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scottrice / Ice

Application to automatically add ROMs to Steam
http://scottrice.github.io/Ice/
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Can't make custom icons work #257

Closed imkrut closed 9 years ago

imkrut commented 9 years ago

Sorry if this has been adressed before, i've read and tried this multiple times but no luck.

I was even banking on/waiting on the reply to this issue (https://github.com/scottrice/Ice/issues/247) but the person there apparently had no problems getting it to work.

This is how it looks in the consoles.txt file

[Super Nintendo] nickname=SNES emulator=retroarch_snes extensions=smc icon=C:\Emulators\Ice\Icons\icon.png

And i've tried several icon files (png) with different resolutions, but to no avail, all i get is the default Emulator icon from the executable.

I've tried at different times, and have redownloaded ICE on multiple ocasions thinking it might be a different version or something, but no luck, i also think i had the same problem with custom grid images loaded w/same file name (not loading) but it's been a while since i tried it.

Any help would be aprecciated.

imkrut commented 9 years ago

Upon further checking i can't make the following commands to work:

roms directory=X:\Folder icon=X:\Folder\icon.png images directory=X:\Folder\Images

Any help would be great.

scottrice commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the report. I'll try to take a look soon.

imkrut commented 9 years ago

Thank you, on a different, but related note, i've amassed a huge amount of custom made Steam banners (they look pretty good together since they are done all in the same way), uploading them 1 by 1 to console grid is really a pain, but i'd be happy to share them if an easier way to upload a "cover pack".

scottrice commented 9 years ago

Cover packs are definitely something that Ice wants to support (I added a field for consoles where you could define a directory with images in it and it would use those instead of hitting ConsoleGrid). Adding cover packs to ConsoleGrid itself is a really good idea, would you mind adding that as an issue to the ConsoleGrid GitHub page? I'm hoping to improve that in the near future as well.

imkrut commented 9 years ago

Sure thing, will do.

Really looking forward to any sort of help to the icons/image directory/rom directory issue, i can't for the life of me figure out if i'm doing something wrong or the feature broke somewhere.

Thanks in advance

scottrice commented 9 years ago

Oh wait, I think I might know your issue. Are you running from the source, or from the executable on the downloads page (aka Ice.exe)? The source code should have that feature while the executable won't. Unfortunately the executable on the downloads page is extremely old, as I was without a Windows computer to build Ice on for a while. Now that I have one and have stabilized Ice a bit I am hoping to release another version of the executable soon.

imkrut commented 9 years ago

The latter, i'm running from Ice.exe

Guess I'll have to look into compiling it, I honestly don't have a clue where to begin tho.

Thanks for the help Scott.

scottrice commented 9 years ago

You shouldn't need to compile it, just run it. You can do it with python src/ice.py.

You will need to run python setup.py install first though, and unfortunately there is a bug right now that means you need to have py2exe installed if you want to run that command on Windows. I'm working on fixing it, but it will take me a while. So that leaves three options:

1) Install py2exe. This will let you run python setup.py install without a problem and you can run Ice. 2) Wait for me to fix the py2exe bug, which will let you run the source. 3) Wait for me to make another executable.

Those are basically in order of how quickly they will happen too. 1 you can do yourself (download link), 2 and 3 should happen in a week or so.

Since we found the source of your icon problems I am going to close this issue to remove it from the open list, but feel free to comment if things still aren't working for you.

imkrut commented 9 years ago

I did all of the above, Ice starts, it detects both the console.txt configuration and the emulator.txt config, then gets stuck on "User" python_ice

Edit: Randomly on the 2nd or 3rd try it worked (after waiting a couple of minutes), but i can't reproduce it, and i have like 2 entries of each game now.

Edit 2: I removed all the rom/iso folder, and ran the old (Executable) version of ICE, which removed the old games, then did the same with the new python src/ice.py thingie, and apparently deleted the others. I launched Steam, and confirmed all games were gone, closed it and ran python src/ice.py again, which added all the games (with their respective icons, custom images and folders) pretty much instantly. Thanks for the help Scott, kinda messy but that did the trick, I'm leaving my solutions in case someone gets the same problem.

Edit 3: i have to run the old ICE version to remove the old games if i want to run the python version and not get stuck. Also some consoles it adds the custom images (on my pc) super fast, while others it takes a good 30sec per image, still looking forward to the new executable :)

Also, how feaseable would it be to add the feature to add the backdrop image you get when you take a screenshot automatically from the same image packs, like this:

castlevania_backdrop_image

imkrut commented 9 years ago

Hey scott, did you ever get a chance to get around option 3?

"3) Wait for me to make another executable."

Thanks!

gwokk commented 7 years ago

_Hey scott, did you ever get a chance to get around option 3?

"3) Wait for me to make another executable."

Thanks!_

I'm wondering this also - I think the ice.exe from the main downloads page is an older version which doesn't allow for image/icon directory

Cheers!