Dondi Wrote:Does anyone know if I could avoid scanning ROM sets twice on 2 different xbmc clients? Since I am testing on my workstation, I was wondering if I do a complete import, scan & scrape and all goes well, if I could avoid doing another RCB scan on my main XBMC by simply copying over the ROMs, the .NFOs and the scraped art from the test workstation? Pathing would be similar, but different (same path hierarchy, just different local drive letter assignments). Anything else I could copy over to avoid a scan or anything else I should be aware of?

Dondi Wrote:Still haven't figured out how to launch RetroArch in fullscreen yet

Aergan Wrote:Does anyone have any good suggestions for muti-disc PSX games in RCB please?
E.g. Final Fantasy series, Gran Turismo 2 etc

RCB only shows one entry per game and I don't really see an in-built method to handle this?

(2013-02-17, 15:24)Aergan Wrote: Does anyone have any good suggestions for muti-disc PSX games in RCB please?
E.g. Final Fantasy series, Gran Turismo 2 etc

RCB only shows one entry per game and I don't really see an in-built method to handle this?

Using XBMC 12.0 on Windows Server 2012.

(2013-02-19, 08:08)malte Wrote: Could you try to run your MESS commands from another location than the MESS directory? In cmd window go to "C:\Users\..." (for example) and try to launch "F:\Arcade\Emulators\MESS\0.148 64bit>mess64". I guess your issue is that RCB does not change the working directory before starting the emulator.

It is on my list to add this option. In the meantime you could use a small script that does it for you.

djfourmoney Wrote:Can I ask how you did this? I run XBMC on the Media Center PC (Windows 7) with Media Center for Live TV and Hulu Plug-In. The rest is handled by XBMC and one thing I have no been able to get right is RCB to work with various emulators.

Dondi Wrote:Yeah, unrecognized command when I try that.

Dondi Wrote:Malte, is there a way to scrape my local boxarts, screenshots, etc., that don't have the same filename syntax of my ROMs, to match, or do I need a ROM/EMU art renaming utility or something? I also have complete sets of marquees, flyers, cabs, AVIs for just about every platform, again, not named the same as my current sets though. If I do a ROM import using the 'scan for local art" option, will RCB "successfully" associate my "wrongly-named" art files with my newer (No-Intro) rom sets?

Crylen Wrote:Is there any easy way to add new systems to RCB? For example, if I wanted to add 'Famicom Disk System' and 'NEC SuperGrafx' to my collection, I'd have to add them under "Other" which usually results in incorrect scraping (Matching up the game with the incorrect system). Is there anyway to add them as a new entry?

Crylen Wrote:Similarly, what about Arcade based systems other than MAME such as Daphne, Model 2, Model 3, Atomiswave, etc. These all follow oddball mame style naming conventions and don't seem to have a pre-made database available like MAME does. I'm assuming the only way to add these would be to create the database file manually? Or is there an easier way?

blackreign66 Wrote:Has anyone gotten the gameplay video feature to work with Aeon Nox. I can play a trailer by pressing pause or play but it will not play automatically like it does in MQ4 and Confluence skins.

(2013-02-20, 08:43)malte Wrote: Atm I am dependent on what the online sources provide. If these systems aren't available at mobygames, thegamesdb and others there is no chance for me to scrape the correct information. If they are available just with other names I must add kind of a mapping logic to allow different rom collections scraping for the same system.

(2013-02-20, 08:43)malte Wrote: Are there any onlimne sources that provide these infos?

(2013-02-20, 08:43)malte Wrote:

Dondi Wrote:Yeah, unrecognized command when I try that.

My bad. You should try: "F:\Arcade\Emulators\MESS\0.148 64bit\mess64" (\ instead of >).

(2013-02-20, 08:43)malte Wrote:

Dondi Wrote:Malte, is there a way to scrape my local boxarts, screenshots, etc., that don't have the same filename syntax of my ROMs, to match, or do I need a ROM/EMU art renaming utility or something? I also have complete sets of marquees, flyers, cabs, AVIs for just about every platform, again, not named the same as my current sets though. If I do a ROM import using the 'scan for local art" option, will RCB "successfully" associate my "wrongly-named" art files with my newer (No-Intro) rom sets?

Sorry, no. Atm there is no fuzzy logic when checking for local artwork. I will think about enabling it but I am afraid this may open a can of worms. There already can be enough issues with grabbing the wrong game description when scraping online. When I will also allow to use this fuzzy thing when searching for local artwork there might be more mismatches on ths stage too.

