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| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on November 18, 2014, 04:27:36 pm --- --- Quote from: Generic Eric on November 18, 2014, 03:32:13 pm --- --- Quote from: yotsuya on November 18, 2014, 02:44:29 pm ---I think the greatest selling point on the newest FE that came out is that you can play a game of Street Fighter to determine what the next game is. Lolz. --- End quote --- Is that for real? --- End quote --- https://sites.google.com/site/bigbluefrontend/ --- End quote --- That's the one. Sorry, I forgot this selling point: •Elaborate shutdown / restart sequence that'll blow the wig straight off your scalp Double lolz. |
| bulbousbeard:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on November 18, 2014, 12:24:53 pm ---The battle over old FE's rages on, while people make new ones with the same shortcomings. :dunno I want all my arcade games in one list regardless of emulator. (currently doing this with workarounds in Mala, but it should be standard) I want to be able to manage gamelists while in the front-end playing the games. I don't want to have to write down or remember the game and use some other program at a later time. I want a custom theme unique to my machine without having to spend more than an evening creating it. I want cool looking fonts for my gamelists that look more impressive than simple lettering (shading, reflection, shadow, etc). I want automation; 4-way switching, rotation, and way beyond. I'd like to be able to generate a command line based on any metadata or variables of my own creation. I'm very grateful for what has been done in the past. As an end-user it's mind blowing that I can have an arcade cabinet that integrates sooo many separate things into a single simple user interface. I just don't understand why FE's haven't made any improvements in the areas I mentioned above. --- End quote --- Big Blue does let you have all your games in one list regardless of the emulator, and I could add font effects pretty trivially, but I haven't done anything more with it since it already does what I wanted it to do. |
| ZexisStryfe:
Does BigBlue support customization and LEDBlinky? |
| bulbousbeard:
--- Quote from: ZexisStryfe on November 20, 2014, 02:08:45 pm ---Does BigBlue support customization and LEDBlinky? --- End quote --- Big Blue doesn't support theme customization. It's definitely a take it or leave it kind of a thing. If you're not in love with Street Fighter 2 and have your own theme in mind, it's not for you. BB really wasn't created as competition for any of the existing frontends. I made it specifically for my Big Blue arcade cabinet, and I released it to the public just in case anyone else would be interested in using it. It's not trying to be a be-all end-all frontend for everyone like Hyperspin, Mala, and Maximus are. It's basically a mini-game that lets you launch games, and everything was carefully and specifically chosen for color contrast, readability, and faithfulness to the CPS1 Street Fighter 2 games, R-Type, and Rampage. One of the things that I don't like about Hyperspin is that a lot of the themes have bad color contrast and make it difficult to read/see which game you're selecting. See the screenshots here for how legible and easy to read everything is because I've controlled the font and colors and have good contrast: https://sites.google.com/site/bigbluefrontend/screenshots Even though it's not directly competing with the other frontends that were built for personalization/customization, I will say that Big Blue might be the most powerful and easy to use in terms of setting up game lists. I'm pretty proud of the configuration program that I made to it. I think that part of it pretty much blows away setting up game lists in any other frontend. Also, Big Blue is the only frontend I know of that can handle SSF emulator seamlessly without any weird hacks or batch files. It just works. I don't have an LEDBlinky or illuminated buttons, so I haven't done anything with it, but Big Blue does allow you to launch any exe with args before launching the main program, so I don't see why it wouldn't work fine with it. |
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