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General / Re: Adding game info for emulators that are not MAME

« on: September 18, 2022, 09:23:09 AM »

Hi Tom,

Thank you for providing that, adding it to my directory now! Cheers

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 26, 2022, 05:48:02 PM »

You were 100% correct; removing the spaces instantly made the scrape work. I cannot believe I didn't think of that sooner... Crisis averted and all the information is now appearing! I've spent a few hours on this but I'm glad it is behind me now lmao!

Thank you for your help and patience. You seem like an awesome person, and I appreciate your work

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General / Re: Adding game info for emulators that are not MAME

« on: June 26, 2022, 05:43:44 PM »

Progets, you are the best - I didn't think to try using the attract console from CMD, just the regular attract.exe. I was able to get a romlist built out and into Attract Mode!

I'm messing around with filtering only roms that exist on the machine. I checked out the filter list from the wiki and it didn't mention the "FileIsAvailable" filter. So what I ended up doing was:

attract-console.exe -i "C:\Attract Mode\Sega Naomi.xml" -o "Sega Naomi"

I then went into the attract.cfg and added:

   filter             Available
      rule              FileIsAvailable equals 1

To my Sega Naomi display. I loaded up Attract Mode and it works now - thanks again for your help!

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General / Re: Adding game info for emulators that are not MAME

« on: June 25, 2022, 09:15:30 PM »

Hi Progets; if I'm in a Windows environment, is it possible to use command line to import an XML file and build the romlist? I know Windows is DOS based so the commands might be different but I'm not sure if I'm going to be unable to import the lists entirely.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 23, 2022, 09:12:35 PM »

No dice on reinstalling the layout I'm afraid.

And just to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong with AttractMode, but Attract Mode Plus runs in the root of the Attract Mode install correct? I had regular attract mode and switched to plus so I could use AF

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 23, 2022, 08:59:09 PM »

end with "\roms", is that correct? I mean, this way you'll have those media saved in a folder called roms inside the flyer etc.

Yes, this is correct - I think the way I set the paths in Skraper (which uses Screen Scraper), it looks at my main emulator folder and then sees the games within the rom folder. So it's like "C:\Attract Mode\emulators\Sega Genesis\roms", and the media folder creates a roms folder to match the structure... I think. Could easily be fixed but I don't mind that lol!

I turned on CRC check and disabled media scraping, and decided to try and scrape the entire romlist for Sega Genesis instead of one game. Below is what came from the console window - it seems that something is happening for it to at least recognize that it should attempt the next game. What that is, I'm not sure.

I'm going to attempt a clean install of AF and see if that helps! I will update shortly

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 22, 2022, 07:32:01 PM »

Here's my Sega Genesis config - I use RocketLauncher to load systems with my setup right now. I did try setting Retroarch as the emulator and then scraping, and unfortunately ended up with the same result I've been getting so far.

Other than my Screenscraper credentials, can you confirm the scraper settings I should have set?

• CRC Check = No
• Rom Scrape Options = Missing Only
• Scrape Error Roms = No
• Media Scrape Optiosns = Only Missing

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 21, 2022, 02:23:06 PM »

I took your advice and modified my settings to change the display menu layout, startup behavior, and power saving mode - thank you!

Within Arcadeflow I have my Screenscraper credentials entered, yes. I actually use the Skraper program outside of Attract Mode to get my information, and I see that a [system].dat gets created at least. I honestly don't mind using a different program to scrape for info, but is it possible to import this .dat file into the gamecube emulator for Arcadeflow to see it? If so, I may just do that.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 20, 2022, 09:03:12 PM »

I'm running Windows 10 on my machine and gave the curl command a whirl from CMD without any particular issues. It's of note that AttractMode used to be able to pull data from TheGamesDB but even outside of ArcadeFlow I have some issues. Attached is my config file!

Is there anything in the firewall I may need to configure as well, or elevated permissions to use when running the scraper?

Sorry for the late reply on my end too.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 15, 2022, 09:24:51 PM »

I added my credentials to the program, and then tried to run the scraper for an individual game. Arcade Flow then gets hung up and the console had the following info:

*** Initializing display: 'Sega Genesis'
 - Loaded master romlist 'Sega Genesis' in 0 ms (9 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 2 filters in 0 ms (18 comparisons)

WARNING: some options in attract.cfg clash with Arcadeflow

 - Loaded layout: C:\Attract Mode\layouts/Arcade Flow/ (layout.nut)
'layouts\Arcade' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
ID:0 DISPATCH (table : 0x0000000016aae850)
ID0-getromdata C:\Attract Mode\emulators\Sega Genesis\roms\Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Hyperstone Heist (USA).md
ID0-getromdata call createjson 1
ID0-createjson
ID0-createjson suspend
ID0-getromdata suspend 1
ID0-scrapegame2 suspend

I wasn't sure if there is something I'm doing wrong here but if you've got any insight, let me know! Worst case the non-mame systems don't have info, I honestly adore the theme so much outside of it that I could put up with it.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.7 [Release] Updated 14 June 2022

« on: June 15, 2022, 08:15:47 PM »

Thanks Zpaolo, I'll give it a try with the scraper and see how it goes!

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 13.6 [Release] Updated 06 June 2022

« on: June 08, 2022, 06:26:27 PM »

Hi! Thank you for the great work on this theme, it's easily my favorite and I'm glad that you're still actively working on it. I know Big Box is what's hot now but I like the look of AM with ArcadeFlow a great deal more.

Right now I'm struggling a little bit in getting rom info to display correctly for my systems that aren't MAME. Something that interested me about ArcadeFlow is the Romlist Management and being able to import XML files into each display. Is there info on how to go about doing that?

With AttractMode itself I know how to import extra files (even if I can only get it to work with MAME) but for instance I'm trying to get my Sega NAOMI display to pull information from catver.ini and get nothing. Any advice?

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General / Re: Adding game info for emulators that are not MAME

« on: April 21, 2022, 08:39:21 PM »

Hi Progets. sorry for the late reply - you've provided the exact resources that I was looking for! Thank you so much for helping out.

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

« on: April 13, 2022, 12:48:40 PM »

What would you delete first? The games or the media? So you might like this HyperPause for now, but in the future when you run out of space, you might decide to start cutting that out so you save a few gigs for storage on things that you do actually need like wheels, snaps etc.

For me it's gotta be the games - I think it's easier to procure a copy of something you may want to play again, but finding particular videos/art/other media that is the exact one you previously had is a whole lot tougher to come by. I also think that having to remove some games will make me evaluate what is being played vs what isn't, and if something has been on my machine and never played in months of having it around then it won't do much harm to have it be excluded.

Now that I have RocketLauncher running though I've just been configuring the emulators as needed! Flycast worked right away, and Dolphin works fine now after a clean install (I need Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 on my machine, even if they're console games!). I'm now excited to begin acquiring themes and art to personalize the setup!