@ES Codename "Evolution" public beta 4 (final fix)

[@ruantec]

Am glad to present to you @ES - Evolution Beta 4!

I had some delays caused by the fact that a tonne of bugs were found that needed to be addressed!

New features:

*Fullscreen mode (Won't work for PJ64 though in the update as it is harder to add for PJ64 then originally thought, but will be added at a later time!)
*Fullscreen Video mode
*Volume knob in Video controls(Ctrl+W to show the menu, Ctrl+E to hide the menu)
*Ctrl+F = Switch to fullscreen
*Ctrl+D = Switch back to @ES screen
*NESTOPIA support (Works perfectly! just setup Nestopia in the "VirtuaNes=" section in the Settings file)
*CRC check for rom covers (Works for all cartridge based consoles)
*Arcade emu's can now use the titlescreen packs that MAME/FBA has available for download
*Bug fixes in the Audio/Video and Games menu which caused @ES to crash sometimes
*no more menu flickering in Windows XP!!!
*Full Media keys support.
*MSN Scrolling text
*MSN display the game name and the game icon while playing
*Easy Setup
*zip support(and others aswell)


As soon as there is time to create a tool to convert my covers of my roms to the CRC format I will upload complete packs for all the cartridge based consoles.

Things that will be added soon:

*Gamepad support
*PJ64 and soon ePSXe fullscreen mode
*Cover scroller fix
*Fullscreen controls
*SSF support
*a way to delete items


known bugs:
*Cover scroller cause @ES to crash sometimes if used after the mouse-scroller or vice-versa
*Some Games are slow on some machines(switch to fullscreen to get full-speed)

Download the new build here

Check out my page for future updates(Work in progress) at:

@ruantec Entertainment Corner

Enjoy my newest Beta

in case you downloaded the new beta4 before 01.05.08 - 11:00 PM GMT and you´re getting errors while adding games in the PSX,PS2,GC,DC, Video sections and covers please re-download the new fixed build again... sorry for that but i forgot to add a small piece of code

For the newest concept for future releases(Thanks goes to ShaddiX for his great work) check out the pics

[Shendo]

Awesome release @ruantec

[megaman_zer0]

um what system does this emulate?

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by megaman_zer0

um what system does this emulate?

@ES is basically a frontend/media player(all in one) but it works in a totally new way........ anyways i´ll add internal emulation in the future.
for now @ES uses emulators processes and control them to emulate games.. for more info check the Readme file included.

in fact @ES is a new concept in the emulation scene enjoy it!


Greetz
@ruantec

[Silenus]

Great job man.
Finally.

Will test it right away.

[Czez]

Cool, I have been waiting for this. I will try it out right away!

[Linktothepast]

Amazing, amazing and ... simply amazing.

Have anyone got any idea where to find ready game covers?

[Fadingz]

gamespot?

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by Linktothepast

Amazing, amazing and ... simply amazing.

Have anyone got any idea where to find ready game covers?

am preparing some packages for that they should be out soon

anyways you can use google and drop the pics directly from internet explorer to your cover item

[Czez]

Here is some quick feedback from my recent experience with @ES:

- Exiting @ES by double-clicking on it seems a bit awkward to me, I didn't even know how to exit at first so I pressed control+alt+delete and killed the process.

- All game covers are not the same size, while the current display size for covers fit nicely with dreamcast it squashes them for the N64, perhaps have different cover sizes in future releases?

- Scrolling to the left lags slightly for me

- Allthough I read @ES isnt supposed to impact performance, nullDC ran very slow for me through @ES.

- I don't seem to be able to switch to full screen with ALT + ENTER on either nullDC nor PJ64.

All in all, I like @ES, it's great to be able to scroll between all your games with a nice cover selection and no need to switch between emulators, having everything in one software.

Great work guys!

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by Czez

Here is some quick feedback from my recent experience with @ES:

- Exiting @ES by double-clicking on it seems a bit awkward to me, I didn't even know how to exit at first so I pressed control+alt+delete and killed the process.

- All game covers are not the same size, while the current display size for covers fit nicely with dreamcast it squashes them for the N64, perhaps have different cover sizes in future releases?

- Scrolling to the left lags slightly for me

- Allthough I read @ES isnt supposed to impact performance, nullDC ran very slow for me through @ES.

- I don't seem to be able to switch to full screen with ALT + ENTER on either nullDC nor PJ64.

All in all, I like @ES, it's great to be able to scroll between all your games with a nice cover selection and no need to switch between emulators, having everything in one software.

Great work guys!

the double-click to exit thing... was just for previous betasbut i forgot to work on that ... i´ll change that soon..

about fullscreen... fullscreen support isn´t complete now and very buggy so it´s not recommended to switch to fullscreen at least not for the next 3 days when i bring out a new beta which will have fullscreen support for all emus and also will bring full support for SSF.

about nullDC beeing slow... normally you should get the same speeds... check out your settings and look if there´s something wrong.

about the covers... i´ll see what i can do to change that in future releases.

[Mr. Duck Sauce]

ok, first off, when you play music then stop the music and try to play a video afterwards, it would play the next music when you click on any video at all, which is odd.

The second thing is about video, where there is no actual seek, search, and any kind of controls for it.

