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RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - Pauwl - 2013-01-01

Hi, thanks for your anwser.
I only have () and . in de filenames.
I will give them a name with only standard characters to see if this works.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - deh2k7 - 2013-01-02

What is the correct naming convention for multi-disc games? I've tried "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2" but RCB seems to be ignoring them altogether.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - pgjensen - 2013-01-02

(2013-01-02, 09:32)deh2k7 Wrote: What is the correct naming convention for multi-disc games? I've tried "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2" but RCB seems to be ignoring them altogether.

Edit Rom Collection options and you can change the regex. i used \(Disc .*\) for mine.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - e2zippo - 2013-01-02

malte: I think I found a bug in the latest version.

I tried to start all over since my setup didn't work, and when I tried to add a rom collection with 1.1.1 I only saw my dvd drive (HSmile, none of my local discs were avaliable when selecting path to emulator, not even c:\

I tried with 1.1.0 and it's all working.

Cheers!

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - deh2k7 - 2013-01-02

(2013-01-02, 17:30)pgjensen Wrote:
(2013-01-02, 09:32)deh2k7 Wrote: What is the correct naming convention for multi-disc games? I've tried "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2" but RCB seems to be ignoring them altogether.

Edit Rom Collection options and you can change the regex. i used \(Disc .*\) for mine.

pgjensen - thanks for the help! I assume your discs are named "GameName (Disc 1)", "GameName (Disc 2)"? I've always sucked at regex, so if my games are named "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2", then would my regex be \CD.*\ ?

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - negge - 2013-01-03

Something in the latest revisions of XBMC seem to have broken this addon. I'm using v1.1.1 and after launching the addon, the list of games is displayed momentarily before it disappears (only ".." is left in the list), and the XBMC log starts filling up with this (every two seconds):

Quote:01:33:41 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:41 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:43 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:43 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:45 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:45 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:48 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:48 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:49 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:49 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:51 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:51 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:53 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:53 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:55 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:55 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []

I'm gonna try some older revisions to see if I can pin-point where the breakage started.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - pgjensen - 2013-01-03

(2013-01-02, 23:05)deh2k7 Wrote:
(2013-01-02, 17:30)pgjensen Wrote:
(2013-01-02, 09:32)deh2k7 Wrote: What is the correct naming convention for multi-disc games? I've tried "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2" but RCB seems to be ignoring them altogether.

Edit Rom Collection options and you can change the regex. i used \(Disc .*\) for mine.

pgjensen - thanks for the help! I assume your discs are named "GameName (Disc 1)", "GameName (Disc 2)"? I've always sucked at regex, so if my games are named "GameName CD1", "GameName CD2", then would my regex be \CD.*\ ?

nope, just CD.*
the \ in mine is to escape the parentheses

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - e2zippo - 2013-01-03

(2013-01-03, 01:37)negge Wrote: Something in the latest revisions of XBMC seem to have broken this addon. I'm using v1.1.1 and after launching the addon, the list of games is displayed momentarily before it disappears (only ".." is left in the list), and the XBMC log starts filling up with this (every two seconds):

Quote:01:33:41 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:41 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:43 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:43 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:45 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:45 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:48 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:48 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:49 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:49 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:51 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:51 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:53 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:53 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
01:33:55 T:3018962720 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory ()
01:33:55 T:3018962720 DEBUG: ParentPath = []

I'm gonna try some older revisions to see if I can pin-point where the breakage started.

I had the same issue when I was using Aeon Nox 4, it worked with confluence.
Which skin are you using?



RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - swetoast - 2013-01-03

i got a question (ive been searching etc. didnt find any real answers) can i use this on openelec (raspberry pi) has anyone gotten it to work or is it missing stuff?

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - negge - 2013-01-03

(2013-01-03, 10:17)e2zippo Wrote: I had the same issue when I was using Aeon Nox 4, it worked with confluence.
Which skin are you using?

That's the thing, I'm using Confluence as well. It seems this behavior started out of a sudden, I tried downgrading to a revision from last year but the issue remained.



RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - teeedubb - 2013-01-04

(2012-12-29, 10:51)malte Wrote:
teeedubb Wrote:Something strange is happening with my RCB - I can't add my mame collection. Ive followed these instructions and everything adds fine, but when I go to edit the offline scraper there is no mame offline scraper available, and if I add a rom collection after that i am abe to select mame as a new system. There are no entries in the config.xml file refeereing to mame, its like RCB doesnt make any changes. Here is where it gets stranger, for me it doesnt work in versions 1.0.1, 1.0.5, 1.0.8 or 1.1.1 with Frodo RC2. I had perviously had mame installed in RCB on this machine but I removed the collection when I switched HDD's. Rescanning an exisiting collection works fine.
Really strange. I can see these lines in your log:
Code:
14:48:11 T:3832  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: write Rom Collections
14:48:11 T:3832  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: write Rom Collection: MAME
14:48:11 T:3832  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End addRomCollection
Usually if there is any error writing the file you should see it in your log. But on next load of config.xml the mame collection is not available. Sorry, atm I have no idea what is happening. But adding new collections with offline scrapers is working here, so I don't think it is a bug.

