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General / Re: Meaning of "emulator" in regards to displays

« on: October 26, 2018, 07:41:49 PM »

You can do either. I recommend matching emulators and displays (i.e. Game Boy/Game Boy & Game Boy Color/Game Boy Color). It will make things easiest, especially if you want to get more complex in the future.

In your example, even if call you an emulator "Gambatte" and then use two different displays, GB and GBC, you would most likely need/want another "Gambatte2" emulator because its file extension, rom location, artwork, etc. will probably require different paths/settings. This will lead to something like this Gambatte/Game Boy & Gambatte2/Game Boy Color which is less obvious when looking at things later down the road. This can get even more confusing if you're using RetroArch or MAME for a half dozen or more emulators/systems.

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General / Re: exit display help

« on: October 26, 2018, 07:32:20 PM »

i am trying this...i created the bat...how can i launch the bat without going in the display.

i can only launch the bat by going in the display and selecting it.

You can't. Like mentioned above...

"Displays" in AttractMode open systems/emulators (i.e. MAME, NES, SNES, etc.). "Displays" do not execute games, commands or scripts. "Romlists" in AttractMode contain the list of games/executables/scripts that will be run.

You can set Configure-->General-->Start Mode = Show Last Selection (Default). This will open AM to your exit Display ready to select shutdown as long as you previously used this method to shutdown.

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General / Re: Hyperlist.xml

« on: October 26, 2018, 06:14:22 PM »

listxml and listsoftware are best for MAME and MESS things because they give additional info like screen rotation, status, number of screens, etc.

thegamesdb.net will probably give you a little more info than the hyperspin.xml.

You can also combine some of these by providing the paths to the files in emulator.cfg import_extras field and/or use thegamesdb.net as well.

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General / Re: Hyperlist.xml

« on: October 26, 2018, 05:00:46 PM »

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/blob/v2.4.0/Readme.md

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You can also import romlists from mame listxml files as well as gamelists for other frontends. Supported source files include: *.lst (MameWah lists), *.txt (Attract-Mode lists) and *.xml (Mame listxml, listsoftware and HyperSpin lists):

attract --import-romlist <source_file> [emulator name]

This directly answers your question but there are other ways to get better/more metadata. Search the forum if you're interested.

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General / Re: American Laser Games Help!

« on: October 26, 2018, 12:17:12 AM »

Do I need the import_extras line?

If you want to provide the most specific information about the MAME games when creating romlists to later use with rules to filter and/or better describe the games in layouts it needs to be done one of three ways in your emulator MAME.cfg file.
1. use the real/full MAME emulator (not the RetroArch core)

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info_source          listxml
2. (works with RetroArch) provide the files listed in the import_extras line to let Attractmode where they are located (something like)

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import_extras        .\extras\mame.xml;.\extras\catver.ini;.\extras\nplayers.ini
3. (works with RetroArch) scrape the info from thegamesdb.net

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system               Arcade
info_source          thegamesdb.net

You can also not provide any of this information and you can generate a romlist that will be usable but show you raw file names instead of the actual arcade game names. They will also lack the proper meta data for the games such as number of players, genre, year made, manufacturer, etc.

If you want to learn more about MAME you should search the forum (there's a lot out there on this) or make another thread. At this point this has nothing to do with American Laser Games.

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General / Re: American Laser Games Help!

« on: October 25, 2018, 08:57:14 PM »

One more question, i only have mame left to setup. I want to use my retroarch and mame libretro setup. Does any know how to setup retroarch and mame with attractmode?

MAME.cfg emulator file. You'll need to adjust the paths for your system.

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.4.1
#
executable           \Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
args                 -f -L cores\mame_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
rompath              \Roms\MAME
romext               .zip
system               Arcade
import_extras        .\extras\mame.xml;.\extras\catver.ini;.\extras\nplayers.ini


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General / Re: Rom info in gamelist

« on: October 25, 2018, 08:46:41 PM »

Thanks Progets.

