Messages

1

General / Re: View layout at real resolution

« on: November 01, 2024, 05:24:44 AM »

In your Attract Mode folder, you should see a file called:  window.am

Open this with something like Notepad++ and add these lines to it:

position 100,100
size 320,240

...then save it.

Now launch Attract Mode and change the display to "window" mode (I think that's what it's called - it's been awhile).

That will now use the info from window.am and make a 320x240 screen of AM positioned at default X,Y of 100,100 on your monitor screen.  You can move the AM window around and resize it like a normal Windows application window.  When you do, it updates that window.am file to match so next time you launch, it'll use the new settings you made.

2

Emulators / Re: A7800 Emulator & Attract Mode

« on: February 11, 2024, 05:59:11 AM »

I don't use that emulator, but look at the last run.log file (it's in the same directory as attract.exe).  See if it has any further info in there that might help.

3

General / Re: Attractmode+

« on: November 14, 2023, 09:27:17 AM »

https://github.com/oomek/attractplus

Also join Discord .. lots more activity/posts there versus the forum.
https://discord.gg/gzU3DVCf

4

General / Re: issues with retroarch and pc engine cd on AM

« on: October 21, 2023, 01:25:03 PM »

I have my PC Engine CD games running but with a different core.

I have the syscard3.pce in the same folder as the rom files.  I also use CHD files for my roms.

I use this core:

mednafen_pce_fast_libretro.dll

5

Themes / Re: What happened to all the themes?

« on: October 19, 2023, 07:04:49 AM »

A few years back, when I was actively toying around with RetroPie, I wrote an AM Themes installer for it.  It works very much like the RetroPie ES theme installer does.  It requires themes to be on Github though and at that time, nobody was really putting them online like I did.

I wish I knew how to program in a Windows environment.  If I did, I'd write it for Windows.

https://github.com/dmmarti/AMThemes

6

General / Re: How to get MAME game list in alphabetical order?

« on: October 18, 2023, 08:20:18 AM »

Ah...I think I see why.

Looking in MAME, the [Title] of this games is:

Choutetsu Brikin'ger / Iron Clad (prototype)

So that's why it's being sorted in the "C's" alongside the other games and not in the "I's".  You'll have to edit your MAME romlist file and fix that second field to make it be just "Iron Clad".

7

General / Re: How to get MAME game list in alphabetical order?

« on: October 18, 2023, 06:08:30 AM »

Hmm....look at your MAME romlist.

The first field is the [Name] or rom filename
The second field is the [Title] of the game

Look for the Ironclad game and look at its second field text.....see if it just says "Ironclad" there or if there's like a letter "c" on the front or something.  If the second field [Title] is just Ironclad, it should've worked by sorting on [Title].

8

General / Re: How to get MAME game list in alphabetical order?

« on: October 17, 2023, 07:55:46 AM »

Set your display's filter to sort by "Title"

Tab > Displays > (your MAME display) > Filter All > Sort by

Set that option to sort by Title.  If your romlist is populated it'll now be sorted by the game name rather than rom name.

If you have additional filters for that display, you have to set each one individually to sort by Title.

9

Themes / Re: What happened to all the themes?

« on: October 02, 2023, 09:12:49 AM »

I haven't really made themes in a long time. But all of my older ones are still on my Github.  I wasn't the best theme programmer back then, but they seemed to work okay.

https://github.com/dmmarti?tab=repositories

I use Attract Mode in a nested menu (so I have Main Menu > Sub Menu > Systems Menu).

Main Menu and Sub Menu would use the same theme.

Main Menu => Computers, Consoles, Arcades, etc
Sub Menu => (would list all systems of the same type, ie: Atari 2600, NES, Megadrive, etc for Consoles)
System Menu => for viewing individual system's games

My naming convention on my GitHub let's you know which one that theme is for.

I have AM themes, ES themes, as well as system media PNGs on my Github.

For the AM themes, here's the naming convention (and you'll see _menu or _systems in it's name if needed, otherwise, it's a global use theme).

am-theme-XXXXXX

I also made RetroPie ES themes that are included in the RetroPie theme downloader script.

Then there's a bunch of repos for system media files (wheels, flyers, backgrounds, etc.) that could be used in all sorts of ways.

10

Emulators / Re: MAME auto play in cassete games FM7 in attractmode help please...

« on: August 19, 2023, 03:43:04 PM »

It's been awhile since I did any autoboot stuff for MESS systems (I don't use that functionality in my builds).

But here's a link to a page with many autoboot commands for systems.  Reading it, looks like FM7 doesn't support anything beyond loading the tape with you having to manually PLAY the tape.

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/54987-autoboot-command-script-for-mame-swl-computer-systems/

11

General / Re: Could this be part of the issue?

« on: July 18, 2023, 06:56:42 AM »

Post a few lines from your AM romlist file.  The AM filters are based upon the fields within the romlist file itself.  While you may have the controls.ini file, unless your romlist file contains that information, AM filters won't work.

12

General / Re: Feature Wishlist

« on: July 10, 2023, 04:22:02 AM »

Hm....the way my AM install works it is.

If I'm looking at a system display showing a wheel for all the games, when I press my Edit Game button, it brings up the "Edit Game" menu for the game I currently have selected in the wheel. In there I can choose which emulator, rename the game, etc. These edits are saved in the corresponding romlist text file.

If I'm looking at the main menu, pressing my Edit Game button brings up the "Display Edit" menu where I could choose what layout to use, which romlist, etc for the currently selected wheel item. These edits are saved in the attract.cfg file.

Edit: just checked, and this behavior is the same in Attract Mode as well as Attract Mode Plus

13

General / Re: Feature Wishlist

« on: July 05, 2023, 05:02:27 AM »

For my AM build, I use a nested menu.  My main menu has "Arcades, Computers, Consoles, etc." .. the next menu is the various systems themselves, and finally clicking into the single system to show the games.

Here's a Youtube video quickly showing how it works.

https://youtu.be/nnA9pe3MoSU

Here's my working Google sheet for my AM build.  There are two tabs in it.  Tab one shows info about the various systems, tab two shows the various nested menu items.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mwIjk7TFWoD--7hfiPHCYUxFtIz1yhD8BLtWdQQWwKw/edit?usp=sharing

For the edit button, AM has one already.  If you setup a button for "Edit Game" within the Controls option:
1. pressing it in a menu display brings up choices related to the menu
2. pressing it in a system brings up edit game menu (where you can then quickly pick an emulator from the drop-down list, etc)

I have multiple emulators configured for a few systems, and using the "Edit Game" option above, allows me to quickly pick one for the single game.

as for the last two .... as far as I know, yea, all a manual process to do.

14

General / Re: iojukebox Theme, any one have?

« on: January 18, 2023, 04:05:25 AM »

I found an old RAR file of it on my archive drive.  Not sure if it was the very last one released or not.

https://mega.nz/file/VUVWBYwC#6Nbvv2cO9-gLZRKcwv6DVGi18BXQtUg5e__oUGIeqJg

15

Emulators / Re: Retroarch best cores

« on: July 21, 2022, 05:21:41 PM »

Here's a quick youtube demo of what my setup looks like.

https://youtu.be/nnA9pe3MoSU