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Title: Sound cues in MAME menus?  arcadeos, advancemame
Post by: jammadave on March 28, 2002, 08:04:21 am

hey guys - if i'm gonna use a DOS based frontend, which i am, can I load sounds for its menu to play?  here's the goal:

-background music, something subtle and ambient, i'll probably write/record something for it.
-on menu load: "welcome...select a game"  as recorded from one of my female friends =0)
-on selection change, some kind of 'bing' or other such sound
-on game enter, a nifty 'boom'

=0)

come on, i know you people are geniuses.

thx in advance
dave

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?  arcadeos, advancema
Post by: JustMichael on March 28, 2002, 08:11:46 am

I would suggest no bing on selection change.  Can you imagine scrolling through 3000 roms and hearing 3000 bings?

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?
Post by: WiZeR on March 28, 2002, 08:24:47 am

this is a great idea

I think its something for the dev team of ArcadeOS to think about.  :D

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?
Post by: jammadave on March 28, 2002, 08:40:53 am

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I would suggest no bing on selection change.

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 28, 2002, 12:37:09 pm

None of the dos front-ends support this yet... almost all of the windows one's do. :)  Why?  Because sounds are so much easier to deal with outside of dos. Yet another reason to switch to windows.

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?
Post by: ErikRuud on March 28, 2002, 01:11:29 pm

GameLauncher is a DOS frontend, and it does have a nifty 'boom' on game selection, and it does have a 'bing' on selection change, and sort of a  'bwinnng' on emulator change. You can't change sounds though. It will also play a CD or list of MP3's as background music.

Title: Re: Sound cues in MAME menus?
Post by: Howard_Casto on March 28, 2002, 01:18:32 pm

Oh yeah, my bad... it's been a while....
you should really make the files external upon the next release so users can change them.