So to be clear, you are saying that Rom info is currently not supported in AM using HyperSpin Themes without modifying the hyperspin.nut loader?

Lines 34-37 of the hyperspin.nut

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// KNOWN ISSUES:
//
// - Only proof-of-concept at this point, there are many, many Hyperspin
//   features that are unimplemented and completely missing

HyperSpin themes read the HS .xml databases to get the information. AttractMode layouts use .txt romlists to provide this information. You have converted your HS databases to AM romlists so you have the information but nowhere has anyone told the HS theme or the hyperspin.nut loader that reads it to look for this information in a different location.

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General / Re: American Laser Games Help!

« on: October 24, 2018, 08:57:37 PM »

I don't think most people use .bat files for these type of games in AttractMode.

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=503.msg6363#msg6363

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General / Re: Create a master romlist to enable multi-emulator searching, filtering & tagging

« on: October 24, 2018, 08:27:33 PM »

Okay I figured it out.

I was actually doing this.

    Target=Emulator
    Comparison=contains
    Filter Value=Arcade (Naomi)

or

    Target=Emulator
    Comparison=contains
    Filter Value="Arcade (Naomi)"

I see the problem was having the space (2 words or more).  And doing the quotation marks didn't fix it either.  Simply putting "Naomi" works enough though.  So is there absolutely no way to have multiple words as a value in the Filter Value field?

Yes, you can have spaces and/or use multiple words in the Filter Value Field. The issue with your rule is actually the parentheses "(" and ")". You must escape a parentheses with a backslash.

Your rule should read like this

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    Target=Emulator
    Comparison=contains
    Filter Value=Arcade \(Naomi\)

Here's a similar post with the same type of issue. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2499.msg17050#msg17050

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General / Re: Need help setting up attract mode on vertical cabinet

« on: October 24, 2018, 06:52:47 PM »

Try the different AttractMode "Window Mode" options. One should fix it.

Configure-->General-->Window Mode = Full screen/Fill screen/Window/etc.

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General / Re: Create a master romlist to enable multi-emulator searching, filtering & tagging

« on: October 24, 2018, 04:30:00 PM »

This is a great old post with tons of great info.  With that said, if I make a single master "arcade" list with let's say 3 systems (Mame, Atomiswave using Demul, and Naomi using Nulldc), then how do I create a filter so that I can select only Mame games, or only Naomi games in the list?  Is it even possible?

I've tried something like this which does NOT work:
    Target=Emulator
    Comparison=contains
    Filter Value=Naomi

It looks right and works for me. Post the first 50 lines of your arcade.txt romlist.

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General / Re: Rom info in gamelist

« on: October 24, 2018, 04:25:38 PM »

HyperSpin themes are interpreted using the hyperspin.nut loader. You would need to modify it to get that information.

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General / Re: Arcade one gameslist help!

« on: October 24, 2018, 07:20:47 AM »

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=503.msg6363#msg6363

Make sure you change the executable and argument to use what is in step #3 above.

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General / Re: How to create a filter that will filter out all mature roms for all displays

« on: October 23, 2018, 11:27:38 PM »

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global_filter       
rule                 Category not_contains Mature


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General / Re: exit display help

« on: October 23, 2018, 11:10:31 PM »

Either I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish or you don't understand how AttractMode works. I think you need to be very specific in what you are asking for and provide your OS and version of AttractMode.

The "builtin" exit menu isn't a "Display". It also doesn't look like the image you provided but maybe you're using a modified "builtin" exit menu. Is this the case?

"Displays" in AttractMode open systems/emulators (i.e. MAME, NES, SNES, etc.). "Displays" do not execute games, commands or scripts. "Romlists" in AttractMode contain the list of games/executables/scripts that will be run.

I don't know of a way to have AttractMode load and show you the "builtin" exit menu. There is a way to create an exit/setup/reboot "Display" and then create an "Emulator" that runs (.bat or .sh files depending on your OS) and then create scripts (.bat or .sh files depending on your OS) to shutdown your device. This "Display" could be set to be the first thing you see.