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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Cananas on August 29, 2006, 02:37:01 pm
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Hello,
Actually, I miss a feature in MALA, MameWah or AtomicFE that Advancemenu (I think the only one) has it. Advancemenu can list only the parent games -OK, nothing new- but, if you want to see what clones this game has, you can press a key and it shows (in the same or another windows) all of the clones this game has (including the parent), and you can select one to play. I hope you undestand me what I want to tell you.
Could it be possible to implement this? Anyone interested?
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Well I can tell you why it isn't in there. It would require an on-the-fly filter and building of the list.
If you just want a listbox, with no artwork or anything I can tell you (and the other devs) how to do it though. You can call mame with the parent rom name followed by -lc That'll give you a list of all the games, with both the romname and game name.
I think the reason this was never added though is because this would only work with mame, and fe devs are getting away from mame-specific options. Depending upon how the backend is setup, doing it the old-fashioned way could take time. Also advancemenu isn't fully skinnable, and to make a pop-up list in a skinnable fe would complicate the skin layout.
It's a good idea though, I'll look into putting it into DK, just in a different way to avoid the issues I brought up.
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I think the reason this was never added though is because this would only work with mame, and fe devs are getting away from mame-specific options.
But it would be possible to do this clone/parent relationship with console games. Haze makes with his Genesis/Megadrive emulator.
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Not exactly. Haze's emulator does that because he is a mame dev and purposefully wrote it to mimic mame.
Technically speaking console games don't have a clone/parent relationship because they consist of a single rom, not multiple roms like mame games.
What I am trying to say is haze "faked it" for better organization. In reality you can't do that in any other emu.
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I understand what you say me. I want to say that I, you or someone could do a faked relation ships beetween, for instance, a US version a Japanese version and the European version of the same game, like HazeMD makes.
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Yes but are you going to release clrmamepro dats? Are they going to be updated as often as goodtools are?
Do you see my point yet?
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You might check out EmuLoader - it has a grouped mode view like what you are asking for, and Ciro is adding console support to it.
It's Windowsy, though . . .
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Yes but are you going to release clrmamepro dats? Are they going to be updated as often as goodtools are?
Do you see my point yet?
Yes I see your point, but if there is no possibility to do that in the front end, no one will make those clrmamepro dat.
This is my point. I think it wold be an interesting feature. Of course, optional.
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It's Windowsy, though . . .
Yep, this is the question. A no Windowsy front-end with this feature... i wish someday...
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Ciro is also working on building his own .ini - .dat files to support console emulators (based on Mess), if that helps any other FE devs.