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General / Re: Launching Retroarch - Mame

« on: May 25, 2017, 01:17:39 PM »

The only things that jump out at me, my args have romfilename at the beginning, not the end

args                 "[romfilename]" -L cores\mupen64plus_libretro.dll -fullscreen

for example.

Second, the rompath for your Mame, is that SUPPOSED to be P:\, since your N64 is on F:\ or is that a mistake?

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General / Re: Help setting up portable AM with Retroarch in Windows

« on: May 22, 2017, 05:58:33 AM »

Here's one of my configs.  It works with no issues using relative paths.  I have used this on my C: and from a portable HDD.

My setup is a folder on the root of the drive called Emulation.  The folder layout looks a bit like this but with more entries.

Emulation-
   Emulators-
      Retroarch
   Front Ends-
      Attract Mode
   Systems-
      Consoles-
         Atari 2600-
            Boxes            
            Roms
            Videos
            Wheels
   Utilities
      JoyToKey

And here's my config file for Atari 600

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1
#
executable           ..\..\Emulators\Retroarch\Retroarch.exe
args                 "[romfilename]" -L cores\stella_libretro.dll -fullscreen
rompath              ..\..\Systems\Consoles\Atari 2600\Roms
romext               .zip
system               Atari 2600
info_source          thegamesdb.net
artwork    flyer           
artwork    marquee         
artwork    snap            ..\..\Systems\Consoles\Atari 2600\Videos
artwork    wheel           ..\..\Systems\Consoles\Atari 2600\Wheels

Basically, using my folder setup, the starting point is the Attract Mode directory.  From there, the first ..\ drops back to the Front Ends directory, then the second ..\ drops to the Emulation directory - from there it goes into \Emulators then into \Retroarch to run retroarch.exe.  The paths for the roms work the same way, it tells retroarch to drop down 2 folders, then go into systems\consoles\atari 2600\roms and run the romfilename.

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Themes / Re: Can you use/port over a theme from Launchbox?

« on: May 22, 2017, 05:32:17 AM »

The theme is called Retrofresh - I spoke to the creator, he's ok with me trying to adapt if for Attract Mode. 

The background is a snapshot, which allows the colors from the snapshot to show through the different glass windows.  Each game's snap lends different colors to the screen, which is the main thing I liked.   I didnt know if it is possible to achieve this in Attract Mode?.

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General / Re: Multiple input_map key bindings

« on: May 20, 2017, 03:04:26 PM »

input_map
   prev_letter          Left
   next_letter          Right
   down                 Down
   down                 Joy0 PovYneg+Joy0 Button14
   down                 Joy1 PovYneg+Joy1 Button14
   left                 Left
   left                 Joy0 PovXneg+Joy0 Button15
   left                 Joy1 PovXneg+Joy1 Button15
   right                Right
   right                Joy0 PovXpos+Joy0 Button13
   right                Joy1 PovXpos+Joy1 Button13
   select               Return
   select               Joy0 Button2
   select               Joy1 Button2
   prev_page            Joy0 Button6
   prev_page            Joy1 Button6
   next_page            Joy0 Button7
   next_page            Joy1 Button7
   back                 Escape
   back                 Joy0 Button3
   back                 Joy1 Button3
   up                   Up
   up                   Joy0 PovYpos+Joy0 Button12
   up                   Joy1 PovYpos+Joy1 Button12
   default             back   exit
   default             up   prev_game
   default             down   next_game
   default             left   prev_letter
   default             right   next_letter

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Themes / Can you use/port over a theme from Launchbox?

« on: May 20, 2017, 05:41:28 AM »

Is it possible to adapt, or port a theme/layout from Launchbox?   And if so, would anyone be interested in tackling one?

Thanks!

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General / Re: Multiple input_map key bindings

« on: May 20, 2017, 05:35:23 AM »

I don't know of the upper limit, but I have 3 myself - Up, J1 Up and J2 Up., I simply went into the menu, and then into Controls, selected the action, and there used Add Input. 

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General / Re: Attract-Mode system requirements?

« on: May 02, 2016, 01:53:08 PM »

It's my father in law's older laptop - it's an E-Machine, so I'm sure it has Intel integrated something.

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General / Attract-Mode system requirements?

« on: April 30, 2016, 06:40:38 PM »

Does AM have a listed set of system requirements?

I've gotten my collection running on 3 seperate PC's now, but when I try on a 4th, somewhat older laptop, the program starts, I get about 5 seconds into the intro, and it pops up the following "Graphical front-end for command line emulators has stopped working"

I thought it was perhaps the intro, but i removed it and I still get that error.

The main difference in between the other 3 and this laptop, is that it only has 2gb of Ram.

Any suggestions?  Thank you!!

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Themes / Re: What is everyone using as a Theme?

« on: April 28, 2016, 04:57:30 AM »

I'm using the backgrounds from the Aeon theme posted here - http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=88.0

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General / Can you theme the Displays Menu?

« on: April 26, 2016, 05:50:38 PM »

I didn't see any kind of information about this, at least not that I could understand straight away

I noticed you can set AM to start up with the Displays Menu, to show a list of systems, but it's just the normal AM font used.

Has anyone managed to theme the Displays Menu?  If so, could you give me a quick rundown of how to/show some pictures?

Thanks!!

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General / Re: Couple of beginner's questions :)

« on: March 19, 2015, 01:39:56 PM »

Thanks, I found a smaller narrower Arial font that works

Ok, so you can't do a tree, does that mean having a main menu (lists the systems, with a system video) is out also?

Thanks very much!!

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General / Couple of beginner's questions :)

« on: March 11, 2015, 05:44:52 PM »

Just wanted to ask if a couple of things were possible or planned for the future?

1 - Scrolling text - A lot of the text, especially when you change the font, gets cut off in the rom's names - is there any way to adjust this to make it scroll?
2 - Since you can use MALA layouts, is there a way to use a MALA tree layout, so you can set categories?  Arcade, Console, Computer, etc?

And thanks for this great frontend!!