Attract-Mode Support Forum
Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: verion on May 31, 2015, 03:51:20 AM
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Maybe I'm stupid or something but it took me more that 3 hours to figure out how to make favourites :)
So I was thinking that quick tutorial can be handy for someone with the same mental problems.
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adding shortcut key for adding a game to favourites list (or remove it from favs)
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In AM - go to settings [press TAB]
choose [Controls]
scroll to [add/remove favourites]
press ENTER and type your shortcut key (mine is "F" - you know, like favourites :) )
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how to add game to favourites or remove it from fav.
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when in game list select your game (don't start it of course)
and press F key
"Add GAME-NAME to fav Yes/No" - select YES
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If you want to remove game from favs. do the same - press F and in "Remove GAME-NAME to fav Yes/No" select YES
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disable confirmation dialog on adding/removing game from favs
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SETTINGS > GENERAL > [Confirm Favourites] set to NO if you don't want that confirmation dialog
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how to make a fav-only layout (display)
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SETTINGS > DISPLAYS
[Add New Display]
or
click existing display that you want to convert to fav-only
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There are 2 filters by default
Filter [all]
Filter [favourites]
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Just delete "filter [all] and leave "filter [favourites]"
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I have a favs list already in txt file, how to add it without using GUI?
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all the above makes mame.tag file (when tagging mame games) located in .attract/romlists
this is simply a list of rom names (without the .zip extension)
It will look like this
1941
mslug
with 2 games added to favs
- 1941
- Metal Slug
So if you want make that list manually - just open/create mame.tag file and copy-paste your fav. rom list (remember - without .zip)
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That's a great tutorial, I forgot it is a little work to set it up until you get familiar with the frontend. Maybe there should be a default display with favourites filter built-in and a default key to add favs..
One more step
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Rename 'Favourites' to 'Favorites'
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In Display, select the 'Favourite' filter, hit enter on Filter Name. Type 'Favorite', then hit Enter to save.
:)
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Nice one. Thanks for the tutorial. We need more of these. ;)
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Thanks for this. Please consider adding it to the wiki as well: https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki
It would be nice to get it up and going as a source of information respecting attract-mode
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No problem. I just have to sign-up to GitHub :)
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Very useful.
I've translated to spanish. You can see in this link (http://arcadespain.info/Foro/index.php?topic=4795.0).
Thanks.
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Hi I know this is an old topic but I'm new to this & was wondering if you could help.
I have followed your post to add favourites successfully but not all the games are showing in the Favourites tab. It seems mine will only show a particular collection/rom list. Is there a setting to "show all" selected favourites within one favourite display.
Thanks
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Hi I know this is an old topic but I'm new to this & was wondering if you could help.
I have followed your post to add favourites successfully but not all the games are showing in the Favourites tab. It seems mine will only show a particular collection/rom list. Is there a setting to "show all" selected favourites within one favourite display.
Thanks
No, there isn't a setting for that but you can accomplish it doing this http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=1165.0.
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Sorry to reply to an old thread but I've tried this method of adding favorites and it doesn't seem to work for me. When I go to my favourites display it's empty. I'm guessing I need to generate them somehow but I don't have a button for that in the prosphourus beta them. any help would be great
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from total inexperienced thanks to you I managed, alone maybe I would not have arrived.