SNES in xLobby questions

[player911]

I've had xLobby for about 2 days. I've learned so much already. I have my music, pictures, and movies loaded up. I've been changing/adding new events and getting lots of things working.

But I can't seem to get my SNES roms to work. I use that "plugin" Rom2xlobby.exe and I can get it to create an XML file. There I go into xlobby's setup and into the database tab, where I add the XML database which loads as "SNES".

Ok I got that far. But I can't get to where it pulls up my roms. On my ROMs page, I created a "window" and selected the "SNES" database. (pardon my lack of technical terms).

If I change the database to something else, it'll display the data, but selecting the SNES database returns nothing.

I was reading something in here about selecting "Thumbnail" view... but I think it was written for a previous xlobby version because I can't find that option anywhere. But I gotta get the database loaded up first.

What commands should I need? Can you start the selected Rom and have it launch zSNES or how does it work? I saw pics where you can play the games directly in xLobby, but that seems really complicated so I'll save that for another day.

I have my Roms stored at C:\Media\Roms which is where the XML file is. Roms2xlobby.exe also downloaded the images for my roms.

would it be like "category>SNES>%name" or something?

This is the only thing that is really stumping me.

[player911]

Can anyone offer me some advice?

[cmhardwick]

i haven't added a database like this, but my first thought would be to move the XML to the xlobby database directory. I don't think xlobby will find it otherwise. I could be wrong.

[player911]

Directions stated to keep the XML file in the same directory as the Roms and just manually add it.

There could be several issues here that makes it figure out where the problem is.

I'm trusting this Roms2xlobby.exe to correctly generate a usable XML file. I would think it works because not only did it make a XML file, but also downloaded the coverart for the rom. Because it downloaded the coverart... that tells me that it was able to detect the rom name, so it shoulda added it to the database it created.

Assuming the database was created correctly = bad.

Either a bad database or it being loaded improperly is prolly whats at stake here. Because my page can pull data from other databases tells me my page is right.

I'll double check the XML file today and see what it brings up. I only put one rom in there to test with... maybe i'll try with a bunch of them.

So i can display a database, but how does one go about displaying rom information, displaying coverart and launching the rom to play. Do you launch the rom itself and leave windows to find the associated program, or just launch the ZSnes program itself with extra commands? Anyone know?

I just need a little insight from someone who had it setup so I can get started.

[dgemily]

you need to assign an event to your category in the aim of playing your roms with a specific emulateur.

assign to your category an event with the following command:

os: execute file
pointing to zsnesw.exe
and in argument put:

"%snes>parameter%" ( where "snes" is your category name.

hope it's help you...

btw, you can try with this skin ( but it's in french...)
the skin : http://www.france.xlobby.com/forum/skin ... talXFR.rar

some screenshots there : http://www.france.xlobby.com/forum/skin ... #jeuxvideo

[player911]

Here is an update on my status.

I found that Roms2xlobby.exe makes 2 databases. One in the directory of your roms and another database in \xlobby\databases\.

Originally I imported the database in the ROM directory and this did not work. I later found that importing the database in the xlobby sub-directory did work. Also finding that you can manually create a database from the ROM template within xlobby itself.

And to launch the roms, I simply set zSnes as the default program for Roms. So when I launch a ROM in xlobby, it'll automatically launch zsnes and the rom will automatically start.

I did it this way because I couldn't get the arguments to work. executing a zsnes directly just launched the program then I had to manually load the game. Not good.

My only goal now is to find the parameters to display information such as Title, Year, Description, etc.

this works:

%snes>name% = Chrono Trigger

What are the other variables? I will try a few things and repost back my findings, if any.

[player911]

Ok I couldn't use parameters because I was using my custom database that I made in xlobby.

If I deleted the \xlobby\databases\snes database, and re-created one from roms2xlobby and import it... then everything seems to work.

%snes>parameter% = local path
%snes>coverart% = coverart path
year%
title%
name%
delevoper%
genre%
plot% = long summary of game
rating% = rating out of 10.

But here's another blockade.

I want to set this up to have a list of games, then have all the details on the side.

Well I couldn't just setup a textbox with %snes>coverart% because that just returned the local path in text (C:\media\games\picture9344.jpg)

So what I had to do was make another category with the same database, but change the view to only show the picture. I resized it so it fit nicely in my layout and everything is perfect.

Now I just got to upload all my roms and make sure everything scrolls right and is good.

[dgemily]

Here is an update on my status.

I found that Roms2xlobby.exe makes 2 databases. One in the directory of your roms and another database in \xlobby\databases\.

Originally I imported the database in the ROM directory and this did not work. I later found that importing the database in the xlobby sub-directory did work. Also finding that you can manually create a database from the ROM template within xlobby itself.

the databases xml in your rom repertories created by rom2xlobby are not databases for xlobby... rom2xlobby will automaticaly create a database in th repertory databases of your xlobby installation...

I did it this way because I couldn't get the arguments to work. executing a zsnes directly just launched the program then I had to manually load the game. Not good.

yeah, in fact you need to find the right command line to launch a game with your emulator... ( and use a xlobby variable instead of the path of your rom or the name of your rom...)

What are the other variables?

add a new text with category>snes>name (where "snes" is your category name and "name" is the fields that you want to be displayed
so : category>snes>year category>snes>plot etc....