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General / Adding game info for emulators that are not MAME

« on: April 17, 2022, 08:18:59 AM »

Hi all,

I've got attract mode up and running and am now working on adding individual games and making sure they all work with what I've got. Something that has been bugging me though is the lack of information that I have for each specific game - I want to be able to see the genre, number of players, developer, etc for my systems so I can create filters and make finding a game a lot easier.

in reading other posts there's files for mame like 'catver.ini', 'nplayers.ini' and so forth. I wasn't sure if there was something that existed for other consoles like the Sega Dreamcast, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. I know that these consoles have XML files with database information on the game library, but I wasn't sure if this was something that could be included as an 'additional import file' in attract mode. Thanks!

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General / "Error Executing Command" when launching game, using rocket launcher

« on: April 06, 2022, 09:23:58 PM »

Hi all! I've been trying to do some googling on this issue and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. My issue is the same as the one described in this post here:
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2396.0

The problem is that the OP there did not post what their solution is so I'm hoping for some assistance here.

Right now, I have rocket launcher set up to open AttractMode as the front-end to be used. Within RocketLauncher I can successfully load Dreamcast games using Flycast; and within attract mode, I have the emulator config pointing to rocket launcher to do the heavy lifting. The problem that occurs, however, is that I get an error when trying to launch a game and nothing happens.

My folder structure is as follows:

Attract mode - C:\Attract Mode\attract.exe
Rocket Launcher - C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe
Flycast (named in Attract Mode as Sega Dreamcast) - C:\Attract Mode\emulators\Flycast
Flycast roms - C:\Attract Mode\emulators\Flycast\roms

I've spent way more time than I should have in trying to figure this out, but the pathing *seems* right to me. I've included my config files here as attachments for reference to see if someone can help out. I also wanted to leverage the attract mode portion of RocketLauncher documentation, but I feel that it is lacking a bit to explain some nuances.

Nonetheless, thank you all for your time!