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[pCeSlAyEr]

Ok I recieved the latest build with the latest skin from gilles999 and its pretty damn impressive!

All of the bugs I was experiencing are gone.


I do have a question though...

In the previous build I recieved (the buggy one) I could place my movies in E:\Media\PCE\Movies and they would work. But now it seems as if only the artwork is read from E:\Media\PCE\Artwork and I'm forced to use D:\Movies.

Was this changed on purpose? I liked the E:\Media dir being the place for all of the RXtras.

[Xmodder deluX]

I have a bug that might be in the Madmab edition as well.  There seems to be a bug in the public mednafnex-nes build.  My little sister was playing some games and when she went to the in-game menu she accidentally left clicked a few times and the music control menu came up a few times (as many times as she clicked).  Anyway, I had to push B to back out of each menu individually.  I was just wondering if this bug is still in the madmab edition build.  If so, could you look into it Madmab?  Thanks.

[ressurectionx]

Hey pCe,

Right now my NES media folder looks like this....

\Artwork\
\Game Faqs\
\Manuals\
\Movies\
\Roms\
\Saves\
\Strategy Guides\

Yes.... I even have the Roms and Saves in this folder now!  Can't remember if there is a trick now to get the movies to display from Media\Movies\, but I got them working just fine there.

Pretty much the only thing not in the Media directory for me anymore on any of my emulators is the Emulator folders and skins themselves.

~Rx




Xmodder deluX,

I'm pretty sure that was removed.  I've never seen that happen, but if madmab saw it he surely would have fixed something like that.  We'll have to wait and see what he says about it.

~Rx

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 13 2009, 08:10 PM)

Hey pCe,

Right now my NES media folder looks like this....

\Artwork\
\Game Faqs\
\Manuals\
\Movies\
\Roms\
\Saves\
\Strategy Guides\

Yes.... I even have the Roms and Saves in this folder now!  Can't remember if there is a trick now to get the movies to display from Media\Movies\, but I got them working just fine there.

Pretty much the only thing not in the Media directory for me anymore on any of my emulators is the Emulator folders and skins themselves.

~Rx

Well ok... so it wasn't removed..

This build is defaulting to E:\Media\NES\Movies still.

So I guess there is still a bad path somewhere.

[ressurectionx]

Go to the setting in "Change Default Directories" that says "Media Directory".

Select "F:\Media"

It will ask you "Point the movie directory to Media\Movies?"

Select Yes

If your TG16 Movies were in "F:\Media\PCE\Movies" it will work perfect.

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 13 2009, 09:05 PM)

Go to the setting in "Change Default Directories" that says "Media Directory".

Select "F:\Media"

It will ask you "Point the movie directory to Media\Movies?"

Select Yes

If your TG16 Movies were in "F:\Media\PCE\Movies" it will work perfect.

I changed it and then changed it back to e:\media and its working now... strange...

[ressurectionx]

You got all those vids on your E drive?  Isn't the E drive only about 6GB?

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 13 2009, 09:47 PM)

You got all those vids on your E drive?  Isn't the E drive only about 6GB?

6GB yup... lol

This xbox is stock with only 2gb to the F partition. Use it mainly for movies...

My 128MB box has the larger HDD and stuff in it, but thats in the other room and I have people visiting from out of town. They watch kids crap on it so I can't just take it from the room

All my roms are stored on my server and shared via SAMBA. So I only need space to hold the videos and 6GB covers that nicely. And if I wanted I could just set the videos to SAMBA or RELAX too.

[ressurectionx]

ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS PROBLEM!!!?

Seriously, I still have not experienced this bug yet.  Good for me, right?

Well, good for a sane person anyways.  I can't give any input about it if I can't experience it.






Did you get my PM's man?  I re-wrapped up Gilles skin/emu packages with some minor fixes.

I also:

1) Added in 2 or 3 Static Skins in them so Gilles could make skin preview images for them to work when you're choosing a skin.

2)  Deleted any thumbnail images that always seem to creep back in there when Gilles releases a skin update....  

3)  Capitalized All Words in the file names (mostly images) that Gilles had in small letters.  I also changed things like "text help 2" to "Text Help II" (I know there's not a text help pic, I'm paraphrasing because I'm not by my Box-PC).

4) Changed the name of the skin directories to the format I have settled on about 2 months ago.  (I hope this one is alright with you Gilles... I wanted to get to that point before on these with you, but our work on these things veered so far apart from each other a while back)

5)  I have integrated all of Gilles new pics and configs onto my own box, and decided that for now I will treat his prefered Synopsis style as the default (It's kind of grown on me, actually).



So... right there, you both have the NES emu/skin setup that I have, folder for folder and file for file.

We really need to concern ourselves with getting all of this stuff in sync with each other now.  I will hopefully be hosting torrents somewhere in the near future on NES and TG16 with my exact setups.  Kind of like BP's 4.5GB setup is meant to play on one DVD, my setup will be designed to play from a large hard drive.  Eventually my hope is to have a place where people could just FTP the files they want from an online mirror of my own Box, because a lot of the configuration stuff like the favorites lists will demand that people have their roms in the same place on their drive that I do (unless madmab finds some wizardry around that.... but I don't really think that's possible)

(Disclaimer.... As per forum rules, I will never reveal to anyone here in a post or a PM where these are torrented, when and if they are)










Gilles,

I need you to take a look at those missing/incorrect images.  There are only about 5 to 7 of them that are still needed between the PCE,TG16 and NES skins.  About 5 to 7 more if you include Previews for the Static Skins I included.  (I think it's important to have some good static skins from before included, not only to show their limitations compared to the Dynamic Skins, but also to possibly encourage somebody to update them.  I would LOVE seeing a Dynamic Skin version of the two SMB skins and the Bonk one someday!)

