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Silver:

--- Quote from: mccoy178 on August 23, 2005, 11:24:26 pm ---The program worked for everything.  Genesis, NES, SNintendo, N64, VPinball, Daphne, MAME, and Gameboy Advance.  That is the great news.

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Excellent! Luckily I think most of these roms are named by there full names...


--- Quote ---1.  The zinc list did not display the nice game names, just the abbreviated ones.  I guess I need to know if I need an xml for those or what.

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Hmm yes zinc uses the mame roms naming convention. On the plus side, this means you could just go to the mame lcd folder, select all the games in zinc (lukily not loads if I recall?) and copy those files straight into your zinc lcd..folder....

...ooh wait(!) - I think all the games in zinc are in mame, and named the same, SOOO in theory all you need to do is use the mame listinfo/controlsDAT (probably just listinfo thinking about it), point the roms dir to your ZINC roms dir - leave the 'Non-Mame' checkbox UNCHECKED (ie pretend its mame) and it should create the correct names based on the mame info. (This only works for zinc beacause I believe they have 100% copied the mame naming). Give it a shot..


Glad your weird problem got solved. And glad the workaround '[$' stuff works.
Silver:

--- Quote from: Chazz on August 24, 2005, 08:05:35 am ---I have a Alpha 4120C sign...   is there anything I can do with this?  Anything I can do with both lines?  Maybe the name of the game on the first line, and other info on the second?

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Hi, I believe you are in luck - the betabrites are actually based on the Alpha protocol language and I can see a 4120 as being listed in the protocol documents.

Give it a try - I think you will find it will work straight off.

regarding the 2 lines - yes. There are options I think to let info be displayed. I think I've left it at default in the current command codes - so you may find info gets spread automatically.

As I can't test any of this (I don't have a sign) you'll have to give it a shot and feedback the problems (likely!) and I'll have a stab at getting it sorted...
Silver:
Ok Quick one: New Release, 0.98.2.

http://www.silverfoxy.plus.com/LCDGen.html

This adds a "Fill lines" command to all the BetaBrite ouput so that if you have more than 1 line, all available lines should be used to display. This should not effect 1-line signs at all.

@Chazz

This may not be quite what you are after, as I suspect it will cycle through all the info using your 2 lines. I presume from what you said you wanted the game name on the top line to stay there and the other info cycle on the bottom line?
Chazz:

--- Quote from: Silver on August 24, 2005, 09:33:10 am ---
@Chazz

This may not be quite what you are after, as I suspect it will cycle through all the info using your 2 lines. I presume from what you said you wanted the game name on the top line to stay there and the other info cycle on the bottom line?

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Hiya Silver,
That's pretty much what I was looking into, having the title of the game only on the top line while all the other info is scrolled on the second line.

Thanks for all the great work!
mccoy178:
Silver, what do you think about this issue:


--- Quote ---Can I get the betabrite to change with each emulator?  As it is now, I have to select a game first in the next emulator to get the switch.
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When I launch mamewah, the emulator running has its message sent, but not when I switch emulators. 
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