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[B]Speculative/futuristic features[/B]
WIP [CORE] Complete Extranafart support for Categories/Launchers/ROMs.
Does this make sense?
WIP [CORE] Think about exporting the AEL platform database using JSON-LD in accordance to
Garbear's idea.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=295463&pid=2625754#pid2625754
WIP [SCRAPERS] Advanced fuzzy search engine based on the Levenshtein Distance algorithm,
for both online and offline scrapers. There is a Python implementation of
the algorithm here: https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy
WIP [SCRAPERS] LaunchBox Games Database scraper.
NOTE Do not implement this. AEL offline scraper is more than enough.
Apparently LaunchBox GamesDB started as a copy of TheGamesDB. Currently there is no
API to access LaunchBox GamesDB but an XML with all the database info can be downloaded.
See http://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/
See https://bitbucket.org/jasondavidcarr/launchbox/issues/902/api-access-to-launchbox
WIP [SCRAPERS] Fix GameFAQs scraper.
It has been a while since this scraper is not working any more.
GameFAQs does not have an API. Should this scraper being removed???
Currently the GameFAQs metadata scraper works well. The GameFAQs asset scraper
does not work due to changes in GameFAQs. See the comments of method
GameFAQs._load_assets_from_page()
[B]Planned features / TODO[/B]
WIP [CORE] Rename the plugin from `plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher` to
`plugin.program.AEL`. Create a development version `plugin.program.AEL.dev` that
can coexist with the stable version. See how AML does it.
WIP [CORE] Check out the ListItem constructor offscreen parameter in Leia. It can
dramatically speed up ListItem creation and population.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329315&pid=2711937#pid2711937
WIP [CORE] Massive AEL refactoring. Thanks a lot to Chrisism for the patch!
WIP [CORE] Support Kodi VFS and ROMs in remote filesystems for Retroplayer.
See Chrisism patch in Github. Copy remote ROMs for external launchers?
WIP [CORE] Disable LNK $rom$ launcher with global setting.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2640857#pid2640857
WIP [CORE] categoryID is redundant in SHOW_ROMS URL! Remove it or make it optional.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=276002&pid=2643218#pid2643218
WIP [CORE] Should plugin URL be rationalised and simplified to make skinner's life easier?
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=276002&pid=2643218#pid2643218
WIP [CORE] Filtering of BIOSes not working properly for MAME ROMs.
Use the offline scraper DB to determine what is a BIOS/Device in MAME.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2697000#pid2697000
WIP [CORE] Unified ROM artwork directory. This will require heavy changes in categories.xml.
I still have to think how to properly implement this. This is related to the
desing of a prototype Kodi games database.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2865413#pid2865413
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2867785#pid2867785
WIP [CORE] Support for BoxSpines artwork. Support for BoxTextures artwork.
Code Unified ROM artwork directory before this.
WIP [CORE] Automatic generation of 3D Boxes using BoxFront and BoxSpine.
Copy this feature from AML.
WIP [CORE] Automatic generation of BoxTextures from BoxBack, BoxSpine and BoxFront.
WIP [CORE] Sometimes the scrapers download wrong/corrupt data, or produce 0 sized files
if a file is open() and there is an exception. It would be nice to have an
utility to check asset images and delete corrupt images so they can be rescraped
again.
WIP [CORE] Support for Advanced MAME Launcher exported virtual launchers.
This feature requires AML 0.9.X
AML creates the Category "Arcade (AML)" and places the exported launchers there.
WIP [CORE] Utility to check artwork. Sometimes a JPG image is renamed as PNG, etc.
Check that all artwork have correct file extensions, etc.
WIP [CORE] Utility to scan and remove orphaned artwork.
WIP [CORE] Finish the new platform scheme.
WIP [COLLECTIONS] Current way of storing the collection artwork, in a unified XML file,
is not good. Think of a good way to exporting collections (for example, store the
artwork in a subdirectory). Possible way of solving filename collisions
ROM_name_platform_fanart.png, platform is the short name and it's only used if
there is filename amgibuity (same ROM name in different platforms in the collection).
