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Minwah1959:
I'm not sure if any of you use my frontend, but anyhow...
I am currently altering my frontends core to be able to handle more game info (from 'mame -listinfo'). This will enable more filters / sorting options.
Could people give me some advise as to what info I should include; ie I don't want to add pointless stuff (eg how many coin slots). I personally may have a different opinion on what is useful / useless to everyone else. eg if you've an arcade monitor it may be useful to filter out vector games.
Any input would be great. At the moment I just want to be able to sort by controller type, ready for when that damn gun arrives :)
PS Howard: I've added customisable font colors & types/size but there's never gonna be any skins :P ;D
)p(:
--- Quote from: Minwah1959 on July 23, 2002, 07:40:20 am ---
I'm not sure if any of you use my frontend, but anyhow...
I am currently altering my frontends core to be able to handle more game info (from 'mame -listinfo'). This will enable more filters / sorting options.
Could people give me some advise as to what info I should include; ie I don't want to add pointless stuff (eg how many coin slots). I personally may have a different opinion on what is useful / useless to everyone else. eg if you've an arcade monitor it may be useful to filter out vector games.
Any input would be great. At the moment I just want to be able to sort by controller type, ready for when that damn gun arrives :)
PS Howard: I've added customisable font colors & types/size but there's never gonna be any skins :P ;D
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I myself parse everything exept the individual romnames... I think a rom manager is better suited to use that info... But all the other stuff why not it make the gamelist bigger yes but it will give you flexibility to use the other stuff...
I myself mostly use filters to sort by horitontal/vertical, vector/raster, category, year, manufacture and controltype...
Peter
Minwah1959:
I had those kinda things in mind.
I just can't help thinking the more info, the more memory 'wasted'. I guess it's not really a problem with the memory in PC's nowadays...
)p(:
--- Quote from: Minwah1959 on July 23, 2002, 09:35:59 am ---
I had those kinda things in mind.
I just can't help thinking the more info, the more memory 'wasted'. I guess it's not really a problem with the memory in PC's nowadays...
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Exactly! A complete mame gamelist with all stuff in it is around 800kb... A lot but then think about all the other stuff in your fe that gets cached...
Peter
Bill_S:
I'd like to be able to filter on categories like fighting games, etc.
Also, I'd really like MP3's playing while your screensaver is running.