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Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« on: June 29, 2009, 12:33:33 am »
What happens when you mix boredom,  a digital camera that does video,  and a bit of free time?   Cheezy videos like this one.  Basicall this is a 4 minute "demo" of my MAMEWAH front end... only watch if you're that bored...  ;D

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 03:15:02 am »
I love the intro.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 10:42:47 pm »
That's pretty nifty. Looks like it was a lot of work. Obviously a curved tube, but what monitor was that?  And I didn't see evidence of any vertical games.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 10:33:28 am »
That's pretty nifty. Looks like it was a lot of work. Obviously a curved tube, but what monitor was that?  And I didn't see evidence of any vertical games.

The monitor is a Wells-Gardner K7000 25"... and this video was shot on my horizontal MAME cabinet.   While I do have vertical games in my master ROMS list,  all my custom lists don't include vertical games as I have a vertical MAME cabinet to run those games properly on.

Yea...it was a bit of work,  but it's a labor of love.  It's never finished either.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 12:10:26 pm »
Looks really nice - I love the intro.

How did you remove the cursor and the windows XP taskbar?  I have my cab set to boot straight to MaLa and I removed the splash screen and some other stuff but when I turn it on the taskbar pops up for a second and then hides itself and you can see the mouse pointer.  I'd like to get rid of that if possible...

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2009, 01:13:50 pm »
Looks really nice - I love the intro.

How did you remove the cursor and the windows XP taskbar?  I have my cab set to boot straight to MaLa and I removed the splash screen and some other stuff but when I turn it on the taskbar pops up for a second and then hides itself and you can see the mouse pointer.  I'd like to get rid of that if possible...

What I did was I put the taskbar on Auto-Hide and changed the cursor to a single pixel.
You could also try getting Windows to not load the Explorer shell and just load MaLa.

On Topic: FrizzleFried, I love the intro movie. It's really well animated. I think, personally, the voices could get old, but they are interesting.
Did you use your own voice (tweaked?) for those sounds?
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2009, 01:25:25 pm »
Looks really nice - I love the intro.

How did you remove the cursor and the windows XP taskbar?  I have my cab set to boot straight to MaLa and I removed the splash screen and some other stuff but when I turn it on the taskbar pops up for a second and then hides itself and you can see the mouse pointer.  I'd like to get rid of that if possible...

Unfortunately the task bar DOES pop up...but I have it colored black ...but thers is a white line visible.  The pointer pops up to,  but I've changed it to a single pixel so it's very very well hidden.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2009, 01:26:24 pm »
Looks really nice - I love the intro.

How did you remove the cursor and the windows XP taskbar?  I have my cab set to boot straight to MaLa and I removed the splash screen and some other stuff but when I turn it on the taskbar pops up for a second and then hides itself and you can see the mouse pointer.  I'd like to get rid of that if possible...

What I did was I put the taskbar on Auto-Hide and changed the cursor to a single pixel.
You could also try getting Windows to not load the Explorer shell and just load MaLa.

On Topic: FrizzleFried, I love the intro movie. It's really well animated. I think, personally, the voices could get old, but they are interesting.
Did you use your own voice (tweaked?) for those sounds?

The voice is from an AT&T voicemail system... Voice name is Rich...

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BTW - The intro was done by our very own BILLPA!  Thanks Bill!
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2009, 01:37:33 pm »
I'm jealous, its pretty much perfect. I have the hard/fun task of going through and making some playlists over the weekend (tweakend? /pun) its time to start hiding the OS. MAMEWAH support multiple emus? I was gonna add SNES and Genesis too
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2009, 02:27:37 pm »
nice Intro

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2009, 02:58:37 pm »
MAMEWAH support multiple emus?

Yup.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2009, 03:22:49 pm »
I'm jealous, its pretty much perfect. I have the hard/fun task of going through and making some playlists over the weekend (tweakend? /pun) its time to start hiding the OS. MAMEWAH support multiple emus? I was gonna add SNES and Genesis too

About 1/2 way through I jump in to Daphne and then back to MAME... I don't bother with console emulation...if I wanted to play a console,  I'd do it on a TV with the consoles actual controllers.  I may start putting PC games in the cab though soon.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2009, 04:50:44 pm »
lol....good work with the AT&T voice text-to-speech. It was the only thing I could find to use for your intro but it works pretty good! I like the additional voice segments. What is that feature called in MameWah?

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2009, 04:56:49 pm »
lol....good work with the AT&T voice text-to-speech. It was the only thing I could find to use for your intro but it works pretty good! I like the additional voice segments. What is that feature called in MameWah?

Mamewah has the ability to play sound files for certain things... up/down movement,  intro,  exit,  game start,  game quit,  etc.  I simply made voice files for each one...

Intro says "Select a game"...

Gamestart says "Game loading"...

Gamequit says "Select another game"...

Exit says "Goodbye".

Then there is a sound for each emulator...I just added "Daphne" for Daphne and "mame" for MAME.