WIP [FAVOURITES] Also change the way artwork is stored in Favourites, Launchers and
Categories. Avoid using IDs in the artwork name so artwork can be reused.
WIP [MULTIDISC] Edit multi-disc ROMs.
WIP [MULTIDISC] Fix artwork support for mult-disc ROMs.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2628912#pid2628912
WIP [MISC] Changes and suggestions propoed by Atsumori.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2560843#pid2560843
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2586596#pid2586596
WIP [MANUALS] Port the PDF manual reader from AML into AEL.
WIP [ROM AUDIT] Add an option to create a default Parent ROM for Redump DATs or NoIntro DATs
with no PClone information. See previous feature.
WIP [ROM AUDIT] Create a "fake" Parent/Clone list from filenames ala NARS (NARS Advanced ROM
Sorting). In "Edit Launcher", "Audit ROMs / Launcher view mode" include a new option
like "Create PClone DAT based on ROM filenames"
WIP [ROM AUDIT] Options to generate the 1G1R parent list, like prefer ROMs from Europe,
Japan or USA. This resembles what NARS No-Intro filtering does.
WIP [SCRAPERS] Asset scrapers are disabled/not working for standalone launchers. Fix this.
See https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher/issues/62
WIP [SCRAPERS] Store the offline scraper databases in JSON and not in XML. This will make
the loading of the databases faster.
WIP [SCRAPERS] MAME offline scraper: include NPlayers field. Take it from nplayers.ini
WIP [SCRAPERS] MAME offline scraper: include ESRB field. Take it from GameInfoDB.
WIP [SCRAPERS] MAME offline scraper: include plot field. Take it from GameInfoDB.
WIP [SCRAPERS] Update MAME Offline Scraper database to version latest version 0.212
WIP [SCRAPERS] Upgrade and fix AEL Offline scraper databases.
WIP [SCRAPERS] Persistent scraper cache. Currently scrapers are very inefficient. If
the context menu is use to scrape, candidate games are searched again and again. It
should be good to implement some kind of offline scraper cache in a similar fashion
to Skyscraper (https://github.com/muldjord/skyscraper).
WIP [SCRAPERS] Persistent scraper cache browser. Ability to browse the stored scraper
searches. Also, context menu to delete stored cached data.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.9 | xx October 2019[/B]
WIP [CORE] Increase the number of platforms to include all No-Intro, Redump and
Libretro platforms. This is in preparation of the Kodi Games Database.
FEATURE [CORE] Settings to hide Utilities and Global Reports from root window.
FIX Fixed crash when setting display_launcher_roms was True.
FIX When fixing ROM Collections the order of the ROM list is lost. Repaired items are
placed at the end of the list and the original order is lost.
This was a very long standing bug.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.8 | 16 September 2019[/B]
FEATURE [CORE] Added new artwork contributed by Sagrath.
FEATURE [CORE] In XML configuration files, support multiple <args> tag and deprecate <args_extra>
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] In ScreenScraper, if a ZIP file contains one and only one archive
use it to calculate checksums and not the ZIP file itself.
FIX Fixed a path related issue in _command_add_new_category() and
_command_render_all_ROMs().
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.8-beta1 | 06 September 2019[/B]
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Copy scraper stuff from master branch by Chrisism.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Fix MobyGames scraper and use new MobyGames API.
See http://www.mobygames.com/info/api
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Fix TheGamesDB scraper.
There has been a change in the web site including a new API.
See https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher/issues/75
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Have a look at ScreenScraper and consider it for an online scraper.
See https://www.screenscraper.fr/
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2622839#pid2622839
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Fix ArcadeDB scraper. Use the new ArcadeDB API.
It has been a while since this scraper is not working any more.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Fix AEL Offline Scraper.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Add support for ScummVM platform in the Offline Scraper.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2629084#pid2629084
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Warn user if missing scraper API keys, required stuff, etc., before scraping.
