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Scripting / Display-Specific Music?
« on: July 06, 2017, 10:33:14 AM »
I'm still working on my cabinet, but I was curious to know whether some functionality I recently implemented would useful to others.
A couple of things I did:
1. Added a voice announcing which display is being shown (or which filter is being applied). So in my case, if the user is scrolling across different displays (like Platform, Shmup, Sports), a robotic voice tells the user what they are looking at. (Of course, this doesn't have to be a voice, it could be any unique sound.)
2. Added unique music for each display. So for example, my cabinet plays Conan music when you are browsing Hack & Slash games, and Top Gun with Shmups, so on.
I accomplished both these additions through hacks to the music plug-in.
I was wondering -- if this sounds like something others might use, I might spend some time making a proper plugin for this. Because as it stands now, it works, but it's not pretty.
Any feedback welcome... whether it's saying you would use this, or even just to say I am going about it all wrong.
A couple of things I did:
1. Added a voice announcing which display is being shown (or which filter is being applied). So in my case, if the user is scrolling across different displays (like Platform, Shmup, Sports), a robotic voice tells the user what they are looking at. (Of course, this doesn't have to be a voice, it could be any unique sound.)
2. Added unique music for each display. So for example, my cabinet plays Conan music when you are browsing Hack & Slash games, and Top Gun with Shmups, so on.
I accomplished both these additions through hacks to the music plug-in.
I was wondering -- if this sounds like something others might use, I might spend some time making a proper plugin for this. Because as it stands now, it works, but it's not pretty.
Any feedback welcome... whether it's saying you would use this, or even just to say I am going about it all wrong.