Crylen Wrote:If you'd like I can take some time over the next couple days and make a list of available systems on the database sites that aren't available on RCB currently. Although I completely understand if adding some oddball Japanese systems isn't a priority =)

Crylen Wrote:The only one I know of that lists information along with ROM filenames is Hyperspin's Hyperlist (http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/). Unfortunately they're in XML format and without descriptions but they do list title, rom name, genre, rating, manufacturer and year. Does anyone else know of a better database for arcade based systems?

Dondi Wrote:Successfully launches MESS64 with the quotes around the path from a command prompt anywhere!! Ok, how do I implement that in my launcher command?

Dondi Wrote:Malte, I think I saw a user here on the forums who is affiliated with TheGamesDB.net... do you have a direct line to someone from the sites that you scrape from? Maybe I can zip and upload entire art sets that I have to contribute instead of having to individually upload single arts to the site. May make things easier. The art I am getting back from the scrapers is making me scratch my head a lot

Dondi Wrote:Ok, I am doing serious battle at this point. Just imported a PSX ReDump set which is .7z. Tried launching with RetroArch mednafan core and RCB is having a hard time parsing the .7z. In the logs it says that RCB has a platform library available for download. I downloaded it and took a peek. That stuff looks old and there is no win64 version. Am I fookered with the .7z format?

Dondi Wrote:I also found your game descriptions and working parser configuration .zip. Looks old. Is this still good to use as per the instructions here or is it worth it to create new ones?

(2013-02-21, 08:10)malte Wrote:

Crylen Wrote:If you'd like I can take some time over the next couple days and make a list of available systems on the database sites that aren't available on RCB currently. Although I completely understand if adding some oddball Japanese systems isn't a priority =)

This would be nice. But as you say I can't promise when I will start working on this. I think I will do this when I start reworking the scrapers in some weeks.

Crylen Wrote:The only one I know of that lists information along with ROM filenames is Hyperspin's Hyperlist (http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/). Unfortunately they're in XML format and without descriptions but they do list title, rom name, genre, rating, manufacturer and year. Does anyone else know of a better database for arcade based systems?

Thanks for the link. The format looks easy to implement with RCB. I could provide you a matching parser config in a couple of days. Only problem will be the game matching. We can rely on crc values (not sure if they will always match) or we have to check that the game names are matching with the names used in these files.

(2013-02-21, 08:10)malte Wrote:

Dondi Wrote:Successfully launches MESS64 with the quotes around the path from a command prompt anywhere!! Ok, how do I implement that in my launcher command?

Usually this should work out of the box. Can you show me a log after you tried to launch a game?

(2013-02-21, 08:10)malte Wrote:

Dondi Wrote:Ok, I am doing serious battle at this point. Just imported a PSX ReDump set which is .7z. Tried launching with RetroArch mednafan core and RCB is having a hard time parsing the .7z. In the logs it says that RCB has a platform library available for download. I downloaded it and took a peek. That stuff looks old and there is no win64 version. Am I fookered with the .7z format?

You can get the latest version here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylzma/. Still have to include this in one of next RCB releases.

(2013-02-21, 08:10)malte Wrote:

Dondi Wrote:I also found your game descriptions and working parser configuration .zip. Looks old. Is this still good to use as per the instructions here or is it worth it to create new ones?

The games are old too. I don't think that anything of the provided information has changed. But you are right. I could ping the guys at emuxtras and check if they already have bugfixed versions of these files.

(2013-02-21, 08:10)malte Wrote: Thanks for the logs. I am trying to fix most of the little issues now so it might be very helpful.

Dondi Wrote:malte, would romset .DAT files be useful at all? There are standardized rom sets with .DAT files readily-available. Could the .DATs be of use to you or the scraper sites if the user has the ability to tell RCB which set he/she is working with (i.e., a listoption of common sets in RCB>> No-Intro, TOSEC, ReDump, unknown, etc.) to help with the scraping of arts & infos?

Dondi Wrote:Ok, I think I need some hand-holding on this... I am totally lost with this stuff. I got to the page and got scared What the heck is a python egg and what do I do with it?? Or do I need the tarball? Sorry, for my lameness with this stuff. It shouldn't matter that there are no 64-bit versions available (I'm on win 8)