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RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2024-02-08

(2024-02-07, 23:12)MohawkDaddy Wrote: Of course I figure it out 10 minuted after posting for help... I just needed to go to the Scrape ROMs section and it asks which scraper to use...

Good to hear you figured it out. Please share input, thoughts or suggestions that might help others. When I have time I will update the documentation.

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2024-02-08

(2024-02-08, 08:43)lifeofastro Wrote: I am also have the issue with RetroArch where when clicking a ROM nothing happens. ROMs load perfectly in RetroArch itself, but in AKL nothing happens.

Make sure that AKL and the Retroarch launcher addon for AKL both have debug level for logging (go to addon settings of both and to the "advanced" menu item). 
Try to launch a ROM and share logs here (using paste.kodi.tv). Thanks

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - lifeofastro - 2024-02-09

I attached it thank you https://paste.kodi.tv/ajewifitih.kodi

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2024-02-10

(2024-02-09, 03:15)lifeofastro Wrote: I attached it thank you https://paste.kodi.tv/ajewifitih.kodi

So the command it should execute looks to be ok:
D:/RetroArch/retroarch.exe -L "D:/RetroArch/cores/snes9x_libretro.dll" -c "D:/RetroArch/retroarch.cfg" "D:/Emulators/Roms/SNES/Street Fighter II (USA).sfc"

You can try to run it on your machine by opening up the command prompt and pasting in the command above. See what happens when you execute it. You can also add a "-v" in front of the -L to get some more output.
I have to test it from the retroarch launcher in Kodi on a windows box still. I will try that somewhere upcoming week. In the meantime you can try out the command above to see if there is something wrong there.

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - lifeofastro - 2024-02-10

I pasted the command into the command prompt and it loaded up RetroArch and the Rom perfectly

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - lifeofastro - 2024-02-14

The command in the command prompt launches the rom in RetroArch in full screen which is perfect but in AKL that same command does nothing. I'm not sure what would be causing nothing to happen. I tried launching Kodi as admin as well and nothing

Scrapper Issues with big ROM Collection - Jose_Ender - 2024-02-20

Hello , first of all thank you very much for your great contribution, AKL is an awesome pluggin.

I'm using Kodi on Debian 12 and for ROM Scrapping I'm using AKL with ScreenScrapper. It works fine for an small ROM Collection, but when I executed for a collection with all the ROMs I have (around 14000) scrapper doesn'st start afte rthe "preparation notification".

I have tried several times and nothing happen after a while, although CPU is at 100% for a while. Is there any limit to the maximum number of ROMs a collection could have?

I have also tried to do local scrapping , as I have fanarts for some of the ROMs, but it doesn't work either.

Any idea what can be happening?

Is there any configuration file in which I could link the games I have assets for with those assets manually?

Thank you very much

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - trixthethird - 2024-02-20

Hello, I am new to Kodi and its addons and I have a problem which I think I can solve with AKL, just need some pointers.
I am running Kodi on a NixOS Linux system on a Raspberry Pi 4. I have moonlight-qt installed on this machine also. I want to open moonlight-qt in Kodi, and when I am done gaming I want to return to Kodi. Can AKL be used to achieve this? If so, can someone give me instructions on how to do it? 
Kind regards,
Trix

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2024-02-23

(2024-02-10, 19:12)lifeofastro Wrote: I pasted the command into the command prompt and it loaded up RetroArch and the Rom perfectly
I will try it with a different way of executing the application from Kodi. Currently in the middle of building a new feature and I need to get that out of the way first before I can test it correctly.
Keep an eye out for updates in this thread.

RE: Scrapper Issues with big ROM Collection - chrisism - 2024-02-23

(2024-02-20, 09:37)Jose_Ender Wrote: Hello , first of all thank you very much for your great contribution, AKL is an awesome pluggin.

I'm using Kodi on Debian 12 and for ROM Scrapping I'm using AKL with ScreenScrapper. It works fine for an small ROM Collection, but when I executed for a collection with all the ROMs I have (around 14000) scrapper doesn'st start afte rthe "preparation notification".

I have tried several times and nothing happen after a while, although CPU is at 100% for a while. Is there any limit to the maximum number of ROMs a collection could have?

I have also tried to do local scrapping , as I have fanarts for some of the ROMs, but it doesn't work either.

Any idea what can be happening?

Is there any configuration file in which I could link the games I have assets for with those assets manually?

Thank you very much
Big collection indeed. Is it an option to separate them in multiple collections? I am interested in where it goes wrong with the scraping. Of course with online scraping you have to take in account that some of the websites don't like that you scrape to much to often. AKL tries to make sure it doesnt hit those limits, but anything is possible of course. One of the features on my wish list was to do scraping actions on smaller batches within a collection, to overcome these kinds of issues. But nothing implemented yet.
If you can share logs when it happens I can see if I can optimize that part. Same for the local scraping, which should indeed be the alternative approach. In the plugin directory you can find the database file. It is a SQLite database, so if you are comfortable with it you can update it there (dont forget to make a backup). 
Share the logs of both scrape attempts (online and local) and I can have a look at it.

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2024-02-23

(2024-02-20, 19:43)trixthethird Wrote: Hello, I am new to Kodi and its addons and I have a problem which I think I can solve with AKL, just need some pointers.
I am running Kodi on a NixOS Linux system on a Raspberry Pi 4. I have moonlight-qt installed on this machine also. I want to open moonlight-qt in Kodi, and when I am done gaming I want to return to Kodi. Can AKL be used to achieve this? If so, can someone give me instructions on how to do it? 
Kind regards,
Trix

If you only want to open up moonlight-qt you can create a Standalone ROM and configure the executable (lookup standalone ROMs in the documentation and in this thread for more info).

I still need to add moonlight-qt as a launcher with the Gamestream plugin for AKL. With that plugin you can directly read a Sunshine server in Kodi and use moonlight as the launcher. Currently it only supports android version of Moonlight and the old java client (pc/linux). If somebody can share the commandline and arguments for executing a specific game with moonlight-qt, I can add it as a launcher.

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - myghalloween - 2024-02-24

Hi,

For moonlight-qt :
Moonlight.exe /help or moonlight --help to get all the options

For example, to start mstsc.exe app from my moonlight host :

Create shortcut
"C:\Program Files\Moonlight Game Streaming\Moonlight.exe" --quit-after stream myhost.lan mstsc

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - josemi1971 - 2024-02-27

Hello. I've been testing the app but I'm stuck. Is there a way to run any program (exe) e.g. photoshop? Thank you for your work

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - Erebenus - 2024-02-28

I'm trying to figure out how to launch xemu, cemu, retroarch and .lnks. Any advice would be appreciated.

RE: Advanced Kodi Launcher - Game and Emulators frontend for Kodi - josemi1971 - 2024-02-29

Hello, again. I've managed to get a .exe app to run through its shortcut. But, I get the launcher menu, and I would like the program to come out directly and not the launcher menu. Can it be done? As always, thank you very much