(Old) My Emulators (3 Viewers)

[rkooten]

What I've had time to do though is to allow the skinners to show the meta data about the game, so the latest SVN version you can skin to:

show Year, by adding a label with id 41
show Genre, by adding a label with id 42
show Company, by adding a label with id 43

Could you add the following functionality:

Pressing the "info" button on the remote while a game is selected takes you to a page where thumb and information about the game is displayed. (Like with videos in MyVideos):

(crappy skin and page layout, but good enough example).

Sorry for all the requests. It's just that your new MyEmulator version excites people!

 

[emphatic]

What I've had time to do though is to allow the skinners to show the meta data about the game, so the latest SVN version you can skin to:

show Year, by adding a label with id 41
show Genre, by adding a label with id 42
show Company, by adding a label with id 43

Also, it should not crash when any of these, or the description label, is missing.

I tried calling the id 41 with my skin, but it doesn't show up. I downloaded the latest .rar archive. Are you sure the functionality got into that file?

Like this:

    <control>
      <type>label</type>
      <description>Year - ID</description>
      <id>43</id>
      <posX>737</posX>
      <posY>150</posY>
      <width>350</width>
      <font>mediastream11c</font>
      <label>#currentmodule</label>
      <align>left</align>
      <visible>!Control.IsVisible(1236)</visible>
    </control>

Edit: Never mind, it works now!

Emph

 

[emphatic]

Link to my .xml file (for StreamedMP skin): https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ugin-id-xml-file-49038/index3.html#post337455

Emph

 

[akajester]

Sorry if this is a dumb question; I grabbed the mame 128 rom set and mameui32. I pointed myemulators to the exe and rom set. I ran it in MP and it crunched away for about 5 minutes doing nothing, then I killed it. Was I supposed to do something different? Thanks!

 

[TheOncleJuna]

My point: add simple file-based import/export functionality now and use those files later on if online database synchronization becomes feasible. Perhaps there is a way to use offlinelist/ClrMame/RomCenter .dat files to get us started? Perhaps make MyEmulator compatible with those files? A lot of information on roms is already out there... no point in doing it all over again.

examples:
offlinelist .dat files
no-intro .dat files
ADVANsCEne GBA, NDS & PSP DAT's

Really this dats don't have too information ("title" is the name of the file).

ADVANsCEne GBA
<game>
<imageNumber>5</imageNumber>
<releaseNumber>5</releaseNumber>
<title>Mr. Driller 2</title>
<saveType>Sram v100 - 256 kbit</saveType>
<romSize>4194304</romSize>
<publisher>Namco</publisher>
<location>7</location>
<sourceRom>Capital</sourceRom>
<language>256</language>
<files>
<romCRC extension=".gba">5264C730</romCRC>
</files>
<im1CRC>AF9FEEB1</im1CRC>
<im2CRC>F2438823</im2CRC>
<comment></comment>
</game>


Official No-Intro Nintendo 64 Offlinelist
<game>
<imageNumber>260</imageNumber>
<releaseNumber>0</releaseNumber>
<title>64 Hanafuda - Tenshi no Yakusoku</title>
<saveType></saveType>
<romSize>8388608</romSize>
<publisher></publisher>
<location>7</location>
<sourceRom></sourceRom>
<language>256</language>
<files>
<romCRC extension=".z64">60A680E7</romCRC>
</files>
<im1CRC>36DF3530</im1CRC>
<im2CRC>1B1D1323</im2CRC>
<comment></comment>
<duplicateID>0</duplicateID>
</game>

Offlinelist NES
<game>
<imageNumber>3</imageNumber>
<title>Bing Kuang Ji Dan Zi - Flighty Chicken </title>
<romSize>393232</romSize>
<publisher></publisher>
<location>3</location>
<sourceRom></sourceRom>
<language>4</language>
<im1CRC>6717A756</im1CRC>
<im2CRC>6717A756</im2CRC>
<files>
<romCRC extension=".nes">9E3697EC</romCRC>
</files>
<comment>As</comment>
</game>

But MAME is different ("name" is the file and "description" is the long name).

