*UPDATED 18-9-2011* Yet another new version :-) (1 Viewer)
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Hi Brownard!
I'm still having those corrupted images in my PC games images and I don't know what else can I do to solve the problem, sorry
I'm able to achieve an error message when doing the following steps:
1- Edit manually a game info (press L in games database tab)
2- Delete the corrupted poster and back image (in this windows I can see that the image is very thin)
3- Take one of the Online Found box Art and place it in "front box" square.
4- Press Save.
At this point the program freezes for some seconds and the following error appears:
If you have enough time, can you have a look at it, please?
I'm trying to do a skin file of myEmulators for Avalon and I need to download covers in order to test CoverFlow view.
Many thanks for your work and best regards,
Aitor
EDIT: Now when trying to move manually some Online Found Screenshots to Fanart box in NES games I get a dialog box saying: "Could not copy the file to thumbnail location - Generic error in GDI+." Nothing more appears
- Major changes PLEASE TESTHi Brownard!
I'm still having those corrupted images in my PC games images and I don't know what else can I do to solve the problem, sorry
I'm able to achieve an error message when doing the following steps:
1- Edit manually a game info (press L in games database tab)
2- Delete the corrupted poster and back image (in this windows I can see that the image is very thin)
3- Take one of the Online Found box Art and place it in "front box" square.
4- Press Save.
At this point the program freezes for some seconds and the following error appears:
If you have enough time, can you have a look at it, please?
I'm trying to do a skin file of myEmulators for Avalon and I need to download covers in order to test CoverFlow view.
Many thanks for your work and best regards,
Aitor
EDIT: Now when trying to move manually some Online Found Screenshots to Fanart box in NES games I get a dialog box saying: "Could not copy the file to thumbnail location - Generic error in GDI+." Nothing more appears
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Hey,
When you say 'delete corrupted image' do you press the 'X' on the image box? Try deleting the image manually from Windows Explorer instead.
Do you get the GDI error even after closing MP config and restarting? The error is usually caused by trying to overwrite an image that is currently in use - this can happen when pressing 'X' because the plugin currently doesn't dispose of the image properly until after the changes are saved.
Can you post a copy of your myEmulatorsAspectRatios.xml?
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I think I can reproduce the error, it happens when you use the same image from the online search for more than 1 item, e.g box front AND box back. Is that what you're doing?
- Major changes PLEASE TESTHey,
When you say 'delete corrupted image' do you press the 'X' on the image box? Try deleting the image manually from Windows Explorer instead.
Do you get the GDI error even after closing MP config and restarting? The error is usually caused by trying to overwrite an image that is currently in use - this can happen when pressing 'X' because the plugin currently doesn't dispose of the image properly until after the changes are saved.
Can you post a copy of your myEmulatorsAspectRatios.xml?
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I think I can reproduce the error, it happens when you use the same image from the online search for more than 1 item, e.g box front AND box back. Is that what you're doing?
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Hi Brownard! Thanks for your help.
Yes, I think that you are right, I was trying to use some of the ingame screenshots for Fanart. In my opinion, if you have enough time, you should add it as an option: use one online founded screenshot as Fanart when no fanart image is founded. What do you think?
And for the aspect ratio problem... WTF!!!! I have edited my myEmulatorsAspectRatios file changing the decimal . for , (1.45 -> 1,45) and now it is working perfectly. ¿? Is that normal?
Many thanks for your work and best regards,
Aitor
- Major changes PLEASE TESTHi Brownard! Thanks for your help.
Yes, I think that you are right, I was trying to use some of the ingame screenshots for Fanart. In my opinion, if you have enough time, you should add it as an option: use one online founded screenshot as Fanart when no fanart image is founded. What do you think?
And for the aspect ratio problem... WTF!!!! I have edited my myEmulatorsAspectRatios file changing the decimal . for , (1.45 -> 1,45) and now it is working perfectly. ¿? Is that normal?
Many thanks for your work and best regards,
Aitor
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I think you may have stumbled across a localisation issue I have overlooked
Some European countries use ',' instead of '.' to represent a decimal, is that the case in Spain? If so I think your regional settings will effect the parsing of the ratio. Well found
- Major changes PLEASE TESTI think you may have stumbled across a localisation issue I have overlooked
Some European countries use ',' instead of '.' to represent a decimal, is that the case in Spain? If so I think your regional settings will effect the parsing of the ratio. Well found
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Hi Brownard.
Yes, you are right, here in Spain and in the rest of Europe (except in United Kingdom, why are you guys always so different with this kind of things?) we use "," to represent a decimal, so that was the problem. I've found this link that might be useful:
FileecimalSeparator.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The strange thing is that I was the only one that reports the problem, and considering that "," is used in the rest of Europe...
Many thanks for all your work and best regards,
Aitor
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I think you may have stumbled across a localisation issue I have overlooked
Some European countries use ',' instead of '.' to represent a decimal, is that the case in Spain? If so I think your regional settings will effect the parsing of the ratio. Well found
Hi Brownard.
