Tomkun Wrote:It seems that "/" will not work as a delimiter? Could I add that as a feature request?
I added this to my list. Should be possible.
evillevi Wrote:Great add-on. Can someone explain to me how I use the local artwork scraper to update artwork added outside XBMC? I have the artwork folder configured for, say, Sega Genesis. Some box front images are not correct so I manually want to update them by putting them in the right folder. I select a rom in RCB, choose rescrape selected game, and use the local artwork scraper. The image is not updated. I also tried enabling the option 'rescrape already imported games'.
If you just want to update existing artwork you don't need to rescrape anything. Just make sure that your new artwork file has the same name as the old one. It may take some days until XBMC updates its cache and recognizes the new artwork.
If you put new artwork files to your already scraped
games, make sure that your new artwork files have the same naming scheme as the rom files and the other artwork files. Then rescrape the
game and use the "local artwork" scraper as the only scraper.
Bedwyr Wrote:I'm a little confused. Is there no way to manually import and link specific games with specific artwork? If I can't do that, how should I go about troubleshooting missing games and artwork? Note that I've renamed everything according to standard HyperLaunch naming convention, so artwork, games, and videos have the exact same name already. I know that there is some missing material, but RCB is missing a large number of things.
There are several methods to do this but I am afraid it is quite easy to mess it up.
1. If you already have an nfo file for this
game it should be ok to name this file "ActRaiser 2 (USA).nfo" and make sure you put it to the correct location. Then do a
game import with the "local nfo" scraper. To make it more easy and save some time in your test scenario you could also change the rom file mask to "Act*.smc".
2. If you use offline
game descriptions you could do the
game matching via crc value or via
game name. If you want to use crc values you can find out the correct crc values in xbmc.log. An example for your ActRaiser
game looks like this:
Code:
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: gamename (file): ActRaiser 2 (USA).smc
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: gamename (friendly): ActRaiser 2 (USA)
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: checkRomfileIsMultirom. gamename = ActRaiser 2 (USA), lastgamename = ActRaiser (USA)
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: searchGameByCRC = True
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: crc for current file: DE8C6CD5
14:15:20 T:10804 NOTICE: RCB_INFO: Adding crc to crcOfFirstGame-dict: actraiser 2 (usa): de8c6cd5
So your crc value is "de8c6cd5". Just add this to the field crc in your
game description and you should be fine.
3. If you want to use the rom name instead of the crc value you can just add the name "ActRaiser 2 (USA)" as crc value in your description file. In this case make sure that you enable "Use filename as crc" in the "Edit Offline Scraper" dialog.
About troubleshooting missing
games, infos or artwork you should check out the
Missing Info Filter. This will show you which
games are missing specific infos or artwork files.
If you want to know which
games are missing at all have a look at the file "scrapeResult_missingDesc.txt" in RCBs userdata directory.
acandido Wrote:For anyone running nightlies and unable to launch RCB, the following worked for me
Thanks for the hint. I won't add this to RCB now as I don't know if this change will stay in future releases of XBMC. I usually start adopting new XBMC features when they start with the beta releases.
bardock Wrote:can someone please tell me how to get the widget workin? I m using gotham with confluence mod from mudislander as the skin.
I don't know this mod. Does it support RCBs widgets? The skinners have to add support for it, it won't work out of the box with every skin. Standard Confluence does not have this option.
trnzaddict Wrote:Malte, is there a way to have a default fanart for each system? Like I have high definition fanart pictures of game consoles, and when I am browsing say, Game Gear, I just want to have this fan art of gamegear in the background, for every game in that rom collection, WITHOUT making a copy of the fanart and naming it the same as all my roms for that collection.
No, I don't think this is possible right now. There has been an option to do this but IIRC I removed it a while back. This might be added again somehow when I start to work on a
console dashboard page.
Monkee Wrote:One last question: which scrapers do you recommend for best results?
the
gamesdb, moby
games and giantbomb are the only online scrapers that are working atm. Which one you use is personal preference I guess.
bubblesnout Wrote:Is there any way to create a shortcut/favourite that opens RCB to a predefined filter?
My main reason for asking: I'd like to add submenu items to the 'Games' menu on my home screen (Aeon MQ5 skin) for each console I have games for. It's kind of annoying needing to navigate to the filter menu and scroll around when you have a lot of games in quite a few different consoles.
Not yet. It will be added with one of the next releases but I can't promise any dates.