[REQUEST] Arcade Emulator Launcher Plugin for XBMC (that's a Plugin so not a Script)?

well yes I meant samba, but.... xbmc does have ftp capabilities...

So I was right, technically this is possible?

Couldn't find an edit button, just wanted to say thanks as well (seeing as last time I asked everyone flamed me and said it was just a stupid idea that would never work).

yes, both with smb and ftp (running a ftp-server on the computer with the roms)

take a good look at emulauncher and retro-x for launching roms..

I have tried those but they seemed a bit buggy (well this was about a year ago).
Those still being worked on, are they capable of playing files from over a network or just local files?

I haven't worked any on emulauncher and I belive retro-X isn't activly developed either.

But python isn't that hard to learn, might want to look into it yourself?

To be fair I think I might give it ago, just making it pretty will be the problem, anyways thanks once again, I knew i wasn't wrong.

some hints on the way:

the xbmc.org/wiki and other scripts plus google and python.org is a real good informationsource

also these forums and ofcourse irc freenode .. #xbmc-scripting and #python

editors: linux (i find SPE a good one) and windows (pyscripter)

Quote:just making it pretty will be the problem

if you make it a plugin instead of a script, that won't be a problem

rwparris2 Wrote:if you make it a plugin instead of a script, that won't be a problem

You lost me there...?

You can make python scripts and pyton plugins in xbmc - scripts need their own window and layout etc. while python plugins sort of use the xbmc gui to display - in your case - the rom listing you hand over with your plugin. Most of the streaming plugins found in the python section of the forum use this principle, they never had to write code for a gui, they would more or less just pass xbmc a list of video links and xbmc lists those like it would list movies or music.