Where can I suggest/ask for new features to be added in attract-mode?
I've been working on very old arcade systems recently and I'm trying to fix it for a friend but they all kinda broken, its PC based systems, I'm talking about those gameking and gamebox 100IN1 and 200IN1 and 400IN1 they ALL use the same software with anti clone and protection on!!! ..... and all the websites died in 2004 that contained valuable information about these devices and there is no info on the internet because its just to old, I'm sitting with original drives and CF cards with software on that you cant re-use, you'll get a silly error and or the 15hz display driver wont even load, and you cant clone it on another drive aswell, if your system dies you can just as well throw the entire system away, luckily I've managed to fix one 200IN1 system by adding a sound card and config it in the dos system to load the driver in AUTOEXEC.BAT file, because it got a blown onboard sound chip on a dodgy motherboard, its all Pentium 3 motherboards!!! with modified bios settings, like halt on no error and so on.. and always power on, so its permanently saved on the bios, no bios battery needed to keep the systems.....
....so I've decided to build my own system using attract mode with mameui, but.... there is some features missing in the entire world of frond ends and mame.
(1) on the SNK systems, you hold the start button for a couple of second when in a game and it will return to the frond end menu, so it will just close mame then I assume?!?!....
(2) on the SNK systems, you cant navigate the menu unless youve inserted a coin...
(3) and another feature that is no where to be seen anywhere!!!!!!... if you launch a game, it will run forever on its demo mode with insert coin, there needs to be a idle system with x amount of time that exit game when no key is presssed...
I've seen horrrrible methods to implement some of these features with dodgy 3rd party software and it seems to be buggy aswell and not even working!
