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OG Xbox Forums => Software Forums => Emulators => Topic started by: ad20 on April 20, 2010, 09:43:00 AM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 20, 2010, 09:43:00 AM

I've just downloaded covers for all my games but I don't know how to configure NeoGenesis, NestopiaX, ZSNESBox, PCSXBox right. All I've found out is how make ingame screenshots and set them as previews but I can't chose my covers as previews. Btw I use UnleashX.

This post has been edited by ad20: Apr 20 2010, 04:43 PM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: bigby on April 20, 2010, 11:10:00 AM

Check out the Xport / Madmab Edition Projects:

http://forums.xbox-s...hp?showforum=96

A new NeoGenesis has been released, and you might find others of interest

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 21, 2010, 09:20:00 AM

I already have the latest versions: MednafenX-NES v14 and NeoGenesis Sega Genesis v24 but how do I set my covers as previews? I can take screenshots ingame, then they are displayed as previews but I want my covers previews.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ultimate509 on April 21, 2010, 10:22:00 AM

Ok so you want the Box Fronts to show up in the game select screen, first you'll need MednafenX-NES v14.Ok I'm assuming you'v downloaded the Box Front covers and unrared them with a program called winrar which will give you a folder with all of them now place the Box Fronts in the MednafenX-NES v14 emu's folder labeled Box Fronts (you can place them any where on your xbox's drive but for this explanation just put them there)
Now once your done Ftp'n load up the emu and go into "configuration" now go to "change default directories" then go down to "set media directories" now click on the first line up top (says something like media directory) now look for your media folder in this case its MednafenX-NES media which usually is on the F drive anyhow just go into the media folder and push the start button...ok now it will ask you two yes or no questions just put YES for both. Thats it your done..

after that go to the emus' main screen and just go to "configure skin", then "load skin configuration" then go down the list and select one of the many options it gives you to display the xtras!

This post has been edited by ultimate509: Apr 21 2010, 05:28 PM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 21, 2010, 12:51:00 PM

You've got it ultimate509, that's what I'm planning for "zsnexbox 3.6", "MednafenX-NES v14" and "Madmab Genesis v24".
There are some problems I'm facing: The Genesis and NES boxarts are .jpg and the filenames of boxart and rom don't match.
Do I have to convert all those .jpg to .png and then rename them after the roms?

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 21, 2010, 01:22:00 PM

Good grief i've just realized what a pain in the ass that would be. Don't there exist SNES, NES, Genesis romsets, with the right boxarts already included?

This post has been edited by ad20: Apr 21 2010, 08:24 PM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: bigby on April 21, 2010, 02:21:00 PM

Yes, they're called the RessurectionXtras

Look at the topic at the top there - "Ressurectionxtras And Compatibility Lists"

All Boxart, screenshots, movies have been made to match the roms. Just FTP them over to the Xbox.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 21, 2010, 02:30:00 PM

SNES and Genesis Boxrats seem to be down and NES boxarts are not even listed there. But even if I had them, WHICH roms do they match? Every romset I've found so far is named differently.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: Mega Man (?) on April 21, 2010, 02:37:00 PM

Hey ad20
It may seem like a lot of steps...
but once you take some time and get a grasp of Xbox emulation and the RessuectionXtras projects.

I guarantee you that "All" of what you are looking for, (plus more than you have probably yet to image) will be available for you to choose from.

and set-up, is not nearly as painful as it was for this stuff to come about.

Good luck

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 21, 2010, 02:55:00 PM

Uhm, ok I'm really grateful for all the help you all have offered me but I'm still stuck with my questions.
Those Resurrection extras I've heard about are all down.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ultimate509 on April 21, 2010, 09:39:00 PM

Yes,all the mega-upload links got reported/canceled but no worrys that was just an alternative to getting the Rx xtras.What you gotta do is sign up/register to a torrent site called underground gamer (just google it),once in,up top will show you the systems click on microsoft xbox then go through the pages below until you see the Ressurection-xtras that you want, of coarse youll need a torrent-program to be installed on your comp and make sure to seed other wise youll get booted eventually.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 23, 2010, 11:01:00 AM

Thx ultimate509, I've downloaded ResurrectionX roms + artwork from there.
But it doesn't work at all.

