Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: NiN^_^NiN on May 13, 2005, 10:11:51 am
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Hey
I've got my carpc setup and am using mame and zsnes and a few other frontends in the car.
i've made it so when i touch my touch screen for 5 seconds it sends the esc key to get back out of the game.
Now i've got a problem
I've got a nice carpc frontend which embeds external apps nicely and im using a usb joypad to play the games.
But what i need is a sample of a list of games from a xml or text file whatever it might be and it lets you scroll down the page and show a ingame image of what it looks like.
Only reason i need this is i need to be able to have a frontend that runs in a window and uses the mouse click to select the game (hopefully doubble click)
I know it's a bit of a ask but i wanna have this so it's all intergrated into the frontend so i have mp3 divx/dvd image viewing gps tv and games all at the touch of the screen without it looking like windows.
Any help is welcomed :) if there is a frontend that can run in a window on xp and lets u select a game by hitting the left button click 2 times then it be perfect.
It's on a 600mhz mini itx so nothing to cpu hungry if possible.
Again i know it's a big ask so thankyou :)
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It sounds like MAME32 is what you're looking for. Have you tried it?
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Could you use your pad to select the game and run it by pushing a fire button?
If yes, i think you can find lot of frontend to use. Mine (AtomicFe) could work too.
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Mame32 is useless because it doesn't show other game systems
I wanna be able to use snes mame sms nes atari 2600 in the one frontend.
The problem is i need a frontend that can be shown in a window and not full screen.
I'll try your atomic FE but if it doesn't have the option to loadup in a window then it will be useless.
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Oh
Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
is a little misleading.
-sab
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I'll try your atomic FE but if it doesn't have the option to loadup in a window then it will be useless.
It is an Hidden option.
Open the config file with the notepad (by default Atomic.cfg) and look for the line :
WINDOWSMODE=NO
and change it to :
WINDOWSMODE=YES
But in order to make it works with all layout you have to set up windows in a 16bits/pixel video resolution mode. not 24 or 32.
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Well thats no use then i need the higher up colours :(
Thanks for your help tho
screaming: Id be happy to build my own which i would rather do but if there is a frontend out there that i can use then id be happy to.
if i had some source for a launcher then i could adapt it to other emulators.
I can make a launcher myself but i have no idea how i can get the games list to show up with games that are only on the pc.
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Well thats no use then i need the higher up colours
It works in other mode, but there is a little graphical bug when a layout uses alphablending. If you use a layout which doesn't use it , there is no problem.