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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 17.3 [Release] Updated 15 July 2024

« on: September 02, 2024, 11:03:46 AM »

Hi zpaolo11x,
I did a test with the new version

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display Master System#CONSOLE
layout               Arcadeflow_174_wip
romlist              Master System
in_cycle             yes
in_menu              yes
global_filter
rule                 Name not_contains \[BIOS\]|\(Beta|\(Unl\)|\(Program\)
filter               All
filter               Tag-A-Filter
filter               Tag-B-Filter

Filters are declared empty because tags created with AF GUI are not visible from AM.
That's okay, because regular AM tags can give problems in cross system collection 

Switching filter from GUI, AF activates the correct persistent Multi Filter

pref_mf_Master System#CONSOLE_Tag-A-Filter.txt
or
pref_mf_Master System#CONSOLE_Tag-B-Filter.txt

The unwanted game launch in Multi Filter is also gone!

Many thanks zpaolo11x for your priceless work

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Themes / Re: SlidyMenu

« on: September 01, 2024, 08:25:50 AM »

Great idea!

This menu is very refined and offers a pleasant and functional user experience.

I can't wait to use it 

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 17.3 [Release] Updated 15 July 2024

« on: August 29, 2024, 08:20:52 AM »

Hi,

tag filter doesn't seem to work in multi filter.

Arcade.db2

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"3wonders" : {
      z_tags = ["cps"]
      z_filename = ""
      z_system = "arcade"
      z_playedcount = 0
      z_favourite = false
      z_hidden = false
      z_emulator = "Arcade"
      z_completed = false
      z_rundate = "00000000000000"
      z_name = "3wonders"
      z_favdate = "00000000000000"
   }

pref_mf_AF All Arcade Games_All.txt (Working)

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return(
   {
      "Category" : []
      "Arcade" : []
      "Series" : []
      "Tags" : []
      "Scraped" : []
      "Region" : []
      "System" : ["arcade"]
      "Manufacturer" : []
      "Orientation" : []
      "Played" : []
      "Controls" : []
      "Rating" : []
      "Year" : []
      "Favourite" : []
      "Buttons" : []
      "Players" : []
   }
)

pref_mf_AF All Arcade Games_All.txt (Not Working)

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return(
   {
      "Category" : []
      "Arcade" : []
      "Series" : []
      "Tags" : ["cps"]
      "Scraped" : []
      "Region" : []
      "System" : []
      "Manufacturer" : []
      "Orientation" : []
      "Played" : []
      "Controls" : []
      "Rating" : []
      "Year" : []
      "Favourite" : []
      "Buttons" : []
      "Players" : []
   }
)

Furthermore, in interactive editing the Tags line (in Multi Filter) starts a game

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.2 [Release] Updated 7 January 2022

« on: January 24, 2022, 10:23:32 AM »

... first of all, after you deleted the .db1 file, did AF recerate it, and did you see one for playstation and one for playstation-hw?

AF recreates the db1 file for Playstation only.

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*** Initializing display: 'Playstation#CONSOLE'
 - Loaded master romlist 'Playstation' in 37 ms (13 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 2 filters in 0 ms (26 comparisons)

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [the index 'Playstation-hw' does not exist]

CALLSTACK
*FUNCTION [z_listboot()] C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut line [6037]
*FUNCTION [on_transition()] C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut line [13669]

In Playstation.db1 file for Parasite Eve

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"Parasite Eve (USA)" : {
      z_manufacturer = "Squaresoft"
      z_title = "Parasite Eve (USA)"
      z_filename = ""
      z_resolution = ""
      z_control = ""
      z_players = "1"
      z_year = "1998"
      z_inmfz = null
      z_fileisavailable = true
      z_emulator = "Playstation"
      z_commands = []
     ...


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Themes / Re: Please help me find the right Theme for my needs

« on: January 23, 2022, 09:06:17 AM »

I use all my emulators on a PC, not a cabinet, so usability is my real need...

For PC I prefer mediacenter like themes.
This kind of themes scales well from little to big game collection for any kind of emulated platform.

Hyperspin-wheel oriented themes are not ideal for search e large collection and require
a lot of assets 

I use the excellent ArcadeFlow theme
http://www.mixandmatch.it/AF/

Another theme could be Grid Game Station
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=898.0

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.2 [Release] Updated 7 January 2022

« on: January 23, 2022, 08:51:26 AM »

Hi,

I changed emulator for one game in Playstation.txt romlist.

