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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: empardopo on March 03, 2015, 06:04:04 am

Title: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: empardopo on March 03, 2015, 06:04:04 am

Do you know the old HyperSplash in HyperSpin?

Now when you launch a game from MALA you will see the full screen snap before playing.
You can download splash from here (http://adf.ly/16KgMi).

The zip contains four files that you must put in your mame (emulator) dir. Those files are:
splash.exe
splash.png
splashOri.png
splash.ini

In MALA,
1.- You must put splash.exe like your exe emulator.
2.- Add to the end of the command line %rom%.png
For mame, the command line will be
%rom% %rom%.png

In splash.ini
[option]
Executable=mame.exe
PathSnap=C:\mame\snap\
SnapFullScreen=1

Executable is the name of your exe emulator. I've only tested it with mame but it must work fine with some emulator.
PathSnap is the path to your snaps ending with \
SnapFullScreen is equal to 1 to see the snap in fullscreen or 0 not.

Greetings.

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: arquillos on March 03, 2015, 09:34:29 am

Nice idea!
Thanks Empardopo!

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: BadMouth on March 03, 2015, 10:21:44 am

Nice.  I can think of some other uses for this like displaying game controls or flyers.

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: empardopo on March 04, 2015, 02:25:15 am

Quote from: BadMouth on March 03, 2015, 10:21:44 am

Nice.  I can think of some other uses for this like displaying game controls or flyers.

You can use the path you want. The png files must be named with the same name of the selected rom.
Theoretically, the program should work well for any emulator.

In the last version of my AllInOneFYC program (1.055b (http://adf.ly/135hYP)) you can see a screenshot pressing the button that you have defined.

Greetings.

Title: New version Splash v0.3b
Post by: empardopo on March 05, 2015, 04:27:57 am

New version here (http://adf.ly/17E8HU).

Now, the ini file is thus:

Quote

[option]
Executable=mame.exe
PathSnap=C:\mame\snap\
SnapFullScreen=1
Log=1

Log can only contain the values 0 or 1.

If Log=1 then Splash make a splash.log file with important information.

Thanks

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: empardopo on March 13, 2015, 02:57:24 am

Soon, Splash is going to have a new feature. You can add customized text to see it in your window when you launch a game from MALA.
Greetings.

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: empardopo on March 16, 2015, 02:12:57 pm

Splash para Mala (primera demo) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p6NaZCi_30#ws)

Title: Re: Splash in MALA (see the snap of the launched game)
Post by: empardopo on July 02, 2015, 11:16:38 am

Last version of Splash (http://adf.ly/1KA6PK).

If you want to see text over the snap, you'll have to write a text file with the same name of rom (eg outrun.txt) with the next format.

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[txt]
Title=A pasear a la rubia!!!
TitleX=260
TitleY=250
TitleW=590
TitleH=60
TitleFont=Tahoma
TitleFontSize=38
TitleFontColor=0xFF0000
TitleFontBold=bold
TitleTransparent=1