Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: AGGIEZ on September 29, 2004, 03:49:27 pm
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Check out what this guy used for his MAME frontend! Nice and clean, easy to make custom lists and sort by genre. What every frontend should have. Setup sounds a little painful, but the results are awesome!
http://www.pyronious.com/
under Arcade Emulation --> last page
(http://www.pyronious.com/images/emulation/neo_fe_2.jpg)
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I have looked into this. It was a royal pain in the butt. You had to have stuff mySql server running to database all your games and all sorts of stuff. It was just too much of a pain to setup. I approached this originally though, because I loved the idea of using a HTPC-type interface to browse through games. It is something that no Mame frontend has really done well yet. I hope someone goes that direction eventually.
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intresting.. my intent is to get my windows media center to show games...this would be a good place to look
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You can do genre sorting on most of the current frontends if you want to put some effort into it.
You just have to do it a different way.
With this method, you need to program a database, which needs to be running as mentioned above.
With the other frontends, you can custom build your genre settings by putting games in, or taking them out of a given list.
I have gamelists that sort by control type (shooting/driving/double stick/spinner/etc...), screen orientation, and monitor type (vector/raster)--which has always been good enough for me.
If I WANTED to put the effort into it, I could further divide the current lists into fighter/shooter/climber/maze/etc... but have never seen a need for this myself.
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I have gamelists that sort by control type (shooting/driving/double stick/spinner/etc...), screen orientation, and monitor type (vector/raster)--which has always been good enough for me.
If I WANTED to put the effort into it, I could further divide the current lists into fighter/shooter/climber/maze/etc... but have never seen a need for this myself.
I have two categories in Game Launcher: "favorites" (AKA "stuff I actually play") and "all". ;)
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I have two categories in Game Launcher: "favorites" (AKA "stuff I actually play") and "all".
Recognize that! I have the 5000 ROM "Main List" and then the 300 (or so) ROM "Dream Arcade." I just keep it in Dream Arcade unless I feel adventurous!
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I haven't tried this yet, but GameEx is supposed to take the headache out of using MAME in MyHTPC / Meedio.
Take a peek
GameEx (http://www.tomspeirs.com/GameEx/)
-Goz
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I've tried both. the myhtpc software is difficult to setup and takes a while to load.
GameEx is nice as it fits right into Medic Center without issue. Works well, although I was having sound issues that I don't think are directly related to the software.