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...
Metal Gear Solid (USA) (v1.1);Metal Gear Solid (USA)(v1.1);Playstation;;1998;Konami;Shooter, Action;1;;;;;;;;;;
Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee (USA) (v1.1);Oddworld : Abe's Oddysee (USA)(v1.1);Playstation;;1997;GT Interactive;Adventure, Platform;2;;;;;;;;;;
Parasite Eve (USA);Parasite Eve (USA);Playstation-hw;;1998;Squaresoft;Adventure / Survival Horror, Adventure;1;;;;;;;;;;
...

in emulators folder

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...
Playstation.cfg
Playstation-hw.cfg
...

end the two cfg differ only in retroarch launch command.

I deleted the .db1 file, but AF shows "Empty list"

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.2 [Release] Updated 7 January 2022

« on: January 09, 2022, 09:39:27 AM »

Is %GAME_HOME% an environment variable you set on your system? Are you using Windows? AF should "expand" all paths to get the proper folder structure when using % variables, but I'll check it out, maybe I missed something in the code. So the game is marked like "missing" but if you run it, does it work?

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.1440]
(c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\root>echo %GAME_HOME%
C:\Games

If I try to launch a game, it doesn't start but doesn't print anything in console

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.2 [Release] Updated 7 January 2022

« on: January 09, 2022, 08:23:29 AM »

Hi @zpaolo11x
and thank you for this new release.

I am trying to introduce environment variables in the emulator configuration files.
For example

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executable           %GAME_HOME%\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
args                 -f -L %GAME_HOME%\RetroArch\cores\bsnes_mercury_accuracy_libretro.dll "[romfilename]"
rompath              %GAME_HOME%\Roms\snes

but doing so all games are shown as missing.

AM seems to support this type of notation

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: January 01, 2022, 03:24:06 AM »

Hi zpaolo11x,

Is it possible to map a key that directly brings up system menu bypassing utility menu?

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: December 30, 2021, 10:11:02 AM »

Ok now it works.

For your information, this strange SNES game title breaks list initialization:
Odekake Lester: Lelele no Le (^^;

I removed the "(^^;" part

Thank you @zpaolo11x

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: December 30, 2021, 09:39:53 AM »

Ok, first thing is that your Amiga romlist has some issue, I see every line there's a blank line with just a ";", and the number of entries in each list item is too low, probably because you are using AM 2.6.1 "classic", not attractplus or the daily builds. I'll see if I can add an error check in the code for this scenario, otherwise the only way is to update your AM to the latest daily or to attract plus and regenerate all romlists.

Ok, I took a look at this post
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=3141.msg22112#msg22112

At this point I think it is correct to adapt my old romlists

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: December 30, 2021, 08:41:31 AM »

If you want to try with AM+, you can get it here: https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/actions

I'm interested to this new AM version. How can I download a release from this link?

Furthermore, is there a command to execute to convert the current rom lists?

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: December 29, 2021, 11:21:10 AM »

Can you share the Amiga.cfg from the emulators folder and the Amiga.txt from the romlists folder?

I have attached the required files.

I have read some previous posts and noticed that a special version of AM is required.
I'm using classic 2.6.1 and previous ArcadeFlow version was 10.5

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Themes / Re: Theme Idea

« on: December 29, 2021, 10:52:51 AM »

Hi,
check this out: https://github.com/keilmillerjr/mvscomplete-layout
from @keilmillerjr

In general I recommend you to visit the theme gallery to find themes that are close to your needs and study their code.

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Themes / Re: Arcadeflow theme v 12.1 [Release] Updated 20 December 2021

« on: December 29, 2021, 10:34:33 AM »

Can you share the output from attractplus-console.exe?

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Attract-Mode v2.6.1 (Windows, SFML 2.5.1 +SWF +7z +Curl)
avcodec 58.54.100 / avformat 58.29.100 / swscale 5.5.100 / avutil 56.31.100 / swresample 3.5.100

Config: C:\Games\Attract-Mode\attract.cfg

*** Initializing display: 'SNES#CONSOLE'
 - Loaded master romlist 'SNES' in 57 ms (2166 entries kept, 1068 discarded)
 - Constructed 1 filters in 0 ms (2166 comparisons)

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [the index '17' does not exist]

CALLSTACK
*FUNCTION [portromlist()] C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut line [3889]
*FUNCTION [getallgamesdb()] C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut line [5969]
*FUNCTION [main()] C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut line [13486]

