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toothlessgrinn

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MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« on: August 29, 2018, 09:51:17 AM »
if anyone is interested (seems years ago it was the in thing....) i got marquee on 2nd screen working in mame and attract.

mr.dos website has all the info to get it in mame. but they only work IN GAME and attract shows it in menu. so you then have it on alltimes but when you enter game it does flicker but it does work!! only took me 8 months to figure it out....

and you DONT need any special 3rd party anything. it all works and IS built in to both attract and mame.

just have to make .lay file  for mame but attract uses marquee folder.
we came , we saw , we lost LOTS of quarters...

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2018, 12:03:25 PM »
I'm interested, can you describe it more? I would like to make a marquee on the second display.

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2018, 07:57:22 AM »
yes yes!! but.. lol some times multimon is broken and i found an update on github  cuz my rig kept crashing.and there is more involved with mame as well. im in prosess of building everything. ill be posting a vid of my cab soon. and som .lay files so people can get it to work in mame too. or ... lol people can go to mr.dos website and it shows how to make it work in game.

https://mrdo.mameworld.info/mame_artwork.php

soon ill have 200 or so .lay files for mame artwork ...
just give some time cuz i have to make them from scratch...
we came , we saw , we lost LOTS of quarters...

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Asus mobo amd 64bit 3core
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4 player. Custom built woody cab
46" plasma screen with 22" marquee

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2018, 09:24:56 AM »
I use Raspberry 3 and LED Matrix display. I needed to write a script that would send the marquee of the selected game to the LED display.

https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix/

Can someone help me?

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2018, 09:47:13 AM »
imho youll wanna go pc. the pis arnt equiped to handle all that and run smoothly. .... lol and i know nothing about pi other then its tiny and not very good with grafix...
we came , we saw , we lost LOTS of quarters...

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toothlessgrinn

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2018, 05:42:53 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJyqhNvwVxM

my cab and marquee system at work. almost half way but ya still a wip.
we came , we saw , we lost LOTS of quarters...

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46" plasma screen with 22" marquee

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2018, 06:41:17 PM »
"ignore the big fat guy in the reflection"

 :o   love the 4 player controls relay spreads it out makes it Moore like a bar
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toothlessgrinn

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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2018, 07:20:25 PM »
thanks. i owe it to all yall for helpin me along the way!! this front end has been an awsome learning experience!
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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2018, 12:01:49 AM »
imho youll wanna go pc. the pis arnt equiped to handle all that and run smoothly. .... lol and i know nothing about pi other then its tiny and not very good with grafix...
Just a quick comment on that. It depends on your needs. The Pi has remarkable qualities for its size and little power consumption. It's ideal for classic gaming emulation as long as you don't want to play later games with 3D graphics etc., then you'd be better suited with a PC – which in turn won't fit into this anymore. ;)


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Re: MARQUEES do work VERY well!!
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2018, 07:24:11 AM »
quite right. i gues my wording was pretty vaig ... classic gaming yes. but when your putting added grafix itensive stuff like multy monitors ps 1,2 games pc games, without a gpu its gonna laaaaaag really bad ,lmao like in the you tube videos of the images guys make for pie. ya it looks badass but its killing resources and what not. i mean again just my opinion. but if you want bells and whistles i myself will go pc. now for mame and maybe atari and nes ya id do pie but anything more its gonna kill the pie.

we came , we saw , we lost LOTS of quarters...

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46" plasma screen with 22" marquee

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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2018, 10:17:01 AM »
I want something similar to Raspberry Pi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhn-Lf_EjO8