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Title: MAMEWAH question regarding screen saver feature
Post by: sofakng on January 10, 2005, 06:49:28 pm

Quick question about MAMEWAH and it's screen saver feature...

I've gotten it to work (using v1.6b4) so that MAMEWAH will launch a random game using the parameters (-ftr 3600, meaning MAME will only run the game for about 2 minutes before quitting).  However, when the random game exists, I'd like another random game to be immediately loaded (eg. have MAMEWAH keep cycling random games until I press a button).

Could this be done?  I've noticed there is an undocumented .ini command called "quit_delay" but I'm not sure what it does...

Title: Re: MAMEWAH question regarding screen saver feature
Post by: Minwah on January 10, 2005, 07:20:33 pm

Quote from: sofakng on January 10, 2005, 06:49:28 pm

Could this be done?

Title: Re: MAMEWAH question regarding screen saver feature
Post by: slamzeedoor on May 04, 2006, 08:22:54 pm

How can I get the screen shots used by the screen saver to fill the screen?  right now they just use the upper left corner of the screen.

Thanks!

Title: Re: MAMEWAH question regarding screen saver feature
Post by: mackem on May 06, 2006, 08:52:20 pm

Quote from: sofakng on January 10, 2005, 06:49:28 pm

when the random game exists, I'd like another random game to be immediately loaded

I've got a mame cab running Mamewah that runs a random game for 2 minutes (or whatever you want) then continues loading other random games.

I use the screensaver from www.xs4all.nl/~michieln/luciddreams

I highly recommend it. You can set it to load an image before it loads a game too. It will show a picture of, say a Flyer full screen, then load the game.

It skips the ok screens and even skips any bad roms so there is no freezing when it tries to load a duffer. You can filter games you want to load or don't want to load.

The only problem with it is that it doesn't support the latest version of mame with it's XML, only versions that used gamelist.txt.

This is easy to get around. I just made a new folder and stuck an old mame I had in there, version 84 I think, and told the screensaver to use that to run the games. Then simply tell Mamewah to use the screensaver in the ini file.

Now when I turn my cab on, after a few minutes with no-one touching it will load up random games every 2 minutes.

Title: Re: MAMEWAH question regarding screen saver feature
Post by: Minwah on May 08, 2006, 05:19:18 am

Quote from: slamzeedoor on May 04, 2006, 08:22:54 pm

How can I get the screen shots used by the screen saver to fill the screen?  right now they just use the upper left corner of the screen.

Edit the screensaver form of your layout using the Layout Designer.