LOCALS
[AF] TABLE
[z_fields1] TABLE
[ap] """
[z_fields2] TABLE
[emudata] TABLE
[listfields] ARRAY
[listline] "Alien Breed;Alien Breed;Amiga;;1991;Team 17;Shooter;1-2;;;;;;;;;"
[listfile] INSTANCE
[listpath] "C:\Games\Attract-Mode\romlists\Amiga.txt"
[cleanromlist2] TABLE
[cleanromlist] TABLE
[taglist] ARRAY
[hiddentable] TABLE
[completedtable] TABLE
[tagtable] TABLE
[playclist] ARRAY
[playctable] TABLE
[favfile] INSTANCE
[favtable] TABLE
[romlist] "Amiga"
[this] TABLE
[AF] TABLE
[z_list] TABLE
[@ITERATOR@] 2
[item] "Amiga.cfg"
[i] 1
[itemname] "Amiga"
[file] ""
[emulatordir] ARRAY
[emulatorpath] "C:\Games\Attract-Mode\emulators\"
[emulatorarray] ARRAY
[this] TABLE
[labelcounter] TABLE
[labelorder] ARRAY
[sortticks] TABLE
[sortticksarray] ARRAY
[sortlabels] TABLE
[sortlabelsarray] ARRAY
[fps] TABLE
[user_fg] NULL
[aflogoT] TABLE
[aflogo] INSTANCE
[attractitem] TABLE
[attract] TABLE
[zmenu_surface] INSTANCE
[shader_tx2] TABLE
[zmenu_sh] TABLE
[zmenu_surface_container] INSTANCE
[disp] TABLE
[disp0] TABLE
[hist_over] TABLE
[hist_screen] INSTANCE
[hist_screensurf] INSTANCE
[shadowshader] TABLE
[kerneldat] TABLE
[blursizeglow] TABLE
[hist_glow_shader] INSTANCE
[hist_glow_pic] INSTANCE
[shadowsurf_1] INSTANCE
[shadowsurf_2] INSTANCE
[shadowsurf_rt] INSTANCE
[shadow] TABLE
[histglow] TABLE
[gradshader] INSTANCE
[hist_text] INSTANCE
[hist_text_surf] INSTANCE
[shader_lcd] INSTANCE
[pixelpic] INSTANCE
[shader_lottes] INSTANCE
[LCDprf] TABLE
[CRTprf] TABLE
[hist_titletxt] INSTANCE
[hist_titletxt_bd] INSTANCE
[hist_titletxt_bot] INSTANCE
[hist_title_top] INSTANCE
[hist_title] INSTANCE
[hist_white] INSTANCE
[histgr] TABLE
[history_surface] INSTANCE
[hist_curr_rom] ""
[historypadding] 26.400001525879
[shadowscale] 0.025000000372529
[hist_textT] TABLE
[hist_screenT] TABLE
[hist_titleT] TABLE
[hist] TABLE
[keyboard_text] INSTANCE
[kb] TABLE
[keyboard_surface] INSTANCE
[fb] TABLE
[prfmenu] TABLE
[overmenu] INSTANCE
[overmenuwidth] 521.30401611328
[txtoalpha] INSTANCE
[bwtoalpha] INSTANCE
[game_subnameT] TABLE
[game_mainnameT] TABLE
[game_yearT] TABLE
[game_manufacturerpicT] TABLE
[game_maincatT] TABLE
[game_butpicT] TABLE
[game_ctlpicT] TABLE
[game_plypicT] TABLE
[game_catpicT] TABLE
[blsize] TABLE
[letterobj] INSTANCE
[letterobjsurf] TABLE
[displayname] INSTANCE
[displaynamesurf] TABLE
[labelsurf] INSTANCE
[labelstrip] INSTANCE
[scroller2] INSTANCE
[scroller] INSTANCE
[scrollineglow] INSTANCE
[scrolline] INSTANCE
[separatorline] INSTANCE
[filternumbers] INSTANCE
[filterdata] INSTANCE
[data_surface_sh_1] INSTANCE
[data_surface_sh_2] INSTANCE
[data_surface_sh_rt] INSTANCE
[shader_tx] TABLE
[sh_scale] TABLE
[shaders] TABLE
[gradscaler] 1
[gradsizer] 8
[logo] TABLE
[greenshader] TABLE
[gr_vidsz] INSTANCE
[gr_snapz] INSTANCE
[gradsurf_1] INSTANCE
[gradsurf_rt] INSTANCE
[logosurf_rt] INSTANCE
[logosurf_1] INSTANCE
[txbox] INSTANCE
[txt2z] INSTANCE
[txt1z] INSTANCE
[txshz] INSTANCE