Also, improve the scraper error reporting and the disabling of the scraper object
if the web site is overloaded.
Make sure TGDB scraper works like a charm. And then update the rest.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Utility to check TheGamesDB monthly allowance.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Utility to check MobyGames monthly allowance.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Utility to check ScreenScraper monthly allowance.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Make sure all scraper platforms are OK and synchronised with AEL platforms.
FEATURE [SCRAPERS] Option to rescrape all ROM assets in a similar fashion to
"Scan ROMs local artwork". Create a menu entry in "Edit Launcher", "Manage ROMs",
"Scrape ROMs artwork".
"Scrape ROMs artwork" will use the same scraper settings in options as the ROM Scanner.
I think the best location for the code is in the ScraperStrategy class.
See https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher/issues/72
FEATURE [CORE] Create a couple of new ROM context menus, "Manage Recently played ROM" and
"Manage Most played ROM". Both will have the following options: "Delete this ROM",
"Delete all Unlinked/Broken ROMs".
See AML for an implementation.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2698811#pid2698811
FEATURE [CORE] New ROMs artwork type 3D Boxes, asked by Rufoo.
FEATURE [CORE] New entry in root menu named "Global Reports"
FEATURE [CORE] New entry in root menu named "Utilities"
FEATURE [CORE] Move stuff from addon settings into the Utilities menu, including the
database upgrading functions.
FEATURE [CORE] Make sure AEL never crashes when rendering the root window, even if
categories.xml is corruped. Users must be able to access the Utilities menu always to
be able to upgrade the database. In case of crash when rendering the root window,
ask the user to update the databases (in the case the crash is due to a missing
key in dictionary).
FEATURE [CORE] New properties to notify skins about Std launchers, ROM launchers, Categories,
and number of items in a Launcher. Upgrade documentation in SKINNING.md.
FEATURE [CORE] Add Year and Developer for Categories.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2688653#pid2688653
FEATURE [CORE] Per-launcher setting to disable multi-disc ROM support.
FEATURE [CORE] Added "Edit Category" context menu, "Export Category XML configuration".
FEATURE [CORE] New AEL Theme of Icons/Fanarts for the Virtual Launchers. Kudos to Sagrath for
this contribution.
FIX Fix crash in _gui_scrap_launcher_metadata() when scraping Launcher metadata with the CM.
FIX Fix metadata and artwork scrapers when ROM name has Unicode characters.
See Github issue #52
FIX Fixed display_fav_status label in settings.xml
See Github issue #56
FIX Unicode fixes in kodi_update_image_cache()
FIX Fixed MobyGames scraper.
See Github issue #60
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.7 | 23 November 2017[/B]
FEATURE Export individual Launcher XML configuration.
FIX Fixed crash when editing Launchr Title in context menu.
FIX Fixed crash in the ROM Scanner when Launcher had unconfigured ROM asset paths.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.7-beta2 | 19 November 2017[/B]
FIX Currently AEL multid-disc parser supports "Rom name (disc 1).bin".
Fixed to also support "Rom name (disk 1).bin".
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2656844#pid2656844
and https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2657243#pid2657243
FIX Fix export of Launcher and ROM NFO files.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2658080#pid2658080
FIX Fix import of Launcher and ROM NFO files.
FIX Poster artworks do not appear anymore (got them mapped to flyers for all launchers).
When I try to change the mapping (manage rom/choose roms default assets/artworks),
then AEL is throwing me an error.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2660404#pid2660404
FIX Fix crash in "Add ROMs", "Manually Add ROM".
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.NameError'>
Error Contents: global name 'assets_search_local_assets' is not defined
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2665544#pid2665544
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.7-beta1 | 07 October 2017[/B]
FEATURE Added a lot of new platforms.
FEATURE Add an option to see ROM Maps image if it exists.
Add an option in context menu "View ROM/Launcher".
FEATURE Audit all launchers. Check if app exists, ROM path exits, artwork paths are configured,
etc. When a user uses XML to import configurations it is easy to make a typo when
writing directory names, etc. This command will report if AEL configuration is OK.
