[rdyott]

REQUEST: Can you please ADD "-Advanced X Sauna Explorer" to the Advanced line? Or add thumbs to the Sauna?

I really like the top part of Sauna, but the Thumbs bottom.
Sauna has no thumbs(wide/slim/bluedisc etc) just banners(steam/old style)







Ive just started to move my games over from hyperspin. testing the waters 1st b4 i got all in. Trying to get views looking good.
and just messed with rocketlauncher for the past week. trying to get the Fade set up how i wanted it hahah. and finally figured how how to get advanced launcher to boot up rocketlauncher to help decompress larger roms (wii games etc)

Thanks

[rdyott]

Here is an ugly video of rocketlauncher launching new super mario bros wii
not the fade images are not correct yet. still have to tinker around. also it seems its not pulling all the info. some stuff is missing:


Video: https://vid.me/zqHJ

Screenshot of what it SHOULD look like:

[Rufoo]

That Rocketlauncher load screen looks interesting. Tell me more about this and how it works. I never really bothered with it but I like what can be done with it as shown in your example.

As for the Sauna Explorer upper style appearing in Advance and whatnot that is part of the improvements for Wave Two. There will be more style sharing between series.

[rdyott]

That Rocketlauncher load screen looks interesting. Tell me more about this and how it works. I never really bothered with it but I like what can be done with it as shown in your example.

I'll send you a pm tomorrow explaining what I know about it.
My load screen is very basic and ugly atm. Was a proof of concept for myself haha

As for the Sauna Explorer upper style appearing in Advance and whatnot that is part of the improvements for Wave Two. There will be more style sharing between series.

makes me a happy panda

[rdyott]

More Suggestions/Requests: (minor things really)
Most of my suggestions are for the media aspects of SC.


-1 No ratings for movies.
-2 No Watched/Unwatched/New labels for movies/tv shows


PS awesome work on this skin extension. Never can give you enough praise for it.
This skin is the reason I made the leap from Hyperspin for my HTPC.

[Rufoo]

More Suggestions/Requests: (minor things really)
Most of my suggestions are for the media aspects of SC.


-1 No ratings for movies.
-2 No Watched/Unwatched/New labels for movies/tv shows


PS awesome work on this skin extension. Never can give you enough praise for it.
This skin is the reason I made the leap from Hyperspin for my HTPC.

Do you mean you want ratings removed / optional? Or are you stating there is no ratings in movies?

Let me know so I can work it into Wave Two. Eta for Wave Two will be not this weekend but next.

[rdyott]

For ratings. They are only present if you push I for info.
Might just be my personal preference to have the ratings on the main scroll page. Was just suggesting.

That was all
If you're a father. Happy Father's Day this weekend. Relax. Enjoy it.

[Rufoo]

A few niggling issues is holding up Wave Two. Be out this week sometime. Thanks for your patience.

[Daeymon]

When scrolling a wraplist with touchscreen/mouse, the wraplist doesn't handle focus correctly, basically the wraplist loses focus when the mouse or touch press releases the control, and therefore the "onunfocus" is triggered. This leads to trailers not triggering when the wraplist settles on a particular game. Any thoughts on how to workaround this or is this mod being designed with strictly gamepad/keyboard control in mind?

[Wintermute0110]

Introducing Advanced MAME Launcher

Advanced Emulator Launcher was a kind of training for the real thing... Advanced MAME Launcher, a complete Kodi front-end for MAME including both Arcade and Software Lists (totalling about 100.000 ROMs).

Currently AML is in a prototyping stage, however is somewhat functional. I have included a hard-coded database for MAME 0.174 (finished plugin will build the database using your installed MAME), so you won't have to do anything complicated to install and try it.

In the main menu you can navigate "Machines (with coin slot)", "Machines (no coin slot)", "Machines (Mechanical)", "Machines (dead)", and "Software Lists". If you are wondering, dead machines are the ones that are marked as Preliminary and have no controls. In other words: they don't work and you cannot interact with them at all.

Roughly, Machines with coin slot are the Arcade machines, Machines with no coin slot are stuff in former MESS before the MAME/MESS merge and Machines Mechanical is self-descriptive. I have done this navigation scheme in order to limit the maximum number of ROMs in one screen to about 5.000, so Kodi interface loads quick enough for a nice navigation experience (whomever used Advanced Launcher with lot of ROMs knows what I'm talking about).

When you enter into a category you are presented with the Parent ROMs. Clicking on a parent then you will get into the Parent/Clone list. In the finished AML you will only be able to launch ROMs from the Parent/Clone list.

Any other option is not implemented at the moment but you can get an idea of what they do. Launching is not yet implemented, nor AML will tell you which ROMs you have and which you miss.

