[Beta] ROMote – play your retro game collection in the browser (NES → PlayStation)

[GrimEvil 87]

Also for the links it may look better as 

Play Game (Local), Play Game (remote) 

Or something similar so the user knows the difference?

[chriztopia 0]

I am getting a refused to connect while testing this. Plugin has the link under the game but when I click it, it just wont connect to play.

[digitalirony 24]

Just now, chriztopia said:

I am getting a refused to connect while testing this. Plugin has the link under the game but when I click it, it just wont connect to play.

Can you provide screenshots? What version of emby are you using? Are you trying to access it from inside of your network, or externally? 

 

Did you use the latest plugin that I posted inline above? I did fix some network issues in the last version. Its in this reply:

https://emby.media/community/topic/148719-beta-romote-–-play-your-retro-game-collection-in-the-browser-nes-→-playstation/#findComment-1531145

[chriztopia 0]

I found the issue. It was trying by default to go to https and I run my EMBY as http. I did a manual edit and it worked. Works very nicely. It grabbed NES with no issue but SNES I guess it doesn't detect that this folder is SNES? How does it detect the ROM folder and match it to the system?

[digitalirony 24]

19 minutes ago, chriztopia said:

I found the issue. It was trying by default to go to https and I run my EMBY as http. I did a manual edit and it worked. Works very nicely. It grabbed NES with no issue but SNES I guess it doesn't detect that this folder is SNES? How does it detect the ROM folder and match it to the system?

It detects it based on the file types and file extensions. What extensions are your SNES games? The folders are really just for file system organization. There is an option in the Admin panel under the ROMote Settings, that you can have it sort and organize your ROMs for you, and even remove duplicates and utility roms and such etc. 

[digitalirony 24]

18 hours ago, GrimEvil said:

Also for the links it may look better as 

Play Game (Local), Play Game (remote) 

Or something similar so the user knows the difference?

 

21 hours ago, GrimEvil said:

I will look at chd versions of the PSX files,

The Bios is for support for some systems other than PSX like the 3DO, Colecovision so maybe an option depending on the emulator/core, you can get rom pack form romm which uses emulatorjs, so maybe supporting the same pack would be eaiser?

 

New build, 1.0.0.34 - covers both things you brought up.
BIOS (now more than just PlayStation)
There's a single "BIOS folder" setting in ROMote Settings. Point it at a folder on your server,
click "Set up BIOS folders", and ROMote creates one clearly named subfolder per system that
needs a BIOS, puts a README in each explaining what goes there, and shows a table of exactly
which file each expects and whether it's already present.
It uses the standard EmulatorJS BIOS file names, so the same BIOS pack you'd use with EmulatorJS
or RomM works here as-is - no special format.
Systems that need one right now:
- PlayStation: scph5501.bin (or scph1001.bin, etc.). Optional - without it PS1 uses the HLE
  BIOS, which runs most games.
- ColecoVision: colecovision.rom. Required - this fixes ColecoVision, which couldn't boot at
  all before.
Most other systems don't need a BIOS. Adding another system's is a one-line change for me, so if
there's a specific one you need, name it and I'll wire it up. (3DO would be a new console rather
than just a BIOS, but I can look at it.) Your old PlayStation BIOS path still works as a fallback
if you'd set one.
Play links (your labeling idea)
Renamed the two links to "Play Game (Browser)" and "Play Game (App)" so it's obvious which to
use. Browser is the relative link that follows whatever address you're on, local or remote; App
is the absolute link for the native Emby apps, and only shows when an external address is
available.
Updating
Grab 1.0.0.34 (attached), stop Emby, replace ROMote.dll, start it. BIOS takes effect right away,
no rescan needed. If you have an External Domain set and want the "App" link on your existing
games, run a metadata refresh on the Games library once (newly scanned games get it
automatically).
Thanks for the suggestions - both of these came straight from your feedback.

ROMote.dll

[chriztopia 0]

NES is .nes

SNES is .SMC

N64 is .z64

 

 

For SNES

 

 

Picking 3 Ninjas Kick back I get:

Unknown game platform for item e5b41dac-f59a-8780-19e8-7a405d52baba

 

 

FOR NES:

 

While NES has some games it doesn't have all of them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[digitalirony 24]

4 hours ago, chriztopia said:

NES is .nes

SNES is .SMC

N64 is .z64

 

 

For SNES

 

 

Picking 3 Ninjas Kick back I get:

Unknown game platform for item e5b41dac-f59a-8780-19e8-7a405d52baba

 

 

FOR NES:

 

While NES has some games it doesn't have all of them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before you dig anything up, here's what I think is going on - it'll make the requests below make
sense, and I suspect a lot of it comes down to how the Games library itself is set up.
How ROMote decides what's what: it reads the ROM file's extension (NES = .nes, SNES = .sfc/.smc,
N64 = .z64) and tags each game with its console. When it recognizes a file, that console shows
up under ROMote's proper name. When it doesn't, Emby's built-in scanner lists the file instead
and just labels it by its folder.
You can actually see that split in your Systems view: "Nintendo Entertainment System",
"Nintendo 64", and "Atari 2600" are ROMote's names - it recognized those. But "SNES" and that
stray "roms" tile are folder names, which means those files came in through Emby's generic
scanner and ROMote never tagged them. That's exactly the SNES "Unknown platform" error: no
console tag, so Play has nothing to launch.
The NES "only shows from S" is likely a separate issue - a clean alphabetical cutoff like that
usually points to a scan that didn't finish, or a display/sort quirk, rather than file types.
Since both of these come down to what Emby is scanning and how ROMote sees it, a few things
would let me pin it all down in one shot:
1. Library settings - Dashboard > Library > your Games library > Edit. A screenshot showing the
   Content Type (should be "Games") and the folder path(s) it points at. This is the one I most
   want to see.
2. Inside the folders - first turn on View > "File name extensions" in Explorer (Windows hides
   them by default). Then screenshot the contents of: one NES folder that shows in Emby, one NES
   folder that doesn't (something early like "8 Eyes" or "1942"), and one SNES game folder. I'm
   after the actual files and their extensions.
3. The layout - a screenshot of the top level or two of folders under that library path, so I
   can see where NES, SNES, and "roms" sit relative to what Emby is scanning.
4. The Emby log - run Dashboard > Library > "Scan Library Files", let it go for a bit, then
   Dashboard > Logs, open the newest server log and attach it (or paste any errors/exceptions).
And the 10-second one: in the Games search, type "1942" (or another title that's missing) - does
it find it? That tells me whether those NES games imported at all.
With those in hand I should be able to sort both out.