Sound cues in MAME menus? arcadeos, advancemame

[jammadave]

hey guys - if i'm gonna use a DOS based frontend, which i am, can I load sounds for its menu to play?  here's the goal:

-background music, something subtle and ambient, i'll probably write/record something for it.
-on menu load: "welcome...select a game"  as recorded from one of my female friends =0)
-on selection change, some kind of 'bing' or other such sound
-on game enter, a nifty 'boom'

=0)

come on, i know you people are geniuses.

thx in advance
dave

[JustMichael]

I would suggest no bing on selection change.  Can you imagine scrolling through 3000 roms and hearing 3000 bings?

[WiZeR]

this is a great idea

I think its something for the dev team of ArcadeOS to think about.  

[jammadave]

I would suggest no bing on selection change.

[Howard_Casto]

None of the dos front-ends support this yet... almost all of the windows one's do.  Why?  Because sounds are so much easier to deal with outside of dos. Yet another reason to switch to windows.

[ErikRuud]

GameLauncher is a DOS frontend, and it does have a nifty 'boom' on game selection, and it does have a 'bing' on selection change, and sort of a  'bwinnng' on emulator change. You can't change sounds though. It will also play a CD or list of MP3's as background music.

[Howard_Casto]

Oh yeah, my bad... it's been a while....
you should really make the files external upon the next release so users can change them.