Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: screaming on July 30, 2004, 10:32:24 am
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Minwah,
Here's my ultimate vision of my Ghost front end:
I would like to have my gamelists defined by the game category instead of by emulator (same ol' request that's been floating around for ages). But in addition, I would like the ability to select a game, and then have another menu that pops up and asks the user which platform they would like the game run on: Arcade (mame), NES, SNES, N64, etc.
I realize how much time I would have to invest (before you comment on that, Howard.. ;) ) in organizing my lists and matching the games up from the different platforms.. but once it's done it would be easy for other people to use it as well. Heck, maybe I can organize a group of people to help me out if other people like the idea...
As near as I can tell, the closest thing MAMEWAH has to something like this is the 'Start with extra options' feature. Soo... In the mean-time, how hard would it be to have an option that will, in addition to having different keys that start the emulator with the different options, have a menu that pops up and allows you to select which one you want? ...and then add a couple more ('start with extra options #3, #4, #5, etc) and then the ability to rename them to whatever you want in this extra menu ('Start with extra options #1' = 'Super Nintendo')?
The one problem I see with this setup would be that the extra menu would have to be somewhat dynamic. If there wasn't a Pac-Man for the SNES platform, then the Start with extra options #x options shouldn't show up.
If MAMEWAH could start with this, then I could work on a CLI or batch files to take care of the rest..
Comments?
-Steve
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Well your first problem would be generating the lists...how would you do that, as it would have to be 1 list per category with a combination of games from each emu...
To be totally honest with you atm I do not want to spend any time on this...sorry for sounding harsh but I have (not entirely intended) started re-writing the *whole* of MAMEWAH, piece by piece. The multiple-emulators-in-the-same-list idea is obviously a good idea which I want to implement, but I want to do it properly. Basically I need to add some fields to the internal database to hold the emulator name and such (plus some other stuff for other features). This is some pretty major coding, but something I am sure to do.
Bottom line is I just don't want to waste time bodging something in that kindof gets it working, only to have to remove it and do it properly later :-\