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2008-03-26, 02:32
As many of you know, the retro-x script is a script that enables the booting of emulators and even the direct booting of roms from supported emulators through xbmc. I feel that this would be a great way to fully integrate peoples' emulators with xbmc...
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Emulauncher is being looked at, since I am the original author of it. But I have my hands tied down into real life, family and another xbmc project.
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I know there are some emulator scripts out there, but I think a program plugin would be even better. I have my emulators set up a very specific way with shortcut files and covers that makes it seem like they're completely integrated into XBMC.
I'd like to help a python developer implement this same concept with a plugin, which I think anyone using emulators with XBMC would greatly appreciate. If anyone is interested, post here or send me a PM. I think it would be very simple coding for someone who has done any XBMC plugin work already.
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Stanley87 was going to look into writing plugins for launching emulators.He's the author of XinBox so is more than capable of getting it done. I presume he got side tracked onto something else since..
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2008-07-14, 20:52
I’ve asked this before (and have been told it would never work….) and I was wondering if someone could explain to me as to why it won’t. My question was whether it was possible to search through a directory of roms (over a network) then when you select one it FTP’s the file to your xbox. (to a temp folder) then executes it with a compatible emulator.
The reasons why I don’t understand why this wouldn’t work are as follows:
- You can manually FTP over files to any folder on your xbox. (So presumably you could make it so when you click on a file it FTPs it to a pre-defined xbox based temp folder, no?)
-With compatible emulators (ie: ) You can run a command line to auto-exec a rom.
So why can’t you combine the two?
(sorry if this was the wrong section but thought about it and it is kinda a request....)
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you could surely do that with a python script, skip the ftp though and use smb instead
i really dont see the ftp thing either, how do you do that.. run a ftp-server on the computer? then it might work.. but it would be a lot more work than doing it via smb
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well yes I meant samba, but.... xbmc does have ftp capabilities...
So I was right, technically this is possible?
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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).
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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..
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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?
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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?