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Title: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: JoyMonkey on May 20, 2005, 01:26:45 pm

I'm going to try setting up AdvMenu over the weekend (hopefully) and I'm wondering who else out there uses it?
AdvMenu seems to have a huge amount of options, but the screenshots on the official site are pretty ugly.

Can AdvMenu be skinned or dressed up a little? Does anyone have any examples of what their AdvMenu looks like?

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: Thenasty on May 20, 2005, 02:25:11 pm

you seen my Advmenu ? Clink my page.
Thats custom made, one by one.

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: Veinman on May 20, 2005, 02:32:34 pm

That must have taken forever! Although I can't wait to get to that point, since that would mean my cabinet was done. :D

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: JoyMonkey on May 20, 2005, 04:16:14 pm

Quote from: Thenasty on May 20, 2005, 02:25:11 pm

you seen my Advmenu ? Clink my page.
Thats custom made, one by one.

I've put together 50 'launch screens' like that for all the games in my cocktail machine, which is what I'm thinking of using AdvMenu for. Can you give AdvMame a common background image, then tell it where on the screen to display the snaps or game MNGs? Or can you have a different background image for each game?

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=33007.0;id=10332;image)

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: whammoed on May 20, 2005, 04:21:58 pm

I know you can set a background image and tell it what size borders to use around the screen.

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: Thenasty on May 20, 2005, 05:34:00 pm

you can't put a snap anywhere you want on the screen. YOu need to pick which one of the layouts you want. I choose the FULL SCREEN layout and made the snaps by hand. This way, then you can put an image anywhere. You can make different backgrounds if you want to also. Just think about it being just ONE SNAP but you modified the snap the way you want it to look.
To do this in the rc file

mode full
mode_skip list full_mixed list_mixed tile_small tile_normal tile_big tile_enormous tile_giant tile_icon

I skip everything except for the FULL SCREEN MODE.

At one point I made the GAME SNAP inside my CABINET snap moving pictures but it took a long time to do it. So when you look at the FULL SNAP, the snap within the cabinet is an actual play. i ditch that cause it would take alot of time but it was a GREAT idea. Now I just have to button to switch between the FULL SCREEN MNG and the Menu SNAP.

Title: Re: Who's using AdvMenu?
Post by: JoyMonkey on May 23, 2005, 11:06:13 am

I tried setting up AdvMenu over the weekend and ran into trouble. I'm trying to use it with AdvMame 0.82, everything looks fine, but when I select a game in AdvMenu (by pressing return) it appears to freeze. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del will bring me back to the DOS prompt.

Any ideas? I'm going to try using an older version of AdvMenu to see if it's just 2.4.9 that's the problem.