FEATURE Use substituted artwork from the Parent/Clone group.
So far implemented only in "Edit Launcher", "Manage ROMs", "Rescan ROMs local assets/artwork"
FEATURE I discovered that in the ROM Scanner most of the time is spend looking for artwork. Before,
I though it was the Offline scraper the culprit. Instead of using FileName().exists()
create a set with all files in the directory and use that for the search.
Implemented only in "Edit Launcher", "Manage ROMs", "Rescan ROMs local assets/artwork",
must be ported to the ROM scanner if it works well (faster than the current approach).
FEATURE ROM scanner should be able to scrap all assets, not just the ones supported by the
selected scraper. This will require a redesign of the current scraping engine.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2628383#pid2628383 and next post.
FEATURE Make sure all asset scraper requests are cached in the ROM scanner. For example, Title
scraper choose a game in the list, then Snap scraper for the same ROM must use the
cached selected game.
FEATURE Port to the ROM scanner the asset file cache. This will increase the scanning speed a lot.
FEATURE ROMs in UNC paths. It seems Retroarch added UNC path support recently.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2647152#pid2647152
[Windows]
Workaround in _run_process() to add an extra '\\' character if argument starts with
a '\\'. This is to fix shlex.split() behaviour.
Tested in Windows only with the following configuration:
<ROM_path>\\SERVER_NAME\AEL-ROMs\sega-genesis\</ROM_path>
<ROM_asset_path>smb://SERVER_NAME/AEL-assets/sega-genesis/</ROM_asset_path>
This configuration also works in Windows:
<ROM_path>smb://SERVER_NAME/AEL-ROMs/sega-genesis/</ROM_path>
<ROM_asset_path>smb://SERVER_NAME/AEL-assets/sega-genesis/</ROM_asset_path>
Artwork is stored in JSON DB as "smb://SERVER_NAME/AEL-assets/sega-genesis/boxbacks\\Sonic.jpg"
ROMs are saved in JSON DB as "\\\\SERVER_NAME\\AEL-ROMs\\sega-genesis\\Sonic.md"
Kodi artwork does not work with paths like \\SERVER_NAME\AEL-ROMs\sega-genesis\image.png.
Correct path for artwork is smb://SERVER_NAME/AEL-ROMs/sega-genesis/image.png.
Retroarch requires a ROM path like \\SERVER_NAME\AEL-ROMs\sega-genesis\Sonic.md.
FEATURE Launcher flag to enable non-blocking launchers. This is required for wrapper scripts
that close Kodi to avoid problems (such as Kodi getting gamepad commands instead of the
launcher app or Kodi running in standalone mode withouth a Window manager).
FEATURE Ability to import launcher and categories assets in the XML configuration files.
Create a working example for Gamestarter addon. Also, refactor the AEL asset library.
FEATURE Rename "Studio" database field to "Developer" in Launchers/ROMs.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=295463&pid=2625754#pid2625754
FEATURE New Launcher asset 's_controller' for Console/Computer controller picture.
FEATURE Renamed 's_thumb' -> 's_icon' in Categories/Launchers/Collections.
FEATURE Renamed 's_flyer' -> 's_poster' in Categories/Launchers/Collections.
FEATURE Renamed 'roms_default_thumb' -> 'roms_default_icon' in Launchers.
FEATURE Improved Retroplayer support.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=295463&pid=2620489#pid2620489
and https://alwinesch.github.io/group__python__xbmcgui__listitem.html#ga0f1e91e1d5aa61d8dd0eac90e8edbf18
FEATURE Audit Retroarch BIOSes in System directory.
FEATURE Scan for artwork in the Parent/Clone group of a ROM. Implemented only in the context
menu "Edit Launcher", "Manage ROM List", "Rescan ROMs local assets/artwork".
FEATURE Support for <Launcher_NFO> tag in XML configuration files.
FEATURE Preserve path_title, path_snap, etc. when exporting a Launcher into an XML file.
