Emulators 2 - BETA - 19/08/12 (1 Viewer)

[jdoo]

Thanks for the reply. It is great to hear that you are already working on some of the areas for potential improvement.

You 'should' be able to just drag n drop images onto the panels (I can even just drag images straight from web pages my end), does it just not work with jpgs or with all image files??

I only tried jpg's. I will try other fileformats tonight after work. Maybe I am missing a dll or something that allows this?

I'll definitely add multiple disk support - how do you see it working?
I'm thinking we add a the ability to merge files in the importer, similar to how movingpics merges multiple files.
The plugin should then just remember the last disc used but also provide a method for viewing/selecting alternate discs from the GUI.

Yes I was imagining merging similar to how movingpics merges multiple files. In terms of using the plugin, maybe it could be handled like you do with goodmerge sets in that if you don't want to use the last disc then you can use a button in the plugin like the goodmerge button and just select the disc from there.

Thanks again!

 

[buddman]

Nice to see that MyEmulators is still going. I'm about to upgrade my HTPC, so will have to try this out when I do. Thanks for the hard work.

 

[legnod]

Brownard...do you think its possible to add some kind of Steam/Origin support?
I got some games at a steam account that i use for my desktop too.
So i have to select the offline mode on HTPC inside of Steam. The problem is, that you have to confirm on system start that you want to use the offline mode.
Starting games is no problem if you are in offline mode because you just have to select the *.exe file inside the steamapps folder. So the only thing is this stupid confirmation dialog directly after the system started up.
I dont know yet if origin provides something similar!?

 

[erichzann]

Thanks for the great plugin.

Can anyone recommend a filenaming convention that could improve the accuracy when importing games? Perhaps one that combines the console type.

 

[catch22]

Hi
Thanks for the great work on this plugin it has been a long time coming. I have a question when it comes to importing mame ROMs. When it comes to matching the rom zip file name with a name it does not do a very good job. Has anyone exported a MAME list that could be imported without any scraping?

Thanks again for your hard work it is much appreciated.

 

[Brownard]

Erichzann - all you can do at the moment is name the files as close to the game name as possible and select the appropriate platform for the emulator in the emu config. Currently the importer only puts platform matches at the top of the search results but I've just committed a fix so all other results are excluded.

Catch22 - RetroCPU doesn't have a search method for games as far as I can see - the scraper literally just looks for a filename (NOT game title) matching the search term in RetroCPU's list of all games - if your filename is the same as on RetroCPU then it 'should' match it.

 

[jdoo]

I'm using StreamedMP and Emulators2 with coverflow view for the emulator view. I noticed that in MyEmulators1 the icons for consoles/emulators are quite a bit larger in coverflow view than they are for Emulators2. Can someone point me to the file I need to edit to increase the size of the icons in coverflow view for emulators?

Thanks!

 

[Brownard]

The file is "skin\StreamedMP\Emulators2.facade.xml"

Find the xml below and change the values I've highlighted for you

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<control>
<description>Cover Flow</description>
<type>coverflow</type>
<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
<colordiffuse>90ffffff</colordiffuse>
<dimColor>90ffffff</dimColor>
<id>50</id>
<visible>control.isvisible(50)</visible>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>240</posY>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<onup>10</onup>
<onright>50</onright>
<selectedCard>0</selectedCard>
<cardWidth>250</cardWidth>
<cardHeight>375</cardHeight>
<angle>45</angle>
<sideShift>220</sideShift>
<sideGap>100</sideGap>
<sideDepth>250</sideDepth>
<offsetY>0</offsetY>
<selectedOffsetY>0</selectedOffsetY>
<thumbZoom>no</thumbZoom>
<speed>4</speed>
<backgroundHeight>250</backgroundHeight>
<backgroundWidth>1280</backgroundWidth>
<backgroundX>0</backgroundX>
<backgroundY>470</backgroundY>
<backgroundDiffuse>FF000000</backgroundDiffuse> <background>filmstrip_overlay.png</background>
<showBackground>no</showBackground>
<foregroundHeight>724</foregroundHeight>
<foregroundWidth>1284</foregroundWidth>
<foregroundX>-2</foregroundX>
<foregroundY>-2</foregroundY>
<foregroundDiffuse>FF000000</foregroundDiffuse>
<foreground>-</foreground>
<showForeground>no</showForeground>
<showFrame>no</showFrame>
<frame>-</frame>
<frameFocus>-</frameFocus>
<frameWidth>250</frameWidth>
<frameHeight>375</frameHeight>
<spinSpeed>8</spinSpeed>
<unfocusedAlpha>FF</unfocusedAlpha>
<folderPrefix>[</folderPrefix>
<folderSuffix>]</folderSuffix>
<font1>mediastream14tc</font1>
<font2>mediastream12tc</font2>
<label1>#Emulators2.CurrentItem.title</label1> <label2>#Emulators2.CurrentItem.coverflowlabel</label2>
<textColor>FFFFFFFF</textColor>
<remoteColor>FFFF0000</remoteColor>
<playedColor>FFFFFFFF</playedColor>
<downloadColor>FF00FF00</downloadColor>
<selectedColor>FFFFFFFF</selectedColor>
<shadowAngle>45</shadowAngle>
<shadowDistance>2</shadowDistance>
<shadowColor>FF222222</shadowColor>
<label1YOff>395</label1YOff>
<label2YOff>420</label2YOff>
<pageSize>5</pageSize>
<scrollbarBackground>bar_hor.png</scrollbarBackground> <scrollbarLeft>mouse_left_horizontal.png</scrollbarLeft> <scrollbarRight>mouse_right_horizontal.png</scrollbarRight>
<scrollbarYOff>462</scrollbarYOff>
<showScrollbar>no</showScrollbar>
<cards flipY="yes" diffuse="Thumb_Mask.png" mask="video_poster_square_mask.png" /> <subitems>
<subitem>
<![CDATA[
<controls>
<control>
<description>background</description>
<type>image</type>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>250</width>
<height>375</height>
<texture flipY="yes" diffuse="Thumb_Mask.png" mask="video_poster_square_mask.png">#Emulators2.CurrentItem.backcoverpath</texture> <keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
<valign>bottom</valign>
</control>
</controls>
]]>
</subitem>
</subitems>
</control>

 

[erichzann]

Hi all,

I map 'space' to close the emulators (avoiding esc which is a fullscreen toggle in one of the emulators - can't remember wich one).

I then use xpadder to map 'space' to the back button on my xbox 360 remote.

However, what I really want to do is one of the following two options:

1. Choose a combination to close the emulator e.g. ctrl + space and then map one button to ctrl and one to space in xpadder.

2. Use xpadder to create a two button combination on the joypad meaning that two buttons need to be pressed to send the 'space' keystroke.

Either of these options will prevent me from accidentally closing an emulator by pressing the wrong single button on the joypad.

Has anyone got a simple solution to this problem?

 

[Brownard]

I might be able to add the ability to map a key combo instead of a single key, I'll look into it...