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General / Re: Native 240p themes?

« on: June 06, 2021, 12:04:46 PM »

Great. Would my desktop need to be set to 240p or is there a menu option inside the arcade flow theme? Cheers

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General / Native 240p themes?

« on: June 06, 2021, 04:05:50 AM »

Hi all
Currently running a slightly modified version of the great flat blue theme in 480i on my GroovyMame PCs in my arcade cabs. However I'm looking for native and simple looking 240p themes ideally for both horizontal and vertical modes for both my cabs. Anyone have any suggestions? The slight shimmer on 480i is becoming distracting so would love for a couple of simple 240p/low res themes. Any help greatly recieved. Cheers

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General / Re: Attractmode replace shell+ Retroarch display issues

« on: March 10, 2019, 09:55:27 AM »

EDIT: Sorted via a batch script

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General / Attractmode replace shell+ Retroarch display issues

« on: March 10, 2019, 08:38:08 AM »

So replacing the Windows Shell with Attractmode went fine and Groovymame works fine on my arcade CRT...however, if I try and run my Retroarch cores, which work fine when launching from explorer they display in a weird cropped way. Any reason booting directly to AM works with Groovymame and not Retroarch? Looks like I'll have to go back to Launchbox if I can't get this sorted

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General / Re: Booting into AM from startup on Windows 7 definitive method?

« on: March 04, 2019, 11:38:42 AM »

Thanks all. Seems like I'm doing it right then, just off to locate icons etc. to hide the Windows startup logo

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General / Re: Booting into AM from startup on Windows 7 definitive method?

« on: March 03, 2019, 07:20:14 AM »

Thanks, so I can't run them together at the same time?

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General / Booting into AM from startup on Windows 7 definitive method?

« on: February 28, 2019, 06:17:41 AM »

Hi all,

I wondered if there is a  definitive method for booting into AM from startup on Windows 7? Obviously resheller doesn't work and I currently do this:

open Registry Editor and locate the following registry entry: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: Shell
Type: REG_SZ
Value: Explorer.exe
now change that value to read this: C:\AttractMode\attract.exe -c C:\AttractMode
(change path to whatever you have)

However this obviously means I can't access the Windows desktop, as it's just black with a mouse curso when I exit AM. Is there a way I can boot into AM from startup hiding all the Windows 7 stuff and still have access to Wincodws 7 when I exit out of AM? Mainly if I need to add or change things. At the moment I have to regedit exlorer.exe back in and wondered if there was a 'smoother' way of doing things?

Thanks

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General / Re: Turning down brightness in Attractmode possible?

« on: May 25, 2018, 12:11:57 PM »

Thanks all, er, the explanation is quite long winded...basically I'm trying to get the .MP4 video previews brightness down without batch converting them. Is there any way to do this easily?

Thanks

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General / Turning down brightness in Attractmode possible?

« on: May 24, 2018, 09:17:57 AM »

Hi all

Is it possible to turn the brightness down of the Attractmode front-end itself? I'm not talking about MAME where it can be controlled with silders. I wondered if there was any option/config edit I could do that turned everything down a few notches for the preview snaps/mp4s aren't as bright across the board - without me having to turn each .png/mp4 down individually! Thanks