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| papaschtroumpf:
Awesome responses guys! Tiger-Heli's page is great too! Things changed so much since I last played with all this, way more options now, which is a good thing. By the way Buddabing, I think the abillity to grey out unused controls is great, I wish the other guys would make it an option too (hint hint) |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: papaschtroumpf on September 20, 2005, 11:28:49 am ---By the way Buddabing, I think the abillity to grey out unused controls is great, I wish the other guys would make it an option too (hint hint) --- End quote --- Can be done with Johnny5 - You just need an image (and .lof file) named 1button.jpg with all but the 1-button grayed out, 2button.jpg with all but two and then modify the loffilters.txt file to pick up on them (That's being covered on the next page I'm working on.). Good luck if you use different buttons for different one-button games, though. |
| papaschtroumpf:
Also, how do the viewers deal with reduced resolution: some MAME games run at very low resolution, so does the viewer change resolution to something larger, then returns back to MAME's resolution? I had BuddaMAME mostly working last time I played with this (method 4, showing the CP when MAME is paused combined with method 1, static images in the FE, is what I would like to use) but it required -artres 2 to alleviate the issue above and I had a number of games that didn't work (can't remember which ones atm, probably operator error). |
| Buddabing:
--- Quote from: mahuti on September 20, 2005, 10:55:41 am ---That's pretty informative. I've been toying with all of these for... a year or so??? Now that Johnny5 is a little further along, and I'm using XP for the cabinet, it is indeed the easiest to configure (IMHO). CPMAKER was pretty difficult to configure, and I just can't stand the squished image on the vertical games. I did get it to work on Win98, though... but it took some major effort. One thing that I still don't understand is mame CTRLR configuration. Is there a good and current tutorial on ctrlr files somewhere (and if so... please provide a link.) I'm not very dense, but I just haven't had any luck making them work. I basically have 1 configuration for 1 button games, 1 for 2 button games, etc, and additional panels. Seems every time I create a ctrlr file it either doesn't get used, or screws MAME up royally. Also, IIRC there have been a few changes to the format of the CTRLR files used in MAME in the last 6-8 months or so. If you are providing info about using the viewers --- End quote --- |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: papaschtroumpf on September 20, 2005, 11:35:43 am ---Also, how do the viewers deal with reduced resolution: some MAME games run at very low resolution, so does the viewer change resolution to something larger, then returns back to MAME's resolution? --- End quote --- Don't confuse the game's native resolution with MAME's displayed resolution. I can't speak for an arcade monitor, but . . . When I used BuddaMAME, I ran MAME at 800x600 on a PC monitor. PacMan natively runs at 224x288, but MAME will display it at 450x600 if using preserve aspect ratio and hws with 800x600 specified. BuddaMAME squishes my 1024x768 controls.png image to approximately 450x500 which is why artwork res 2 is required. The AHK script minimizes MAME and then launches Johnny at desktop resolution, so if your FE is running at 1024x768 or 1152x864, that's what Johnny runs at. Both Johnny and BuddaMAME do a good job of scaling images within their limitations. (The 450x500 image is tough to read, but not distorted.) --- Quote ---I had BuddaMAME mostly working last time I played with this (method 4, showing the CP when MAME is paused combined with method 1, static images in the FE, is what I would like to use) --- End quote --- Just to avoid confusion - Method 4 is using Johnny and the AHK script. What you had was the alternate method at the bottom of the page - Using BuddaMAME to display static images. --- Quote ---but it required -artres 2 to alleviate the issue above and I had a number of games that didn't work (can't remember which ones atm, probably operator error). --- End quote --- That probably wasn't the issue, but BuddaMAME does have some problems. 1944 does not stretch to full screen for me if I have a controls.png file (well actually some but not all controls.png files) in the main directory, regardless of the .ini file settings. . . There are probably other games with issues as well. |
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