VoxCommando
General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: neomaycry on January 08, 2012, 05:34:02 PM
-
Hey all,
I recently purchased Voxcommando for my home entertainment system, and I love it. The basic functionality is tremendous, and it lets me do pretty much everything I need inside XBMC. My question relates specifically to the addon, Rom Collection Browser. I have everything set up wonderfully for manual control, but I would like to add an additional functionality for Voxcommando. In particular, I want to add the following command:
Play Game <string>
Now, in order to do this, I would need to tell Voxcommando to scan the list of roms I have available inside the addon. I am not sure if this is possible, and I've waited a few days to ask so that I could browse for similar topics in the forums, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Can anyone offer advice for getting this function up and running?
Thanks,
On the verge of a dream ;D
-
Hi neomaycry. Welcome to the forum.
It's probably going to be tricky to get the addon to launch a specific ROM without modifying the addon itself. Does the ROM Browser addon ultimately launch an exe with a parameter though? If that is the case there might be a way to do it directly. The problem is that I don't have any experience with ROMs and I don't have any so it's kind of difficult to experiment with it. Reading the data is also going to be a problem since XBMC probably doesn't offer any means of accessing it through the http interface which is what we are currently using.
-
If you can guide me to get set up with a few roms on windows with a minimum of fuss, then I'll see if I can figure something out.
Should I use MAME?
-
to open the ROM browser you can try this
XBMC.ExecBuiltin RunScript(script.games.rom.collection.browser)
-
If you can guide me to get set up with a few roms on windows with a minimum of fuss, then I'll see if I can figure something out.
Should I use MAME?
James,
There are many MAME games that have been released legally as freeware. The MAME emulator can be found here: http://mamedev.org/release.html .... and the associated freeware roms can be found here: http://mamedev.org/roms/
I will give your previous suggestion a try and see what I am able to produce.
Thanks for all the help. It is a rarity to see a programmer working so hard to help individuals.