Rom Collection Browser

billyc666

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yea sub menu to me just polishes the finished article, I only use offline scrapers then collect the artwork from various sources
I found online scrapers just a bit of a pain, probably will give online scrapers ago for ps2 set as I cant find a large number of covers together in one pack
 

Mr Black Arm

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yea sub menu to me just polishes the finished article, I only use offline scrapers then collect the artwork from various sources
I found online scrapers just a bit of a pain, probably will give online scrapers ago for ps2 set as I cant find a large number of covers together in one pack

Do you know if it is possible to batch set all offline artwork? When I was messing around with Advanced Launcher, I had to manually set offline artwork for each game.
 

Hunk_4TH

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Billy thanks a bunch for the offline scrappers! Had to downgrade back to 13.2 as things jsut seem a little off and kind of buggy in Kodi 14.0 plus Aeon MQ 5 isn't supported yet. Plus RCB is buggy in it at least for me.
 

Mr Black Arm

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I haven't messed with rcb for a bit, but I think I used this process https://code.google.com/p/romcollectionbrowser/wiki/HowToAddMAMEOffline

I downloaded and tried pointing to your offline scraper text and parser file (for SNES), but its not scraping anything. I also tried a SNES offline scraper from a different source, and it didn't work either, so its clearly on my end (not your scrapers). My rom sets are named according to HyperSpin databases. Do you think that is causing the issue, the name of my roms?
 

billyc666

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yep just looked my snes set as different naming theres no region tags on the end, so the text file for the scraper has none

I can make you one without descriptions
 

billyc666

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here's snes, Saturn and dreamcast (no descriptons)http://www.filedropper.com/scrapers

if you add descriptions post a copy back , will be much appreciated

if you want to use rating in confulance skin follow instructions below

Here is how to change developer to rating in default Confluence skin:

- Edit "XBMC\addons\script.games.rom.collection.browser.dev\resources\skins\Default\720p?\script-Rom_Collection_Browser-main.xml"
- Change the following lines (429 and 901)
<label>$ADDON[script.games.rom.collection.browser 50003]:</label>
to:
<label>$ADDON[script.games.rom.collection.browser 54003]:</label>

- and these lines (441 and 913)
<label fallback="416">$INFO[ListItem.Property(developer)]</label>
to:
<label fallback="416">$INFO[ListItem.Property(rating)]</label>
 

billyc666

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Nice thanks!! How do you add descriptions?

in the scraper file (a.txt file) you will see each part as Description:_at the end just copy and paste game info From the likes of Moby games ect making sure for each part you paste you don't go past *#*#*#* < this signals to parser file that its the beginning of another game.

here's an example

Description:
The player steps into the shoes of an anonymous Drug Enforcement Administration agent whose goal is to track down and detain or eliminate a dangerous drug baron residing in South America, thus destroying his illegal cartel. Along the way, the agent will have to render any opposition harmless by any means necessary, as is the case in most other American Laser Games releases.

As in Crime Patrol, the player battles criminals and other villains in several widely varying environments. In the original game, however, the main character advances from the "Rookie" level to the "Delta Force" level, while in Drug Wars, he does not get promoted at any point, simply moving on from one location to another with few complex aims. Beginning in Sierra County, New Mexico, the agent continues to fight crime in Chicago, the United States-Mexico border and, finally, the baron's residence in South America. In each of these locations, the player can choose from three different assignments; when all three are complete, he moves on to the next location. The game is finished successfully by reaching and neutralizing the drug lord
*#*#*#*
 

Hunk_4TH

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Nice dude thanks! I'll keep that in mind. And if I do add them I'll be sure to post the files here :)
 

trnzaddict

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Just a heads up guys Malte just updated RCB for Kodi that should take care of all the problems people were having.

Arg...sadly he still has not written a main menu system selection screen which has been being requested forever but I don't think he just has the time anymore.

If only someone could figure out how to have Advanced Launcher auto play a game trailer rather than having to do it manually, I would switch in a heartbeat as Angelscry seems to be much more into maintaining his software.
 

billyc666

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no main menu yet but I made a work around yesterday so you can have multiple instances of rcb . ie for my nes I have a copy of the script.games.rom.collection.browser folder I rename it script.games.rom.collection.browser.nes

I then edit the files to match the folder name by adding either .nes or just (space) nes
default line) 27,72
dbUpLauncher line 12
addon line 3, 5 (line 5 is the name displayed in xbmc)
util line 13,14
launcher line 476 fh.write("#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec\n")
gui line 120 Logutil.log("Init Rom Collection Browser nes: " + util.RCBHOME, util.LOG_LEVEL_INFO)
gui line 1381 if(firstLine.startswith('#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec')):

