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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: JayLie on May 19, 2021, 05:45:48 AM

Title: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: JayLie on May 19, 2021, 05:45:48 AM

Hi, Can someone please help me with this features, i cant!! believe its not already implements in Attract-Mode :o

Hold Start button for like 5 sec to exit game and return back to menu

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: JayLie on May 19, 2021, 07:48:17 AM

by menu, I meant, return back to attract-mode...

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: hermine.potter on May 19, 2021, 09:10:39 AM

external software, scripts:
Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2890.0)

recently the question was here in the forum.
Can't find the thread anymore. Strange.
there was some code and a specific theme was mentioned here. can't remember.

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: JayLie on May 19, 2021, 11:13:16 AM

thank you for your reply, but arent there a better cleaner and none autoit script method? maybe like something that belongs to attract mode or build in function?
attract mode seems to lack some basic features.....

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: hermine.potter on May 19, 2021, 12:18:22 PM

As told as:
recently the question was here in the forum.
Can't find the thread anymore. Strange.
there was some code and a specific theme was mentioned here. can't remember.
please look through the threads. i didn't found it.

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: JayLie on May 19, 2021, 12:36:31 PM

I already checked out the threads and google searched for hours, but I might have missed it... dunno... I was just super shocked that these functions such as in my 2 threads aren't yet implement in attract-mode already, like ages ago, that will make attract-mode 1 step closer to the ultimate front end!!!

The thing I'm looking for is exactly as you mentioned "there was some code and a specific theme" such implementation sound perfect! I'm looking for that code that can be added to attract-mode

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: hermine.potter on May 27, 2021, 11:01:06 AM

found it (nearly). but i was wrong with theme and code.
somebody told for the emulator duckstation. Here (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3961.0)
and the code wasn't for AM itself. it was a AHK script.

Since you are not happy about such solutions ("horrible methods", "dodgy 3rd party software", "buggy aswell", "not even working") (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2324.msg27822#msg27822):

AM is opensource & the stage is yours (https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki)

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: JayLie on June 09, 2021, 12:16:50 AM

The reason I'm asking for these things are that 10yr old kids will be playing on an arcade machine in public running attract mode and mame on 2 cabinets..

I assigned player start 1 and 2, that needs to be pressed at the same time, in the hot key exit feature in AM settings, that seems to be working out okay..

Title: Re: Hold Start button to exit game back to menu
Post by: hermine.potter on June 10, 2021, 11:17:07 AM

squirrel is not my language. So here workaround with autoit (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3961.msg27951#msg27951)