Presentation video ?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Well now that we have a flow and general start to finish it is easier to swap out parts to add the few missing things.
What do we want added then?

I think mostly: make sure that the menu items you show during the presentation of a theme also contain all the elements of that theme. Currently many elements are glaringly missing in some of the themes.

[dougan78]

Well now that we have a flow and general start to finish it is easier to swap out parts to add the few missing things.
What do we want added then?

I think mostly: make sure that the menu items you show during the presentation of a theme also contain all the elements of that theme. Currently many elements are glaringly missing in some of the themes.

Which is mostly text.  Man I detest text, but I digress.  I did what I could to find text.  Of I could get per theme pointers on where to get missing text and where to put, I am more than happy to rerecord that is not a problem.  My theme doesnt use text to look good so I had to do a fair amount of research and setup on these others that do use text to get what I got.  Thanks for the help!

[dougan78]

Ok, I added info.conf files for additional text where applicable.  So it will have something where there is supposed to be something for some of these themes.  SO I plan on re-recording:

Glados
Pandora's Box 16x9
Aeon Nox

I have setup a submenu structure for my Arcade classics using those newer platform videos the Animatic theme to open with however I am having an issue which I posted about on that thread.  Once I figure out how to fix that we will be as good as gold, I think unless you gents want anything else.

Cheers

[dougan78]

Updated glados:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqM28yblRxa2ZmQ3M

Updated pandora box 16x9:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqdDNiOXBROHgySDQ

Updated Aeon Nox:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqT29RRmZBVTctZHM

Once I get the sub menu thing figured out for animatic I will have that setup for mame with submenus and platform videos, which should showcase nicely.

[dougan78]

Updated Animatic:
Submenus and platform vids

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqQ2d6anZJNGVYVDA

[ryuuji]

thanks
is that all we need to change ?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

thanks
is that all we need to change ?

I'm not sure the dashes show all available features, but it's certainly an improvement. For the Sega Genesis presentation of the Aeon Nox theme, it may be good to use the following meta XML file.

[dougan78]

thanks
is that all we need to change ?

I'm not sure the dashes show all available features, but it's certainly an improvement. For the Sega Genesis presentation of the Aeon Nox theme, it may be good to use the following meta XML file.

Sure thing.  I thought that stuff came from the info.conf.  hence the dashes as I wasnt going to look up all the systems.  I put in all my hyperspin xml files and deleted the metadata.db.  are you saying nox should pull that from metadata.db?

I will record nox again btw thats no biggie

[Pieter Hulshoff]

thanks
is that all we need to change ?

I'm not sure the dashes show all available features, but it's certainly an improvement. For the Sega Genesis presentation of the Aeon Nox theme, it may be good to use the following meta XML file.

Sure thing.  I thought that stuff came from the info.conf.  hence the dashes as I wasnt going to look up all the systems.  I put in all my hyperspin xml files and deleted the metadata.db.  are you saying nox should pull that from metadata.db?

I will record nox again btw thats no biggie

The game information is pulled from meta.db; the collection information is pulled from info.conf (or settings.conf).

[dougan78]

thanks
is that all we need to change ?

I'm not sure the dashes show all available features, but it's certainly an improvement. For the Sega Genesis presentation of the Aeon Nox theme, it may be good to use the following meta XML file.

Sure thing.  I thought that stuff came from the info.conf.  hence the dashes as I wasnt going to look up all the systems.  I put in all my hyperspin xml files and deleted the metadata.db.  are you saying nox should pull that from metadata.db?

I will record nox again btw thats no biggie

The game information is pulled from meta.db; the collection information is pulled from info.conf (or settings.conf).

Then it should have all the game info because, well maybe the default xml is old in retrofe.  I will update it with your or a newer one and test.  Then record again.  Thanks much.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Then it should have all the game info because, well maybe the default xml is old in retrofe.  I will update it with your or a newer one and test.  Then record again.  Thanks much.

I've been distributing XML files separately, but it might be wise to include them in the next RetroFE release. Problem is that mine are based on HyperSpin 1.0 files, but they do contain the additional information used by RetroFE.

[dougan78]

Then it should have all the game info because, well maybe the default xml is old in retrofe.  I will update it with your or a newer one and test.  Then record again.  Thanks much.

I've been distributing XML files separately, but it might be wise to include them in the next RetroFE release. Problem is that mine are based on HyperSpin 1.0 files, but they do contain the additional information used by RetroFE.

That is fine, I did not know that you added stuff to the xml.  I had several systems not showing any data at all for games like msdos for example.   So one day I started copying my hyperspin xml files over yours and deleted my meta.db.    as my theme only uses game data I did not think it was a big deal.  But as the larger community as a whole is moving away from manually generated databases it may be wise to hook into gamesdb or moby for that info at some point. 

I assume the xmls are on the downloads page then?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I assume the xmls are on the downloads page then?

I'm afraid not; I just added them to the EmuMovies sets. Here's what I currently use, though they could certainly use some updates.

[dougan78]

Finalized Aeon Nox:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqbk0wSjMtRDlXRkk

YOu should be pleased

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Finalized Aeon Nox:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5cyfJB3udHqbk0wSjMtRDlXRkk

YOu should be pleased

Very. I'm also very happy that you guys are helping out; this project is taking up quite a bit of time, and it's good to see I'm not alone here.