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kaptainsteve:
Why not have the "wheel" load the marquees from the mame folder as a default? Also, why not load the snaps as a default. This way one does not have to load all the extra artwork?
I admit, I tried to do this w/Hyperspin, but it is too confusing (for me, the average user/moron) to keep track what is supposed to go in "artwork 1" or "artwork 2" folders (I think that's their names).
Thanks.
Aabra:
Well, I'll say this much - the marquees aren't exactly the easiest thing to find. Besides the emumovies ftp and private torrent sites - where can you get them? The roms are much easier to find. Also, many marquees simply aren't fit for use with the wheel.
For example Androdun:
This is clearly way too big and would need to be modified. All of the normal ones too would need to be passed through Photoshop quickly (via batch process) to make them all the same size at the very least.
All that being said there's no reason at all why you can't use the snaps and marquees in a default Mame theme if you wanted to. Several people are working on a default mame theme in this thread:
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=813
It's a bit weird that we don't have an 'official' one yet. Anyways, maybe I could do up a mame wheel with the marquees really quickly to use with a default mame theme - it wouldn't take me long.
Still though... to use snaps instead of videos..... *ugh* Once you've used video previews.... you'll never want to go back. :D Even my Sega Master System set has video previews. :)
joebells:
--- Quote from: kaptainsteve on October 07, 2008, 06:02:40 am ---Why not have the "wheel" load the marquees from the mame folder as a default? Also, why not load the snaps as a default. This way one does not have to load all the extra artwork?
I admit, I tried to do this w/Hyperspin, but it is too confusing (for me, the average user/moron) to keep track what is supposed to go in "artwork 1" or "artwork 2" folders (I think that's their names).
Thanks.
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They are given generic names like that because you can use them for whatever you want they aren't static and box art has to always go in artwork 2 or anything like that.
There is HyperTheme to help out with themes and such, I don't believe it can import themes quite yet but it will be able to at some point, as of now I think it just helps create new ones. For now you can look at a theme's ini file to get an idea of what artwork is what.
Also BBB has taken the configuration program into his own hands after the previous writer disappeared(completely rewriting it from scratch since the original writer had the source). That alone should make alot of stuff much easier to setup when he finishes it, he just started it a short while ago and already has a bunch of it done.
Aabra:
Ya, after looking over the mame marquees I realized that there are a lot that would need to be edited. It's not just a select few. It wouldn't be hard to convert them all but it would be time consuming. I'm not all that motivated to do it since I don't plan on using a default mame theme. All my favorite games already have themes anyways so I don't really mind missing out on a few.
Here's another default theme which I've been working on for the Sega Master System. The theme itself isn't all that great... in fact it sucks and I'm going to re-do it but I just finished modifying and renaming all the movies and boxart images so that you guys don't have to. I want to emphasize that this is a work in progress and not what it will look like when done.
tk375:
BELIEVE THE HYPE!
I tried a few, Game Ex is good, Atomic Fe is not sexy, but Hyperspin still in its Beta version wins by K.O. :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: