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GaryMcT:
Got MaLa set up tonight.  Pretty darn nice!  The thing that stopped me with it the first time was not being able to import a text rom list for a favorites list.  Fortunately I found a thread on here with a workaround for importing mameui favorites files.  The Zebra theme is a really nice starting point.  I like having the marquee, cabinet, control panel, video all onscreen.

The only stuff I miss from GameEx so far is:

1) I like how you can use the stick in GameEx to navigate, and then hold down a "shift" button of sorts to navigate by page or by letter.  I'm not sure how to do that in GamEx with a gamepad input (U360).

Umm, well, that's a long list! :)

In the "I want features!" department, would be cool if the gamelists were stored in text files.  I end up writing lots of scripts to deal with stuff like that. . is really inconvenient for them to be in binary files.  Also would be really awesome if there were support for connecting directly to the emumovies ftp server (if you have an account) and getting all the relevant art fo the games that you have in your game lists.

I suppose I should post this over in the MaLa part of the forum.  I'll do that once I use it a bit more and see what else comes up.

So far I'm really happy with the level of configurability for the menus.  That seemed a bit painful in GameEx.

Also, can't wait for the magnet to show up for my second U360!  Andy says it'll be in the mail soon. :) :)

Still haven't wired up admin buttons. . been having too much fun playing when not screwing with frontend stuff.
GaryMcT:
Back to GameEx. . MaLa was was too sluggish on input.  Going to use the QT framework (I think) to write my own frontend.  Not really planning on making it configurable enough for anyone else to use, but I can put the code out nonetheless.

Did a bit of work on making sense of the mame input system tonight. . pretty neat stuff!  Hopefully I'll figure out how to implement shift keys this weekend.

Was looking at my Defender control panel tonight.  I could almost play Defender on my two-player panel as it is if I were to mod the U360 base and make room for a reverse button in the same spot as it is on the Defender panel (relative to the left stick).  The thumb button on bottom-left two buttons on player two are pretty good for thurst, fire, and smart bomb.  Hyperspace and Inviso could be anywhere on the right side I suppose.  Whadya think?  I may be more likely to play Defender and Stargate (which I love to play) if I don't have to swap in another control panel to do it.  The extra button won't get in the way of my left hand I don't think.  Nutty?
Bender:
That's the beauty of building your own
You make it exactly how YOU want it
it would be pretty east to mod the JLW(U360)base to fit that button in
Let me know if you need some help
bkenobi:
If you are still using GameEx, you can set up a custom input to map your buttons how you want them.  That way you can have whatever button you want for the Alpha/Paging button.  I personally still use XPadder to remap my GP-Wiz to keyboard inputs, but you don't have to.
GaryMcT:

--- Quote from: bkenobi on August 15, 2009, 12:33:19 pm ---If you are still using GameEx, you can set up a custom input to map your buttons how you want them.  That way you can have whatever button you want for the Alpha/Paging button.  I personally still use XPadder to remap my GP-Wiz to keyboard inputs, but you don't have to.

--- End quote ---

I think I'm using the default setup in GameEx for navigating the menus and I really like it. The mainproblem that I'm having with GameEx is that I don't lie havingto navigate to mame-only favorites every time I start it up. That's the menu I want most of the time. Any way you know of to fix that?

Also, I had a friend over navigating the GameEx menus and he got lost far too often and started a game instead of exiting a menu way too much. 
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