Topic: Add Games Not On Your Hdd With Vids (Read 520 times)

chilin_dude · « **on:** April 02, 2004, 10:06:00 AM »

Ok, I am sure a lot of people don't have all of their games on the hard drive, and instead burn them all to disks. I am one of these people, however I was thinking how cool it would be to be able to add all my games onto the list with preview videos and when i select the item it will prompt you to insert the disk. Now here is the clever bit. The only way that I think you could identify if it where the right game or not would to be use actionscripts. Say something like the following (please note i know this isn't the proper layout but I am getting to grips still.)

get mxm to check the dvd inserted for the XBEID and return it.
compare to the xbeid that the game that you are launching has, this will have had to have been entered to the actionscript before being put on your xbox.

IF XBEID = 0x275802848 (the xbeid of the game you are trying to launch)
EXEC D:\Default.xbe

So now i have told you what i was thinking, can the wizards give me any tips on this and possibly even show how the real script would look?
Thanks for replying!!

geniusalz · « **Reply #1 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:30:00 AM »

Yeah, that's pretty possible.

In the menu.xml

<Item>
<Title>Splinter cell</Title>
<Action>
SETFUNC fileID XBEID d:\default.xbe
if fileID == "012345679" GOTO CorrectID
GOTO BadID
:CorrectID
CD D:\
EXEC default.xbe
QUIT

:BadID
msgbox "Please insert the correct disc"
</Action>
<Media>preview vid goes here</Media>

chilin_dude · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2004, 10:58:00 AM »

W00T you rock man!!! Thought this would be possible but i wasn't clever enough to make it, know to go and collect some XBEID'S.

chilin_dude · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2004, 11:22:00 AM »

DAMN!!!!
It doesn't work, got the XBEID from in mxm by using title info screen, then entered that into my menu.xml however even when i insert the disk and run the file it simply comes up as 'please insert disk'

geniusalz · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2004, 12:27:00 PM »

My bad

if %fileID% == "012345679" GOTO CorrectID
GOTO BadID

Edit: MXM treats text as strings, and %blah% as variables.

And to check on the format, just say
Msgbox %fileID%

This post has been edited by geniusalz: Apr 2 2004, 08:32 PM

-FourDoor- · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2004, 01:12:00 PM »

Glad someone else wants to incorparate their DVD game list into their menu as well.

This was the whole reason I got interested in Actionscripting. My last attempt at this was to create my DVD Game Disk launcher script.

Basically the way I had it set up was that I had a submenu for my dvd game lists which I manually created to include prev videos and game icon. And once you select the game, it prompts you to insert a dvd game disk. If it wasnt a game disk or if the dvd drive was empty it wouldn't launch. However, it wasn't smart enough to know the difference between halo and prince and persia in the dvd rom drive. <_< Then I had the same idea as you to launch based on xbeids but started getting too busy to play around with mxm fully. And in addition, BJ announced that a game database was in the works for MXM a little while ago.

LaunchDVDGame.xas

And this was what I had in my menu.xml for each dvd game listing

flattspott · « **Reply #6 on:** April 02, 2004, 05:46:00 PM »

Well here's a thought.

You use a modded version of EntryMaker to make an entry.xml for the game.
Maybe by changing the Mode to DVD instead of HD. Then you could have the games in your menu but not on your xbox.

chilin_dude · « **Reply #7 on:** April 03, 2004, 08:58:00 AM »

Thanks geniusalz!!!
Fourdoors, glad i wasn't the only one interested in this.
When I have finished adding my 40ish games I will post up my spreadsheet with all xbe ids so that we can try to complete a database...
Now i was thinking about the script though, at the moment it is:

geniusalz · « **Reply #8 on:** April 03, 2004, 09:03:00 AM »

%_GameTitle% might work, but I'm afraid it's only used for context scripts.

chilin_dude · « **Reply #9 on:** April 03, 2004, 08:59:00 AM »

chilin_dude · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2004, 09:23:00 AM »

geniusalz · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2004, 09:26:00 AM »

Context scripts are those that show up when you press Y with a game selected, then go to 'Game Options'

So the _GameTitle variable might or might not be accessible in a 'normal' script.

geniusalz · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2004, 09:28:00 AM »

Try this to see what ID it's reporting:

SETFUNC fileID XBEID d:\default.xbe
Msgbox %fileID%
if# %fileID% == "012345679" GOTO CorrectID

chilin_dude · « **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2004, 10:41:00 AM »

This is weird, I have changed my menu to that now.
So now when i launch RTCW that I have in the drive by selecting it, it pops up a message box with about 8 digits, however this ISN'T the file ID as I have checked by going to the disk and pressing Y then game info and it shows the ID i have in my menu.xml
HOWEVER it loads the game even though the ID shown on screen isn't the real ID.
When i try to launch say PGR2 and its the RTCW disk inserted still, it shows the same (wrong) ID and then gives the 'Please insert the correct disc' message...
Bug or something?

koldfuzion · « **Reply #14 on:** April 03, 2004, 01:34:00 PM »

I think a context menu to add a dvd game to a dvd.xml on the xbox would help facilitate building of the database quite rapidly.

Just put it into the same structure as the current cache_menu.xml and away we go.

edit: I say dvd.xml so everyone doesnt have to mess up thier cache_menu.xml then the dvd.xml could be continually submitted to axs to update the database.

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