FEATURE Add an option to suspend/resume joystick support at launch. This is to prevent Kodi
and the launched app to grab joystick events.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2627128#pid2627128
Cannot be implemented because setting input.enablejoystick does not exist in Krypton
any more.
FEATURE Removed ElementTree dependency in addon.xml. It's not longer needed.
AEL ONLY WORKS ON KRYPTON NOW!!!
FEATURE Use the <news> tag in addon.xml. In general, have a look at http://kodi.wiki/view/addon.xml
and modernise addon.xml.
FEATURE Update code to use new xbmcgui.Dialog().select() useDetails parameter. Get rid of the
ImgSelectDialog() class. This need Krypton Beta 4 to run!
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=250936&pid=2438074#pid2438074
FEATURE Make use of Krypton features in the several dialogs of the addon: new param: "preselect"
for Dialog().multiselect() and Dialog().select().
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=250936&pid=2327011#pid2327011
FEATURE Option to group Unknown ROMs as clones or keep them as parents. I realised it is not
conveninent that the Unknown ROMs are clones in the Parent/Clone view.
FEATURE 1 Game 1 ROM launcher display mode. Copy it from AML.
Changed launcher['pclone_launcher'] to launcher['launcher_display_mode'] to store the
display mode in categories.xml database.
FEATURE Addon option to hide [Browse Offline Scraper].
FEATURE Remove duplicates from recent ROMs list. Contributed by bonzini.
See https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher/pull/41
FEATURE Preliminary render support for LaunchBox scraper.
FIX Fixed launching of BAT files in Windows.
FIX In order for skin shortcuts and widgets to work OK, addon concurrency must be enabled
by database read-only commands.
FIX Fix scraper-related crash in the ROM scanner.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2628382#pid2628382
FIX When scraper downloads an image the parents JSON must be also updated. In general, every
time a ROM is modified in the main database the Parents JSON must be updated to keep
both DBs synchronised!
FIX Fixed Unicode-related crashes introduced in 0.9.6 in the ROM scanner.
See https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=276002&pid=2642201#pid2642201
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.6 | 20 May 2017[/B]
FEATURE Set Parent/Clone property so skins can display flag.
FEATURE Support ERSB and NPlayers in offline scraper.
FEATURE Support ERSB and NPlayers in online scrapers.
FEATURE Virtual category to browse the Offline Scraper database.
FEATURE Updated the number of databases in the Offline Scraper.
FEATURE ROM scanner reports.
FEATURE Refurbish ROM auditing and Parent/Clone view display mode.
FEATURE Added a "Display ROMs" setting valid only in Parent/Clone display mode.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2581878#pid2581878
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2582004#pid2582004
FEATURE Support Redump DAT files. Note that Redump does not include Parent/Clone data so all
ROMs are Parent ROMs.
FEATURE New platform Panasonic 3DO.
FEATURE Update NFO files after scraping. This is useful to interrupt the scanner when scanning
large collections and resume scanning later.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2548998#pid2548998
FEATURE Allow only one instance of AEL running at a time.
This prevents multiple launcher execution and also get rids forever of any database
corruption issues due to concurrency! Thanks Roman_V_M for ideas about the fix.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=310697
FIX Fixed crash when displaying a Launcher in Parent/Clone view with Unknown ROMs.
FIX Fixed the number of ROMs counter when importing AL launchers.xml
FIX ROM scanner ignores NFO files if option "NFO Files + Scrapers" is set.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.6-beta1 | 5 March 2017[/B]
FEATURE Import and Export of Launchers configurations. Will be very useful especially for
Android users.
FEATURE Use a Window property to let skins know wheter a launcher OR ROMs are being rendered.
Set xbmcgui.Window(10001).setProperty('AEL_Content', 'launchers')
xbmcgui.Window(10001).setProperty('AEL_Content', 'roms')
It must be set on entering and unset on exiting the plugin.
