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mamewah and arcadejukebox
btoddkelley:
I was thinking about integrating arcade jukebox 8 into my cab and was wondering if there was a way to make arcade jukebox start when it was cycled to. In other words, you press "4" to cycle through your emulators and when you get to arcade jukebox it automatically starts and displays songs which can be selected and played.
Arcade jukebox could be either the first or the last one in the cycle if this would make it easier. (I personally think that the ideal cab would boot to the jukebox and then you could cycle to emulators from there. Arcade jukebox could could read the same music file mamewah does when it plays songs automatically.)
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Todd
Minwah:
--- Quote from: btoddkelley on April 17, 2004, 11:36:47 am ---I was thinking about integrating arcade jukebox 8 into my cab and was wondering if there was a way to make arcade jukebox start when it was cycled to. In other words, you press "4" to cycle through your emulators and when you get to arcade jukebox it automatically starts and displays songs which can be selected and played.
Arcade jukebox could be either the first or the last one in the cycle if this would make it easier. (I personally think that the ideal cab would boot to the jukebox and then you could cycle to emulators from there. Arcade jukebox could could read the same music file mamewah does when it plays songs automatically.)
Any thoughts?
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Sorry, you can't do this in MW :(
Personally I don't think arcade cabs should have jukeboxes, they're for playing games! Jukebox cabs seem to be pretty popular round here tho so what do I know ::) :)
papaschtroumpf:
Actually it's one of the reasons I got the wife to agree to the cab project in the first place ;)
I personnaly think that if you have an arcade cab with decent speakers, adding a jukebox to it is a great way to maximize its use, especially if (like me) your cab is located in a game room where you could be doing other things (play darts, pool, ...)
I guess I never had a problem with having a jukebox "emulator" screen in mamewah with a single entry that says "listen to music". It's just one extra keypress to start the jukebox.
SpamMe:
I did something kinda similar, dunno if it's what you're looking for:
Link
Instructions are a few posts below that one.
btoddkelley:
I like what you have done Spam. Let me tell you what I had invisioned and you guys tell me what you think.(and if it can be done) Most here have seen Arcade jukebox. What I think would work well in a cab would be to have AJ merged with mamewah. When mamewah starts the first thing you would see would be AJ. You could coin up songs(or set for free play), have a que, sort ect. Pressing the 4 button would cycle emulators just like it does now but the selected music would continue playing. When you cycled back to AJ. The que would show you what song is up next and you could coin up and pick more songs.
It would also be possible to have music picked at random like mamewah does now, only it would be displayed in AJ's que. Music could be set to play during games or like it is now. Exiting games would return to the song and previous que.
Now this is only an idea I have. I do not have the programming skills to make this happen and the authors of the 2 programs may object to someone hacking up there software (in which case it should not be done). Min has said he does not see the need for a jukebox in a cab so it is unlikely that he will be interested. But I would like to know how he feels about the proposed modifications. Also, Are the 2 programs written where this is even possible? Mamewah is written in VB, what about AJ?
Thoughts anyone? Min?
Thanks
Todd