slipsystem

Unofficial BigBox Kodi Addon(Linux and Android Beta) View File BUY ME A BEER Submitter slipsystem Submitted 05/11/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins

I am using estuary mod 17. it supports clear logos and trailers. it also uses skin helper which automatically downloads images on the fly. I was using Aeon Nox but it didn't support trailers when I was testing.

nice work. you actually thought me how to launch games using the api. can i include your source in my repository? https://github.com/slipsystem/LaunchBox-Plugin-Examples

Before I get any bug reports. This is not meant to work. This is a Tutorial to show you what is possible with the plugin system I just wanted to share my projects with all the people eagerly waiting to start developing there own plugins but don't know where to start or how to implement the API. also although my job involves me writing code I would not say I am an expert so don't hate. simply download the project and open in visual studios. i will update the projects with more ways to use the API when I get a chance Contents Benchmark with Fraps GamesDB Scraper Movie Scraper BigBox Play and Kill by @don LaunchBox-Plugin-Examples GitHub BUY ME A BEER

my focus at the moment is getting cross platform working to the max. i am starting with android and then moving to linux. as for auto hotkeys and quit key combos , i am doing some reading on the launchbox plugin system that has been recently implemented. I am hoping to be able to launch the games via launchbox itself instead of intercepting commands that it sends. this way the games will launch as if Launchbox actually launched it. i am not sure if this is even possible but thats where i will be putting my attention.

Hi thanks allot for that. I have found the problem, there is an issue with converting some unicode characters in kodi. i am currently looking into how to fix this. as for scrummvm and windows, I had an issue with this in the past but I thought I fixed it. can you run the update database function inside the addon, this should fix launch parameters for previous versions. then let me know if they still are not able to launch.

i notice commodore amiga is looking for the emulator as a image for some reason. if you can send me you launchbox data folder i can try diagnose why its getting confused.

Hey thanks for the info, this always helps diagnose the problem quickly. I have updated the Beta Version in the original post, this should hopefully fix the issue. the problem was that I only joined the paths if they were relative outside the Launchbox folder because I was not sure what would happen if the paths were not relative. that is why commodore 64 started but did not launch the game because it could not find it. a lot of emulators like retroarch also will not start unless all the parameters are properly met so If it cant find the game it will not launch. the reason why you are getting the message that Bigbox was updated is because the plugin has detected that one of the platform xmls has been updated. this does a loop threw all the platforms so if you updated 2 platforms it will tell you twice. the nice thing about this is that if you click yes it will update just the platform that was updated and not the entire database which takes forever. i will be working on making this less annoying. also in the beta version I have fixed the genre list it now displays individual genres instead of tag groups. ie instead of displaying action;shooter;adventure; adventure; shooter; puzzle;adventure it will display action adventure puzzle shooter i have also fixed retroarch config for android. this was an issue that I picked up when using my controller, every time I launched a game my controller was not configured. at the moment I am busy working on android command replacements, I am going to try get all my platforms out the box. I also want to do a scan so it can detect whether you have downloaded the core needed in retroarch as well as the bios, then warn you if they are not found and tell you what to download.

hey I was not aware of this issue, I have not tested it myself. I will have a look. Hey I have had a look and everything seems to be working on my side. can you upload your kodi log located in

New update to the Beta Version. there is now a command bypass xml file. you can configure each platform to bypass the generated command. the xml file is located under the addon folder Windows Linux Android

New Beta Version. Clear Logo Support Trailer Support. Android and Linux Support. Next focus. next focus will be to add custom launch command for android and linux. at the moment it checks the retroarch launch cmd and converts it to work with Android or Linux. in the future I will build in commands in case you use something like epsxe for launchbox it will launch it in retroarch if you are using Linux or Android.

theoretically it is possible, It would require me to customize the addons theme. I am not sure at the moment how to add a custom theme to my addon. this would be cool though as I will be able to add other image types like clear logos and even video snaps. I will look into this in the future(maybe i will use RCB as a base).

Update in Original Post. added features. Play Random Game (launches a random game) Random Games (lists some random games) added Icons for other menu items

Im glad you like it. I built this addon for that reason I wanted to display Last Played and Recently added games as a widget. I do plan on adding new features I just dont know what to add. Thank you for your suggestion I will be adding this for you soon.

Hi there is a new update that should fix the relevant paths. also good idea to keep the dialog box, I have set it to display if the launch command fails.

are the emulators inside the emulators folder in launchbox? that dialog box was a mistake it was for testing purposes and was ment to be taken out. i will do some more testing with the path join when i get back to cape town.

Thank you for your feedback. I noticed spaces in your Emulator paths(for instance Retroarch PSX) I have updated the addon to allow spaces in Emulation Paths.

New Update is available. I did a bit of research into the images. I found games containing "'" where not finding images as well as games containing "!" I have fixed these as well as I have added more fallback images to both Thumb and Fanart. you will need to run the Update database to get the missing images. I have added a Favorite category that will display games marked as favorite in Launchbox. Added new categories. Favorites and Genre these do not have Icons yet(maybe someone can provide me with a fanart and thumb) fixed some blank game images. replaced the ugly NULL in game description with "No Game Information Found" replaced the ugly NULL in platform description with "No Platform Information Found" changed the Publisher to SlipSystem because mettlekettle is not my name. Future Updates I will like to add the following more emulator compatibility(I am starting my game hard drive from scratch so I am not sure if there is any launch problems with other emulators.) add Icons for Genre and Favorites if anyone wants to help with some icons because I just took images of google. maybe a cleanup of the code(separate them into different resources because at the moment its all over the place)

thanks for your input. I had a look at your log and found that Kodi doesn't log the error properly, however I did find the reason why it doesnt log is because the script doesnt crash but its not able to pass the launch command. does your emulator path contain spaces? I havent written logic to prevent spaces in emulator path so this can be causing an issue. I have however posted a new update. no new features but I have written some logic to fix some launch commands. windows games should work in theory now but I havent properly tested it yet. I have added new logic for steam games as I found they where not working in my test.

what emulator are you using to launch games? are you using rocket launcher? can you try running kodi as administrator and see if that makes a difference. can you provide me with the error you are getting? I am still busy with the image process, sometimes Launchbox uses a sub directory like North America I am still busy collecting all possibility's.

I am in Joburg at the moment so I haven't had time to focus on this. what I am wanting to add is more catagories like genre and release year (this is fairly simple to do since it now uses a sql database) fix commands for windows and make it more compatible with other emulators(this is fairly straight forward I just need to wrap my head around detecting parameters) speed up update performance(at the moment it starts from fresh) lastly I want to add play count and last played to launchbox.(this is being left for last as I dont want to break the launchbox database, if I am able to do this I will also release two versions a safe version that doesnt touch Launchbox and a unsafe version that will write to launchbox database) but it all depends on how much time I have to work on this and what features I will be using myself.

i am aware of the problem. i will be posting an update next week that will hopefully fix this. the issue is due to how i read the data. because windows doesnt have an emulator there is a space in the cmd line paramater where the emulator should be.

Updated again. Fixed some bugs. I added some new tables in the sql database to allow for better emulator detection. Fixed games with ' in the file path. Added working directory to launch command.

updated the addon it now writes the database to a sqllite database. this allows for the use of the search function and getting things like Latest Updates.