[RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC

Leo8978 · 2012-08-07 04:08

Can anyone tell me how to get Nestopia to open with Xbmc in True full screen mode. I keep getting errors, but if I try to open Nestopia with xbmc in windowed mode, it works fine. Also how can I get back to xbmc once I exit Nestopia.

bakito · 2012-08-07 11:31

hello angel, I'm wondering if I may reach some kind of limit to launcher and game I can add....
I'm asking this because this last time I had some really weird issues:
suddenly a lot of my launcher simply disappear!! I did nothing and they are just gone.....
but this morning is even stranger: my nes launcher transform itself in pc engine launcher....yes I use the same emu ( mednafen) but rom are not in the same folder !
the weirder is that my nes launcher now got nes AND pc engine rom mixed together!!!

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=6235

and

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=6236

but I'm not sure it show something...
now I back up regularely my launcher.xml, because it seems that it is this file who mess thing up....
do you have an idea?
can advance launcher read wrong some stuff because I use the same emu?

purehavoc · 2012-08-08 19:51

I was wondering if it would be possible to hide launchers? I have Hulu & Netflix setup as launchers in favorites, but I would like to keep them separated from my games. Or, maybe running two different instances of Advanced Launcher in Eden?

Angelscry · 2012-08-08 21:05

(2012-08-08 19:51)purehavoc Wrote: I was wondering if it would be possible to hide launchers? I have Hulu & Netflix setup as launchers in favorites, but I would like to keep them separated from my games. Or, maybe running two different instances of Advanced Launcher in Eden?

You can duplicate Advanced Launcher addon to use different instances of Advanced Launcher on the same XBMC install.

Youtube tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gMFJcxdcEg

(2012-08-07 04:08)Leo8978 Wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Nestopia to open with Xbmc in True full screen mode. I keep getting errors, but if I try to open Nestopia with xbmc in windowed mode, it works fine. Also how can I get back to xbmc once I exit Nestopia.

Which errors are you getting exactly? Huh

Angelscry · 2012-08-08 21:18

(2012-08-07 11:31)bakito Wrote: hello angel, I'm wondering if I may reach some kind of limit to launcher and game I can add....
I'm asking this because this last time I had some really weird issues:
suddenly a lot of my launcher simply disappear!! I did nothing and they are just gone.....
but this morning is even stranger: my nes launcher transform itself in pc engine launcher....yes I use the same emu ( mednafen) but rom are not in the same folder !
the weirder is that my nes launcher now got nes AND pc engine rom mixed together!!!

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=6235

and

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=6236

but I'm not sure it show something...
now I back up regularely my launcher.xml, because it seems that it is this file who mess thing up....
do you have an idea?
can advance launcher read wrong some stuff because I use the same emu?

Does your F: drive still present? Because first log file report that error message for your NES games :

Code:

unable to stat url F:\jeux\SNES\images\Yuujin - Janjuu Gakuen (J)_thumb.jpg

Then you also have a lot of error messages related to XBMC watchdog service.

Code:

ERROR: Exception in thread Thread-4:

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\system\python\Lib\threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner

                                                self.run()

                                              File "C:\Users\titi\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\service.watchdog\watchdog\observers\ap​i.py", line 193, in run

                                                self.on_thread_exit()

                                              File "C:\Users\titi\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\service.watchdog\watchdog\observers\re​ad_directory_changes.py", line 68, in on_thread_exit

                                                close_directory_handle(self._directory_handle)

                                              File "C:\Users\titi\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\service.watchdog\watchdog\observers\wi​napi_common.py", line 109, in close_directory_handle

                                                CancelIoEx(handle, None) #force ReadDirectoryChangesW to return

                                              File "C:\Users\titi\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\service.watchdog\watchdog\observers\wi​napi.py", line 106, in _errcheck_bool

                                                raise ctypes.WinError()

                                            WindowsError: [Error 1168] �l�ment introuvable.

I do not know if it is related. Watchdog description is : «This service will update your video and music library whenever you remove or add new files to your media sources. Update is instant to keep your library synced at all times!». So if this add-on is generating error, I'm not sure the integrity of your XBMC library will still preserved.