I then created a new icon.png and replace the one in the folder
before zipping the folder up , I then installed in xbmc , from the install from zip option
 

trnzaddict

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no main menu yet but I made a work around yesterday so you can have multiple instances of rcb . ie for my nes I have a copy of the script.games.rom.collection.browser folder I rename it script.games.rom.collection.browser.nes

I then edit the files to match the folder name by adding either .nes or just (space) nes
default line) 27,72
dbUpLauncher line 12
addon line 3, 5 (line 5 is the name displayed in xbmc)
util line 13,14
launcher line 476 fh.write("#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec\n")
gui line 120 Logutil.log("Init Rom Collection Browser nes: " + util.RCBHOME, util.LOG_LEVEL_INFO)
gui line 1381 if(firstLine.startswith('#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec')):

I then created a new icon.png and replace the one in the folder
before zipping the folder up , I then installed in xbmc , from the install from zip option


That's great you found a work around....just crazy to have to mod like that just to implement that.

But I want to try it. Can you elaborate a little more? What are the files you are modding inside the folder? Also when you switch to this method you are most likely going to end up with all individual system.db files correct? Like in other words no more I huge shares database.

EDIT: NVM I just figured it out. Yea that works.....I'm going to have to do this at work though I would have to do this for all my 50+ systems.
 
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billyc666

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glad you got it going. not sure if it could be automated somehow

after the kodi fix update the lines are as follows

default.xml (line) 27,72
dbUpLauncher.xml (line) 12
addon.xml (line) 3, 5 (line 5 is the name displayed in xbmc)
util.xml (line) 13,14
launcher.xml (line) 479 fh.write("#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec\n")
gui.xml (line) 116 Logutil.log("Init Rom Collection Browser nes: " + util.RCBHOME, util.LOG_LEVEL_INFO)
gui.xml (line) 1368 if(firstLine.startswith('#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec')):
 
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trnzaddict

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glad you got it going. not sure if it could be automated somehow

after the kodi fix update the lines are as follows

default.xml (line) 27,72
dbUpLauncher.xml (line) 12
addon.xml (line) 3, 5 (line 5 is the name displayed in xbmc)
util.xml (line) 13,14
launcher.xml (line) 479 fh.write("#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec\n")
gui.xml (line) 116 Logutil.log("Init Rom Collection Browser nes: " + util.RCBHOME, util.LOG_LEVEL_INFO)
gui.xml (line) 1368 if(firstLine.startswith('#Rom Collection Browser nes autoexec')):

Yea now a new problem. How are you supposed to separate all the systems if you have a skin that doesn't support that many submenu's? I'm using MQ4 which is the best skin for RCB, it only allows you 10 program addon submenu links in the main menu.
 

billyc666

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Yea now a new problem. How are you supposed to separate all the systems if you have a skin that doesn't support that many submenu's? I'm using MQ4 which is the best skin for RCB, it only allows you 10 program addon submenu links in the main menu.

yea I wondered if there was some way this could be worked around . im sure there is

I have noticed after I installed kodi and started afresh that if I don't install rcb and just install individual system specific rcb the menus don't work , so the workaround for now is to have rcb installed

im trying to find how xbmc stores, where each plugin/addon should be listed .
 
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trnzaddict

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yea I wondered if there was some way this could be worked around . im sure there is

I have noticed after I installed kodi and started afresh the if I don't install rcb and just install individual system specific rcb the menus don't work , so the workaround for this is to install rcb then disable it

Well when I added a new submenu in MQ4 I pilfered around the skin xml files to see if anything was recently modified but could not find anything.

There has to be a way around this. A sub menu item is an xml tag entry in the current skins xml if I had to guess. If we can put them in manually bypassing the skins count it would work.
 

billyc666

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Well when I added a new submenu in MQ4 I pilfered around the skin xml files to see if anything was recently modified but could not find anything.

There has to be a way around this. A sub menu item is an xml tag entry in the current skins xml if I had to guess. If we can put them in manually bypassing the skins count it would work.

I created a games button on my start screen , im just trying to figure out how multiple apps can be added to it , if I can find refrence from the addon button that already includes several addons then It should be easy to work out

*edit* best solution I have found up to now is using the favourites in black glass nova, rub just uses default skins though
 
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trnzaddict

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That's great you found a work around....just crazy to have to mod like that just to implement that.

But I want to try it. Can you elaborate a little more? What are the files you are modding inside the folder? Also when you switch to this method you are most likely going to end up with all individual system.db files correct? Like in other words no more I huge shares database.

EDIT: NVM I just figured it out. Yea that works.....I'm going to have to do this at work though I would have to do this for all my 50+ systems.

Well, I found where Aeon MQ4 stores it's submenu links to my Games main menu, in in the guisettings.xml. However I tried adding over 10, but it just won't show in the skin when you do.

Malte just needs to do it correctly instead of us going crazy with this hackery. Even to implement a basic system sub menu would probably not take him long at all since he seems very skilled in Python.

I guess time will tell but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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