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Title: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: M.A.M.E Power on March 04, 2005, 09:17:36 am

Hi I have been using Mamewah for a few weeks and have had no problems setting it up. However I was reding the forums when I came across someone who said you can also have the marquee for the game showing as well as the snap shot.

I am using a template from the screenshot archive site. I have set Mamewah up so it displays the snap shot but can not quite figure out how to display the marquee for each game as I scroll down the list?

Any help or suggestions would be welcome!

Thanks

Lea ???

Title: Re: HELP MAMEWAH ADDING MARQUEES?
Post by: SirPeale on March 04, 2005, 09:24:10 am

Hm...all caps shouting, and a wonderful yellow-text-on-blue-background as well.  Think you might be able to fix that, bud?

Title: Re: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: M.A.M.E Power on March 04, 2005, 09:28:57 am

All fixed now..sorry am new to the forum as you can see thanks for the tip though...

Title: Re: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: screaming on March 04, 2005, 10:19:13 am

Which layout from Screenshot Archive did you choose?

-Steve

Title: Re: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: M.A.M.E Power on March 04, 2005, 10:29:14 am

Hi Steve

Thanks for the reply the screen shot is this one:

http://sega-16-bit-specialist.co.uk/yellowborders%20800x600.jpg

Are you thinking that this layout does not support marquees?

Thanks

Lea

Title: Re: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: screaming on March 04, 2005, 10:46:44 am

Quote from: M.A.M.E Power on March 04, 2005, 10:29:14 am

Are you thinking that this layout does not support marquees?

  Right.  That YellowBorders layout does not show marquees in it, but that doesn't mean you can't add it.  If you open up MAMEWAH Layout Designer (distributed with MAMEWAH) and then open that layout, you can see that there isn't an "Artwork Image #2" object showingon the screen. You can verify that this is the case by going to Display Objects -> Main Form and seeing that Artwork Image #2 isn't checked.

  Now, since layouts are pretty customizable and not everybody's tastes are the same, you'll want to add the marquee any way you see fit.  If it were me, this is how I'd do it:

1) Go to Background -> Image and select the .JPG file that was distributed with this layout in the same folder as the .LAY file.
2) Go to Display Objects -> Main Form and uncheck Main Logo.
3) Go to Display Objects -> Main Form and check Artwork Image #2.
4) Position and resize the Artwork Image #2 object inside the yellow box where the Main Logo object was. It's hard to see the black lines that outline each object because of the black background, but they are there telling you the position ans size of the object. Use the white boxes as cues.
5) Go to File -> Save Layout.
6) Exit the Layout Designer, start up MAMEWAH and enjoy my marquees!

Peace and carrots.

-Steve

Title: Re: Need Help Adding Marquees To Mamewah!
Post by: M.A.M.E Power on March 05, 2005, 08:04:04 am

Hi Guys

Have managed to sort out the marquees now so thanks to you all for your help it is much appreciated.

Cheers

Lea