There is no way of going back instantly to your last choice of whats playing like music than doing it the old way, i tried clicking on the now playing button when music was playing and it didn't go to what was playing, i know it might not be implemented yet, but its a force of habit for me.

Right now, I am trying to fix my emulator on AES and its confusing.

[Linktothepast]

Hmm, since this is a beta, may i add that i find the scrolling speed too low when you have many files? There isn't any serious speed up while scrolling, and finding a specific file in a large folder can take ages. Or an instant jump to a specific letter could be very useful.

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by Mr. Duck Sauce

ok, first off, when you play music then stop the music and try to play a video afterwards, it would play the next music when you click on any video at all, which is odd.

The second thing is about video, where there is no actual seek, search, and any kind of controls for it.

There is no way of going back instantly to your last choice of whats playing like music than doing it the old way, i tried clicking on the now playing button when music was playing and it didn't go to what was playing, i know it might not be implemented yet, but its a force of habit for me.

Right now, I am trying to fix my emulator on AES and its confusing.

am concern about the music and video bug when you try to switch between them.. and it will be fixed soon.

about the video controls.. the video layer has video controls if you check the readme file you will see that you can use CTRL+W to call the video controls and CTRL+E to hide them..

about "I am trying to fix my emulator on AES" what you mean??? maybe i can help you with that.

Originally Posted by Linktothepast

Hmm, since this is a beta, may i add that i find the scrolling speed too low when you have many files? There isn't any serious speed up while scrolling, and finding a specific file in a large folder can take ages. Or an instant jump to a specific letter could be very useful.

it´s true the scrolling speed is in some cases a bit too slow specially when you have large lists.. anyways if you right-click the covers a scroller will appear were you can jump to several places by clicking or dragging it..

it´s still not perfect tho.. but it will be fixed soon.

the reason i released this public beta is to see how @ES works in many differents computers and so i can fix bugs that probably we skipped somehow.

[Player594]

First off it looks great and its a great idea but I'm having problems getting it to work for me. The problem is when I drag a folder with my music or movies or evern games, it adds the folder to the cover flow but if I click the folder on the coverflow to open it I guess that's what it does, it crashes the @ES. I'm using Vista Ultimate SP1 FYI. I had been looking so forward to trying this awsome looking app. Pls help if you can. Thanks.

[Mr. Duck Sauce]

ok, the emulator part is well messed up on my side, i did the settings directory, and the only way the aes plays the emulator is when i start aes, pick a game in the directory, i picked soul calibur, and it says now loading its stuck on it, until i open null myself then it goes into the screen, which it should automatically open in aes, but it doesn't.

edit: it does that for all my emulators, when i load the game up, i would have to start the emulator manually.

I will make a video of it.

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by Player594

First off it looks great and its a great idea but I'm having problems getting it to work for me. The problem is when I drag a folder with my music or movies or evern games, it adds the folder to the cover flow but if I click the folder on the coverflow to open it I guess that's what it does, it crashes the @ES. I'm using Vista Ultimate SP1 FYI. I had been looking so forward to trying this awsome looking app. Pls help if you can. Thanks.

ok that´s really strange since @ES works at best with Vista and specially with SP1... anyways could you post some pics of it?

i mean pics of your menus, covers etc. just to see what´s going on.... btw make sure you´ve installed the latest codec packs.. i´ve tested K-lite and it works great.

Originally Posted by Mr. Duck Sauce

ok, the emulator part is well messed up on my side, i did the settings directory, and the only way the aes plays the emulator is when i start aes, pick a game in the directory, i picked soul calibur, and it says now loading its stuck on it, until i open null myself then it goes into the screen, which it should automatically open in aes, but it doesn't.

edit: it does that for all my emulators, when i load the game up, i would have to start the emulator manually.

it seems like you haven´t setup your settings correctly... post your settings.@cf file here and i´ll check what´s wrong..
if the emu isn´t started when the loading text comes it means that you´re settings file isn´t correctly configured.

[Linktothepast]

Originally Posted by Mr. Duck Sauce

ok, the emulator part is well messed up on my side, i did the settings directory, and the only way the aes plays the emulator is when i start aes, pick a game in the directory, i picked soul calibur, and it says now loading its stuck on it, until i open null myself then it goes into the screen, which it should automatically open in aes, but it doesn't.

edit: it does that for all my emulators, when i load the game up, i would have to start the emulator manually.

I will make a video of it.

Did you edit the Settings.@cf file or the read me? You should edit the Settings.@cf file with notepad.
And thanks for the tip Ruantec, that scroll bar is very helpful indeed, although a little buggy (it froze the program once). Still it is not exactly accurate and an instant jump to a certain letter , or even better a combination of letters would be perfect . Or at least a display of the names passing during the scrolling process so you know where you are when you are dragging the bar, it is more of a guessing where you are without it.

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by Linktothepast

Did you edit the Settings.@cf file or the read me? You should edit the Settings.@cf file with notepad.
And thanks for the tip Ruantec, that scroll bar is very helpful indeed, although a little buggy (it froze the program once). Still it is not exactly accurate and an instant jump to a certain letter , or even better a combination of letters would be perfect . Or at least a display of the names passing during the scrolling process so you know where you are when you are dragging the bar.

no probl. as i sayd is not perfect yet and has some bugs.. but i´ll change that soon