Could you post the content of the "faulty" launchers.xml file? Does the NES and PCEngine games are mixed inside this file or just into XBMC display?

bakito · 2012-08-09 10:15

the watchdog thing is a possibility as I have this addon for few time....and my problem are recents...
for my drive it could be off line sometime as it is an exterior usb drive ( and I keep telling windowws 7 to not stop it when it's not in use but I think he is quite stubborn!) but usually everything work fine as my system just wait for my drive to wake up....I will post you my launcher.xml as soon as I can....
the files are mixe in the display, normally not in the file because the rom are in two differents place...I'll do again theses launcher and keep you posted....
many thanks fr your help!
cheers

Deano316 · 2012-08-09 17:59

(2012-06-23 22:56)Angelscry Wrote:
(2012-06-23 22:48)djfourmoney Wrote:
(2012-06-07 12:50)Angelscry Wrote: Yes, the two disc of the game must be located into the same folder to be recognized as multi-disc. The skin from my last screenshots is Cirrus Extended 2.

Okay I modifying the folders, so just to be clear, I make a the main game folder and then a folder for each image or can I just put each image in the game folder?

Syphon Filter 2 ----- Disc 1 ----- Disc 2 or Syphon Filter 2 ----- SCUS 4xxx (cd 1) and SCUS 4xxx (cd 2)
All your PSX images into the same folder.

Just wanted to check, is this the same for GameCube games and what is the naming convention? MGS Disc 1.iso?

Angelscry · 2012-08-10 02:51

(2012-08-09 17:59)Deano316 Wrote:
(2012-06-23 22:56)Angelscry Wrote:
(2012-06-23 22:48)djfourmoney Wrote: Okay I modifying the folders, so just to be clear, I make a the main game folder and then a folder for each image or can I just put each image in the game folder?

Syphon Filter 2 ----- Disc 1 ----- Disc 2 or Syphon Filter 2 ----- SCUS 4xxx (cd 1) and SCUS 4xxx (cd 2)
All your PSX images into the same folder.

Just wanted to check, is this the same for GameCube games and what is the naming convention? MGS Disc 1.iso?

It the same for any item files (roms) and it's not limited to a certain game platform. Naming convention is :

MGS.cd1.iso
MGS.cd2.iso
etc...

or

MGS.cd1.iso
MGS.cd2.iso
etc...

or

MGS-cd1.iso
MGS-cd2.iso
etc...

or

MGS_cd1.iso
MGS_cd2.iso
etc...

or

MGS cd1.iso
MGS cd2.iso
etc...

msds1502 · 2012-08-13 04:49

So I'm attempting to get Advanced Launcher to work similarly to what was posted on the original post with the steam games, however with a GBA emulator. I'm also using Cirrus Extended v2, but I have one major major issue. TheGamesDB (or any DB for that matter) is neither grabbing the Thumbs or the fanart for nearly all my games (I have about 450 gba roms). I can't figure why this is.

If anyone could help me out, It would be much appreciated. I followed the tutorial to the T, I have maybe 5-10 Thumbs of the 450 roms

Log file:

http://pastebin.com/SLVaSSww

edit: after doing a little investigating, the Confluence skin shows the Thumbs, but shows multiple versions of each ROM.

Angelscry · 2012-08-13 05:52

(2012-08-13 04:49)msds1502 Wrote: So I'm attempting to get Advanced Launcher to work similarly to what was posted on the original post with the steam games, however with a GBA emulator. I'm also using Cirrus Extended v2, but I have one major major issue. TheGamesDB (or any DB for that matter) is neither grabbing the Thumbs or the fanart for nearly all my games (I have about 450 gba roms). I can't figure why this is.

If anyone could help me out, It would be much appreciated. I followed the tutorial to the T, I have maybe 5-10 Thumbs of the 450 roms

Log file:

http://pastebin.com/SLVaSSww

edit: after doing a little investigating, the Confluence skin shows the Thumbs, but shows multiple versions of each ROM.

If the thumb shows under Confluence they mut show under Cirrus Extented. What do you mean by "shows multiple versions of each ROM"? Roms entries are duplicated or you have several version for each roms and these several version appears?

Leo8978 Junior Member Posts: 38 Joined: Aug 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-08-07 04:08 Post: #3721 Can anyone tell me how to get Nestopia to open with Xbmc in True full screen mode. I keep getting errors, but if I try to open Nestopia with xbmc in windowed mode, it works fine. Also how can I get back to xbmc once I exit Nestopia.
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purehavoc Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: Aug 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-08-08 19:51 Post: #3723 I was wondering if it would be possible to hide launchers? I have Hulu & Netflix setup as launchers in favorites, but I would like to keep them separated from my games. Or, maybe running two different instances of Advanced Launcher in Eden?
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