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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: April 28, 2016, 08:25:31 PM »

Hi Verion,

Yup, that fixed it. It looks great thanks.

Do you have a recommended source for the 'fan art' shown in your demo video? That would be the finishing touch.

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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: April 26, 2016, 09:42:54 PM »

I uncommented the two lines and changed them to my resolution.

fe.layout.width = 1360;
fe.layout.height = 768;

This doesn't help, it still dropped back to the default screen.

I added fe.layout.preserve_aspect_ratio=true; above the two lines above and it didn't make any difference.

Can anyone suggest what else I may need to do or is there anyway to more intelligently fault find this?

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Themes / Re: [download] NEVATO theme

« on: April 25, 2016, 01:33:10 PM »

Hi Verion,

I finally got a chance to get onto my cabinet and upgrade to 2.0 + add Nevato.

I did it in 2 steps (retaining the robospin theme first) then changed to Nevato. For whatever reason, Nevato doesn't work - It reverts to the 'default theme' with a list of text. This happened when I hadn't copied the Robospin to my 2.0 installation also.

I checked and all of Nevato is there etc. My resolution is 1360x768, it's a Windows 7 machine....

I'm not sure how to go about debugging the issue? I'm sure it's really simply - Any help would be appreciated!

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General / Re: AM + Rocketlauncher + Generating Rom List?

« on: February 03, 2016, 12:29:05 AM »

Hi Omegaman and Akafox,

Omegaman, yes AM is set as the frontend.

Akafox, yes, that will work, I guess i'll need to keep 2x sets of config files, 1 for use and 1 for updating rom lists.

I was hoping there may be a more elegant solution. I would like to keep rocketlauncher because it has really tidied up the tricky emulators.

Thanks

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General / AM + Rocketlauncher + Generating Rom List?

« on: February 02, 2016, 12:49:26 AM »

Hi all,

I have used rocketlauncher to tidy up launching of emulators and avoiding seeing the background, mouse etc when launching. It works well but i've run into a problem.

To use Rocketlauncher the emulator cfg files need to have:

"executable           C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe
args                 -s "[emulator]" -r "[name]" -p AttractMode -f "C:\Attract-Mode\attract.exe"

It works fine for launching until I go to regenerate the rom list (with additional games) and ofcourse that runs rocketlauncher which doesn't appear to work.

For anyone that uses rocketlauncher + AM, do you know how to make this work?

Can I have a separate command in the .cfg for generating the romlist?

At the moment i'm editing the config file, updating the romlist and editing it back again. I'm hoping there is a better way....

Thanks for reading!

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General / Re: Attract-Mode retaining focus on launch of emulator

« on: January 30, 2016, 11:48:37 PM »

Hi all,

I'm working through Rocketlauncher which unlike AM is not too straight forward! However, I think it will eventually do what I want and if not there is a whole community to ask.

I have an AM related question though. To use Rocketlauncher the emulator cfg files need to have:

"executable           C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe
args                 -s "[emulator]" -r "[name]" -p AttractMode -f "C:\Attract-Mode\attract.exe"

It works fine for launching until I went to regenerate the rom list (with additional games) and ofcourse that runs rocketlauncher which doesn't appear to work.

For anyone that uses rocketlauncher + AM, do you know how to make this work?

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Themes / Re: [video] MODERN CAB theme

« on: January 27, 2016, 01:13:52 PM »

Hi Verion,

Any update?

I can't wait to try it out!

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General / Re: Attract-Mode retaining focus on launch of emulator

« on: January 26, 2016, 05:52:03 PM »

Hi Omegaman,

Awesome, thanks, I'll check it out. I actually setup up hyperspin + rocketlauncher (which was horrendously complicated) prior to deciding that attract mode was more for me.

I'll check out hyperlauncher in conjunction with attract mode!

Thanks
 

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General / Re: Attract-Mode retaining focus on launch of emulator

« on: January 25, 2016, 09:54:33 PM »

Good to see there has been additional replies (that I missed).

I'm back to try and sort this out. Hermine, the porblem with just making windows look less windows like, is that the emulator (M2, demul) still has a window.

I'll look into the other options provided to work around it. Simplistically, I was hoping there may be an option to have:

Launch ROM -> AM take back / retain focus for X seconds (setup in emulator config) -> switch to emulator

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General / Attract-Mode retaining focus on launch of emulator

« on: January 12, 2016, 03:30:05 PM »

Hi,

I have got MAME setup beautifully in Attract-mode and I really don't understand why it's not more popular than it is!

I've started setting up additional emulators (M2 and Demul) and while attract-mode is still great, I need to now account for some of less desirable features of those emulators.

1) when I launch the game it jumps out to the desktop while the emulator is started before eventually starting the game in fullscreen. What i'd like to achieve is a seamless transition like I see for Mame.

Is there any way to achieve this? I was thinking if attract mode could keep focus for X number of seconds before transitioning....

2) The mouse cursor shows smack bang in the middle of the screen on Demul. In googling it, I see people use an autohotkey script to mask this. How do I tie this in with attract mode and launching of the emulator?

Thanks for your time!

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General / Filter on the number of buttons?

« on: December 08, 2015, 11:35:38 PM »

Hi there,

I have a control panel with 4 buttons per player, and i'd like to filter out ROMs that require more buttons than this.

I have controls.ini and I can see that i'd want to filter on P1NumButtons. Is there anyway to filter on specific properties within controls?

I've tried searching myself but I can't figure it out.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!