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General / Re: windows shutdown from frontend like feel frontend

« on: November 18, 2015, 05:54:26 PM »

My original neo geo mvs has a toggle switch inside the coin door going to the psu. You could replace the switch on your arcade with a momentary switch going to the shutdown switch on your motherboard. Couple it with a smart power strip for the monitor. That is about as authentic as it gets.

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General / Re: Any way to force exit after 1 game?

« on: March 18, 2015, 10:03:28 AM »

Quitting the emulator after a period of inactivity might be a more viable solution.

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General / Filter for Mame platform

« on: March 18, 2015, 04:59:39 AM »

I'm building a dedicated neo geo mvs cabinet. The following example will filter based on manufacturer. However, not all titles by snk are for mvs. Any way to set up filter correctly? Filter based on mvs bios?

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filter               "Neo Geo MVS"
      rule                 Manufacturer equals SNK


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Themes / Re: leftside robo skin with spin wheel like in hyperspin on right using wheel art.

« on: February 20, 2015, 09:07:56 PM »

Looks great! It's very fluid. Definitely upload your nut. No homo. Lol

The top of the game info gets lost in the background. And the list name (mame) seems odd and could use redesigning.

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Themes / Re: Re-purposed Aeon themes with some tweaks, flyer behind text box and colorize.

« on: December 09, 2014, 04:00:53 AM »

Just watched the video. Looks good!

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General / Re: what version mame?

« on: December 09, 2014, 03:55:13 AM »

Latest I can get extras for, currently Mame 0.155.

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General / Feature suggestion: filter rule inherit

« on: November 25, 2014, 12:15:11 PM »

It would be nice to add some sort of rule inheritance for filters to keep our config file DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). See example below of how this could work.

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# Generated by Attract-Mode 1.4.0
#
list Arcade
layout               cools
romlist              mame
filter               All
rule                 Category not_contains *Mature*|BIOS|Casino|Fruit Machines|PinMAME|Quiz|Rhythm|Tabletop
rule                 CloneOf not_equals .+
rule                 Control contains 2-way|4-way|8-way|trackball
rule                 DisplayCount equals 1
rule                 Manufacturer not_contains <pirate>|<unknown>|<unlicensed>|bootleg|hack
rule                 Players equals 1P alt|1P sim|2P alt|2P sim|3P alt|4P alt|6P alt
rule                 Status equals good|imperfect
rule                 Year not_contains ?
filter               Favourites
rule                 Favourite equals 1
filter               Atari
rule                 Inherit from All
rule                 Manufacturer contains Atari

The Atari filter would contain all of the rules from the All filter, as well as it's own.

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General / Re: Attract Mode freezing on me

« on: November 23, 2014, 07:07:19 AM »

As much as I can help...

I am using Win 8.1 - so I don't think the problem is there.

I don't know if "1.4.1" actually changed version numbers anywhere that I have seen, so that's probably not a big deal.

When you run attract, there is a separate cmd prompt window shown behind the scenes that outputs some info. Try doing tab -> General -> Window Mode and change it to Window so you can see this.

Also important to troubleshooting:
Are you using the default layout?
What changes did you make to your config files?
Has it already generated your rom list?
Left/Right (the last keys you are pressing) by default change lists, so it may be having trouble re-loading whatever list you are on.. see what the output in the cmd window when that happens.

Hope this helps..

Thank you liquid8d. I set attractmode in windowed mode. Terminal window showed nothing. However, I noticed that attract-mode was working when I pressed the arrow keys, instead of freezing like before. I set it back to fill screen and it is working fine. I have no idea what happened, but thank you for the idea that solved my issue. 

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General / Re: Attract Mode freezing on me

« on: November 22, 2014, 07:01:21 AM »

Anyone? Is there a log file or something?

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General / Attract Mode freezing on me (solved)

« on: November 18, 2014, 12:22:56 PM »

I'm using Windows 8.1 and download attract-mode from the link on the home page. It is supposed to be release 1.4.1 but when I run attract-mode and press tab, it says 1.4.0.

Anyways, as soon as I press a down|up|left|right attract-mode freezes and does not respond. I have to force quit the app via task manager. It did not do this before. Any way I can diagnose what is going on? I thought maybe I messed up a config file or something, so I created another folder, copy the zip file content into it, and no difference. How can I diagnose what is going on?

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General / Re: v1.4 not working on OSX 10.9

« on: October 28, 2014, 03:39:47 AM »

are you getting any kind of message (like a crash report)?

I only have an old mac on 10.6 so I'll need help to track the problem down...

Nope. Icon appears in the dock for a second and then disappears.

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General / Re: v1.4 not working on OSX 10.9

« on: October 27, 2014, 10:23:48 AM »

Precompiled version of attractmode 1.4 is not launching on my mac running 10.10.