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FE with custom categories?
twitami:
Ok, my cabinet is coming along nicely..but still having issues on the software side. I like ArcadeFX, and a few others I have tried...excpet for one thing: categories. ArcadeFX uses the standard mame categories, but with 25 different categories, I have no idea where to look for some games...this seems like WAY too many too me. Plus, I am going to have interchangeable Control Panels. Is there a FE that you can make custom categories, like maybe 10 or so? ArcadeFX works with AnalogMame also, which I need.
Thanks!
Brian
Lilwolf:
If I get the time... JFront is designed for mutiple control panels (and if I didn't write the FE I would have more time to make them :)
It looks like ArcadeFX (skinnable and I personally use his skins because hes much better at it then I am).
But I can have multiple control panels. Each can have it's own in-FE controls, it will setup your encoder for you (by calling batch files), it will also configure mame per game config (like all 4way games, or 2player 8ways with 6 buttons...) and these can also be different per control panels. It can also change the skin (or just the background image for the skin) so that you can have the picture of the cabinet in the skin show the control panel.
the trouble currently is that I had all the options working on my cabinet. Then I started trying to make it user friendly and had to break a few things.
I also have to add one more thing. When switching control panels, I currently am calling the encoder as you rotate. I need to make it rotate, then have a sperate button to say switch. This way, you can rotate through them in your current control panel, then have it switch. It doesn't happen to me yet, but you could have a control panel tha tyou rotate throught that doesn't have any of the same buttons (so you would have to put on that control panel to switch to the next... ie, dumb)
Howard_Casto:
"The Dragon is Sleeping.... When it awakens the world will be forever changed."
ArcadeFX:
twitami, the categories are taken from the ArcadeFX database so if you really wanted to edit them you could edit the database and change them all. This would give you your custom categories.
Post to the AFX board if you are interested.
SirPoonga:
Ok, custom categories do have a drawback, you have to enter each rom into those categories by hand. I suppose it isn;t a big deal, being only 1800 individual games (not cloned). BUT that's a big task.
Is there a fe that supports that?
My personal one has editable unlimited favorites lists, so I "could" do that.
hehe I'm more of the person to go to my random category which fill the screen with 20 randomly selected games and I go through them, putting ones I like into a favorites list:)