FEATURE Use setProperty() to inform the skin about ROM flags:
1) Favourite status: OK, Unlinked ROM, Unlinked Launcher, Broken
2) No-Intro status: Have, Missing, Added, Unknown
3) Parent/Clone status: Parent or Clone (Boolean)
For example:
setProperty('AEL_Fav_stat', 'Fav_OK')
setProperty('AEL_NoIntro_stat', 'NoIntro_Have')
setProperty('AEL_PClone_stat', 'PClone_Parent')
FEATURE Add Retroplayer support.
See https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher/issues/33
FEATURE New menu for the virtual launchers [Browse by ...]
FEATURE New virtual launchers [Browse by ESRB Rating] and Browse by [Number of Players].
FEATURE Added new platforms Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PSX 3 and PSX 4.
FEATURE Clearlogos in Categories, Launchers and ROM Collections.
FEATURE Edit clearlogos in Categories.
FEATURE Edit clearlogos in Launchers.
FEATURE Edit clearlogos in ROM Collections.
FEATURE Default to launcher icon if ROM icon is missing.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2500040#pid2500040
FEATURE Update launching mechanism. User Python subprocess module on all platforms and not the
deprecated os.system(). Current patched subprocess_hack module is from Python 2.4. Current
Python version in Kodi is 2.7.
os.system(), os.open(), etc. are deprecated, and the subprocess module should be used
instead for all platforms. A parser of arguments must be coded in order to use the
subprocess module.
FEATURE Log emulator/standalone launcher stdout/stderr into a file. Requires new launching
mechanism based on subprocess module. Have a look to AML for an implementation.
FEATURE Add nplayers metadata field to ROMs. Billyc999 database has nplayers NFO.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2407055#pid2407055
FEATURE Edit nplayers in ROMs.
FEATURE Add ESRB/MPAA/PEGI rating? >> User ESRB, new metadata field esrb in ROMs.
FEATURE Edit ESRB in ROMs.
FEATURE Support for multidisc systems. Have a look to NOTES.md for more details about the AEL
implementation.
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2495480#pid2495480
AL ROM scanner only added the first disc to the database and skipped disc numbers
from 2 to 9.
https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/blob/master/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py#L2088
At ROM launching, if any of the strings ['.cd1', '-cd1', '_cd1', ' cd1'] is found on the
ROMfile basename then the rompath was scanned looking for all the discs. User selected
the disc number to launch from a select dialog.
https://github.com/Wintermute0110/plugin.program.advanced.launcher/blob/master/resources/lib/launcher_plugin.py#L1688
AEL will use a better implementation based on a ROM filename parser. See NOTES.md
FEATURE Delete ROM context menu integrated in Edit ROM.
FEATURE Display number of ROMs in launcher.
FEATURE Platform icons/clearlogos in AEL. Platform icons can be an icon of the console or gamepad.
EmulationStation has a lot of material that can be reused for AEL.
FEATURE Improved No-Intro audit.
FEATURE Remove No-Intro Added status.
FEATURE New style Parent/Clone launchers, ala Advanced MAME Launcher.
FEATURE Print number of parent and clones in PClone launchers.
FEATURE Split Launcher report into statistics, metadata and asset reports.
FEATURE Include databases for all supported platforms in AEL offline scraper (well... at least
included more databases).
FEATURE Updated Offline scraper MAME database from 0.173 to 0.183.
FIX Fixed crash when editing Collection ROM position.
FIX Keep order when Collection ROM is relinked.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.5 | 12 January 2017[/B]
FIX Fix ROM Collection exporting/importing.
FIX Properly remove HTML tags in MobyGames metadata scraper plot.
FIX ROM substitution keywords now use $ instead of the ugly %.
%rom% becomes $rom$
FIX Added new argument substitution keywords $rombasenoext$, $categoryID$, $launcherID$,
and $romID$.
FIX Fixed issues #31 and #32 (FileName class related stuff). This should fix also
"Edit Launcher" -> "Manage ROMs" -> "Scan for local artwork/assets"
FIX Fixed error in the ROM scanner when using semi-automatic scraping.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.5~beta2 | 27 December 2016[/B]
FIX Fixed crash when scanning ROMs and the asset scraper is ON.
