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Valence:
These have been asked for in other threads but I wanted to make sure they were included.
Different background images based off of game launched on the msg screen.
Selected game broadcasted to main window ( Mamewah window title - something like 'mamewah - pacman' , 'mamewah - metal slug 2')
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Valence on May 21, 2004, 01:11:48 pm ---These have been asked for in other threads but I wanted to make sure they were included.
Different background images based off of game launched on the msg screen.
Selected game broadcasted to main window ( Mamewah window title - something like 'mamewah - pacman' , 'mamewah - metal slug 2')
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The background image thing won't happen until the layout format next changes (I don't really plan to do this unless something really killer comes along).
The broadcast thing doesn't sound too difficult, but remind me why? Could you not read the debug.log file to do what you want?
Valence:
Doesn't the debug.log contain the game launched and not the one that is currently selected?
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Aceldamor:
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--- Quote from: Aceldamor on May 20, 2004, 02:54:35 pm ---Heh..I don't mean a button for every emulator, I mean being able to assign a hotkey to launch a gamelist for an emulator....
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Sorry I don't know what you mean? Isn't that the same thing?
--- Quote ---I personally don't use 50 emulators....good god that is too many. I only use about 10ish..(which is still horrible) ;D
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I agree (I use 3 atm), but I'd still have to make whatever functionality available for all 50 possible emulators...
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You don't have to accomadate all 50 emulators...mamewah could only accomodate 26 emulators anyway couldn't it? Can you set a limit on the number of hotkeys for gamelists you can have?
for example: Say I have a series of buttons on my cp (or bottom of monitor bezel) set for each emulator I use. I would like the ability to hit the button and load that gamelist for that emulator. Granted, you couldn't accomodate those users with 50 emulators, but mamewah can't support more than 26 gamelists anyway can't it? Mabye the ability to "quicklaunch" 10 gamelists or so...Does that make much better sense? Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining things. :P
I don't know...mabye my idea is too far fetched...I'm just trying to set up my arcade so anybody can walk up to and use it... If it's unrealistic or not very easy..i'll search for an alternative...(though I do love mamewah, great fe ;D)
Silver:
Hey I posted this in the "serial LCD project" thread but realised that you may not be reading it - excuse me for copy/pasting the comments over as I had not seen this thread before....
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Also Minwah - if you read this - I am keen to implement this feature in my setup, ideally without making up millions of batch files for each game/emu. I was thinking of writing an app in VB to run in the background and catch commands to load romd and then kick out the right file to the LCD, but realise that its far from ideal. Is MAmewah written in VB? Would you be interested in sticking an option in to allow sending a txt file to the com port on loading a game? (extremely easy if you're using mscomm.ocx in VB). Then anyone with an LCd can work out what control characters their LCD requires and stick it their txt files.
Oh - and I'm only picking on you as I love Mamewah so much! ;-)
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Doh! Sorry now read thread and I see MAmewah is in VB. Good news (I hope). Would this option be considered a big update/interesting/possible/pure hassle to you?