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Author Topic: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?  (Read 1962 times)

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Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« on: September 28, 2012, 03:34:31 pm »
Are there any good front ends that anyone would suggest that when a game has been loaded and finished played, after a certain time period of inactivity, exit the game and return to the front end's menu?

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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2012, 03:53:54 pm »
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be something MAME itself would have to do and not the front end?

IIRC, AdvanceMAME has a feature like that.

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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2012, 05:04:02 pm »
Advmame has that featture and Advmenu has a feature to load RAMDOM game, then after amount of inactivity, it exist back to FE and LOOPS with another RANDOM game.
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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2012, 06:55:11 pm »
GameEx can do that.  I think it's a registered feature, though.  The option will be available in setup but won't operate if it's a full version feature only.

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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2012, 10:28:13 pm »
+1 on GameEx. I have the full version and I know it does exactly what you are asking.

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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2012, 08:56:15 am »
Excellent, I will check those all out. Thanks!

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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2012, 12:25:07 pm »
hyperspin does it and i believe maximus arcade does too but the latter is no longer being developed if im thinking right.
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Re: Mame front ends that exit game back to front end?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2012, 12:34:13 am »
Weird that I was thinking about this last night or the other. I seem to recall somebody figured out baseline MAME will do this, and it's ridiculously simple, but it has to be part of the command line.
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