What emulators do you use with Xlobby?

[jowaldo]

What emulators do you use with Xlobby? I'm just now starting to get games set up, but I'm looking for an easy way to launch a game straight from xlobby instead of any windows interface.

I'm looking for pretty much the whole range of emulators for NES, SNES, Genisis, Mame, etc

[mattdisaster]

Nes - Nestopia
Sega - Gens
Snes - Snes 9.x

Those work for me rather nicely, I've gotten each to display perfectly on my hdtv. Good luck!

-matt

[Colby]

I am glad you asked this question. I use so many emulators it is a pita to set up. I still havent found the best solution. I too am looking for good emulators too that work with xl and usb controllers.
I use:
jnes=NES
snes9x=SNES
Gens= Genesis
NeoRage=Neo Geo
Magic Engine= TG16

thats all I can think of at the moment. Its hard to find good emulators that work well with XL. I like jnes' windows format the best. But I cant always find those. I recently found MorphGear that looks promising as a multi-emu.

The hardest part of designing a games page for XL is testing it. Once you start playing the games you are no longer skinnning. Believe Me!

[Basic]

Could you guys maybe post the command line switches that you are using for each one of these emulators as well please? I've had alot of trouble setting up the emulators in Xlobby.

[BaddaBing]

matt, colby & jowaldo,
I'm running MAME with mameplus-0.86u5-bin-intel. Just FYI, I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do it, but the way I've configured my games is with a database for each game type and screens based on the emulator required by the game. The main requirement for this type of set up being an emulator that accepts command line arguments to directly launch a game. To manage my collection of MAME games I have a DB called ROMS_MAME and an associated screen. This allows me to assign unique start up parameters and use the event manager like this:

I'm sure this is all old news to you guys, but just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.

[dgemily]

I integrated some emulators in Xlobby but I'm not realy use all of them.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chezdgemily/play_games.rar
Here is my eventgroups “play games” for:
project64
- mame32+
- zinc
- zsnes
- VisualBoyAdvance.
you can take a look if you need...

here :http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2003&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
is the thread about how to integrate MAME32+ ,is the same way for all other emulators (project64- mame32+- zinc- zsnes- VisualBoyAdvance.)

about zinc is a little bit different , for the command lines you need the number of every roms:
sfexj.zip set nomb=1
sfex.zip set nomb=2
sfexp.zip set nomb=3
sfexpj.zip set nomb=4
sfex2.zip set nomb=5
sfex2p.zip set nomb=6
sg2j.zip set nomb=7
rvschool.zip set nomb=8
jgakuen.zip set nomb=9
sr2j.zip set nomb=10
sr2.zip set nomb=11
kikaioh.zip set nomb=12
ts2j.zip set nomb=13
tgmj.zip set nomb=14
sncwgltd.zip set nomb=15
beastorizer.zip set nomb=16
psyforce.zip set nomb=17
mgcldate.zip set nomb=18
souledge.zip set nomb=19
souledgc.zip set nomb=20
tekken.zip set nomb=21
tk2b.zip set nomb=22
danceyes.zip set nomb=23
xevi3dg.zip set nomb=24
starswep.zip set nomb=25
myangel3.zip set nomb=26

your database should be like this:

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<item>
<parameter>16</parameter>
<coverart>D:\zinc\roms\beastorizer.jpg</coverart>
<display>beastorizer</display>
<information>
 <name>beastorizer</name>
</information>
</item>

for Mame32+
we found an application that it scan your mame repertories' and build a xlobby database with the maximum of informations.
your pictures must have the same name of your roms with an extention ".png"(you can do spnashots with mame, press F12)

here is the application in French and in US: http://france.xlobby.com/download/Rom_to_xml.rar

you have to indicate the repertory where your roms folder, your pictures folder and where your database repertory are.
to do it: edit Rom_to_xml_US.vbs (right click and modify)
change those lines:

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' Liste of roms files (deflaut directory) :
Rom_Path      = "C:\Program Files\mame32+\roms\"

' List of all rom snapshots (default directory) :
Rom_Snapshot_Path   = "C:\Program Files\mame32+\snap\"

' Roms Categories (default file) :
Rom_Type_File_Name   = "C:\Program Files\mame32+\folders\Category.ini"
' Destination file :
Rom_XML_File= "C:\Program Files\Xlobbyfr\databases\Mame.xml"

it will create a database like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<database>
  <sortorder>display</sortorder>
  <sortable>
    <sort>Types</sort>
    <sort>RomInfo</sort>
  </sortable>
  <template>display</template>
  <paths>
  </paths>
<item>
    <parameter>D:\Emulateurs\mane32plus\roms\1941.zip</parameter>
    <coverart>D:\Emulateurs\mane32plus\snap\1941.png</coverart>
    <information>
        <display>1941 - Counter Attack (World)</display>
        <produced>1990</produced>
        <rom>1941</rom>
        <Types>Shooter,Flying Vertical</Types>
        <Construct>Capcom</Construct>
        <RomInfo>Dispo.</RomInfo>
    </information>
    </item>
<item>

Later.

[dalanik]

I started playing (he, he - literally!) with games recently and have managed so far to install MAME and it work very well, apart from the fact that you can't control games with the remote (hehe).

What other emulators would you suggest? I'm concerned with XLobby integration (they have to run w/o any windows dialogs that have to be clicked etc. i.e. accept commandline options).

Thanx,
D.

[jpoveda]

I'm finding games to play with remote and I've a lot of problems with mame and flash games. Anybody knows how to configure system to play with them?.

Thanks.

[dgemily]

There is a new version of Rom_to_xml ( to use with Mame , tested with mame32+)

The application will scan your roms folder and recover snaps corresponding to your roms, and it will create a xml database for Xlobby with all information( Types, Rominfo,year, constructor....)

you have just to edit the .vbs and modify the path in those lines:

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' Search and output files...
Mame_Path      = "C:\Program Files\mame32+\"

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' Exe tool files :
Wget_exe      = "C:\Program Files\XlobbyFr\Tools\wget.exe"

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' Detination file :
Rom_XML_File            = "C:\Program Files\XlobbyFr\databases\Mame.xml"

and then execute the vbs, that's all...

the application: http://france.xlobby.com/download/Rom_to_xml2.zip

you need : wget.exe
if you don't have it, you can find it inside of this: http://upsgi.free.fr/files/myLaunch_Xlobby/Outils.zip

Later,

Dge