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Front End Support => Maximus Arcade => Topic started by: shinterface on August 29, 2015, 08:00:50 am

Title: Adding Sample Video to MA
Post by: shinterface on August 29, 2015, 08:00:50 am

Hello,
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to add a 10 seconds video in MA when you select a game?
Below is a video of what I'm taking about. Any how would be greatly appreciated.

https://youtu.be/9-xVc0U2LyY

Title: Re: Adding Sample Video to MA
Post by: rball5 on September 01, 2015, 10:41:13 am

Fairly easy to do:
1. Create a subfolder [videos] in your emulator's folder.    (D:\MAME\Videos)
2. Name the video exactly as the rom it applies to is named, but keep the movie's extension (D:\MAME\Videos\ddragon.avi)
3. Point Maximus Arcade to that folder in the preferences utility
    a. Open Preferences
    b. Go to the 'Configuration' tab
    c. Select your emulator under the 'Configuration for:' item
    d. Populate the 'Movie (optional):' field with the folder you created to store your videos.
    e. Close preferences
4. Open Maximus Arcade to make sure the video works

Note that movies must be:  MPG, AVE, WMV, FLV, or MNG format.  I bought a subscription to emumovies & used their downloader service to grab movies for all of my roms.  Their movies are supplied as MP4, but they also have an MP4 to AVI converter available that is easy to use.  (emumovies also supplies all of the other artwork you may want for your roms)

Title: Re: Adding Sample Video to MA
Post by: shinterface on September 06, 2015, 10:28:14 pm

Thanks rBall5. This was a great help.