For the experts: using the context menu "View Machine data" you can have a look to the raw MAME database AML uses to sort ROMs. Only works for MAME ROMs at the moment, not ROMs in Software Lists.

I'm a little bit stuck in the design and having a good design will avoid having to change lot of code in the future. Since I got very good ideas for Advanced Emulator Launcher from people in this thread, I would like you to try AML and tell me:

1. Do you like the parent/clone navigation system or think other solution could be better?
   
2. Is there something missing in the root menu, compared with other front-ends?
   
3. There are 3 kinds of Machines (ROMs) in MAME: A) Machine you need a ROM to launch B) Machines that need a ROM in a software list to launch C) Machines that can be launched without any ROM. How do you think is better to differentiate this? Extra tags at the end? Change the type face (bold, italics, etc.)?
   
4. Any other thing you think AML should/must have.
   

Thanks!

Instructions for installing from Github

It is important that you follow this instructions or AML won't work.

1) Go to AML Github main page and click on the green button "Clone or Download" --> "Download ZIP"

2) Uncompress this ZIP file. This will create a folder named 'plugin.program.advanced.MAME.launcher-master'

3) Rename that folder to 'plugin.program.advanced.MAME.launcher'

4) Compress that folder again into a ZIP file. In Kodi, use that ZIP file (and not the original one) to install the plugin in "System" --> "Addons" --> "Install from ZIP file"

5) You are done! Currently AML has a hard-coded MAME database so you do not have to do any further installation procedures.

You can use same way to install Advanced Emulator Launcher.

[Rufoo]

When scrolling a wraplist with touchscreen/mouse, the wraplist doesn't handle focus correctly, basically the wraplist loses focus when the mouse or touch press releases the control, and therefore the "onunfocus" is triggered. This leads to trailers not triggering when the wraplist settles on a particular game. Any thoughts on how to workaround this or is this mod being designed with strictly gamepad/keyboard control in mind?

I would have to look into this one more. Afaik, I think that is just simply the behaviour caused by using a mouse or touch because the mouse pointer / touch point becomes a point of focus, and when scrolling, the point of focus is on the inactive items in the list, thusly, no trailer is triggered even though visually there is a focused item in the middle. Kinda like the same reason why you don't hear 'ticks' when navigating via these methods. But this is an armchair assessment. I'll look into a little more for Wave Two but no promises on that one, as I think it may be a hard-baked thing in Kodi. However, creativity may overcome it.

Introducing Advanced MAME Launcher

Advanced Emulator Launcher was a kind of training for the real thing... Advanced MAME Launcher, a complete Kodi front-end for MAME including both Arcade and Software Lists (totalling about 100.000 ROMs).

Currently AML is in a prototyping stage, however is somewhat functional. I have included a hard-coded database for MAME 0.174 (finished plugin will build the database using your installed MAME), so you won't have to do anything complicated to install and try it.

I won't quote the whole block. Nothing but thanks for bringing another bad boy addon onto the scene. Guess I'll get Wave Two playing nicely with it. So many addons to support now. Wonderful times for Kodi gaming users.

[tekn0]

Amazing progress. Any chance of making a youtube video showing this system in action with the advanced emulator launcher? I think this is a great looking setup combined with emumovies art. I just have no experience with kodi and would love to see this system in action as i'm sure would many others.

[Rufoo]

Amazing progress. Any chance of making a youtube video showing this system in action with the advanced emulator launcher? I think this is a great looking setup combined with emumovies art. I just have no experience with kodi and would love to see this system in action as i'm sure would many others.

When I drop Wave Two I will release a video at the same time, you're not the first to ask as you point out, so I'll make a video demo.

Wave Two will support a LOT of addons, Advanced Launcher (vanilla), Wintermute's AEL and AML, IARL from zachmorris, and HL from teeedubb. So no matter which addon you prefer, you should find support for it.

Stay tuned.

[tekn0]

Very Excited. Thank you. Also maybe a small guide showing how to get a basic setup going or directions to where to find one. Kind of a bring your own art and roms guide. Where roms and art go etc. A basic setup for one system. I am having a hard time with advanced launcher. No art is showing up. I think having a walk through might help for new comers.

[Wintermute0110]

Very Excited. Thank you. Also maybe a small guide showing how to get a basic setup going or directions to where to find one. Kind of a bring your own art and roms guide. Where roms and art go etc. A basic setup for one system. I am having a hard time with advanced launcher. No art is showing up. I think having a walk through might help for new comers.

Sorry for not having yet written the docs of AEL and AML. Still in development so I will do it once 1.0 is released. For AL Google a bit. There's lots of tutorials about how to setup Advanced Launcher. They're old but work. Also, you may want to try Advanced Emulator Launcher. Is 95% compatible with vanilla Advanced Launcher so anything you find for AL will work with AEL.

Sent from my SC-02G