(2016-08-26, 23:32)bakito Wrote: Just a quick comment (with no log I'm afraid, at this time I'm at work) but I'm an old time user of advanced launcher, so decide to test your evolution of it but add on give me an error while importing launcher from my advanced launcher add on...Does it require specific things?
My advanced launcher is quite loaded with different launcher, I'm using the favorite categories also ( something like super favorite but in advanced launcher) ,also I'm hiding the "default" category on advanced launcher...Maybe some of these option are not compatible with your add on?
Anyway, i'lltry to post a log as soon as I can, this was just to let you know...
Thanks for your work, advanced launcher is very useful and I'm glad that you keep on updating it!
Cheers

(2016-08-28, 13:51)atsumori Wrote:

(2016-08-26, 23:32)bakito Wrote: Just a quick comment (with no log I'm afraid, at this time I'm at work) but I'm an old time user of advanced launcher, so decide to test your evolution of it but add on give me an error while importing launcher from my advanced launcher add on...Does it require specific things?
My advanced launcher is quite loaded with different launcher, I'm using the favorite categories also ( something like super favorite but in advanced launcher) ,also I'm hiding the "default" category on advanced launcher...Maybe some of these option are not compatible with your add on?
Anyway, i'lltry to post a log as soon as I can, this was just to let you know...
Thanks for your work, advanced launcher is very useful and I'm glad that you keep on updating it!
Cheers

I am having the exact same issue with as far as I can tell the exact same setup (ancient and massive Advanced Launcher config, hiding default category). Here's the applicable section of my log file:

Code:

17:15:52 T:732796   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
17:15:52 T:732796   ERROR: AEL ERROR: (ParseError) Exception parsing XML categories.xml
17:15:52 T:732796   ERROR: AEL ERROR: (ParseError) mismatched tag: line 305, column 635
17:15:52 T:732796   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'>
                                            Error Contents: local variable 'roms' referenced before assignment
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Applications\Kodi\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher\addon.py", line 47, in <module>
                                                plugin.run_plugin()
                                              File "C:\Applications\Kodi\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher\resources\main.py", line 266, in run_plugin
                                                self._command_import_legacy_AL()
                                              File "C:\Applications\Kodi\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher\resources\main.py", line 3798, in _command_import_legacy_AL
                                                fs_load_legacy_AL_launchers(LAUNCHERS_FILE_PATH, AL_categories, AL_launchers)
                                              File "C:\Applications\Kodi\portable_data\addons\plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher\resources\disk_IO.py", line 1191, in fs_load_legacy_AL_launchers
                                                return roms
                                            UnboundLocalError: local variable 'roms' referenced before assignment
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

For the record, this is line 305 of my launchers.xml:

Code:

                    <gameplot>Another 3-D Sega game rendered with their superb sprite-scaling technology; this time putting the player into the seat of a powerful jet fighter.<br>A number of colorful, fast-moving environments await the player, as he or she takes on the hordes of enemy planes intent on the player's destruction.<br>At the end of every 2nd stage, the player's jet fighter is re-fueled and re-armed, either by the appearance of a large support plane, or by landing on a military airstrip.<br>After Burner's straightforward shoot'em up game-play is unremarkable and repetitive, but fun - largely down to the game's incredible visuals.</gameplot>

(2016-08-28, 15:59)Slapster Wrote: Hello again, is thegamesdb site usually as slow to respond as it has been the last few days? I've been adding the same rom library for over 36 hours and I'm at 84%. Only about 600 files. Pulling the site up in a browser loads eventually, after a literal minute or two, but it does load.

Is the below resource known about and would it work? I was doing some reading about others having issue with thegamesdb being down and it seems that the folks at launchbox aquired most of the info and artwork from the games db to build their own database. Is it just so new that it's not known about or is there another reason it's not used as a scrape source?

http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com

(2016-08-28, 16:09)Slapster Wrote:

(2016-08-28, 15:59)Slapster Wrote: Hello again, is thegamesdb site usually as slow to respond as it has been the last few days? I've been adding the same rom library for over 36 hours and I'm at 84%. Only about 600 files. Pulling the site up in a browser loads eventually, after a literal minute or two, but it does load.

Is the below resource known about and would it work? I was doing some reading about others having issue with thegamesdb being down and it seems that the folks at launchbox aquired most of the info and artwork from the games db to build their own database. Is it just so new that it's not known about or is there another reason it's not used as a scrape source?

http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com

Also, looking in the image folders it seems to be grabbing a good deal of incorrect artwork. Is this all dependent on my file naming (fresh scrape, no local library yet) or could it be caused by the slow response of the site?