FIX Improved ROM scanner debug output. Will make it easier to read scanner logs.
FIX Fixed crash in "Edit Launcher" -> "Manage ROM List" -> "Rescan ROMs local assets"
See http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2479446#pid2479446
FIX Fixed crash when adding single ROM.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2484522#pid2484522
FIX Fixed several uses of old function misc_split_path(). Now FileName() class must be used.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.5~beta1 | 13 December 2016[/B]
FEATURE New Arcade Database online metadata/asset scraper for MAME ROMs.
FEATURE Support for several arguments in launcher. This will be useful when using MAME for
console emulation (MAME consoles from a different region have different names, and an
European console will typically refuse to run a Japanese game).
Survey about this: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2467547#pid2467547
FEATURE New command SHOW_ALL_ROMS to render all ROMs in all launchers. Will be used by skins.
FEATURE Supend/resume Kodi audio engine at launching. This will prevent sound problems in Linux.
Include a setting for this in addons "Settings" --> "Advanced".
FEATURE Export/Import assets/artwork in ROM Collections. Encode binary files in base64 and put
in an auxiliar JSON files. Exporting assets should be optional, not mandatory.
FEATURE Extranafart for ROM Collections.
FEATURE All requests are cached in TheGamesDB scraper.
FEATURE All requests are cached in GameFAQs scraper.
FEATURE All requests are cached in MobyGames scraper.
FEATURE Resolve image URL for online asset scrapers. This will increase scraping speed a lot.
Requires a change in the scraping API.
FEATURE TheGamesDB scraper now returns Titles and Snaps. However, since there is no difference
between Titles, Snaps and shots in TheGamesDB this only is useful when doing manual
scraping.
FEATURE Improve message reporting in Kodi GUI when scanning ROMs.
FEATURE Improve launcher report and include is a No-Intro audit information.
FEATURE Remove ROM tags (for example, (Europe), [Rev A]) from parent ROM names when showing
parent ROMs in a PClone launcher.
FEATURE New No-Intro status 'Added'.
FEATURE Browse by Category Virtual Launcher.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2458080#pid2458080
FEATURE Deal with Kodi virtual filesystem smb:// paths. Merged a massive patch by Chrisism.
FEATURE New platform "Microsoft Windows"
FEATURE Add genre, plot and rating to ROM collections. Unify ROM Collections and Cateogories
metadata. During the migration current collections names will be lost and user has
to edit every ROM Collection and set a new name.
FEATURE Request monospaced font on text viewer dialog (window 10147).
FIX Fixed searches in launchers.
FIX Fixed artwork display in ROM Collections (Icon/Fanart/Banner/Poster).
FIX Fix "launching app not found lnk_launcher_app" error in Windows LNK launchers.
FIX Remove setContent() old code.
FIX Fixed the case of removing all categories and having just Standalone/ROM launchers on
addon root.
FIX Fix offline scraper search when there are hypens in filename.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2461203#pid2461203
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.4 | 16 October 2016[/B]
FEATURE Create ROM and standalone launchers in addon root. "Categoryless" launchers.
FEATURE Improve the repairing for Favourite/Collection ROMs once and for all.
FEATURE Parent/Clone launcher display option when using No-Intro DATs.
FEATURE [Recently played ROMs] Virtual Launcher. List of ROMs played in reverse chronological
order.
FEATURE [Most played ROMs] Virtual Launcher. Histogram of how many times a ROM has been played,
ordered by the number of times a ROM has been played.
FIX Fixed loading of No-Intro files.
FIX Fixed "Edit Launcher" >> "Choose default Assets/Artwork..."
FIX Fixed "Add new Launcher" context menu in non-Windows platforms.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.3 | 8 October 2016[/B]
FEATURE LNK ROMs Launcher in Windows.
FEATURE Rename launcher ROMs JSON file if Launcher name changes.
FEATURE Favourite/Collection ROMs can be updated with information from parent.
