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Themes / Re: Looking racing wheel focused theme

« on: August 08, 2019, 06:21:06 AM »

How to improve an already perfect system? I've got a few ideas:
1: How about an automatic emulator downloader inside the frontend to get the latest version of emulators? With the lack of updates, I feel like I can't get the latest versions in Attract Mode, if at all.
2: How about some sort of unlocking system? Start with a game or two, earn currency from playing the games or even earning achievements (if Retro Achievements functionality is a thing), spend it on more games.

1. One of the reasons I love Attract Mode is for it's flexibility and the fact that it has no opinion on how you should do things. The type of launcher you are describing is more like www.retroarch.com which can provide a whole host of advantages with well maintained libraries that allow for various emulation (you should not confuse this, these libraries are from individual emulation engine sources and are just packaged up to allow RetroArch to work with them easily). Attract Mode is a Front End system specifically that has a more open launcher which means that there isn't anything stopping you from using Attract Mode to launch a game from RetroArch (or any other system for that matter including you music library see iOtero's Juke Box theme http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2378.0).

2. There's Steam for that but these achievements are probably some API module that's built into the game... obviously that would be inappropriate in the retro scene. There maybe some way to bolt on that kind of thing on the high scores table that usually gets written out of Mame but it would probably be better managed by a different breed of Front End, although, Squirrel programming language can be quite powerful so perhaps, if you had the time to do that.

So at some point you decided to switch the conversation about your original issue with the controls (which I answered) to simply picking on AM because it did not meet your demands.

What? You make it sound so harsh. I'm just very new here, and I'm not yet aware of all of the features. I used to use RetroArch, but I uninstalled it due to the cores refusing to load specific ROMs properly.

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Themes / Re: Looking racing wheel focused theme

« on: August 08, 2019, 02:08:35 AM »

Hi Touchmaster97

My guess to the reason why the updates are slow is because how do you improve on the already perfect system , honestly though. It's my favourite front end and I've experienced a lot of them (and built themes in many too).

I'd also hazard a guess that the inputs for controlling the next/previous titles would sense your wheel. Have you tried modifying them settings in the Attract Mode config? Themes just work off of them so you should find that all themes generally work unless there's a grid style selector which may not benefit from that wheel. A straight horizontal or vertical game selector should work fine though.

Start Attract Mode >> Press Tab key >> goto Controls >> hightlight "Up (Previous Game)" and press enter, it will now be waiting for input on the key you want to use and in this case you would steer left. Rinse and repeat for "Down (Next Game".

Hope this helps

How to improve an already perfect system? I've got a few ideas:
1: How about an automatic emulator downloader inside the frontend to get the latest version of emulators? With the lack of updates, I feel like I can't get the latest versions in Attract Mode, if at all.
2: How about some sort of unlocking system? Start with a game or two, earn currency from playing the games or even earning achievements (if Retro Achievements functionality is a thing), spend it on more games.

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Themes / Looking racing wheel focused theme

« on: August 07, 2019, 04:30:26 AM »

I'm very, very new to this Attract Mode frontend, which seems to've stopped with updates.

What I also have is a Logitech G29 Driving Force Steering Wheel, but it seems like many of the themes for Attract Mode are focused on Arcade-style controllers. Are there any themes with a steering wheel in mind where I can turn the wheel and use the pedals to navigate menus, complete with unique icons?

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Themes / Re: NxL theme! [Release] new video!2-4-2017 Update

« on: August 06, 2019, 12:10:36 PM »

This looks great! However, I do have a few questions about this theme.

1: Does it have icons or artwork for steering wheels? I have a Logitech G29 steering wheel, and I'm afraid that the control icons will still be joysticks and buttons.
2: How exactly does the rectangular icon art for each game work? I'm asking because I'm afraid that some of my more obscure games I have may not have any identifying icons that can fit in this theme.