Games Library (Game & Emulator database + launcher) development project, help wanted!

Awen Wrote:@chucky08016: integrating the whole maximo ? if maximo developer is willing to do this, well, it could spare my time But i'm pretty sure he wont, as he's selling it, it's closed source, etc

Actually, I was thinking why not have an option to launch the program from XBMC. There are separate sections for movies, music, videos, Tv Shows, etc. Why not have one for games and whe you "add source", you can add the executable path to launch the program. When you're done with the program, it would drop you back into XBMC.

I had configured Meedio to do this and it worked great. I wish there was some way to do this with XBMC.

Oh course, you could use Maximus Arcade or any other front end you want whether you needed to purchase it or not.

@chucky08016 : Isn't the 'launcher' plugin enough in your case ? It requires a 'program page' or at least some 'favorites': [launcher plugin]http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35739[/url]... Please, let us know.

Awen Wrote:@chucky08016 : Isn't the 'launcher' plugin enough in your case ? It requires a 'program page' or at least some 'favorites': [launcher plugin]http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=35739[/url]... Please, let us know.

@Awen: Yes, the launcher will do exactly what I want. Thanks.

Now, is there a way to add a Games "option" to the blade the same way there is a movies, videos, music, programs, etc. "option"? I'd like to just goto "Games" and launch either an emulator catagorized by game systems, Maximus Arcade (games front end), and maybe PC games.

The python plugin directory services API and the Launcher plugin are great, (and so are the ideas about a Retro-X emulator ROM laucher plugin), but it would also be nice it the programs sections could be extended to have a native launcher with a SQL database and library mode for computer games and other third-party applications on Linux, Mac, and Windows, (prefably using a cross-platform unified API), see the requests:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34679
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28953

Sorry to be late i was programming: now having some tables ready to be filled with directory scans.

@chucky08016: as far as i know, 'aeon' skin is having those 'games', even a 'arcade' blades, but you need to configure by hand where you want them to direct, basically it's shortcuts into the programs area. Not every skins are supporting 'my programs' - not speaking 'games' - but aeon does.

@Gamester: sure. i'll do my best to compile every request, thanks for those.

[Air couldnt post yesterday and PM this:]

first of all your idea about games museum is great.
somehow I still can't post comments on xbmc forum, so I'm writing this directly to you

I just wanted to mention that a "gamesDB" also exists, this site could be pretty useful for the XBMCgamesDB:
http://www.gamefaq.com

for example: Final Fantasy X (PS2) on

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/home/197344.html

hopes this will help.....

mfg
air

[and my reply]

Excellent, thank you: i'm including it for further scrapers dev. They have all the games i did work on, even the unreleased ones

I'm still into xmbc databases guts, some tiny problems to sort, but first roms directories are now being parsed...

Well, i'm on it.

awen, maybe open a ticket and post a diff for review once in a while? i'm sure you have it all under control, but there ought to be some insight gained through experience with the code base that we can offer..

Sure Spiff.

Thanks to christmas holidays, i'm coding a lot these days: as soon as the first roms are kicked off, i'm opening the ticket for a rough but workable version of it. Probably around the end of this week (3-4 of january).

cheers.

(Has someone tried emuControlCenter (http://www.camya.com/eccblog/) ? huge thing, but a severe looking gui, on tv)

At last. Got my first roms/emus to be scanned, stored, launched and played through xbmc...
Some more time to cleanup the mess, and a diff/ticket will follow.
Then... After getting answers to a zillion of question, another code round

good shit