached list
8. xbmc display list


- sunfizz98 - 2011-10-06

malte Wrote:@sunfizz98: I guess screenshots weren't available when I implemented thegamesdb scraper or I just missed them. I will add them soon.

Will also check how the youtube link could be supported in RCB.

giantbombs api isn't platform safe. So I disabled download of images to avoid download of wrong images.

On mobygames I find a game "Touhou 07 - The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil". Not sure if this is what you are searching for.

That's strange, because RCB was able to scrape a screenshot image from giantbomb but your response is saying otherwise. I am using RCB 9.1

In regards to mobygames, I only found "The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil" which is Touhou 06, not 07. For sake of making things easy for me, I added all the games, info, screenshots, and fanart for the Touhou series into thegamesdb.net, since it was more organized and easier to maintain. I will most likely contribute most of my time to gamesdb for the above mentioned reasons.

Just a question, how safe are the other APIs?