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I have a brilliant idea.... too bad i'm too dumb to pull it off.
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Howard,
Somewhat related. What's your opinion of the command.dat project? You could display the controls like that. For me it's one key to display it just the way you mentioned it.
Personally, I'd like to see the projects combine with the controls.dat as goal one, and the command.dat as goal two.
Anyways, just wanted to see your opinion.
GadgetGeek:
Let me see if I understand you're idea correctly.
Right now if I hit tab, mame brings up a menu overlay.
Under your proposal, if I hit {some key}, mame will bring up a control panel summary overlay for that game.
Brilliant idea. Hopefully someone here has the skills and time to implement this.
Tiger-Heli:
Another problem is the artwork is not a standard size currently, and mame uses the gamename.art files to re-size it.
I like the concept, but if you can't figure it out, I'm lost :'(
SirPoonga:
HC, I've been thinking about this, ever since the start of controls.dat. Remember the huge discussion on wheither or not it should be in mame with the mame devs.
I think the best thing to do is to do like the history.dat, have it show up in the menu. That is super easy to do. I would like it to be like the history.day, where you just drop the controls.dat file into the mame folder and it's there. It doesn't appear that hard to do. The only issues would be do we use the ini or xml version? if xml what parser to use? if ini how do we parse it? Frankly, I don't think you will want the xml version, as some of the dat files are in ini format so the code to parse ini is already in mame.
It might be possible, like command.dat, to have low resolution icons too. I bet you whoever does command.dat could write something up quickly.
Lilwolf:
I would also like to see someone write something that would combine .dat files..
think how cool it would be if the controls.dat combined with commands.dat and history.dat into one.. super dat file
I would also like to see someone create a program to combine catver.ini files. Why? I would like to add some custom ones that can be used in any frontend (like system (stv) and maybe 'classic' tags for myself). Seemed like someone would find a good use for it.