(Old) My Emulators (7 Viewers)

[MatthewJ]

I'm having troubles with MAME. If i run it form cmd line it works fine. But when run from inside MP i get a flash on the screen and them it disappears. Any ideas ?

 

[Darre]

@ Chreekar:

Hi. First I want to say thx for this awesome plugin!

Im sitting and trying to get this plugin to work from basic home in the xephyr skin. But I ran into a problem.. Seems the ID of this plugin is the same as the on in myalarmdetails.xml; 5001. Ive tried altering the ID of both, but as I read later the ID in the xml has to be the same as in the plugin(of course). I also tried renaming the myemlutor.xml too myalarmdetails.xml, and then it opens, but of course the plugin isn't loaded, only the menu. I dont know why it insists on loading that .xml page, but my theory is that it simply grabs the number 5001 first since 'a'larm is loaded before 'e'mulator. Either that or because its hard coded some where.

What would solve this is if you could alter the ID in the .dll to a unique one, so it doesnt have the conflict with myalarm. I tried deleting myalarm, but theres just no .dll, its hidden away in the core or something.

It works like a charm from the plugins menu, but I really want it to work with its own icon in basic home! Are you willing to do this?

 

[Chreekar]

Good idea, I'll change it. Since you've been playing around with the ID numbers, do you have a good one I could change to?

 

[Yodar]

When I start a game they game starts but mediaportal than takes over again. So the game is started on the background.

With Closing mp option it works as it should work only closing mp is not an option for me.

 

[Darre]

Good idea, I'll change it. Since you've been playing around with the ID numbers, do you have a good one I could change to?

Well the number 6020 was the one I used. I just picked it out of nowhere and I don't think its taken. Didnt bring up any other plugin I had when I tried to launch that ID from basic home at least. Anyways the numbers around 100, 200, 1000, 2000 etc are often taken, so its best to pick something in the middle(like 6020 or 4376). I believe you can use numbers up to 99999 so it shouldn't be to hard to find one thats not taken. hehe.

Thx for doing this, it will complete my xephyr basic home to get the emulators running

 

[Eyep0p]

@ Yodar: please check if you have enabled the "always on top"-option from MP. You have to disable it to make it work.

@ Chreekar: Great plugin! Im very happy with it! Using it for SNES and PSX at the moment. But... What is with PC-Games? Is there a way to add them already? Or can you add this? I would like to see a My Games-Plugin with EMUS and normal PC games. That would be really great. Did you see that thread?

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/real_media_portal_games_plugin-t30299.html

Are you able to do something like this? If yes... Great! This should be a standard-plugin shipped with MP.
If not... np. If you need a nice guy for testing or more ideas... let me know. Do you need people for translating. I can make the german translation for you.

Sorry for all this questions. But it helps me to sleep a little bit better.

Greetz from Germany!

 

[Darre]

I'm using My programs to launch normal games. And edited the skin so it appears as my games. Works like a charm =)

 

[hughc]

I'm having troubles with MAME. If i run it form cmd line it works fine. But when run from inside MP i get a flash on the screen and them it disappears. Any ideas ?

I'm in exactly the same boat, I've got a fresh install of MP 0.2.2.3, and the latest MAME binary (0122b). From the command line, specifying a game zip name, all is good, but having setup MAME as an option in My Emulators, the scan of ROMs works correctly, but selecting any of them to play results in a DOS window flashing up, listing a bunch of files as NOT FOUND,and ending with "ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot run" flashing up onscreen, then closing again. The files correspond to, I think, the contents of the zip. Are there any command line switches for MAME that I shoud be adding?

I'd appreciate any light anyone could cast on this.

 

[Eyep0p]

@ hughc: dont know if it helps, like always. and i dont know much about MAME emus. BUT. be careful that your emu uses full paths to the directories it uses. i had similar problems with a psx emulator a few days ago and i fixed it with giving full paths. this fixed it for me. it is because my emulator uses another working directory then your emu executable. understand what i mean.

sorry for not perfect english and good night. or good morning? dunno.

 

[Chreekar]

Yeah, perhaps we could include some translations from scratch. If anyone is willing to make a translation, post the strings as a message and I'll include them in the SVN. As of PC games and a new skin id number: hopefully I'll have some time during the holidays to fix them. Thanks to all for the ideas and willingness to help