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AEL technical notes

Misc stuff

GameFAQs scraper: detect when web server is blocked.

Blocked IP Address Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. The most common causes of this issue are:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826&pid=2403674#pid2403674

Multidisc support

ROM scanner implementation

  1. If the ROM scanner finds a multidisc image belonging to a set, for example Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue.

    • The filename corresponds to the basename of the set.

    • The ROM basename is added to the disks list.

    • Asset names will have the basename of the set Final Fantasy VII (USA).

    filename = '/home/kodi/ROMs/Final Fantasy VII (USA)'
    disks = ['Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue']

  1. If the ROM scanner finds another image of the set then:

    • The basename is added to the disks list.

    • disks list is reordered so ROMs have consecutive order.

    • filename points to the first image of the set.

    • Metadata/Asset scraping is only done for the first ROM of the set.

    filename = '/home/kodi/ROMs/Final Fantasy VII (USA)'
    disks = ['Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).cue', 'Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue']

  1. ROMs not in a set have an empty disks list.

  2. This implementation is safe if there are missing ROMs in the set.

  3. Al launching time, users selects from a select dialog of the basenames of the roms of the set which one to launch.

Naming conventions

No-Intro

TOSEC naming convention

Organisation Name example
TOSEC Final Fantasy VII (1999)(Square)(NTSC)(US)(Disc 1 of 2).cue
Final Fantasy VII (1999)(Square)(NTSC)(US)(Disc 2 of 2).cue
Trurip Final Fantasy VII (EU) - (Disc 1 of 3).cue
Final Fantasy VII (EU) - (Disc 2 of 3).cue
Final Fantasy VII (EU) - (Disc 3 of 3).cue
Redump Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).cue
Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 2).cue
Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 3).cue

TOSEC/Trurip/Redump image formats

TOSEC Redump Trurip
cue,iso,wav cue,bin cue,img,ccd,sub

listitem.setInfo() overlay values and effects

listitem.setInfo('video', {'overlay' : 4})

Kodi Krypton Estuary displays a small icon to the left of the listitem title that can be changed with the overlay property value. Overlay values are defined in GUIListItem,

enum GUIIconOverlay {
    ICON_OVERLAY_NONE = 0,
    ICON_OVERLAY_RAR,
    ICON_OVERLAY_ZIP,
    ICON_OVERLAY_LOCKED,
    ICON_OVERLAY_UNWATCHED,
    ICON_OVERLAY_WATCHED,
    ICON_OVERLAY_HD
};