Emulators and Their Games / Platforms and Their Emulators 2.0.0

Great work on this plugin! It’s exactly what we needed 😍

@ci2own Hopefully My response to your Comment you had in your Review of the plugin sheds some light on what you're looking for.  

1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said:

@ci2own Hopefully My response to your Comment you had in your Review of the plugin sheds some light on what you're looking for.  

Was looking to the wrong direction 😅.

 

Thanks for creating this! Love it!!

I've got 3 minor issues to report.

Flycast, I haven't figured out why, but the list from the plugin shows 185 games, while I show 196 across all of the "Sega" varieties that it emulates.  I need to look closer to see if I can figure out what games are missing from the plugin list that I have in my list.  I just haven't had time yet, but once I do, I'll post back what I find.

I have a couple of games that are PC games and DON'T have any emulator.  I do see a "<< Unassigned Emulator >>" entry at the top of the emulator list, but there are no games listed under it.  I wasn't sure if you intended to handle this scenario, or I'd also understand if this wasn't a scenario you thought of since the original conversation that sparked this plugin was specifically about emulators.  But if you could make this work for games that don't have an associated emulator, that would be great!

I have 2 instances of Star Wars Trilogy with Supermodel.  The original instance, and then a copy for playing with a light gun.  In the main plugin interface I see both instances.  But when I create a playlist from it, only the original instance is added to the playlist. (You can read here the details of why I have this setup with SW Trilogy.)

2 hours ago, Zaphod54 said:

Flycast, I haven't figured out why, but the list from the plugin shows 185 games, while I show 196 across all of the "Sega" varieties that it emulates.  I need to look closer to see if I can figure out what games are missing from the plugin list that I have in my list.  I just haven't had time yet, but once I do, I'll post back what I find.

Can you share a screenshot of that (the plugin showing 185 games. [the whole plugin window])?

 

2 hours ago, Zaphod54 said:

I have a couple of games that are PC games and DON'T have any emulator.  I do see a "<< Unassigned Emulator >>" entry at the top of the emulator list, but there are no games listed under it.  I wasn't sure if you intended to handle this scenario

I had intended to remove that entry ("<< Unassigned Emulator >>").  That appears when I make the API call to Get All Emulators.  Not sure what its intent is.  As you [also] discovered, it not for games that don't have an emulator.

Speaking of which, looking for games that don't use an emulator is outside of the scope and intent of this plugin.  There have been several different conversations/questions over the years about this type of filtering.  I just happened to have been caught on a slow day when reading the last thread relating to this and threw this together.  

 

2 hours ago, Zaphod54 said:

I have 2 instances of Star Wars Trilogy with Supermodel.  The original instance, and then a copy for playing with a light gun.  In the main plugin interface I see both instances.  But when I create a playlist from it, only the original instance is added to the playlist.

The plugin looks to see if a game already exists in the playlist.  But since I have it to only allow new playlists to be created, I see [a reason] now that that-check is not necessary.  (I think it was a carryover from a previous plugin.)  I will add that to my something-to-look-into and take-care-of list. 😊

v1.0.2 Released

Fixed:                Would not allow users duplicated games to be added to the new playlist.
New Option:   When creating playlists, you can choose to replace an existing playlist if one already exists with the same name.
Fixed:                Removed "<< Unassigned Emulator >>" from the list of emulators.

 

Thanks for the update!  Haven't had a chance to try the new version yet, but..

I did want to let you know that the Flycast difference was my error.  I had several games that I had flagged as Flycast with my custom field (back to my original forum post that sparked this plugin) because they are naomi games, but I hadn't actually changed the configs on the games to use Flycast instead of MAME.

Edited November 4 by Zaphod54

v2.0.0 Released

New Feature:  View all emulators associated with a Platform

Flip the toggle switch, select a platform and see which emulators have it as an Associated Platform.  The default emulator (if more than one) will be highlighted in blue.

Select an emulator and see its [other] Associated Platforms. (Basically, the inverse of the original plugin release)