(2016-08-27, 13:23)Girgl Wrote:

(2016-08-26, 14:43)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2016-08-26, 13:36)Girgl Wrote: This addon is great! I'm using RCB on my living room retro gaming box because I'm running Kodi 16. On my laptop running Kodi 17 RCB doesn't work. AEL works like a charm and is quite easy to set up, especially thanks to the offline scrapers, which is a very nice touch. I have only set up my MAME collection so far, and it was a snap. There's only 1 problem: i set the setting to ignore BIOS files, but they still show up in my collection. Am I doing someting wrong?

Ignore BIOS only works for No-Intro ROMs. For MAME it is more difficult to separate BIOSes. Advanced MAME Launcher will deal with that.

Sent from my SC-02G

Mamedb has a list with BIOS roms (http://www.mamedb.com/category/BIOS). Maybe you could implement it in your parser (I guess you have a custom made parser for the mame rom list) and ignore the BIOS roms during import? It's quite a hassle to manually delete the BIOS roms, which then get added back the next time you import games.

(2016-08-29, 00:08)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2016-08-28, 16:09)Slapster Wrote:

(2016-08-28, 15:59)Slapster Wrote: Hello again, is thegamesdb site usually as slow to respond as it has been the last few days? I've been adding the same rom library for over 36 hours and I'm at 84%. Only about 600 files. Pulling the site up in a browser loads eventually, after a literal minute or two, but it does load.

Is the below resource known about and would it work? I was doing some reading about others having issue with thegamesdb being down and it seems that the folks at launchbox aquired most of the info and artwork from the games db to build their own database. Is it just so new that it's not known about or is there another reason it's not used as a scrape source?

http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com

Also, looking in the image folders it seems to be grabbing a good deal of incorrect artwork. Is this all dependent on my file naming (fresh scrape, no local library yet) or could it be caused by the slow response of the site?

Hi, scrapers downloading the same image always is a known problem. Please read first post of the thread carefully. In the mean time, you can get artwork in the hyperspin forum, emumovies, progretto Emma and pleasuredome.

Sent from my SC-02G

(2016-08-29, 00:08)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2016-08-28, 16:09)Slapster Wrote:

(2016-08-28, 15:59)Slapster Wrote: Hello again, is thegamesdb site usually as slow to respond as it has been the last few days? I've been adding the same rom library for over 36 hours and I'm at 84%. Only about 600 files. Pulling the site up in a browser loads eventually, after a literal minute or two, but it does load.

Is the below resource known about and would it work? I was doing some reading about others having issue with thegamesdb being down and it seems that the folks at launchbox aquired most of the info and artwork from the games db to build their own database. Is it just so new that it's not known about or is there another reason it's not used as a scrape source?

http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com

Also, looking in the image folders it seems to be grabbing a good deal of incorrect artwork. Is this all dependent on my file naming (fresh scrape, no local library yet) or could it be caused by the slow response of the site?

Hi, scrapers downloading the same image always is a known problem. Please read first post of the thread carefully. In the mean time, you can get artwork in the hyperspin forum, emumovies, progretto Emma and pleasuredome.

Sent from my SC-02G

(2016-08-29, 07:35)Slapster Wrote: Not sure if it's the repeated scraping or the scraper itself but thought I would post it just in case it is the scraper.

(2016-08-29, 00:42)Wintermute0110 Wrote:

(2016-08-27, 13:23)Girgl Wrote:

(2016-08-26, 14:43)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Ignore BIOS only works for No-Intro ROMs. For MAME it is more difficult to separate BIOSes. Advanced MAME Launcher will deal with that.

Sent from my SC-02G

Mamedb has a list with BIOS roms (http://www.mamedb.com/category/BIOS). Maybe you could implement it in your parser (I guess you have a custom made parser for the mame rom list) and ignore the BIOS roms during import? It's quite a hassle to manually delete the BIOS roms, which then get added back the next time you import games.

Mamedb is dead, has not been updated in the last couple of years. Also, latest version in there is before the MAME/MESS merge and a lot of things have happened since then.

I will left this feature as it is now in AEL and focus on development of Advanced MAME Launcher. I will think later if there is an easy way to filter out MAME arcade bioses in AEL.

Sent from my SC-02G

(2016-08-29, 15:48)Girgl Wrote: Ok. maybe I don't get what Advanced MAME Launcher is then. Don't we have the functionality to launch MAME in AEL already? Why develop another Launcher?