[RELEASE] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC

Hi

Fantastic work on this launcher, excellent stuff.

I configured my xbox controller for windows using xpadder and it works a treat on games like mario, using snes9x.

This may just be a rom issue but on some roms I cannot get any response either from controller or indeed keyboard.

Has anyone encountered this before?

cheers

(2012-04-12 14:25)rossglass Wrote:  I configured my xbox controller for windows using xpadder and it works a treat on games like mario, using snes9x.

This may just be a rom issue but on some roms I cannot get any response either from controller or indeed keyboard.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Normally gamepad controls are natively managed by emulators. I don't think you need to use xpadder for this. Just setup your emulator to use gamepad or keyboard.

(2012-04-12 14:52)Angelscry Wrote:  

(2012-04-12 14:25)rossglass Wrote:  I configured my xbox controller for windows using xpadder and it works a treat on games like mario, using snes9x.

This may just be a rom issue but on some roms I cannot get any response either from controller or indeed keyboard.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Normally gamepad controls are natively managed by emulators. I don't think you need to use xpadder for this. Just setup your emulator to use gamepad or keyboard.

Hi

I've used xpadder just to get the controls set up. I only use one emulator (snes9x).

As I've said its working fine on some roms such as mario world and mario allstars but when i load things like mario kart and chrono trigger i get no response when either using my joypad or keyboard.

(2012-04-08 04:46)Angelscry Wrote:  

(2012-04-08 03:46)beetlesnack Wrote:  Hi, thanks for the great work, I'm excited to get this working.

I'm getting this error when I try to launch a rom:

CDirectDraw:CreateSurface failed.

These roms otherwise work on the computer. I'm running Eden with Aeon Nox and just downloaded the launcher in the repository, I think it was 1.7.6. After this happens xbmc is minimized or sometimes crashes.

If you have this error message, it's' mean that XBMC and your started emulator encounter graphic incompatibilities and generate a DirecDraw error. There is different ways to fix this :

• If you are using XBMC into true fullscreen mode, try the switch it to the fullscreen window mode (into XBMC video settings). Sometime it fix the problem.
• Because it is a direct draw problem, if it is possible, try to change the video renderer option into the emulator (to OpenGL, or something other than DirectDraw).
• An other solution is to close XBMC before starting the emulator and restart XBMC when the emulator is closed. For this you can use an intermediate launcher like described here : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6.
  

Thank you so much for the tip. Based on your response I actually just switch emulators, now using mednafen. Works great!!

One issue is that I don't get focus returning to XBMC after quitting a rom. Any suggestions to fix this?

Here is some tips and discussion to get XBMC focus back when closing an application : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=199

(2012-04-12 14:52)Angelscry Wrote:  

(2012-04-12 14:25)rossglass Wrote:  I configured my xbox controller for windows using xpadder and it works a treat on games like mario, using snes9x.

This may just be a rom issue but on some roms I cannot get any response either from controller or indeed keyboard.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Normally gamepad controls are natively managed by emulators. I don't think you need to use xpadder for this. Just setup your emulator to use gamepad or keyboard.

Got it!

I forgot to change the argument when changing from zsnes to snes9x

Just added the xbmc to my ipad and it works perfect.
The question now is can my kid play ds or wii games using advance launcher? Can anyone point me where to read about it
if it is possible.
Thanks, joe.

(2012-04-17 02:28)joe4all Wrote:  Just added the xbmc to my ipad and it works perfect.
The question now is can my kid play ds or wii games using advance launcher? Can anyone point me where to read about it
if it is possible.
Thanks, joe.

There is no DS or Wii emulator on iPad. The reason is simple. The iPad is not enough powerful to emulate these 2 systems. So the reply is no.

I apologize if I am being stupid, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to set this up! I am running Eden on Ubuntu 11.10. I have dolphin set up and can successfully launch it from the command line using "dolphin-emu". When I try to set up a launcher the first thing it asks is the application path and defaults to my home directory. I cannot navigate to /usr/bin/dolphin-emu. Do I need to set up a script in my home folder? I have used this addon to launch Chromium and Spotify using a script like this:

#!/bin/bash
fluxbox &
/usr/bin/chromium-browser
killall -9 fluxbox

However that doesn't seem like it would be the right way to go about setting up an emulator. I have been going through this tread and the wiki, but I am stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

If you cannot navigate into /usr/bin/dolphin-emu that's mean that you have not added the / (root directory) as source into XBMC.

Add Network or Local drives

It will be possible that, for your first use of Advanced Launcher, you will be not able to see or access any of your network or local drives. To solve this you will have to do the following: Go back to the XBMC home-screen and select the "System" item (assuming you are using the "Confluence"-Skin which is default) - do not open the menu-item! -and press the down arrow to select the "File Manager" submenu. In the next screen add a source via the "Add Source" entrie. Now technically it does not matter what you add as a source. In order to use your whole hard-drive just add the whole hard drive to the sources, you won’t have any side-effects (except you will have to navigate more while creating new launchers).

Source : http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3