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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 7.3 [Release] Updated 1 April 2020

« on: April 09, 2020, 10:56:11 AM »

Just updated to Arcadeflow 7.3 and attract-v2.6.1-win64.

When I go to layout options, there are no options. I only see these:

Name                 Arcadeflow 7.3
Back

In old versions of Arcadeflow there were options. What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

EDIT: nevermind, I figured it out. I had to keep pressing up to show the options. Seems odd to work like that but I haven't used AF since 4.2 so lots to catch up on.

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General / Re: Acquiring arcade ROMs ?

« on: April 19, 2019, 01:52:47 PM »

I have searching for the classic 80s arcade Rom's with little success.Does anyone know the best place to acquire them?   
thank you

No offense, but I'm questioning how hard you looked. I literally just typed the title of a classic game and the acronym for read-only-memory into a search engine and... >_>

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Themes / Re: Any 21:9 layouts out there?

« on: April 17, 2019, 10:25:40 AM »

I just tried ArcadeFlow and love it! Looks beautiful on my 21:9 monitor. Thank you!

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Themes / Any 21:9 layouts out there?

« on: April 16, 2019, 06:21:26 PM »

I've looked but no success. Anyone know of a good 21:9 layout? Thanks.

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General / Proper aspect ratio on 21:9 screen?

« on: March 26, 2019, 09:10:43 PM »

I've started using a 21:9 display and noticed AM just stretches across the entire screen instead of taking up a 16:9 area.

Is there some setting that would let me get proper aspect ratio? I looked but haven't found anything yet.

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General / Re: Attract Mode test build with improved video rendering

« on: March 26, 2019, 09:07:59 PM »

Quick test, works fine for me so far.

It also seems to correctly grab focus after exiting a MAME game, which was my personal biggest issue before.

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General / Re: Mame not getting focus when lauching from AM in anything but Window-Mode

« on: March 26, 2019, 09:01:00 PM »

The 251-1 build seems to fix it for me! FWIW I'm on Windows 10 with a nvidia 1080.

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Themes / Re: SDArcade 4.0

« on: March 20, 2019, 04:27:42 PM »

Great theme!

UPDATE: I consolidated my setup (using Arpicade on a vertical arcade cabinet with standard res CRT) into a much smaller mSD card (64GB --> 8GB) since I had like 38GB unused space, and now the game list seems to scroll faster even on v4. It's much better now! Interesting that card size can affect speed like that. Startup time is also MUCH faster, like 30 seconds vs 2 minutes+. This is my favorite AM layout for Arpicade now for sure. I personally don't need the extra indicators you posted above, but I am always interested in what you do with this layout. I think it's pretty much perfect now already, though.

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General / Re: Mame not getting focus

« on: October 05, 2018, 12:43:19 PM »

AM has big problems with regaining focus in Windows 10 it seems.

I've just spent an hour trying to get 2.30 or 2.41 to work properly with MAME, and it just cannot get focus back when exiting MAME.

Also, trying to run latest MAME 0.202, it just goes to a black screen. My old 0.201 build launches at least. But can't properly exit back to AM because AM can't get focus.

I love AM, but I'm close to settling on another FE at this point.

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General / Arpicade owners: I need some advice on what to get

« on: September 08, 2018, 08:47:05 AM »

I believe several people here are using an Arpicade board in a cabinet. I have a Jamma cab and am looking to buy an Arpicade for it.

I'm in the USA, and looking at https://www.highscoresaves.com/arpicade-raspberry-pi-multicade-jamma-pcb-adaptor-for-arcade-multigame.html?options=cart&product_type=simple

So, the base unit is $139, and I also need a Pi so I'd get that with it. The next couple of items I'm not sure about.

My cab is an oldschool vertical Midway style, not fighting game, so I guess I don't need the kick harness or extra pins, BUT do you think it would be a good idea to get them now in case I want them in the future?

Then comes the SD card -- I have several big SD cards I could use, but being a total newbie to Raspberry PI, Linux and Arpicade, so I was thinking to get the vertical SD card from them for $40. But, I keep seeing people talk about downloading "images" fort the Arpicade, so maybe I don't need to buy the pre-installed SD card and can just use one I have. Question is, as a newbie would that be a frustrating way to begin?

Thank you very much for any opinions you can offer.

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General / How to run bat and/or VBS files from AM?

« on: February 28, 2018, 02:15:47 PM »

I want to launch a bat or vbs files from attractmode using the rom name as the file name, but so far can't get it to work.

Basically, it's for Demul, and I want to use a batch file to change the demul.ini to set a different Naomi BIOS depending on the game. Demul itself doesn't have commands to do that, so you have to use a batch file.

So for example, let's say I want to run Cannon Spike using the USA BIOS. I already have a batch file working that switches the ini to the USA BIOS and then runs the game. It works great. The bat file is named "cspike.bat" after the rom name.

So, how can I get AM to run the bat file using the rom name? I tried all sorts of things and nothing happens. 

Thanks for any help.

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General / Re: Demul does not work with AM, or does it?!

« on: February 15, 2018, 09:33:42 AM »

I finally got it sorted out. Part of the problem were some settings in Demul.

Thanks.

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General / Demul does not work with AM, or does it?!

« on: February 13, 2018, 06:27:56 PM »

OK, I just spent several hours trying EVERYTHING and looking at dozens of old threads trying to get Demul to run a game from AM. Nothing works!

I'm using the latest AM, and the latest Demul build (.07 111117).

I can run Demul games direct from Demul, no problem. I can launch Demul games from a command line (i.e. demul.exe -run=awave -rom=dolphin).

But nothing I try runs a game from AM. What I get is the demul game selector Window for whatever system I'm trying to run (i.e. awave, naomi, dc etc.), instead of the specified rom/image running.

PLEASE, if you can actually run Demul games from AM, I beg you... please share your voodoo!

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Themes / Re: I present... AMBuilder: Layout Designer!

« on: February 10, 2018, 05:57:53 AM »

Just played with this a bit, and what a great tool!

However, I have 2 questions at this point...

1) Is there a way to make a 4K res layout with AMbuilder? The one I made only displays in the upper left corner of my screen.
2) How do I display videos? I tried using the Art tool, and checking video related boxes, but I'm just seeing normal artwork in the actual layout.

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Themes / Re: My first theme! Smooth grid :) [Preview]

« on: January 24, 2018, 06:37:03 PM »

Looks pretty cool! Will try it out when released!