[loshz] INSTANCE
[snap_grad] ARRAY
[snap_glow] ARRAY
[surfacePosOffset] 1398.1333007812
[tiles] TABLE
[vidbgfade] ARRAY
[vidposbg] 0
[corrector] 0
[vidindex] ARRAY
[vidpos] ARRAY
[aspectratioMorph] ARRAY
[gr_vidszTableFade] ARRAY
[tilesTableZoom] ARRAY
[tilesTableUpdate] ARRAY
[tilesTablePos] TABLE
[tilez] ARRAY
[z_disp] ARRAY
[picture] TABLE
[shader_bg] TABLE
[bglay] TABLE
[shader_fr] TABLE
[flipshader] NULL
[frost] TABLE
[frost_picT] TABLE
[frostpic] TABLE
[overlay] TABLE
[categorytable] TABLE
[regsys] TABLE
[data_surface] INSTANCE
[nolist_blanker] INSTANCE
[search] TABLE
[searchdata] INSTANCE
[multifilterglyph] INSTANCE
[mf] TABLE
[boxtitle] NULL
[logotitle] NULL
[all_scrape] TABLE
[all_meta_original] TABLE
[all_meta_edited] TABLE
[meta_original] TABLE
[meta_edited] TABLE
[metadata] TABLE
[yearnames] TABLE
[catnames_SS] TABLE
[catnames] TABLE
[focusindex] TABLE
[z_fields2] TABLE
[z_fields1] TABLE
[z_list] TABLE
[dispatchernum] 0
[dispatcher] ARRAY
[keyboard_entrytext] ""
[key_selected] ARRAY
[key_sizes] ARRAY
[key_rows] ARRAY
[key_names] TABLE
[scroll] TABLE
[bgpicT] TABLE
[bgT] TABLE
[scrollersize] 17
[footermargin] 210
[lettersize] TABLE
[fadevid] 9905
[delayvid] 9940
[vidstarter] 10000
[spdT] TABLE
[centercorr] TABLE
[deltacol] 3
[selectorwidth] 579.22668457031
[whitemargin] 0.15000000596046
[selectorscale] 1.4500000476837
[carrierT] TABLE
[pagejump] 14
[cols] 9
[verticalshift] 9.9866666793823
[widthpaddedmix] 399.46667480469
[widthmix] 299.60000610352
[width169padded] 287.11666870117
[width169] 187.25
[heightpadded] 399.46667480469
[widthpadded] 399.46667480469
[padding] 49.933334350586
[width] 299.60000610352
[height] 299.60000610352
[padding_scaler] 0.16666667163372
[footer] TABLE
[header] TABLE
[scalerate] 0.83999997377396
[rotation] TABLE
[fl] TABLE
[scr] TABLE
[uifonts] TABLE
[vertical] true
[rows] 2
[gbrgb] TABLE
[colormapper] TABLE
[srfposhistory] ARRAY
[filtersw] ARRAY
[filterw] ARRAY
[impulse2] TABLE
[surfacePos] 0
[globalposnew] 0
[count] TABLE
[snd] TABLE
[satin] TABLE
[themeT] TABLE
[squarizer] false
[column] TABLE
[backs] TABLE
[search_base_rule] "Title"
[noshader] INSTANCE
[flowT] TABLE
[z_var] 0
[var] 0
[dat] TABLE
[bgs] TABLE
[bgvidsurf] NULL
[dir0] TABLE
[commandtable] TABLE
[huecycle] TABLE
[displaystore] 3
[SORTTABLE] TABLE
[DISPLAYTABLE] TABLE
[prfzero] TABLE
[system_data] TABLE
[orderdatalabel] TABLE
[z_info] TABLE
[transdata] ARRAY
[menucounter] 17
[multifilterz] TABLE
[umvisible] true
[umpresel] 0
[umtable] ARRAY
[selection_pre] NULL
[prf] TABLE
[DBGON] false
[z_af_collections] TABLE
[TLNG] "EN"
[zmenu] TABLE
[AF] TABLE
[IDX] ARRAY
[ratetonumber] TABLE
[ap] """
[elapse] TABLE
[vargv] ARRAY
[this] TABLE
Script Error in C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/layout.nut - the index '17' does not exist
 - Loaded layout: C:\Games\Attract-Mode\layouts/Arcadeflow/ (layout.nut)
 ! Unexpectedly lost focus to: None