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pointdablame:
yeah, see... mame32 is a whole 'nother animal ;)

Mame32 is basically a front end when all else is said.  It's just a windows style GUI for mame.  You can't load marquee, cab, etc pictures into MAME.... mame just emulates the arcade game.  You CAN however load pictures in a frontend that supports it, such as Mame32, MameWah, and the countless others.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Ed ONeill on July 09, 2004, 01:30:41 pm ---BTW I just noticed I can't see any of the  cab pictures in mame32?

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Did you put them in a cabinets directory right under the mame directory? Aparently they have to be PNG. I tried JPG in mame32 and mame32plus, but unfortunately that doesn't work. That's weird because with JPG you could have much better pictures (larger) than with PNG in the same filesize. But then I have an "older version" (0.79).

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: patrickl on July 09, 2004, 11:29:47 am ---Another suggestion for a bitmap conversion program would be IrfanView. It's free and pretty good for converting stuff.

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Irfanview ROCKS!  For your personal use, you can do a batch conversion and it will take ALL your .jpg files and save them in a different directory with the same file name as .png files, with a single mouse click.

I think getting the pictures is a great idea.  To help the community, I would contact the maintainers and send the raw .jpg files to them so they can clean them up (remove backgrounds, etc.) or you can clean them up also (but save the originals).

I could help clean them also.

Here's the contact names:

Marquees - http://emam.mameworld.net/ E-mail Eldio from the www.mameworld.net contacts page.
Control Panels - http://www.mamehot.net/php/stuff.php?stuff=panel Contact Smitdogg on the mameworld forums (or mametesters), although I think someone else is maintaining them.
Cabinets - Someone really needs to create a high quality archive of these.  I did it for about 40 games.  JohnIV did some at http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/down.htm (downloads don't work for me, nice job except they're limited to about 350 pixels max) and there are some from arcadeunlimited at http://www.mamehot.net/php/stuff.php?stuff=cabinet
Ed ONeill:
Thanks Tiger Heli,

I'll start looking to see what pictures are missing?

Anything particular I should start with

Signed
Ed
RayB:
Don't forget that the pictures have to use the correct filename that MAME32 will look for for each game...
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