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General / Re: Need Help compiling attractmode without x11

« on: October 25, 2021, 11:24:31 PM »

It's a problem of your OS.
to start a graphical application, you need a display environment.
on Ubuntu Server, you can't start the attract gui (command attract).
See here
See minimal GUI

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Emulators / Re: Various emulator settings

« on: October 22, 2021, 03:09:01 AM »

@ Strider_Hiryu
Here
Here
Or via board search

for your Odroid :
Probably Retroarch?
same links above

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General / Re: Video/Snap is off center when Exiting to Gamelist - help!

« on: October 12, 2021, 10:32:28 AM »

Please try this

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General / Re: Emulator not closing the game on exit.

« on: October 12, 2021, 10:31:34 AM »

Please try this

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General / Re: Not Audio when the games are released

« on: October 11, 2021, 09:25:48 AM »

Probably onboard gpu problem. described here.
try to disable unused audio devices in windows device manager.

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General / Re: Mame games list question

« on: October 10, 2021, 08:13:46 AM »

You can:

use Tags
or
stamp specific games as favourites
or
read specific text from romlists-fields

and filter romlists for these values.

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General / Re: How to Select Monitor for Attract Mode to Run On?

« on: October 09, 2021, 10:11:09 AM »

AM runs on the primary display.
Set the prefered display in windows graphics settings to primary > start AM

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General / Re: Button to universally close emulators?

« on: September 25, 2021, 02:54:03 PM »

You don't need to press the button or combos, that the emulator provides/supports.
If you set an Exit Hotkey (or even a combination of buttons) in AM, AM kills the belonging executable.

for example the NES-emulator Mesen.
If you open a romfile with Mesen and press ESC => Mesen pause the emulation.

if you set ESC as Exit Hotkey in AM:
AM close the complete emulation.

open AM > press TAB-key > Emulators > choose your display > Exit Hotkey : press ESC

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General / Re: Setting to Slow Down Screen Saver Snapshot Rotation?

« on: September 25, 2021, 02:11:04 PM »

edit the screensaver.nut in line #158 (your_AM_folder\screensaver\screensaver.nut)

change:
MIN_TIME = 4000; // the minimum amount of time this mode should run for (in milliseconds)

to:
MIN_TIME = 10000; // the minimum amount of time this mode should run for (in milliseconds)

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Themes / Re: Turbografx 16 mini

« on: September 14, 2021, 09:32:03 PM »

Not sure, what you want.
Attractmode is a frontend, which is available for different OS (See.
The mini consoles use an adapted Linux, but I think AM and its Themes aren't availabe for the mini consoles.

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Emulators / Re: VLC settings help

« on: September 10, 2021, 10:58:10 AM »

board search and find this thread.
Section : VLC-Movies / Videos via VLC

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Emulators / Re: Various emulator settings

« on: September 07, 2021, 03:06:08 AM »

@ nellino
was able to start MSU1-games with this settings:

Code: [Select]

executable           "C:\attract\EMU\retroarch.exe"
args                 -f -L "C:\attract\EMU\cores\bsnes_hd_beta_libretro.dll" "[rompath]\[name]\[name].sfc"
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\ROMS\MSU1
romext               <DIR>
system               Super Nintendo (SNES)
info_source          thegamesdb.net
exit_hotkey          Escape
artwork    marquee         C:\attract\scraper\MSU1\marquee
artwork    snap            C:\attract\scraper\MSU1\video;C:\attract\scraper\MSU1\flyer

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General / Re: Can I make certain URL to open with attractmode?

« on: September 06, 2021, 03:39:47 PM »

>Firefox:
-install Add-On 'AutoFullscreen'. Here

-install Add-On 'Shortkeys'. Here
choose an exit button or key combination, to exit Firefox. For example the ESC key:
Open Firefox > Extras > Add-Ons > Shortkeys > Settings (three dots/points) > Shortcut : escape > Label : Close Firefox > Behavior : Close window > Active while inputs > All Sites > Save shortcuts


>Shortcuts to specific website:
-create three folders : YOUTUBE, NETFLIX, NEWS

-on desktop : press right mouse button > New > Shortcut > path : www.attractmode.org > Name : ATTRACTMODE

-copy .url files to belonging folder. For example : C:\attract\EMU\YOUTUBE\ROMS

>Attractmode:
create a display for YOUTUBE:

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executable           cmd
args                 /c start firefox.exe -url "[romfilename]"
workdir              C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
rompath              C:\attract\EMU\YOUTUBE\ROMS\
romext               .url
system               Arcade
info_source          thegamesdb.net
nb_mode_wait         1
exit_hotkey          Escape
artwork    marquee         C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\marquee
artwork    snap            C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\video;C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\flyer
-create Romlist

-scrape Artwork

Artwork:
open Artwork-Folders and copy your Artwork depending to url-filenames (ATTRACTMODE.url => ATTRACTMODE.png).

Code: [Select]

C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\marquee
C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\video
C:\attract\scraper\YOUTUBE\flyer

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Emulators / Re: Amiga CD32

« on: August 30, 2021, 01:58:29 AM »

the spaces in your paths are awful.
unreadable for any support.

tested 'alien breed tower assault' a few moments ago.

.zip => works.
extracted to .bin and .cue => works.

See my settings here (see section : AMIGA CD32)

check your romfile. probably broken.

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General / Re: Scraping only for missing art?

« on: August 30, 2021, 01:25:07 AM »

Just tested a few monents ago:

Scrape artwork for 40 rom-files: 5 seconds (40 files(s) downloaded)

delete one of the artworks and scrape again : 1 second (1 file(s) downloaded)

replaced an existing artwork with another artwork (which has nothing to do with the game) : 1 second (0 file(s) downloaded)

Seems that AM only replace missing files (and not existing).