The link to your config.xml is broken. Can you upload it once more? Maybe I have to try to reproduce this with your configuration. But this may take some days as I am on a trip atm. Not sure if I will find the time to test.

Thanks for your help malte. Yeah its definitely a problem on my end but I cant nut it out. A re-uploaded config.xml. I dont have a problem editing the config file by hand, is there any chance some one could post their working config.xml files with a mame collection so I can copy that?

Thanks in advance.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - rob hodge - 2013-01-04

having trouble launching mednafen from RCB.

first-
i'm running frodo RC3. - xbmcbuntu.
RCB version 1.1.1

i'm trying to use mednafen for SNES and NES games.

roms are all loaded in, but i can't launch any of them.

i even tried appending ' > /a/file/in/my/home/directory' to the paramaters to try and capture any stdout error messages to no avail

i hear the sound from xbmc when i select, and see a tiny line of text 1/4 of the way up the left side of the screen that appears and says 'launching (somethign or other) that appears for a split second and dissapears.

if i hold the key down, that message stays around for a while, but i see no new processes are being spawned while watching top.

i can ssh -X in from my laptop and launch mednaften and get the game running on my macbook, so it isn't a mednafen issue i think.

running solo mode makes no difference, and xbmc does not shut down like i'd expect when it is enaged.

Code:
00:10:46 T:3007952704   ERROR: Control 500 in window 13000 has been asked to focus, but it can't
00:10:46 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin onInit
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin loadViewState
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showConsoles
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: begin showFilterControl: 500
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showConsoles
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showGenre
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Selected Console: 0
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: begin showFilterControl: 600
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showGenre
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showYear
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Selected Console: 0
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: begin showFilterControl: 700
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showYear
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showPublisher
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Selected Console: 0
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: begin showFilterControl: 800
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showPublisher
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showCharacterFilter
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showCharacterFilter
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showGames
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: helper.buildLikeStatement
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: showGames: load games from db in 19 ms
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: showGames: load 3 games to list in 10 ms
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showGames
00:10:47 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin showGameInfo
00:10:48 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End showGameInfo
00:10:48 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End loadViewState
00:10:48 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End onInit
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin launchEmu
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: launching game with id: 2455
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Begin launcher.launchEmu
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: files for current game: [(u'/home/rob/roms/nes/rom/.AppleDouble/Super Mario Bros 3 (U) (PRG 0).nes',)]
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: launcher.buildCmd
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: emuCommandLine: /usr/games/mednafen
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: preCmdLine:
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: postCmdLine:
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Getting Multiple Disc Parameter
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: emuParams: -fs 1 %ROM%
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: rom: /home/rob/roms/nes/rom/.AppleDouble/Super Mario Bros 3 (U) (PRG 0).nes
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: No precmd created.
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: No postcmd created.
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: cmd: "\/usr\/games\/mednafen" -fs 1 \/home\/rob\/roms\/nes\/rom\/\.AppleDouble\/Super\ Mario\ Bros\ 3\ \(U\)\ \(PRG\ 0\)\.nes
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: precmd:
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: postcmd:
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: launchEmu on non-xbox
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: screenMode: 1024x768 @ 60.00 - Full Screen
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Toggle to Windowed mode
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: launch emu
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: launch emu done
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Toggle to Full Screen mode
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End launcher.launchEmu
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: End launchEmu
00:10:49 T:2779773760  NOTICE: RCB_INFO: onAction: 7

can anyone point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this?

EDIT: think i found it... damned apple metadata. i'll repost in the morning if i still have issues.


RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - negge - 2013-01-04

I recommend anyone having trouble launching emulators from RCB (while they work perfectly when launched from the command line) to try "Use solo mode" before starting to tear their hair out. This is especially true on Linux.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - negge - 2013-01-04

I don't know what happened but now the game list works just like it should (it doesn't disappear anymore). I have not knowingly changed or updated anything.

RE: [RELEASE] Rom Collection Browser - Browse and launch emulator game ROMs - malte - 2013-01-04

e2zippo Wrote:malte: I think I found a bug in the latest version.

I tried to start all over since my setup didn't work, and when I tried to add a rom collection with 1.1.1 I only saw my dvd drive (H, none of my local discs were avaliable when selecting path to emulator, not even c:\

I tried with 1.1.0 and it's all working.
I tested with 1.1.1 and RC3. Everything works fine for me. It only shows the sources that I added via XBMC file manager. But this happens since Eden afair.

swetoast Wrote:i got a question (ive been searching etc. didnt find any real answers) can i use this on openelec (raspberry pi) has anyone gotten it to work or is it missing stuff?
I think there are still issues with running RCB on the Raspberry Pi. I did not get any positive feedback about launching games from RCB or Advanced Launcher until now. Not sure if someone already managed it. I ordered a Pi myself and will start testing in the next days.

negge Wrote:I don't know what happened but now the game list works just like it should (it doesn't disappear anymore). I have not knowingly changed or updated anything.
So, this issue is solved for you? I tested with RC3 and averything seems to work fine.