Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: bsweet0us on March 26, 2006, 07:28:04 pm

Title: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: bsweet0us on March 26, 2006, 07:28:04 pm

Okay....did some searching (here and Google) to no avail, but I figure if anyone can do this, they hang out here.

I currently have MAMEwah launching from a shell as to avoid as much computer look as I can....even got it exiting to a desktop with the escape key.

I also have an intro movie in MAMEwah which I would like the ability to stop and enter directly into the MAMEwah interface with the press of a button (or a hotkey.)

I think this has to be done through the ctrlr file, but not really sure if there's a command to do that.  Any help would be greatly appreciated as this would pretty much finish off the software portion of my cab.

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: Minwah on March 27, 2006, 03:36:13 am

Sorry but there is currently no way to skip the movie.

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: Santoro on March 29, 2006, 04:32:17 pm

Minwah, not sure if you formally track feature requests or anything, but I'd like to second the request for a 'movie interupt function' as a future feature if you ever do a new release.  The movie is cool for most times when you have guests, but when you are booting up the Mamewah for the thirteenth time in a day it gets old.

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: Minwah on March 30, 2006, 10:37:52 am

I know when I added the intro movie feature I knew this 'skip' function would be handy.  However I also know that I didn't add it, basically as it was more tricky than it seems.

However I'll add it to my todo list...just note that for the moment I'm not really considering this a priority  :-\

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: jcrouse on March 30, 2006, 02:59:06 pm

Quote from: Minwah on March 30, 2006, 10:37:52 am

...just note that for the moment I'm not really considering this a priority  :-\

I have to ask, only because you mentioned it  :hissy:, what exactly are the priorities?

 :cheers:
John

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: cobey on April 01, 2006, 12:00:52 am

GIRLS, BOOZ, and STRIP ARCADE?

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: Howard_Casto on April 04, 2006, 03:15:16 pm

Better trust minwah on this one, it's much harder to do then you would think.  I had that option in dk early on and it turned out to be "breaking" a lot of other things, causing some systems to crash.  I ended up having to take out the option. 

The solution I found was to check to see if a key is pressed before running the movie routine.  So bascially you can't skip a movie once it's started, but if you are holding down a key during bootup it'll skip it. You might wanna try fixing it that way, saves a lot of headaches. 

Title: Re: Can I do this with MAMEwah?
Post by: Minwah on April 11, 2006, 06:04:02 am

Quote from: jcrouse on March 30, 2006, 02:59:06 pm

I have to ask, only because you mentioned it  :hissy:, what exactly are the priorities?

Basically fixing some bugs (I seem to have 8 or 9 atm) and adding one or two new features (you probably know which ones ;) )

However real life is taking most of my time at the mo and since my cab is not at my home motivation is dwindling a little bit.  Hopefully when summer arrives I'll take my cab apart and transport it to my new abode  8)