In ZSNEXBox 3.6 all your screenshots are saved into the Artwork/Shots 1 folder, that's where I put the covers but when starting the emu, SOME games have covers some don't. For testing I've downloaded a .jpg cover via google, saved it as .png via photofiltre and surprisingly, then it was displayed properly in the emu. Are you sure this ResurrectionX-guy knew how to save .pngs?

As for the latest NES and SEGA Madmab editions, I'm supposed to move the covers into the
"media/artwork/front covers" folder and then redirect in the emus options to the media folder. Neither emu displays covers anyway.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: bigby on April 23, 2010, 11:14:00 AM

Hi, did you recieve my PM?

Boxart should be Media\NES\Artwork\Box Front - for example

In the Emulator,point your media directory to MEDIA\NES

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 23, 2010, 11:38:00 AM

My folders on the box

(IMG:http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6470/18285644.jpg)

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Where it says: "set default directories" -> "change media directory" -> "MEDIA directory"

I set: E:\emulators\SEGA\media

It doesn't work, covers are not displayed. Are you sure the covers from the ResX torrent are in the right file-format? In ZSNESBox they are still not displayed properly and there's nothing to change, regarding the directories.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: Xmodder deluX on April 23, 2010, 01:14:00 PM

First of all, the snes emulator that madmab is working on hasn't been released yet. He is working on Snes9XBox.

Second, it would be a good idea to keep the xtras in a separate folder than the emulators themselves. If you ever wanted to upgrade them to the newest build, you would have to move the xtras. I suggest that you put all of the xtras in folders like this:

E:\Media\Genesis\
E:\Media\NES\
E:\Media\SNES\

Or put them on your F drive if you upgraded to a bigger hard drive.

Then you just have to point the media directory to there.
If you want to display box covers, you need to go into configure skin and load skin configurations. From there you can choose what you want to display. Hope that helps.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: bigby on April 23, 2010, 01:31:00 PM

I tried the xtras with ZsnesBox. You have to edit the path.ini (in the Emu folder) to:

CODE

usePathINI=1
D:\bookmarks\
F:\Media\SNES\Artwork\Box Front\
F:\Media\SNES\Artwork\Titles\
F:\Media\SNES\Artwork\Action\
F:\Media\SNES\Artwork\Cart\
D:\artwork\Shots 5\
D:\artwork\Shots 6\
D:\artwork\Shots 7\
D:\artwork\Shots 8\
D:\sram\
D:\save\
D:\ini\
D:\rumble\
D:\cheats\
D:\garbage\
F:\Media\SNES\Roms\
F:\Media\SNES\Movies\

Don't forget the "\" at the end of the lines (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: bigby on April 23, 2010, 02:05:00 PM

I noticed that some Box Art won't show in ZsnesBox.

From the ZsnesBox FAQ's:

QUOTE

Q: My previews don't show up
A: ZsnexBox only supports screenshots 512x512 or smaller.

So anything larger than this won't show (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ressurectionx on April 23, 2010, 02:35:00 PM

Nothing in my sets should be that large.... are they?

The rule was no taller or wider than 318 since anything larger didn't provide better pictures even in HD (from what I've been told, since I don't have a HD hookup yet :(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

1) Are you using my sets?

2) Can you give me some examples, if you are?

QUOTE(bigby @ Apr 23 2010, 02:31 PM)

I tried the xtras with ZsnesBox. You have to edit the path.ini (in the Emu folder) to:

CODE

Don't forget the "\" at the end of the lines (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Yes... the "\" did trick me there for a while Bigby. I forgot about that when you were asking me.

Also, the directories changed above (in bold) will only work if you made your Root \Media\ directory "F:\Media\"

If you put them somewhere else, you will have to alter these accordingly.

