Auto exit game when on idle for x amount of time

[JayLie]

Hi, another useful feature that i cant find anywhere to implement in my build, "Auto exit game when on idle for x amount of time"

Cant someone please help me and perhaps alooot of others

[hermine.potter]

external software, scripts:
Here

threads, themes:
Here

Workaround:
use screensaver of AM + Blank Screen Start Command (start taskkill command of OS to close running emulator).
Similar here

[JayLie]

threads, themes:
Here

I've just tested that timer.nut file, it does a good job, but it only takes you back to the display menu after x amount of idle time when you in another menu...and when you in game, it doesnt exit mame on idle....

[JayLie]

Workaround:
use screensaver of AM + Blank Screen Start Command (start taskkill command of OS to close running emulator).
Similar here

Okay, I've got my bat script working, it kills mame when I click on it and when a game is running so that part works, but ive got nooooo idea how to implement it in Attract mode, ive tried everything.....

[hermine.potter]

workaround : external script that starts belong with your emulator.
Script that counts how long no entry has been made and kill the current emulator (pressing the escape-button or make a taskkill)

Since you are not happy about such solutions ("horrible methods", "dodgy 3rd party software", "buggy aswell", "not even working"):

AM is opensource & the stage is yours

[JayLie]

The reason I'm asking for these things are that 10yr old kids will be playing on an arcade machine in public running attract mode and mame on 2 cabinets.

[hermine.potter]

with this plugin, you are able to start external scripts before emulator launch. and after emulator launch.

with this autoit-script, you are able to close a list of windows processes after reaching a specific idle time.
after closing the processes, you are back to AM game list.

[JayLie]

thank you, the script is awesome!