I need your help: Web based ROM visualization

[Arcuza]

@MWGemini Thank you for your support. I ran into a problem today when testing Herb Fargus data, and that's dealing with many-to-many relationships. I didn't solve that during the day, but I'm on my way.

The code is already finished when receiving expected data, now I want to test what happens when running into unexpected data.

Thank you

[joyrider3774]

Will it eventually be running from the pi itselve somehow so you can access a webserver on the pi and view all this data ? Do you have some screenshots i wonder how it looks like

[Arcuza]

@joyrider3774 It's dependant on that the web server is able to push the gamelist.xml through a HTTPRequest. All is client side, so all data is processed in the browser. Of course you can run a web browser on the PI, but I think it would be too slow. In that case I would rather make it native on the PI in C++. But I need to learn Linux graphics, io and input since I've never done that before.

I just have to solve null data and finite/rational data filtering first. Then you can have a full blown demo.

[Arcuza]

@herb_fargus Thank you for your help. You don't have a well scraped set with several consoles? Is there one gamelist.xml for each console?

[herb_fargus]

@Arcuza yes as far as I know there is one gamelist.xml per system.

I don't really have massive romsets so I don't really have any lists.

I'm sure there are plenty of others the forum that do though

[herb_fargus]

@Arcuza I found another one for NES

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TMeZ6iEFvHVTEtLWNubk00ZEE

[Arcuza]

@herb_fargus Hi, do these gamelists.xml have different schemas per console, or do they follow a standard? Do anyone know? Is there a document describing this?

[herb_fargus]

@Arcuza they should be the same for every system.

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/master/GAMELISTS.md

[Jeck11]

Found this set online. Maybe it'll help ya.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23090041/gamelists.rar

[Arcuza]

Seems like I'm into some nasty mathematics issues, regarding the filters and decimal values.

But, at least you can have a nonworking look here:

http://elitlogik.se/visualizer.html (Data in this demo is based on herb_fargus NES gamelist)

Things that needs to be done:

• Fix handling of null values
• Be able to set custom color schemes and directions (now its green for low and red for high)
• Fix the darn Filters to work better
• Sort the selectables descending, maybe group "others" if less than 1%
• XMLHttpRequest to recieve the gamelist.xml of your own Retropie

In a far future maybe having some nice options when clicking on a game title in the rectangles, like editing, commenting or socializing with your friends on facebook ;)

Do you have any suggestions, please post.

[herb_fargus]

@Arcuza to add a cog into your system emulationstation was just updated recently to include video and marquee tags as well just fyi