Yes, you are right, here in Spain and in the rest of Europe (except in United Kingdom, why are you guys always so different with this kind of things?
) we use "," to represent a decimal, so that was the problem. I've found this link that might be useful:File
ecimalSeparator.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The strange thing is that I was the only one that reports the problem, and considering that "," is used in the rest of Europe...
Many thanks for all your work and best regards,
Aitor
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lol, I have to admit that until now I was completely ignorant and thought the whole world used '.'
I'm concentrating most of my time on 'myEmulators2' now but I'll probably upload a bug fix release of this version in the next couple of days which should hopefully sort out most of your problems - and a couple more I have come across
- Major changes PLEASE TESTwhy are you guys always so different with this kind of things?
lol, I have to admit that until now I was completely ignorant and thought the whole world used '.'
I'm concentrating most of my time on 'myEmulators2' now but I'll probably upload a bug fix release of this version in the next couple of days which should hopefully sort out most of your problems - and a couple more I have come across
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I have a question\suggestion\request. Is it possible to include a category called "Coin-Op" and have it work with emulators like MAME? then if that can be done, include a search for pics, screenshots, marquees, etc from the Killer List of Video games? Arcade, Videogames, Pinball Machines, and Antique Coin-Operated -- The International Arcade Museum
atari 2600 works great, and other home systems seem to work great as well. there is just a hole for the coin-op section. I hope this can be corrected. I don't like seeing cartridges and disks and things like that for the artwork of a stand up coin-op game.
thanks.
- Major changes PLEASE TESTI have a question\suggestion\request. Is it possible to include a category called "Coin-Op" and have it work with emulators like MAME? then if that can be done, include a search for pics, screenshots, marquees, etc from the Killer List of Video games? Arcade, Videogames, Pinball Machines, and Antique Coin-Operated -- The International Arcade Museum
atari 2600 works great, and other home systems seem to work great as well. there is just a hole for the coin-op section. I hope this can be corrected. I don't like seeing cartridges and disks and things like that for the artwork of a stand up coin-op game.
thanks.
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Most avid MAME users already have the images downloaded and kept in their MAME subdirectories (cabinets, screenshots, posters, etc.) so the app only needs to do a lookup of the ROM name somewhere and optionally check for the local images. Would save a LOT of downloading and duplication.
MAME ROM file names are standard for a given release and rarely change over many years. Associated graphics (cabinet pics, banners, posters, etc.) also have the exact same name as the ROM. Thus all users in the world have the exact same ROM filenames, graphical image file names, and usually the same directory structure. So there would not be any ambiguity or need to parse file names or do any real calculations to support adding MAME ROM capability to MyEmulators that I can see.
What I find intriguing is why MAME is ignored when it's by far the most used emulator in the world and has such broad support across the 'Net. Looking up a ROM name and looking for images to use for it would be simple for an app like MyEmulators to do. Unfortunately, for users, having a complete set of ROMs (over 5000 now I think) means that manual modifications within MyEmulators to the database are an impossible task.
I've worked around the whole issue by installing HyperSpin and adding it to my StreamedMP menu within MP. HyperSpin is visually intense and has a simple system for accessing all your ROMs across all emulators. I'd strongly suggest MAME users to do the same as MyEmulators simply doesn't handle MAME.
- Major changes PLEASE TESTMost avid MAME users already have the images downloaded and kept in their MAME subdirectories (cabinets, screenshots, posters, etc.) so the app only needs to do a lookup of the ROM name somewhere and optionally check for the local images. Would save a LOT of downloading and duplication.
MAME ROM file names are standard for a given release and rarely change over many years. Associated graphics (cabinet pics, banners, posters, etc.) also have the exact same name as the ROM. Thus all users in the world have the exact same ROM filenames, graphical image file names, and usually the same directory structure. So there would not be any ambiguity or need to parse file names or do any real calculations to support adding MAME ROM capability to MyEmulators that I can see.
What I find intriguing is why MAME is ignored when it's by far the most used emulator in the world and has such broad support across the 'Net. Looking up a ROM name and looking for images to use for it would be simple for an app like MyEmulators to do. Unfortunately, for users, having a complete set of ROMs (over 5000 now I think) means that manual modifications within MyEmulators to the database are an impossible task.
I've worked around the whole issue by installing HyperSpin and adding it to my StreamedMP menu within MP. HyperSpin is visually intense and has a simple system for accessing all your ROMs across all emulators. I'd strongly suggest MAME users to do the same as MyEmulators simply doesn't handle MAME.
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I'll definately look into adding MAME support, what are the current limitations of myEmulators? Can you get the games to run or is it just the visual/parsing aspects?
- Major changes PLEASE TESTI'll definately look into adding MAME support, what are the current limitations of myEmulators? Can you get the games to run or is it just the visual/parsing aspects?
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