(2020-02-07, 04:59)Jachin99 Wrote: About the steam shortcuts I'm having trouble with.  The simplest way to launch them via the command line seems to be just typing I the full path to the file.  Is there a way I can format my command line arguments to only pass the path of my scanned roms to AEL?  I tried using "path" for my arguments so far but I haven't had any luck.

(2020-02-08, 00:01)TheTimeWalker Wrote: Thanks for making this great plugin.

One thing I have noticed is that ScreenScraper can occasionally give a 429 error which probably means that there are too many requests coming. I would suggest that there could be a way to rate limit by adding a small delay between requests. Skyscraper for example adds a 1.2s wait time in between downloads so it doesn't risk doing too many requests.

(2020-02-10, 11:29)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2020-02-07, 04:59)Jachin99 Wrote: About the steam shortcuts I'm having trouble with.  The simplest way to launch them via the command line seems to be just typing I the full path to the file.  Is there a way I can format my command line arguments to only pass the path of my scanned roms to AEL?  I tried using "path" for my arguments so far but I haven't had any luck.

Here you have a list of variables you can use as arguments of a launcher. 

(2020-02-10, 11:29)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2020-02-07, 04:59)Jachin99 Wrote: About the steam shortcuts I'm having trouble with.  The simplest way to launch them via the command line seems to be just typing I the full path to the file.  Is there a way I can format my command line arguments to only pass the path of my scanned roms to AEL?  I tried using "path" for my arguments so far but I haven't had any luck.

Here you have a list of variables you can use as arguments of a launcher. 

(2020-02-11, 17:51)Jachin99 Wrote:

(2020-02-10, 11:29)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2020-02-07, 04:59)Jachin99 Wrote: About the steam shortcuts I'm having trouble with.  The simplest way to launch them via the command line seems to be just typing I the full path to the file.  Is there a way I can format my command line arguments to only pass the path of my scanned roms to AEL?  I tried using "path" for my arguments so far but I haven't had any luck.

Here you have a list of variables you can use as arguments of a launcher. 

If I understood everything correctly I tried each command line argument in that python file.  I believe windows can't find the file each time but I'm attaching this log to be sure.  I had to trim it by A LOT because pastebin woulld't let me add the whole thing.  Here it is.  https://pastebin.com/TcWYqN5p

(2020-02-11, 22:50)mechevarria Wrote: Just a heads up @Wintermute0110 , I noticed a couple of bugs in the release-0.9.8 branch. I added the issues on github. The icon issue is simple, not sure about the scraper error.

https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.AEL/issues

(2020-02-12, 09:56)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2020-02-11, 17:51)Jachin99 Wrote:

(2020-02-10, 11:29)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Here you have a list of variables you can use as arguments of a launcher. 

If I understood everything correctly I tried each command line argument in that python file.  I believe windows can't find the file each time but I'm attaching this log to be sure.  I had to trim it by A LOT because pastebin woulld't let me add the whole thing.  Here it is.  https://pastebin.com/TcWYqN5p 

I have been looking at the Kodi Steam Launcher addon. You can create a Standalone Launcher to launch a game in Steam like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<advanced_emulator_launcher_configuration>
<launcher>
<name>Steam game title</name>
<category>Steam</category>
<Launcher_NFO>Steam game title.nfo</Launcher_NFO>
<application>C:/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe</application>
<args>steam://rungameid/steam_id</args>
</launcher>
</advanced_emulator_launcher_configuration>

For each game you need to change the steam_id. The NFO file with the metadata is optional as so is the category. Also, make sure the path to Steam.exe is the correct one (I don't use Steam and have never installed it). Please tell me if this works.

Proper support for Steam is planned for AEL 0.10.0. In the mean time you can create standalone launchers for every Steam game or use the Kodi Steam Launcher addon. 

(2020-02-12, 23:28)Jachin99 Wrote:

(2020-02-12, 09:56)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2020-02-11, 17:51)Jachin99 Wrote: If I understood everything correctly I tried each command line argument in that python file.  I believe windows can't find the file each time but I'm attaching this log to be sure.  I had to trim it by A LOT because pastebin woulld't let me add the whole thing.  Here it is.  https://pastebin.com/TcWYqN5p 

I have been looking at the Kodi Steam Launcher addon. You can create a Standalone Launcher to launch a game in Steam like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<advanced_emulator_launcher_configuration>
<launcher>
<name>Steam game title</name>
<category>Steam</category>
<Launcher_NFO>Steam game title.nfo</Launcher_NFO>
<application>C:/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe</application>
<args>steam://rungameid/steam_id</args>
</launcher>
</advanced_emulator_launcher_configuration>

For each game you need to change the steam_id. The NFO file with the metadata is optional as so is the category. Also, make sure the path to Steam.exe is the correct one (I don't use Steam and have never installed it). Please tell me if this works.

Proper support for Steam is planned for AEL 0.10.0. In the mean time you can create standalone launchers for every Steam game or use the Kodi Steam Launcher addon.  

This looks like it did trick but I do have some questions.  I'm still getting familiar with AEL but I knew enough to fill in the XML data via the AEL menu in Kodi.  If I were to create this file from something like notepad, where would I put the launcher file? 

(2020-02-21, 01:47)Jachin99 Wrote: Is there a way to instruct retroplayer to use a given emulator core when launching a game to avoid having to select my preferred emulator each time?  I know you cant select a default in kodi itself but one thing I like about IAGL is that I can pick a default emulator for a given list, and just open games directly from the launch button.  Thanks.

(2020-02-21, 01:47)Jachin99 Wrote: Is there a way to instruct retroplayer to use a given emulator core when launching a game to avoid having to select my preferred emulator each time?  I know you cant select a default in kodi itself but one thing I like about IAGL is that I can pick a default emulator for a given list, and just open games directly from the launch button.  Thanks.