Post by: Palmtree on March 16, 2006, 09:25:00 PM
Post by: BanjoK on March 16, 2006, 10:34:00 PM
Post by: Thraxen on March 16, 2006, 10:55:00 PM
I really hope this guy can get it implemented and added into XBMC. I would love to be able to make a section in my XBMC dash with direct links to my favorite games from the various Xport emulators. If this does work out, hopefully we'll be able to have icons for these command lines as well. It's be nice to have a section with the box art of the games that you could just select and that game would launch automatically. Perhaps if all goes well Lantus could be convinced to put the same command line option into xSNES9x as well... but that's jumping the gun a bit... let's just hope the Xport emulators get supported first .
Post by: guybird on March 16, 2006, 11:08:00 PM
Post by: samsbak on March 17, 2006, 02:23:00 AM
I could finally do my mameox with video previews in unleashx...I have the vids ready to go ...but writing all those long multiple command line entries in an xml would take forever...there would have to be some config app for that purpose...
Post by: guybird on March 18, 2006, 07:33:00 PM
Date: 2006-03-17 01:12
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Just to add to this, if it would be easy to implement,
would it be feesible to do a blanket launch for an entire
rom folder? Basically you would set a rom folder in XBMC,
and then specify the program used to launch any file from
that folder with (the relevent emulator). This would
allow for icon based selection (namely box art, or even
cart scans for that extra effect) for any rom that runs in
an Xport emulator. That covers a LOT of different
systems, and would really spice up the XBMC experience.
Date: 2006-03-17 09:54
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that is exactally what i was going to do, i also need the
same feature (i like to keep things very organized). ill
begin work today and keep you posted!
So barring any unforseen problems, looks like we'll have icon based rom selection from XBMC!!! Only downside is that the XBMC is on the freeze/bug bash for now, so I don't know how long until they're back to normal business.
Post by: Thraxen on March 18, 2006, 09:43:00 PM
QUOTE(guybird @ Mar 18 2006, 08:40 PM) 
So barring any unforseen problems, looks like we'll have icon based rom selection from XBMC!!! Only downside is that the XBMC is on the freeze/bug bash for now, so I don't know how long until they're back to normal business.
Getting ready for another official version change then. Probably going to release it with or shortly after the new 360 skin. So hopefully we won't have to wait too long.
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Sounds promising...Hopefully since JezzX is actively working on UnleashX you can let him in on this...His dash is very robust...could be a better option for video previews!
Honestly, he doesn't need to be "let in" on anything. Xport has had this information out there for the dash devs for a very long time now and they have all ignored it. Though maybe some of the other dash devs will take notice if zerodefect00 is successful in his attempt to add this feature to XBMC.
As far as video previews go, that would take a ton of time and waste a whole lot of space to make previews for a bunch of ROMS. The videos would all be bigger than the games themselves.
Post by: Jezz_X on March 19, 2006, 01:11:00 AM
QUOTE(samsbak @ Mar 19 2006, 01:54 PM)
Sounds promising...Hopefully since JezzX is actively working on UnleashX you can let him in on this...His dash is very robust...could be a better option for video previews!
I don't program UnleashX the guy with the nick UnleashX on this forum does I moderate the forum
Post by: chilin_dude on April 13, 2006, 05:36:00 AM
Post by: Thraxen on April 30, 2006, 01:04:00 PM
So I'm guessing that we could create a directory in XBMC that is full of .cut files and be able to browse that list and launch ROMS from there. It won't be pretty, but it's more than half way there anyway. Now we just need someone to actually allow us to assign icons to these .cut files.
Here is a what the update says:
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Date: 2006-04-30 12:03
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i had to fix a bug so with shortcuts so i piggiebacked this
onto it. however it's not exactly what u wanted.
i added support for specifying custom parameters (i.e. roms)
in shortcut .cut files.
now go bug your favorite skin author.
it's the best you'll get, atleast for a while.
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i had to fix a bug so with shortcuts so i piggiebacked this
onto it. however it's not exactly what u wanted.
i added support for specifying custom parameters (i.e. roms)
in shortcut .cut files.
now go bug your favorite skin author.
it's the best you'll get, atleast for a while.
[edit] Spiff just responded to my last query and apparently he meant to say 'script' author, not skin author.
Post by: Palmtree on May 01, 2006, 02:51:00 PM
Post by: Thraxen on May 01, 2006, 10:17:00 PM
Post by: Palmtree on May 05, 2006, 07:03:00 PM
Post by: guybird on May 05, 2006, 11:03:00 PM
Post by: XPort on May 06, 2006, 12:59:00 PM
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Then whenever you select any file in E:\roms\nesroms, it will launch E:\emulators\nes\default.xbe with the selected file as a parameter.
Post by: guybird on May 06, 2006, 06:42:00 PM
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What I don't understand is why he did not choose to make directories configurable as opposed to individual games.
I don't get that either. Seemed like it'd be simpler than having to do rather than having to do this for every rom you wanted to launch. In any case its nice to see some progress on this!
Post by: jC! on November 04, 2006, 06:34:00 PM
Not to dig up the past or anything....but is there anyone out there working on, or have found, an solution?
Post by: Thraxen on November 04, 2006, 10:31:00 PM
QUOTE(jC! @ Nov 4 2006, 07:41 PM)
Just a friendly BUMP...
Not to dig up the past or anything....but is there anyone out there working on, or have found, an solution?
It got added to XBMC a while back. Read here: XBMC Online Manual