Hey all,

I recently purchased Voxcommando for my home entertainment system, and I love it.  The basic functionality is tremendous, and it lets me do pretty much everything I need inside XBMC.  My question relates specifically to the addon, Rom Collection Browser.  I have everything set up wonderfully for manual control, but I would like to add an additional functionality for Voxcommando.  In particular, I want to add the following command:

Play Game <string>

Now, in order to do this, I would need to tell Voxcommando to scan the list of roms I have available inside the addon.  I am not sure if this is possible, and I've waited a few days to ask so that I could browse for similar topics in the forums, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Can anyone offer advice for getting this function up and running?

Thanks,
On the verge of a dream  

Hi neomaycry.  Welcome to the forum.

It's probably going to be tricky to get the addon to launch a specific ROM without modifying the addon itself.  Does the ROM Browser addon ultimately launch an exe with a parameter though?  If that is the case there might be a way to do it directly.  The problem is that I don't have any experience with ROMs and I don't have any so it's kind of difficult to experiment with it.  Reading the data is also going to be a problem since XBMC probably doesn't offer any means of accessing it through the http interface which is what we are currently using.

If you can guide me to get set up with a few roms on windows with a minimum of fuss, then I'll see if I can figure something out.

Should I use MAME?

to open the ROM browser you can try this

XBMC.ExecBuiltin       RunScript(script.games.rom.collection.browser)

Quote from: jitterjames on January 09, 2012, 09:54:39 AM
If you can guide me to get set up with a few roms on windows with a minimum of fuss, then I'll see if I can figure something out.

Should I use MAME?

James,

There are many MAME games that have been released legally as freeware.  The MAME emulator can be found here: http://mamedev.org/release.html .... and the associated freeware roms can be found here: http://mamedev.org/roms/

I will give your previous suggestion a try and see what I am able to produce.

Thanks for all the help.  It is a rarity to see a programmer working so hard to help individuals.