Hi, I was wondering if devs would be open to feature requests/ ideas? if so I have a few.
1: a simple layout editor would rock
2: the ability to have per game layouts (if this is already implemented sorry I just couldn't figure out how to do it)
3: maybe have an "on launch" or "on exit" command available to we can include other exe files or bat files to help emu's open and close cleaner or include scripting to edit close commands for emulators. (launch arguments seem to work fine)
I think thats about it, I've been using hyperspin for a few years now and after playing around with attact mode for about an hour I decided to scavange all of my emu's/roms/and art from my HS setup and dive right into attract mode..... its that much better already!
please keep up the incredible work!
Hi, yes feature requests and ideas are always welcome. It certainly helps me to have requests hashed out a bit either on the forum or the github issue tracker, so others can chime in with their implementation ideas.
There was a bit of a false start on a layout editor, but nothing is happening on that front now (that I know of)... Also, given that we have the ability to make a lot of user-customizable options in the Attract-Mode layouts, I wonder if a layout with the background image, foreground image, snap placement and list placement being completely customizable could cover this off for a lot of the situations where someone would want to use a layout editor... I dunno.
With respect to #3, I would also add that plug-ins can do a lot of this already as well. You can create plugins that get notified whenever a game is launched or the front end is exiting and then run any external commands that you want based on that. The espeak plugin is a good example as it launches the espeak executable whenever the frontend starts, ends or whenever a game is launched....