XML generated from MAME
<game name="ultraman" sourcefile="ultraman.c">
<description>Ultraman (Japan)</description>
<year>1991</year>
<manufacturer>Banpresto/Bandai</manufacturer>
<rom name="910-b02.d11" size="131072" crc="d24c82e9" sha1="e792e2601e235939546fe98d52bfafe5a95b3491" region="main" offset="1"/>
<rom name=........
<chip type="cpu" tag="main" name="68000" clock="12000000"/>
<chip type="cpu" tag="audio" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/>
<chip type="audio" tag="ym" name="YM2151" clock="4000000"/>
<chip type="audio" tag="oki" name="OKI6295" clock="1056000"/>
<display type="raster" rotate="0" width="288" height="224" refresh="60.000000" />
<sound channels="2"/>
<input players="2" buttons="3" coins="3" service="yes">
<control type="joy8way"/>
</input>
<dipswitch name="Coin A">
<dipvalue name="3 Coins/2 Credits"/>
<dipvalue name="4 Coins/3 Credits"/>
<dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" default="yes"/>
<dipvalue name=".....
<driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="8192"/>
</game>

I'm looking more databases... any ideas?

Put the thumbs in your root folder for "Games" instead of one dedicated to CPS1. Was changed very recently. All your rom-thumbs in the same place, I guess.

Thanks, now works fine, but I prefer the thumbs in subfolders

Emph if you are using FBAlpha here are a good collection of thumbs.

Progettosnaps

Sorry for the post

 

[gamingexpert]

1) I was just trying out the new version of the plugin for the first time and Project 64 wasn't working... I had forgotten to uncheck "Use quotes in paths". Is there a way you could have that automatically uncheck for project 64, like how it autofills the extensions? or maybe in the hover description for that check box say something like "e.g. Project 64".

2) I also figured out why after you launch and then close a game mediaportal will back out of the game list and go back to the emulator list. It does that when your screen resolution or refresh rate changes. So if your computer is fast enough to run the games at your normal resolution, then that should be a workaround for that problem. For example, my monitor is set to 1600x1200 75hz, but my emulator's fullscreen resolution was set to 1024x768 60hz. So if I went into the emulator settings and set the fullscreen resolution to 1600x1200 75hz then once I closed the game mediaportal would stay in the game list.

3) the new plugin config page looks nice, and I like the box that shows descriptions when you hover over stuff, much better than the tooltip thing in the earlier versions. also, thank you for adding subdirectory support. now i can browse my psx games. now, i hope i don't upset you, i love having this option, but is there a way to disable it for certain emulators? it's not very important to have it selectively disabled, i was just wondering because i happened to have a couple of random folders in one of my game directories.

4) i also noticed that it seems to start a new database file for this plugin version. does the one from the previous versions of the plugin not work with (or import into) this version?

5) another thing is that in the new version of mediaportal (at least RC3), thumbs are stored not in the program folder anymore but in the application data folder. for instance now you have to use this folder
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\myEmulators\emulators
instead of this folder
C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\thumbs\myEmulators\emulators\
for emulator thumbnails. if you use the old folder they won't show up. thought you may want to know that since you include some thumbnails.


i'll probably come up with some more stuff later, gotta sleep now

 

[GERALDO]

Chreekar,

Chreekar Hello, I wonder if the latest version already has support for videopreview or emumovies Suits GAMEEX .

THANK YOU

 

[joz]

Tha GameEx seems really cool. 2 bad it's just for MCE for now. Don't believe MyEmulators supports this, but the video's would be really cool (dunno if even the MP skin engine will allow something like that)

 

[Chreekar]

for all the feedback and comments

I should focus on fixing the bugs and doing the pc games section before releasing this version on the website and as an mpi. When that is done, I will look at the feature requests, and will probably start with the importing/exporting of game meta data since it is a feature I have been wanting to do for a long time and there seems to be a demand for it. My plan is to at first do an xml based import and export function, as you suggested. After that, I'll provide access to an online database through the plugin (using my own webserver, and basically just automatically import the xml files from the online directory instead of manually specifying a path, and the export would update the database). The third step would be to enable you to access the directory from the a web browser, but that lies further ahead in the future and probably requires a new host etc.

I will extend the autoconf feature to cover 'use quotes in path' checkbox, working folder and emulator title. Probably in the next version.

Since I've rewritten the database, I decided to make a new file and unfortunately thet means it is not compatible with older versions. I state again that the DB of these SVN versions WILL NOT BE COMPATIBLE with the released version, so you have to start over when the release is done. After that my goal is that you would never have to reenter anything agian.

The thumbs was a mistake, it now works as it did before with subfolders for game thumbnails. I'll upload it soon.

 

[rkooten]

Sounds wonderful! Do you think we could use .dat files to mine as much data as possible and insert that data into the .xml files?