Don't forget to add the new preview images for the updated ~FULL TILT Skin Preview.  I'm really proud of that one.  Words cannot express how good the emus now look on my TV with the Madmab Edition emu upgrade, Gilles' Dynamic Skins and thousands of videos and high quality Boxart as I slowly scroll through my games just admiring the fruits of our labor.

Don't it feel good to give it all away for free too?

Been great working with you guys,
~Rx

QUOTE(pCeSlAyEr @ Jun 13 2009, 09:08 PM)

6GB yup... lol

This xbox is stock with only 2gb to the F partition. Use it mainly for movies...

My 128MB box has the larger HDD and stuff in it, but thats in the other room and I have people visiting from out of town. They watch kids crap on it so I can't just take it from the room

All my roms are stored on my server and shared via SAMBA. So I only need space to hold the videos and 6GB covers that nicely. And if I wanted I could just set the videos to SAMBA or RELAX too.

Sadly, you won't be able to use .CUT files on your setup if you are using the network share.  

Removing that was the biggest-ticket-item for cutting the load times for .CUT files straight from XBMC in half (from 15 to 8 seconds).

Seriously man.  I know shit's tight with financing now, but newegg.com has 500 GB hard drives for 60 bucks or less with free shipping now.  You should do yourself the favor of having one box that can have all of this stuff with about 50 PSX games and still have room to have XBox games on the drive.  It's totally worth it.

~Rx

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 13 2009, 10:26 PM)

Sadly, you won't be able to use .CUT files on your setup if you are using the network share.  

Removing that was the biggest-ticket-item for cutting the load times for .CUT files straight from XBMC in half (from 15 to 8 seconds).

Seriously man.  I know shit's tight with financing now, but newegg.com has 500 GB hard drives for 60 bucks or less with free shipping now.  You should do yourself the favor of having one box that can have all of this stuff with about 50 PSX games and still have room to have XBox games on the drive.  It's totally worth it.

~Rx

If I like a game enough to launch it directly from XBMC I have no problem putting it on my XBOX.

As for the HDD... I'm going to setup a RAID array on my server and that should free up a few drives. I have 3TB total combined among 6 drives on my server currently. When I get my new drives I'll be adding a few 1.5TB SATA drives and pulling some old IDE's.

But as of now I'm only testing so I should be fine  

[ressurectionx]

Cool man.  If you want to do it manually, I definatly know you have the skills to.  It's just such a pain in the ass in my book.  Network share was great when 200 MB drives cost 200 bucks but I can totally do without it now for emus.  I do use it for Movies and TV shows though and it's great for that if you don't have 1080 HD stuff.

LOL... I recycle drives in XBoxes too.  It's just now I'm hating the two Xboxes that have 120 and 180 GB in them because to me they're as useless as the 8GB drive.

I've got 6 XBoxes right now.  I only work on one and have the other set up as a debug box for now.  When we get all this stuff done I'm going to get a bunch of 750 MB drives off of newegg and start hooking everyone I know up with these as birthday presents.

~Rx

[ressurectionx]

Hey madmab,

I've been doing a ton of testing and working on the Atari 2600 synopsis and spreadsheets today.  I plan on fufilling a long time goal of yours and finally sorting out the 2600 stuff.  

I was wondering, is there a way to get games that used the Atari Paddles to work?  If not currently, was this one of the fixes you were considering?

Later,
~Rx

[Mega Man (?)]

Sweet, i was wonder about the Atari 2600...

Hey Gilles,
I tried some of the rumbles for nes.
I noticed in "super mario 2", using the rumble, it takes away a health point right when I start the game, and every time I get a health point (like a heart or a mushroom) the added health goes away, right away. This is an energy rumble, right? It only rumbles when I gain or loose energy, I'm guess...

Could you check this out for me?

Thanks

[ressurectionx]

Yeah..... but does it REALLY support paddles?  There actually is a lot of paddle games, but I can't get them to play right.  There are a few that have been converted to Joystick like the Atari Circus game but anybody down for a good ole' fashioned game of Beat 'em and Eat 'em is just plain out of luck.  

Atariage.com does a good job pointing out which games use each controller.  I'm putting all of that in the synopsis so whenever we have the sort/filter feature you'll be able to sort by controller and see which ones use which.

Later,
~Rx


EDIT:

Man.... Now I know why I waited so long to work on Atari 2600.  What a freakin mess.  5 different names for some games since every company who ripped off the game made their own title for it.

Synopsis is over 600k so far, with all the alternate names I've figured out posted in the headline info.  About 90% of the games so far have synopsis' now.

I think I may have discovered some unique games that weren't released in the US that I missed too.  I imagine I'll be working on this one for a while.

Later,
~Rx

[infidelity]

ressurectionx or madmab or gilles,

i'd just like to know when a public release will be coming for the nes, or all of the emulators you plan on doing this for? thank you for your time.

-infidelity