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Themes / Atari Flashback 50th Anniversary-like Theme?

« on: February 21, 2024, 08:17:01 PM »

Hi Everyone.

I wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a theme for AM that looks similar to the Atari Flashback 50th Anniversary menu system? I'm building a console emulation PC with AM and was hoping to find a theme that looked similar to the GUI found on the 50th Anniversary Flashback unit.

I did do some searching on Google but didn't find anything.

If anyone is aware of one or something similar, please let me know.

Thanks,
John

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Emulators / A7800 Emulator & Attract Mode

« on: February 11, 2024, 05:32:13 AM »

Hello.

Does anyone here have the A7800 emulator (was part of MESS/MAME years ago) working in Attract Mode?

I've tried to get the command lines set properly and so far it looks like it starts the emulator as I see the emulator window pop up, but then it closes after 2 or 3 seconds and takes me back to the Attract Mode menu. I've tried everything I can think of, but it's not working.

If I try to use the A7800 emulator directly (aka not in Attract Mode) it works fine.

I'll paste my A7800.cfg file below in case it may help.

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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.7.0
#
executable           D:\[Emulation]\A7800\a7800.exe
args                 a7800 -cart1 xm -cart2 "[romfilename]"
rompath              D:\[Emulation]\A7800\roms;d:\[Emulation]\A7800\bios
romext               .zip;.a78;.bin
artwork    flyer           $HOME/Atari 7800/boxart
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap            D:\[Emulation]\A7800\\artwork\Atari 7800\STANDARD\snap
artwork    wheel           

If anyone sees anything missing or entered incorrectly, please let me know.

Also, I tried creating a batch file to launch the emulator with XM support and a single game (1942). The batch file works fine. Here is the batch info.

@echo off
a7800 a7800 -cart1 xm -cart2 "d:\[Emulation]\a7800\roms\1942 (2022) [Unknown].a78"
pause

Thanks,
John

PS: Here is the link to the emulators webpage, not sure if there is any useful info regarding this issue.

https://7800.8bitdev.org/index.php/A7800_Emulator

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General / Question on Themes

« on: July 06, 2020, 11:34:43 PM »

Hi Everyone.

I just discovered Attract Mode while researching info for setting up a Windows PC type system similar to the Retro Pie setups for the Raspberry Pi.

I do have a newbie question and hope someone here might be able to answer it or give me some advice.

The question: Is there a program or method to convert a EmulationStation theme to an Attract Mode theme?

I found the following ES theme that was based on the Pandora Box 6 which I have in one of my older bartop arcade cabinets.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/20380/pandora-theme/2

I have used this theme in ES on my Pi and would love to see it in Attract Mode on my Windows PC build.

If anyone has any info on whether there is an automated process for converting themes from ES to AM or if there is a set of instructions on how to manually convert a theme, please let me know.

Thanks,
John