FEATURE Reorganised all Edit Asset/Artwork context menus.
FEATURE Reorganised and improved all ROM context menus.
FEATURE Increased the number of AEL platforms to 50.
FEATURE Setting options to hide [Fav] and [OK] labels in Launcher/Collection/Favourite ROMs.
FEATURE Setting options to hide Favourites and ROM Collections.
FEATURE ROM Collections can be imported/exported and shared with other people.
FEATURE ROMs in a Collection can now be edited.
FEATURE Move ROMs up/down in collections has been moved from Collection ROM context menu into
Edit ROM in Collection context menu.
FEATURE Collection ROMs can be placed in any position in the Collection easily via the context
menu.
FEATURE Edit ROM -- Edit Metadata shows all available metadata scrapers, not just the one
selected in settings. The metadata scraper selected in plugin settings is only used
when scanning ROMs.
FEATURE Edit ROM -- Edit Assets/Artwork now automatically chooses the scrapers available
depending on the asset selected.
FIX Fixed launching of standalone launchers having LNK files in Windows.
FIX Fixed launching of ROM launchers having LNK files as ROMs in Windows. Any executable can
be chosen as the launcher program (it will be ignored), expect an LNK file.
FIX Fix information dialogs in _command_remove_rom() (shown when deleting a ROM).
FIX Fixed scraping of launchers in context menu Edit Launcher -- Edit Metadata. Now user is
able to choose scraper.
FIX Fixed TheGamesDB platform names.
FIX Removed Categories 'default_clearlogo' and Launchers 'default_clearlogo' JSON data files
introduced by error in previous versions.
ROM STORAGE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF AEL!!!
MIGRATION: automatic. XML writer will remove those fields as soon as categories.xml
is rewritten.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.2 | 26 September 2016[/B]
FEATURE Display assets when editing ROMs using the ImgSelectDialog class.
FEATURE Collection ROMs can be repaired/relinked, like Favourite ROMs.
FEATURE Versioned ROM storage JSON files for Favourites and ROM Collections.
NOT COMPATBLE WITH PREVIOUS AEL VERSIONS!
FEATURE Reorganised context menu in Favourites/Collection ROMs.
FEATURE Relink Favourite ROMs with Unlinked Launchers or Broken parent ROMs.
FEATURE Tell if scrapers support asset or not in "Edit ROM" -- "Edit Assets/Artwork..."
FEATURE TheGamesDB asset scraper working OK.
FEATURE GameFAQs asset scraper working OK.
FEATURE MobyGames metadata scraper.
FEATURE MobyGames asset scraper.
FEATURE Initial implementation of Arcade Database metadata scraper.
FEATURE Ratings can be edited now for Categories/Launchers/ROMs.
FEATURE Improved URL page data retrieve function.
FIX Include 3 characters of the object ID in artwork directories. This avoids overwriting of
images in Favourites if there are 2 ROMs with same name from 2 different launchers.
FIX Use ROM title instead of rombasename in launcher notification. For standalone launchers use
then Launcher title.
FIX Add Clearlogo to "Edit Launcher" -- "Manage ROM asset directories..." menu.
FIX Do not include empty strings when checking for repeated asset directories.
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.1 | 6 September 2016[/B]
FEATURE Invalid characters in launchers.xml are fixed before importing AL legacy launcher/ROMs.
A copy of the fixed launchers.xml is placed in AEL ADDON_DATA_DIR.
FEATURE Check if there are duplicated asset directories. This will avoid overwriting of
artwork files!
FIX Changed video supported extensions from [mpg, mpeg, avi] to [mov, divx, xvid, wmv, avi, mpg,
mpeg, mp4, mkv, avc].
FIX Fixed issue 21: Crash when adding ROMs using _roms_add_new_rom().
FIX Fixed edition of asset directories in "Edit Launcher" -- "Manage ROM Asset directories..."
[B]Advanced Emulator Launcher | version 0.9.0 | 22 August 2016[/B]
* Initial release.