I am trying to do the same with MALA,  but I also need to figure out a way to add a sound for exiting to an external application... so when I click to go to DWJUKEBOX it says "Jukebox loading"...

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2009, 05:38:02 pm »
any chance you'd share those sound files?

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2009, 06:40:30 pm »
any chance you'd share those sound files?

I'd be happy to...but all you have to do to make your own is visit the linked site above (AT&T) and choose the voice "RICH" and type what you want to say.  It will generate a WAV file for you to download.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2009, 07:20:03 pm »
Oh, I must've missed that. Thanks.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2009, 07:25:38 pm »
There are a bunch of voice options too. They sound a bit cheesy but it's free. Plus you can save to a WAV file.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2009, 07:59:33 pm »
I tried the different voices and Rich seems to be most natural sounding on most words. Like all programs of this nature, you have to misspell some words to get them pronounced correctly.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #19 on: July 01, 2009, 08:39:40 pm »
If only they had the announcer from Street Fighter Alpha 3. His voice would be great for this.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #20 on: July 01, 2009, 09:53:12 pm »
I know. Every time I typed something, I was hoping for that voice. I knew better, but it would be awesome.

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2009, 04:40:16 pm »
I tried the different voices and Rich seems to be most natural sounding on most words. Like all programs of this nature, you have to misspell some words to get them pronounced correctly.

I also noticed that the sound is sometimes different it you use CAPS.... and punctuation.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2009, 04:43:00 pm »
Yeah, commas didn't seem to matter, but periods worked well in their place. Exclamation points did nothing, and I didn't try question marks.

I'll have to try CAPS....

Also, when I wrote "arcade" it didn't sound as good to me as "r-cade"

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2009, 04:48:52 pm »
Strangely enough each word sounds different depending on what's next to it as well.

Example:  "loading" sounds different if you put "game loading" versus "loading selected game".

EDIT: BTW - Is it just me,  or does some of what "Rich" says sound very Obamaesque?


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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2009, 05:51:26 pm »
Strangely enough each word sounds different depending on what's next to it as well.

Example:  "loading" sounds different if you put "game loading" versus "loading selected game".

Yeah, I noticed this as well. Changing a few words seemed to help, but changing the spelling almost never did.

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EDIT: BTW - Is it just me,  or does some of what "Rich" says sound very Obamaesque?


I was thinking of changing my MAME cab to "The ObamaCade"... ;)

Now I have to change the voice. Dangit.

At times, it kinda does sound like that --cream-filled twinkie--. Other times, it sounds like the Hulu voiceover. Last night, I wrote something and it sounded REALLY DEEP. Like the Killer Instinct voice-over deep.
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2009, 10:39:15 pm »
lol....good work with the AT&T voice text-to-speech. It was the only thing I could find to use for your intro but it works pretty good! I like the additional voice segments. What is that feature called in MameWah?

Mamewah has the ability to play sound files for certain things... up/down movement,  intro,  exit,  game start,  game quit,  etc.  I simply made voice files for each one...

Intro says "Select a game"...

Gamestart says "Game loading"...

Gamequit says "Select another game"...

Exit says "Goodbye".

Then there is a sound for each emulator...I just added "Daphne" for Daphne and "mame" for MAME.

I am trying to do the same with MALA,  but I also need to figure out a way to add a sound for exiting to an external application... so when I click to go to DWJUKEBOX it says "Jukebox loading"...



Advancemame does, too - you just type the directory address of the file in the appropriate place in the rc file. I get rid of all these, though. I don't like 'em.

Frizz, from the games you showed, it looked like the 'reference mode' you're using is 224 lines, yes? If so, don't you get overscan on 240 line modes? And what are you running Daphne at?
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2009, 09:51:56 am »
Welp,  here is a quicky video of my vertical MAME front end.  I managed to cut off about 1/2 inch of the top though.   I run the vertical FE at low res (320x240 I do believe it is)...

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2009, 12:27:51 pm »
Awesome.

Thanks for sharing and pushing me to get ---my bottom----hat moving on my project-s

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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2009, 01:41:11 am »
re-posting:


Frizz, from the games you showed, it looked like the 'reference mode' you're using is 224 lines, yes? If so, don't you get overscan on 240 line modes? And what are you running Daphne at?


What resolution are you running Satan's Hollow at?

How do 224x288 games fit on the screen?
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2009, 09:46:40 am »
Ummon,  I'll have to take a gander to see what resolutions I am running at...it's been a while.

...but I can tell you I am forced to run Satans Hollow at an interlaced resolution for some reason...same with kick and Tron,  for example.  Thankfully most of the games do run in non-interlaced resolutions though...
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Re: Horizontal MAME Front-End Video
« Reply #30 on: August 13, 2009, 10:07:38 pm »
I must be missing something. Isn't emuchange supposed to play emuchange.wav for the emulator I am changing to, not the emulator I am changing from? For example I have a wave file inside the mame folder and inside pc games folder. When I am changing emulator from mame to pc games it plays emuchange.wav located in the mame directory which does not make any sence to me since it is supposed to say the name of the emulator I am changing to???