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Themes / Re: New hyperspin based themes with flipped artwork and masked selection frame.

« on: March 11, 2015, 08:17:58 PM »

Very cool. Are you going to make these available for download for all of us to enjoy and use? 

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General / Re: Filters Not Showing Up

« on: March 09, 2015, 06:40:49 PM »

Thanks for the link to that tool, looks promising!

My goal is to have AttractMode only display the games that are the originals and work with the controls that I have. The other one would be to only show my favorite games. (I still need to figure out how to have it default to a particular filter instead of displaying all of the games.)

I figured out my issue: The filter rules need to be added to the "attract.cfg" file in the section for your emulator. On Linux this file is located here:

~/.attract/attract.cfg

Here's what my attract.cfg file looks like at the start: (Largely based on the filter docs here: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Example-filters )

# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.5.1
#
list   mame
   layout               machines
   romlist              mame
   filter               "Justin Test Filter"
      rule                 Title not_contains bootleg|prototype|Sports|Trivia|Quiz|Mahjong
      rule                 Year not_contains ?
      rule                 Manufacturer not_contains bootleg
      rule                 Category not_contains Mature|Quiz|Sports|Mahjong|Casino
      rule                 Players equals 1|2
      rule                 Control contains joystick
      rule                 Control contains 2-way|4-way|8-way
      rule                 Status equals good|imperfect
      rule                 DisplayCount equals 1
   filter               Favourites
      rule                 Favourite equals 1
   filter               All

list   nestopia ...

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General / Filters Not Showing Up

« on: March 09, 2015, 04:50:47 AM »

On Linux Mint 17.1, 64-bit, AttractMode 1.5.1:

I've not been successful with my filters showing up (MAME in this case, the only one I've tested so far). Whenever I press the next or previous filters assigned keys the games list is empty. Bringing up the Filters Menu only displays "All" and "Favourites".

I suspect I'm the issue here with a typo or something. ;-)

The categories are showing up correctly when I use the "machines" display (which looks really, really good btw).

My mame.cfg has this line:

import_extras        $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/catver/catver.ini;$HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/catver/filters.ini

My filters.ini looks like this:

filter "Justin Test Filter"
  rule   Title not_contains bootleg|prototype|Sports|Trivia|Quiz|Mahjong
  rule   Year not_contains ?
  rule   Manufacturer not_contains bootleg
  rule   Category not_contains Mature|Quiz|Sports|Mahjong|Casino
  rule   Players equals 1|2
  rule   Control contains joystick
  rule   Control contains 2-way|4-way|8-way
  rule   Status equals good|imperfect
  rule   DisplayCount equals 1
filter "Justin Favourite Games"
  rule   Favourite equals 1

After adding all of these changes and then running the "Generate Collection/Rom list" option in the Emulators MAME section I'm still not seeing my filter appear.

Do I also need to add brackets around the 'filter "Name Of Filter Here"' section?

Any ideas or suggestions on what to check? Thanks in advance.

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General / Re: Starting MAME games with Attract-Mode

« on: February 21, 2015, 07:20:02 PM »

Figured it out after reviewing the other emulator presets.

The Fix: In the MAME Emulator editing mode enter in this in the Command Arguments field (include the brackets):

[romfilename]

I wanted to post this here in case someone else new to Attract Mode ran across the same issue. (I didn't see the solution for this issue on the forum elsewhere.)

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General / Re: Starting MAME games with Attract-Mode

« on: February 21, 2015, 06:55:28 PM »

First, I want to say that Attract Mode looks really, really good and well designed. Thank you.

I got it compiled and running just fine on Linux Mint 17.1 (64-bit), along with SDL MAME 0.158.

But I'm having the same issue: Attract mode launches and displays the art work just fine for MAME but then after I select a game MAME is launched and it just displays the menu list of games instead of starting the game.

Here's what my mame.cfg file looks like:

# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.4.0
#
executable           $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/bin/mame
rompath              $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/roms
romext               .zip;.7z
info_source          mame
artwork    flyer           $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/flyers
artwork    marquee         $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/marquees
artwork    snap            $HOME/Desktop/AttractMode/EmulatorsData/mame/snap
artwork    wheel           

Any suggestions or ideas? I'm all ears and appreciate the help!