Gilou9999 Posted March 25, 2009 Posted March 25, 2009 Hey ressX, I knew i will find you here I post it here because the F###ing xbox-scene forum is dead tonight -AGAIN- Just to say:If we want the ability to display dual boxart/screenshot (for now we can display dual boxart/videos, but for the users without a big hard drive it would be cool)We need an Xport inverter!!All the best emus of the world (mame, Zsnexbox...) and all the pc front ends are working with "boxart", "titles", and "screenshots" folders; unfortunatelly it's not the case of the Xport emus . Perheaps a coder out there could create a programm to convert all our "Xport screenshots" into "classic multi folders screenshots" A programm that could convert:Mario/0001.png, 0002.png, 003.png, 0004.png INTOBoxarts/mario.png , Titles/mario.png ,Screenshots/mario.png , Carts/mario.png Like this it would be SOOOOO MOOORE EASY :- For the USERS, to display any screeenshots/boxarts/carts/titles in the desired order.- For the CODER, to display what he want in the General User Interface I don't know if such a wonderfull programm should be hard to create madmab? Peheaps a talented coder here know how to programm such a thing? Imagine how cool it would be for the poor xbox users with their tiny hard drive to have this:
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2009 Author Posted March 26, 2009 Hey Gilles, Yeah. I post in here too every once in a while. That forum has been dead for over a day now. It's too bad because it's been having no problems lately. I wonder what's up because it's totally dead now. Usually when this happens it's just really slow and times out requests a lot. Oh well... hope it's back up again soon. When it's back up again, ask (or I will) BombBloke if he can use some of his code wizardry to convert the pics to separate folders. In the Gameboy/Gameboy Color/Gameboy advance I did my first complete overhaul to the screenshots to verify that every boxart was labeled 0001.png, every title shot is 0002.png, every action shot is 0003.png, and every cart/cd/disk is 0004.png. We may have to drop the alternate boxes/carts/screenshots for roms with more than one game on them, but we'll get to that at some other time. Maybe we could have multiple screenshots or boxart in their respective folders if there are alternates. (I'd have to do that manually, but it shouldn't be too bad). Do you think mad will be able to do this if the pics were in different folders? I'm surprised it can't be done if the pics are all named correctly, but if doing all this extra work is what it takes to get it done I can spend some time on it and hopefully BB can make that conversion program for us. BB has made two awesome codes so far. One of them has saved me hours now. It takes all of the PNG boxart files i have and renames them to 0001.png and puts them in folders with the exact name I gave the images before the convert. The other, which I haven't tried out yet, takes all the roms you have in a specified folder and makes cutfiles for them so you can load the rom straight from XBMC. I'm sure he could come up with something. Later,~Rx
fumanchu Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 WTF is up with x-s anyway thats been since yesterday its been down?
Gilou9999 Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 Yep, totally dead since yesterday... I copy paste it here the answer of madmab, He think the same thing of us; The Xport screenshots convention is... giving us lot of problems in fact! Madmab think too Like it works in mame/zsnexbox/pc frontends; would be SOOOOO MOOORE EASY :- For the USERS, to display any screeenshots/boxarts/carts/titles in the desired order.- For the CODER, to display what he want in the General User Interface Madmab answer about a programm every xbox Xport's emulators users could use: I think I wrote a batch file to do this some time back. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find it. It had issues with directories with certain characters in their name (& comes to mind). But still makes for a good timesaver. I think two directories (one for screenshots and the other for boxart/cartart) ought to work just fine.
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2009 Author Posted March 26, 2009 (edited) Geez.... I wake up and the site is still down hard. That's almost 2 days now. Wonder if it's time to start worrying that all our posts are gone. At least I have the links for everything uploaded saved in about 3 other places if the worst case scenario rises. If the site ever goes back online, I'm going to ask BombBloke about separating each type of screenshot. As long as we're going to the trouble to do this, we may as well do it right. Since I named everything perfectly, it shouldn't take much extra effort once the batch is written. His program that I mentioned above works lightning fast with all characters including the &. Later,~Rx EDIT: We should be in business soon.... FORUM MAINTENANCE yaya I know ... we were offline for +1 day. Need to do some work on the forums now, will be back in 30mins or so Edited March 26, 2009 by ressurectionx
XtecuterX73 Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 hope they get it back up soon, i been trying to sign in there as well, i hope one day allxboxskins.com is back up, they had some great unleashx skins that you can't get anywhere else. HF-
ressurectionx Posted May 3, 2009 Author Posted May 3, 2009 New Sega Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000 update released. Vids should be up shortly. The datfiles and artwork are already up. Click the banner below.
fumanchu Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 New Sega Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000 update released. Vids should be up shortly. The datfiles and artwork are already up. Click the banner below.Question do you ever sleep????
ressurectionx Posted November 12, 2009 Author Posted November 12, 2009 New Sega Master System/Game Gear/SG-1000 update released. Vids should be up shortly. The datfiles and artwork are already up. Click the banner below.Question do you ever sleep???? Haha............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... No
ressurectionx Posted November 13, 2009 Author Posted November 13, 2009 You should. Meh..... sleep's overrated.
cba.gy Posted November 16, 2009 Posted November 16, 2009 Sleep kills, just like onions give you cancer.
dballs Posted November 17, 2009 Posted November 17, 2009 well i hope you get some sleep cause all your work is mad appreciated and we need you to stay healthy and alive! such ridiculously huge, grueling, repetitive, probably boring tasks that make everybody's emulation life better THANKS! currently im trying to get everything in place. (got nes, snes, and genius vids working ) quick question do the synopsis work yet? in which emulator? how? i put some in mednafenx's emu's cause i read they would work in those and couldn't get them to work.
ressurectionx Posted November 17, 2009 Author Posted November 17, 2009 Thanks Dballs, Yeah. Tons of work here man. So many mind numbingly repetitive tasks for probably over 10,000 individual roms now. It really is a ridiculous project, and I'm just very grateful to have had all the help I've gotten so far. Let's just say that I have more than my share of beer to get me through it all. The cool thing now though is that I've found a very real interest in updating the artwork packs to have GREAT quality boxart. I've collected a lot of artwork from HD sources such as thecoverproject and HyperSpin and with my own collection I've compared the quality of each of these alternate sets to my own and replaced each game with the best boxart available. I'm actually really enjoying then going through the remaning boxarts and touching them up by hand to bring them up to speed. The big offenders so far are LYNX and 2600, which still had tons of really shabby looking boxart. I think the personal touch-ups look great. Plus we've now got Gilles' Generic Boxarts for about 10-12 systems which fill in all the blanks so all games will have boxart representation. Lots of new stuff coming out around late February or March. Can't wait to share it all. Later,~Rx
cba.gy Posted November 17, 2009 Posted November 17, 2009 Did you think it would be such a large task when you started out, or did it progressively grow from emulator to emulator.
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