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FE with custom categories?
Lilwolf:
JFront does (will) (man I need to get a release out the door)....
but only by mistake.
with the way I deal with mame configuration (and btw, works great in zinc also) of copying files around. The main reason was to deal with 4 player controls differently. Well, many games in mame are really 4 player and 1 input. So I had to be able to change all the parameters that can be set.
And the categories are all configurable.
So you can say. "style" and "MK" (for mortal kombat) and then have a category for Mortal Kombat.
Also, I'm have favorites that people at the control panel can change if they like a game or not, and set categories on that. I'm also considering having a few true/false things that are configurable at the control panel for 'Classic' and maybe add the ability for more.
But all in all... it's doable... not to practical!
btw, one GREAT feature (in my mind) of jfront. When you modify a property, it last past future mame versions. IE I save the changed info in the main datafile and a custom datafile. When I reparse any files (listinfo or any of the others (ok, only one other now... but going to make a zinc one also), I merdge the custom changes over it.
)p(:
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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:)
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Yeah I like that too. I mostly play games from my favlist but I also like to let the fe put 50 or 100 random games in the arcade...occasionally I discover a great game that way...but I must say there are also a lot of very very bad games in Mame... :D
Peter
Lilwolf:
In jfront, i can categorized favorite not set (and once you set it, you cant unset it)
so I can go to my non-set-favorite and then hit random. I do this all the time.... but I like it better if I could make it all random... but man that isn't going to be easy since I'm not using a real database (but basically wrote my own)
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote ---In jfront, i can categorized favorite not set (and once you set it, you cant unset it)
so I can go to my non-set-favorite and then hit random.
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ErikRuud:
For a dos fe, GameLauncher will let you set up virtual emulators. I have used this feature to set up custom categories on my machine.
I does involve a lot of typing, and a lot of text(.bat) files to accomplish though. The other advantage of this setup is that every single rom could conceivably have it's own custom setup, because each rom is launched using it's own .bat file.