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General / Re: Clones (Again)

« on: February 25, 2017, 03:09:16 PM »

epicrean,

well first thing to know is what platform are you running AM on? Windows? Or a flavor of Linux?
Second, is can you locate your attract.cfg file? If so open it in an editor and copy/paste the content here for us to look at it.

Here's a basic example of a Display that you can find in attract.cfg:

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display Arcade
layout               nevato
romlist              mame
in_cycle             yes
in_menu              yes
filter               All
        filter               "No Clones"
rule                 CloneOf not_equals .*
filter               Favourites
rule                 Favourite equals 1
your layout maybe different, nevato is just my favorite.
Notice how I have different filters all in the same display? By default a display will go to the first filter which is "All"
In AM press TAB and go to "Controls", scroll down a bit until you see "Previous Filter" and "Next Filter" for each, assign a key. to each. I used R and F simply because it mapped to my second joystick but you can use anything.
Now press ESC to go back to the main AM screen, and press the key you assign to the next filter and it should filter only the roms with are not clones.

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General / Re: Clones (Again)

« on: February 24, 2017, 05:19:00 AM »

epicrean,

is this no clones filter the first one in your display? Are you sure you're not on the default All filter?
By default I didn't have a key assigned to toggle through the filter.
Also you may want to use a layout that displays the filter name to make sure you're on the right one.
I hope that helps.

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General / Re: Status equals good|imperfect removes all games from the list

« on: February 14, 2017, 06:00:50 AM »

Oh my bad, the status I believe is provided by mame when generating the rom list. Did you set the info source to listxml?
It did it for me on mame 01.78 when I did

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attract --build-romlist mame --full

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General / Re: Status equals good|imperfect removes all games from the list

« on: February 14, 2017, 05:35:37 AM »

Yes, as explained http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=24.0 you need to add the path of catver.ini in the emulator configuration before generating the romlist.

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General / Re: Using related snap from another region?

« on: February 12, 2017, 12:50:40 PM »

Here's an example:

in roms:

Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).zip
Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (USA).zip

in snaps:

Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (USA).mp4

I can copy or symlink the mp4 to also have a

Dragon Ball Z - The Legacy of Goku (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It).mp4

But if I do that the scraper won't download any future updates unless I remove all the symlinks first.

Wouldn't it be great if AM would be able to best match snaps like these automagically?

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General / Re: Using related snap from another region?

« on: February 12, 2017, 06:58:27 AM »

Thanks, I understand that if I duplicate the files it'll find them properly.
I was hoping for a solution which doesn't involve duplicating all those files however.
More of a feature request I suppose.

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General / Using related snap from another region?

« on: February 11, 2017, 04:18:17 PM »

Hello,

I have roms in No-Intro naming convention and I have a bunch of snap in either png and mp4 which show fine usually when it's the (USA) version because the rom and snap name are a perfect match, but the (Europe) or anything else version for that matter isn't found and I get a black screen.
Is there anyway to make AM use snap from another region if a matching one isn't found?
I've been thinking about using symbolic links some my cabinet is running Linux, but if there's a more elegant solution I'd be all for that.
Thanks.

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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: February 11, 2017, 03:33:00 PM »

@verion

It's probably an AM issue but maybe you'd know of a solution for this:
I have roms in No-Intro naming convention and I have a bunch of snap in either png and mp4 which show fine usually when it's the (USA) version because the rom and snap name are a perfect match, but the (Europe) or anything else version for that matter isn't found and I get a black screen. Is there anyway to make it use snap from another region if a matching one isn't found?
I've been thinking about using symbolic links some my cabinet is running Linux, but if there's a more elegant solution I'd be all for that.
Thanks.

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General / Re: MAME Filters and Exceptions

« on: February 11, 2017, 07:03:08 AM »

I had the same problem, thanks for posting the solution!
Unless I missed it in the doc the order of the rules and exceptions isn't mentioned there.

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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: February 09, 2017, 07:37:28 AM »

@Verion

You mean - separate cab image for vertical-only games, but displayed on horizontal screen? Or separate layout for vertical screen?

The former, I have a filter set for vertical games. However it might be weird to switch constantly from the vertical to horizontal cab image when not filtered.
Personally I'd be very happy if the skewing when preserving the snap aspect ratio would work better.
I attached a screenshot maybe there is an easy fix I just don't know about.

I also have a tiny problem with some of the new information I'm displaying. Some is too long so I'm using scrollingtext but it's not showing up as bright as the non scrolling test. In that example the line with the year is all using non scrolling, the title, and control is using scrolling. I understand this isn't an issue with your theme, so if someone more experienced in squirrel could tell me why that is and how to fix it, that would be great.

Thanks.

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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: February 09, 2017, 07:09:39 AM »

Thanks @Verion for the Nevato theme!
How is it looking for a vertical/landscape toggle? I turned off the aspect ratio so snaps are not stretched anymore but I'm not sure how to go around and fix the skewing dynamically.
I've made other changes learning squirrel as I go to display the title, year, controls, number of players all at once, and also an optional clock so I don't end up working too late on tweaks.
How would you feel about creating a github repo for your themes so others could contribute patches?
Thanks again for the great theme.

-Nick