It probably goes without saying, but thought I might be able to squash some frustration early (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

EDIT: Well....... I tried to bold them above, but looks like you can't bold CODE..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/uhh.gif)

Anyways, it was the first 4 artwork directories I was talking about.

You can also change the order around if you'd like and have it only look for art you want, if you don't want all 4 to display. You can also add the "3D Boxart" that cbagy and bigby made, any of the "Misc" folders which show things like alternate carts and boxart, or even View the "HyperSpin 3D Boxart", although it's not recommended at this point with the Xtras because, for instance, the HS stuff only covers about 790 of the over 1,700 games that are covered completely in the 2D stuff and the 3D stuff we made here.

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Apr 23 2010, 09:39 PM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ad20 on April 23, 2010, 03:06:00 PM

These are the torrents i've downloaded from underground gamer:

Genesis ResX Part I: Roms
Genesis ResX Part II: Artwork

SNES ResX Part I: Roms
SNES ResX Part II: Artwork

NES ResX Part I: Roms
NES ResX Part II: Artwork

Approximately 150 Roms per System and only their frontbox-art. Then I created on my xbox the following folders:

E:\media\"Console"\ Artwork\Boxfronts etc.

In the emulators, I redirected to the "Console" folder as "Media Folder" for each respective system.

SNES displays some of the front covers in the game selection menu, Genesis and NES show nothing

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: madmab on April 23, 2010, 08:06:00 PM

Just a note.. It's not a good idea to post torrent names that include ROMz in them... Against the rules..

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ressurectionx on April 23, 2010, 08:11:00 PM

Fortunately for him, those aren't the exact names of any existing torrents. Anyone who didn't know that might assume otherwise though.

Here's hoping he just gets a slap on the wrist for the infraction (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Only thing I can tell that you might be doing wrong is the name for your "Box Front" folder. Looks like you've got it as Boxfront (one word). They won't work with the wrong folder name, unless you manually configure each and every folder individually instead of letting the emu auto-config for you after selecting the media directory.

As for selecting the media folder, you did right.

F:\Media\SYSTEM is what you want to choose for this option.

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Apr 24 2010, 03:13 AM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: justgoonies on April 24, 2010, 03:24:00 AM

I am having the same issue with only some of the Boxarts showing up on SNES.

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ressurectionx on April 24, 2010, 08:00:00 AM

On ZSNESXBox, right?

Yeah.... I'm going to have to make special instructions for that one. It seems that the SNES set is the one artwork set that I neglected to convert to no-greater-than-318px-tall-or-wide. Some of them are as much as 675px. Of course, I do it with one of the only sets that has a second emulator to worry about.

While these large images work fine in the emu that I was doing the testing in (SNES9XBox), it seems to break ZSNESXBox. Somebody in another thread pointed out the maximum size for images, but I can't recall now... It's something like 575 to 595px max before it will just show a blank spot.

The image converter I use isn't free, but I'm sure there are plenty of image converters out there that can resize images in a batch process rather than one at a time without damaging the quality of the original.

Does anybody have a good, free image converter that I can start post with instructions associated with the SNES?

Thanks,
~Rx

EDIT: Forgot to add that the image converter should also be VERY easy to use so we don't have to make a big ordeal out of making the instructions how to use it.

This post has been edited by ressurectionx: Apr 24 2010, 03:02 PM

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: waal on April 24, 2010, 10:21:00 AM

XNview is a very nice free converter. Plus they have one of these nice new age logos: http://www.xnview.com/

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: YRUSirius on April 24, 2010, 11:12:00 AM

QUOTE(waal @ Apr 24 2010, 06:21 PM)

Plus they have one of these nice new age logos:[/url]

*laughing out loud*

Title: How Do I Set Up Game Previews In Emulators?
Post by: ressurectionx on April 25, 2010, 02:16:00 PM

Thanks waal...

So these will batch convert the images to no larger than 318px when you get that set up?

xboxscene.org forums

OG Xbox Forums => Software Forums => Emulators => Topic started by: ad20 on April 20, 2010, 09:43:00 AM