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Is this addon supported on Gotham?
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Unzip it into addons folder and it will work
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Hi Angelscry,
Great Addon, have looked at it some time ago but only recently got to grips with it and got into the whole emulation thing.
I wanted to ask a couple of things, some of which has been answered a few posts back with your discussion with Viperveteran, which was handy. I have my navigation similar, I think to Viperveteran, Advanced Launcher (renamed Games) is on my home screen and I have my different systems (Arcade, Atari, NES, N64, PS1 etc...) added as sub menus (using favourites) - perhaps not the ideal way, as if I enter Games it then goes to what I presume is the root folder you refer to and then I have to click on Default to go to the list of systems. I might look at changing this.
Anyway, it's worked well so far. What I wanted to ask, apologies if this has already been answered; is there some way for me to add a new system (e.g. Sega Arcade) and have games in there that use two different emulators - thinking this through I'm assuming not, but perhaps there is a different way I could display/navigate that would have the same effect?
Basically, I'm wanting to have Sega Arcade games that use an AM2 emulator and games that use an AM3 emulator in the same view. The ideal would be to use MAME instead, but this can't play all the games, especially AM3 games.
Any suggestions on how best to change my navigation would be great?
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Cheers for the quick reply and all the info, sounds really promising - didn't quite get the second option, but I'll give the first one a try tonight.
Thanks again.
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2014-05-16, 02:55
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-16, 03:00 by NessLookAlike.)
Does anyone already have various goodsets set up with Advanced Launcher to show proper info and album art that they could share?
So I've been an Advanced Launcher user for a few months now. I spent upwards of 2-3 months putting together a nice HTPC with goodsets for NES, SNES, Genesis and N64 (and a few other goodsets as well, but you get the idea), and getting the presentation of these goodsets just right was a huge challenge. Scraping didn't always work well, and when it didn't work at all, I was left with the task of manually adding game info and screenshots for literally thousands. of. roms. Me sitting in front of the computer, copying and pasting information over, finding screenshots and trying to link them, etc. Terrible. The interface to manually enter game info is horrendously bad and not designed for someone that needs to add a massive amount of data. It's so bad that I've seriously considered sitting down and actively developing for Advanced Launcher to make the two or three tweaks that would save so many good-intentioned people from so much havoc.
It pains me to read through this thread and see people only ask about very low-level concerns, like layout preferences and whatnot, and not ask the more important, pressing question: "how easy is it for me to add the games I want, and get their presentation just right?" I have spent many, many nights (and days!) trying to put together a relatively simple concept: if someone wants to play an NES game, they can browse the list of all of a goodset's games, look at a few screenshots to get a feel for the game, read a little about it, see a clean title for the game, and launch it.
My point here is, if a lot of us are doing roughly the same thing, can't we just pool together a collection of our nice, completed goodset NFO files to import from and save the headache? Hell, maybe even pool together a bunch of nice screenshots too.
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i have LOTS of game.xml files that i scraped with a program called gamemeta .08 a few years ago.
they can be converted into nfo's with a tool found on the forums.
Unfortunately, they are a hodgepodge. Many have genre, year, dev, publisher and description, while others are missing meta fields.
I am using a naming convention that doesn't follow goodsets'. I have removed all "([info])" signifiers in order to consolidate titles.
Many games are also listed as "Game,The" and have been renamed to "The Game"
This is probably unsuitable for classicly named libraries and you might be better off scraping using rcb and al.
Anyway, I would be happy to dump what I have to a PUBLIC repo, if you would do the same.