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bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 05, 2011, 01:38:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 04, 2011, 12:29:43 pm ---This may be off topic discussion, but I thought I should ask anyway...maybe someone has an answer or some help.
I used romlister to create a specific .xml file for the controls my cab has and I went through and hand-picked the roms I wanted to be displayed in advmenu. It took me two days to create this list, but when I delete the mame.xml file in the folder ".advance" and I restart advmenu, I get a blank screen and mame selection is no longer available in the frontend. As soon as I delete my .xml file (named mame.xml) and restart advmanu, it goes through the xml regeneration and displays all the roms again(I have a full .143u3 set).
Is there something I'm doing wrong? When I used romlister I selected the xml creation option and thought I had everything covered...??
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perhaps I was thinking it wrong...I was thinking that if I gave advmenu my .xml file it would read it and list only my games.
So...I took another approach. I made a .bat file and copied only the games (roms and chd's)that I had listed in the new.xml file. I deleted the modified xml file and I let advmenu create the xml file again. Now...some of the games are not listed in advmenu....how do I make sure advmenu shows everything in my roms folder?
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From what I can tell, advmenu seems to check the .xml file and recreate it if it's not timestamped/checksummed or both properly. I can generate the .xml file myself but if advmenu has not done it, it'll do it again and overwrite whatever I put in there.
dmarcum99:
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on April 05, 2011, 02:01:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 05, 2011, 01:38:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 04, 2011, 12:29:43 pm ---This may be off topic discussion, but I thought I should ask anyway...maybe someone has an answer or some help.
I used romlister to create a specific .xml file for the controls my cab has and I went through and hand-picked the roms I wanted to be displayed in advmenu. It took me two days to create this list, but when I delete the mame.xml file in the folder ".advance" and I restart advmenu, I get a blank screen and mame selection is no longer available in the frontend. As soon as I delete my .xml file (named mame.xml) and restart advmanu, it goes through the xml regeneration and displays all the roms again(I have a full .143u3 set).
Is there something I'm doing wrong? When I used romlister I selected the xml creation option and thought I had everything covered...??
--- End quote ---
perhaps I was thinking it wrong...I was thinking that if I gave advmenu my .xml file it would read it and list only my games.
So...I took another approach. I made a .bat file and copied only the games (roms and chd's)that I had listed in the new.xml file. I deleted the modified xml file and I let advmenu create the xml file again. Now...some of the games are not listed in advmenu....how do I make sure advmenu shows everything in my roms folder?
--- End quote ---
From what I can tell, advmenu seems to check the .xml file and recreate it if it's not timestamped/checksummed or both properly. I can generate the .xml file myself but if advmenu has not done it, it'll do it again and overwrite whatever I put in there.
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Well, I went in another direction and it worked out great. I went back to Wah!Cade and it created a list of only the games I put in the roms folder. I also tricked out the layout using the mamewah layout editor and someone elses background image. I'll post a pic when I get home.
I am still so impressed with the groovymame project. It's awesome!!!
**edit** here's the pic of my wahcade layout. I had to include a gratuitus shot of my marquee for pure vanity reasons ;D
Calamity:
Hi bitbytebit,
When you have some time please have a look at this post by the folk Paul Sernine:
http://www.retrovicio.org/foro/showthread.php?14969-GroovyArcade-Por-fin-100-Pixel-Perfect-y-mucho-mas&p=148162#post148162
He's having an issue with some usb wifi dongle, maybe you can give us a hint of what could be the possible problem.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: Calamity on April 12, 2011, 01:17:02 pm ---Hi bitbytebit,
When you have some time please have a look at this post by the folk Paul Sernine:
http://www.retrovicio.org/foro/showthread.php?14969-GroovyArcade-Por-fin-100-Pixel-Perfect-y-mucho-mas&p=148162#post148162
He's having an issue with some usb wifi dongle, maybe you can give us a hint of what could be the possible problem.
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I'm pretty sure when he's setting up the network interface, that the 'Is this Wireless' question isn't used. Otherwise the wpa_supplicant.conf file would be there, and it would have asked him for details. If he is going through that part of the
config though, then it's really odd that the wpa_supplicant.conf file isn't created.
Update: Also may want to check the dmesg output, it might be a USB network device issue too, some don't work without proprietary drivers from the company, at least work *right*.
ufoufo512:
At last I got a Radeon 7000 AGP. I can tell it is working great with Groovy Arcade Linux. I still have much tweaking to do. I want to customize AdvanceMenu quite a lot, happily I have old configuration file somewhere. I also mentioned earlier that the image is too wide on my monitor WG K7000. I have now found that there might be a Horizontal Size control for the monitor after all. It is kind of hidden there.
The performance on my Celeron 2,4GHz was positive surprise. I didn't check the actual framerates, but everything seemed quite smooth with NeoGeo era games. I know that I will not be able to run newer games and I have understood that even old ones using discrete sound are quite demanding.