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So what would you guys like to see?
Howard_Casto:
Well now that Lazarus is out and the bulk of the code is finished I actually have some time to breathe. Thanks to a lot of help from users I've almost got 2.0 finished and it will remove a lot of bugs and make some improvments in the skins and add more filter options.
After this release the project is pretty much self-maintaining. With the new wrapper system there's not really much I need to do when a new emu is released.
With that being said, I was wondering if anyone had anything they would like to see added to Lazarus. I've literally ran out of ideas. For the record I can't add screen rotation before anyone asks. :(
So if you have any ideas please post them here.... I don't care how crazy, I'll at least listen.
Carsten Carlos:
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:( Guess then I don't need to test your frontend anymore (already downloaded it)
What a pity, I really liked the gothic-style default skin. Well, as I'm going with a rotable monitor I'll have to keep it with gamelauncher.
But very good design as I saw on the screenshots at your page, Howard! :D
Lilwolf:
Porn skins!
Working with Virtual Girl!
And more porn!
Howard_Casto:
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Porn skins!
Working with Virtual Girl!
And more porn!
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Hey you bring the porn, I'll supply the skinner.
;)
SirPoonga:
Well, Just suggestions.
I'm still comparing what yapfe can do that lazarus can't right now. I'm not saying YapFE is better than Lazarus. Each FE is the "perfect" FE to it's creator. As I like your filtering lists. I've contemplating on how to do a filter
First, can you use just a mouse for lazarus. Not like it appears that if you move up the list moves. No, I mean point and click. Just thinking it would be cool to use the act labs gun to select games:) You will see in yapfe screenshots up and down arrows, other clues that everything in yapfe (being flash) is a button. The act labs gun should work with my FE.
Recently played games. That would be a cool option. Yapfe keeps track of the last 20 games played. If a game is selected and it already is in the recent list it moves to the top. So the most recently played is at the top of the list.
Search. I know you said you'd be looking into it, but when you have a full set, search is invaluable. Like you said, three letter search like a high scores, very much how I do it in yapfe. That's be great and the single most important suggestion I have.
Favorite list. Yeah, yoiu have that list helper, but AHHHHH, not user friendly:) Again, comparison to my FE. I can create a list on the fly.
I'll explain how I do it just as a reference.
Yapfe right now works like this. There is the pacman icon in the upper left, that's the central point. Then to the right is 4 "buttons" displays categories and user lists.
When pacman is highlighted if you push select and the next 4 categories show in the buttons. Once you get to the end of the categories then you start displaying any user created lists. To change and existin list you highlight it and push up, that puts yapfe into "edit" mode in which when you go through roms list if you push select you add or subract it from the list. Doing it this way you can only add or subtract roms to a user list from the last category shown. we haven;t figured out a good way to change categories with the navigation concept behind yapfe. Anyway, that isn;t a big deal, usually what will happen is I or a friend will see a game and want to add it to a list. Doing the above methos keeps that game on the screen. To get out of edit mode you just go back up to the name of the list and push up again. To start a new list there will always be a blank button available. Goto it and push up to enter edit mode. Being a new list you will be force to give it a name (limited by 10 characters, same method as the search for entering letters/numbers).
As you can see yapfe is geared for parties. I just wanted it so when someone comes over they can start and manage their own list from within the FE. And instruction card with the basic steps will be on my cabinet, giving my cabinet a more authenic feel:) If we release the FE to the public (like I said before, unsupported, like partyon) I would probably have the IC available too.