[nmcaullay]

Hi all, i entered the magic code and all was revealed wit the games menu

Now i try to run a MAME zip file and there is a small flurry of activity, but it seems to fail.
https://pastebin.com/kFFvBn7S

I have MAME 2000 emulator installed, and a known working ROM.. but there are lots of errors in the logs.

Any ideas?

Nathan

[garbear]

The problem is that Kodi's extension handling hasn't been updated yet. It thinks the zip file is a video and uses VideoPlayer instead of RetroPlayer. I've added a patch to my RetroPlayer builds, but if you're getting this error you're probably using master. Try adding this to your advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <videoextensions>
    <remove>.bin|.img|.iso|.zip</remove>
  </videoextensions>
  <musicextensions>
    <remove>.cue|.zip</remove>
  </musicextensions>
  <pictureextensions>
    <remove>.zip</remove>
  </pictureextensions>
</advancedsettings>

[nmcaullay]

worked a treat, added the advancedsettings.xml and the MAME emulator worked fine. Thank you.
I'm not sure i know the difference between master and your retroplayer builds. I grabs the build from http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173361, is there a different location?

Thanks again.

[garbear]

The difference between my windows and OSX builds, and master (including milhouse's RPi builds):

* Games are enabled by default
* The advanced settings hack above is already included
* All available emulators are included
* Savestates work better than master (though still broken)
* Repository for IARL is included

If this isn't the case, i probably uploaded a wrong build

[nmcaullay]

Ah ok, that explains things... I'm on the Rpi build referenced on that page, but is based on master (Millhouse).
Thanks for the responses, this is truly exciting stuff.

[linkinsoldier]

The problem is that Kodi's extension handling hasn't been updated yet. It thinks the zip file is a video and uses VideoPlayer instead of RetroPlayer. I've added a patch to my RetroPlayer builds, but if you're getting this error you're probably using master. Try adding this to your advancedsettings.xml:
 

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<videoextensions>
<remove>.bin|.img|.iso|.zip</remove>
</videoextensions>
<musicextensions>
<remove>.cue|.zip</remove>
</musicextensions>
<pictureextensions>
<remove>.zip</remove>
</pictureextensions>
</advancedsettings>

 This still seem to be true for the last builds.
@garbear: can this change somehow be pushed to the official master branch? I guess a lot of people will fall over this

[garbear]

The problem is that Kodi's extension handling hasn't been updated yet. It thinks the zip file is a video and uses VideoPlayer instead of RetroPlayer. I've added a patch to my RetroPlayer builds, but if you're getting this error you're probably using master. Try adding this to your advancedsettings.xml:
 

Code:

<advancedsettings>
<videoextensions>
<remove>.bin|.img|.iso|.zip</remove>
</videoextensions>
<musicextensions>
<remove>.cue|.zip</remove>
</musicextensions>
<pictureextensions>
<remove>.zip</remove>
</pictureextensions>
</advancedsettings>

 This still seem to be true for the last builds.
@garbear: can this change somehow be pushed to the official master branch? I guess a lot of people will fall over this    

Ultimately we can't sniff extensions. The solution is a parser.

I've added this to my List of v18 issues, but the Player Manager is gonna be such a large amount of work that I have no clue if I can get this in the v18 release.

[linkinsoldier]

Thanks for the response! I think this rater is a "nice to have", manual solution is quite easy