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Kfam:
Theres now more info on the site. Just click on the tips link on the left.

papaschtroumpf:

--- Quote from: Kfam on October 25, 2003, 01:17:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 25, 2003, 02:54:10 am ---I haven't reied it yet, but can you use it in an arcade cabinet, i.e. using the cursor keys plus no more than 4 other buttons?
Thanks

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No, not right now. I could look into setting up a way to select songs that way, but you would still need more keys and a mouse for the initial set-up. PartyBox can be set up to start playing at start. It can even remember it's exact state, like what song was playing and where it was at in the song. It can even remember the selected songs. I'll see what I can do, but now is the time to suggest your preferred way of navigating with your set-up before I make my own. Right now albums are selected by row and column, using A,B,C for rows and 1,2,3,4,5 for columns. So for the 3rd album on row B you press the keys you have set up for B and then 3. After that the album comes up and you use up and down to select a song with the select key. The main problem you would have there is picking an album. Just off the top of my head, I could set up 2 keys (one for the row and one for colums). Pressing either would bring up a box with A1 in it and short instructions. Then, pressing the row key would change A to A,B, or C and pressing the column key would change 1 to 1,2,3,4, or 5. Once you set it to the album you want you would then press select to bring up that album. That way would require a lot less key presses then just using left an right to select an album (which is another way I though of). Let me know what you think. You still have a little bit of time before I start working on PartyBox again, since I'm working on the webpage right now. Soon there will be plenty of screenshots showing all of PartyBox's features. Well, except for the videos. Since videos are overlayed they don't get captured. PartyBox does play videos fullscreen or mostly full screen (depending on your settings) though since that was something else very important to me.

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I don't think anyone is worried about needing more jeys/mouse for settings things up, you do needs a full keyboards for setting a a mame cabinet.
I agree with you that the way you describe it involves too many key-presses to select one song. I think that using the arrow keys to navigate which album you want, then one key (for example "1") to select the album, then up/down to select track with a key to select (probably the same as before) and another to exit without selecting (for example "2").
Since there are 15 albums on the screen at a time you would need a way to "jump" to the next (or previous) 16 albums for example keys LEFT-CTRL and ALT.
Add one key to exit (ESC) and you're just about there.
Of course extras like volume up/down would be welcome too...
FYI, VMJ can be setup mostly like that, and the setup I describe is compatible with a basic cabinet panel (the example key I used work great also for people used to the MameWah frontend).
I haven't gotten a chance to try the software yet, so I'll give it a try and get back to you...

Kfam:
Ok. I pretty much got the site the way I want it right now with the exception of forums wich I'll be looking into soon. After that I'll get back to working on some of the requests. Just to make sure I got everything, please check out the requests section on my site and let me know if there is any thing else. Here is the url http://members.iglou.com/kfam76/requests.html.

papaschtroumpf:
An option to select all tracks on the album would be nice. Not very useful for a party, but when using it for background music (like when playing a couple games of pool in the game room), it's nice to be able to listen to a whole album.

papaschtroumpf:
I gave the program a try and I like it, I'd definitely run it on my cabinet if it had an arcade navigation mode. My previous post is kind of confusing so I will re-iterate what I think an arcade navigation mode would look like:

1) Use the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to navigate the albums in the screen of 15 albums. This implies that the currently selected album is highlighted so that you see where you are in the screen.

2) Maybe when you are at the extreme right of the screen, pressing the RIGHT key causes to display the next 15 albums. When you are at the extreme left of the screen, pressing the LEFT key causes to display the previous 15 albums

3) Even if point 2 above is implemented you still want a shortcut to skip forward 15 and skip back 15, so you need one key for each. I suggest LEFT-CTRL and ALT because those are the default for buttons 1 and 2 for player 1 in mame, so most cabinets will have those already mapped.

4) You want a way to select the album currently highlighted. I suggest using key "1" because it's the default player 1 button so most cabinets will have it already. It's also the "select" button under MameWah, the front end I currently use, so it'll feel natural for MameWah users.

5) while in the current album view, using the UP/DOWN keys to navigate the track list, then press "1" to select a track. As pointed out ealier, an entry to select all tracks would be great.

6) I suggest using button "2" to exit the current "level", for example to exit from single album view to 15 album view. Again this is similar to the MameWah keymap and will feel natural to those users.

7) ESC exits the program entirely

8) Of course you don't want to have any kinf of confirmation pop-ups. While those could be answered with one of the arcade buttons, they look un-arcadish.

These to me would be the minimum controls to make the software useable on a cabinet.

I think that optional keys would include:

9) Volume Up/Down (I'm not sure how the save volume for each song feature work, although my understanding is that it's something you do only once when you import the song, so this would be a master volume up/down)

10) Mute button?


Not arcade control related, but other possible suggestion: have an automatic setting to adjust the track volume (maybe done when you add the track to the collection) by determining how loud the track is and figuring out a volume automatically to bring it in line with other tracks.

Keep up the great work, I'd be willing to be a beta tester on the arcade controls stuff.

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