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Themes / Re: Arcade Row - WIP

« on: April 10, 2015, 09:20:22 PM »

Its a real shame 3d arcade died as it was such a great concept. I would love a frontend where u could walk around real cabs and play them

Someone has remade that in the unreal engine. You can get it athttp://digitalcybercherries.com/ It was made for the occulus. Its pretty cool to play around with,even though you are pretty limited with how many games it has.

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 10, 2015, 06:52:28 PM »

But remember you have to be on-line to use that service.

Just to initially populate the list, it doesn't check again until you do a refresh. Once I get it set up in my controller I don't tend to do much  changes on anything until I do an update on my romset/mame version.
My romset I had before this current update was 11 versions ago. I would have just stayed with using MALA as my front end since I have had it since I first built it in 2010,but MALA doesn't work with the new versions of MAME which is why I'm here with Attract-mode.Once I get everything working how I like it on this  setup, it will be left alone until there are either important updates in MAME or Attract-mode or its been a year or so

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 09, 2015, 04:25:38 PM »

Oh...are you windows? My fault then. That is one reason...let me get you one in the right "format".

I don't understand  what you mean by this, It wasn't like I couldn't open or read that other file. It just didn't work as intended. Are you considering a game per line the "windows" format and the other way linux? The regular catver.ini doesn't have windows or linux versions of the file, just a single version.  This version though still does the same thing as the last one .
Its ok, The gamesdb.net scraper does take a while to finish, but it works.Plus it has the extra year info that I also like.

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 09, 2015, 01:58:46 AM »

OK, Sorry I took a while to get back to you on this. I didn't have any emulators besides MAME configured yet since I have been still largely playing around with it getting it how I like before transferring it over to my arcade controller.
I got NES all set up though and have a little bad news,Your list doesn't work for me. I opened it up and looked inside and I thought maybe the problem was that the list you sent me was not split up with a game per line like the other one is. However, I fixed the first 10 or so entries so they were a single game per line and it still didn't work for me. However, I noticed by default  attract mode scrapes info from thegamesdb.net and that actually provides the genre + year info and  manufacturer .
I actually at first thought your list worked fine until I noticed every game had a listing and you said it wasn't done,and noticed if I removed the gamesdb.net setting and refreshed it stopped working. Its kind of a good news /bad news thing really since the function is still actually there.

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 07, 2015, 10:28:32 AM »

My thing is I would like to list all my games in one list and select by genre or by system..but that is just me

When I said console games should be one list, I meant more for determining what  category it is rather than any sort of play list to launch from. Bubble bobble is still a puzzle game on NES and on the genesis (And for any other consoles it was ported for). You already have this  info filled out in the list that has been started, but if you were to expand on these genre lists for more systems you would need to go through and re-enter info already done for other systems. It would be kind of nice if it was possible to  make an INI file or dat or whatever that would catalog the genres across the various consoles. maybe we could even include info on which systems the titles got ported to so its one more way to potentially filter console games?

I also don't really know what goes into having frontends recognize and actually be able to read any of this extra info.. so, yeah, maybe this is even way more work than i'm aware of,or not really feasible or whatever.. thoughts?

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 06, 2015, 11:07:26 PM »

HA! that is a neat little trick to list it right inside windows like that! I have never known that function was built in. Thank you for that trick.

I attached the game list for you. I'm real hesitant to mess too much with batch deleting any of my roms, anything I delete I prefer to do by hand, even though it takes a long time to go through,I just don't trust deletions to batch tools.So I doubt I will play much with that. *shrug*

*Edit* I have no plans of changing the rom names I have since I already have my box art,snaps and instruction manuals all named the same, and thats just too much extra work to also rename whatever my roms get changed(especially since the extra files i'm sure would have to be done by hand) just to make  categories filterable..Pus my other systems like SNES,Genesis and so on use the same naming convention my NES are in...

*Edit 2* I was just thinking that with how many times games were ported  for many different systems and  3 Ninjas Kick Back (U) [!].bin for the sega is the same essentially  as 3 Ninjas Kick Back (U).sfc for the SNES and maybe the console genres should be a single list, or at least lists grouping generations where ports happen across instead of lists per system where you will have many redundancies and extra work for basicly the same info. what do you think? if you would like to PM me to exchange emails or  something feel free.

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 06, 2015, 07:44:51 PM »

I wouldn't mind sending you a list of my roms, do you have a suggestion of a tool (preferably opensource)  that can make plain text lists?
Really the naming is not too different than what you have, none of mine say (USA) for the region just (U) or (JUE) if its japan,europe and USA for region and a few of my roms have the [!] tag that goodrom adds (I think those are symbols for perfect dumps?)

I also wouldn't mind helping out with this project if we come up with a way that more people than you and I could use this list we make. I'm really curious what your plan is ?

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General / Re: Attract mode lists

« on: April 06, 2015, 06:48:30 AM »

I Have been lurking around here for a couple weeks and actually ended up making an account so I could see the download link for this. I think this is a great idea, and was sad (and a little surprised) to see the naming convention different than that of my romset I have.My set is supposed to be a goodrom set,so I am not sure why its named a little different. I would do a rename, but all my snapshots and boxart are already named to match my roms I have now.
Oh well..
Either way, I would love to see some sort of genre list (lists?) like this that works across all consoles some day,and those sorts of  things start with projects like this.