Feature Request - Game Loading Screensaver

[brywalker]

My FAVORITE front end. Period.

That said - I have a Neo Geo cabinet that I set up. One thing I really miss over having my 4 slot hooked up is to have the games rotate in their attract mode on the PCB. Is there any way to add that functionality to the front end?

Basically - when "screen saver" is enabled, it will load a random game. Then after 60 seconds it will just exit and load another one. If the screensaver is cancelled due to user input, it will just turn of the timer and wait for no input on the main screen again like normal. Is this possible? It would be a whole new experience for folks for sure.

Or, even load a specific command line for "screensaver". Ex: mame.exe -cart1 samsho -cart2 maglord etc...

Thanks for your hard work. This thing is outstanding.

[mondaiji]

That's a great idea for a screensaver.

Would having a screensaver that would just cycled through a bunch of attract mode videos achieve the same goal?

[akafox]

There actually is one for windows. However it may be just for WinXP though..

http://tomspeirs.com/mamescreensaver/

note though that if you are running mame version 1.47 or higher you can load multi-cart neogeo and it will act just like the real cabinet. You only can have 6 games tops though.

I was working on a neo-geo display and setting it up so that the vid snaps that it played was the intro when you cycled the list. Of course it only played the one you were on it did not cycle like on the arcade cabinet.

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=172.msg932#msg932

[brywalker]

Well yeah videos would work. But why not just load roms on a timer that would stop the timer on any user input? That way if it is cycling and a game you dig comes up, you can just play.

[akafox]

True. That screen saver will do just that. If you put a virtual quarter in it lets you play the game. Thus it kills the screen saver and mame runs normally.

I would love to it but my squirrel is bad.

[cools]

This is generally a bad idea.

http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=81