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<blockquote data-quote="VT-Vincent" data-source="post: 91633" data-attributes="member: 26924"><p>Currently, I use SnapStream Beyond Media's "My Games" plugin, which is the best media center emulator solution I've found so far, but it suffers from several issues. First, Beyond Media is generally considered to be a dead project and as such, will likely never be updated, seriously limiting is viability as a Media Center. Second, the plugin is also dead, and the site it used to gather box art has changed it's code, breaking the parsing feature.</p><p></p><p>So, since it is obvious I will need to find another solution, I have tried the most common solution, which is GameEx. Although GameEx looks to be a very good project, I find it to be very bloated, it's interface is rough at best, and I find myself missing the simplicity of "My Games". </p><p></p><p>Naturally, after I heard of this plugin, I was very excited. This is the closest replacement for my current solution that I've found. Since this plugin is in the infancy of it's development, I do have a few suggestions...</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I can understand why you wouldn't want users to need to change their settings for MediaPortal's focus, but I think closing the program is far more invasive than changing a single setting. I would like to see the plugin not close MediaPortal, or at least offer the user the option for it not to close MediaPortal, while leaving it as-is by default.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It would be great if box art and brief descriptions for games could be downloaded. However, if you do implement such a feature, it would also be great to be able to manually edit the descriptions and box art.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">This is kind of a run-on to my previous point, but should "My Emulators" start to house game information, there should definately be some way to export that information for backup purposes.</li> </ol><p></p><p>Lastly, I noticed the issue of closing emulators come up. The easiest solution I have found to this is to configure Girder to execute an "Alt+F4" key combination on a remote control press. This has worked for all emulators except two... ZSNES and ePSXe. On ZSNES, I took the lazy route and just mapped an unused button within the emulator to close the program. ePSXe was a bit more difficult, It's window management is screwy since the window in the foreground is not actually the emulator, but simply the video output from the video plugin. So, to fix this, I used the command line tool "pskill" along with an handy batch file which I called "killepsxe.exe" to execute the command "pskill -t epsxe.exe" and had girder execute it when my close button on the remote was pushed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VT-Vincent, post: 91633, member: 26924"] Currently, I use SnapStream Beyond Media's "My Games" plugin, which is the best media center emulator solution I've found so far, but it suffers from several issues. First, Beyond Media is generally considered to be a dead project and as such, will likely never be updated, seriously limiting is viability as a Media Center. Second, the plugin is also dead, and the site it used to gather box art has changed it's code, breaking the parsing feature. So, since it is obvious I will need to find another solution, I have tried the most common solution, which is GameEx. Although GameEx looks to be a very good project, I find it to be very bloated, it's interface is rough at best, and I find myself missing the simplicity of "My Games". Naturally, after I heard of this plugin, I was very excited. This is the closest replacement for my current solution that I've found. Since this plugin is in the infancy of it's development, I do have a few suggestions... [LIST=1] [*]I can understand why you wouldn't want users to need to change their settings for MediaPortal's focus, but I think closing the program is far more invasive than changing a single setting. I would like to see the plugin not close MediaPortal, or at least offer the user the option for it not to close MediaPortal, while leaving it as-is by default. [*]It would be great if box art and brief descriptions for games could be downloaded. However, if you do implement such a feature, it would also be great to be able to manually edit the descriptions and box art. [*]This is kind of a run-on to my previous point, but should "My Emulators" start to house game information, there should definately be some way to export that information for backup purposes. [/LIST] Lastly, I noticed the issue of closing emulators come up. The easiest solution I have found to this is to configure Girder to execute an "Alt+F4" key combination on a remote control press. This has worked for all emulators except two... ZSNES and ePSXe. On ZSNES, I took the lazy route and just mapped an unused button within the emulator to close the program. ePSXe was a bit more difficult, It's window management is screwy since the window in the foreground is not actually the emulator, but simply the video output from the video plugin. So, to fix this, I used the command line tool "pskill" along with an handy batch file which I called "killepsxe.exe" to execute the command "pskill -t epsxe.exe" and had girder execute it when my close button on the remote was pushed. [/QUOTE]
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