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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: cpetzol2 on November 13, 2006, 03:31:56 pm
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Is there any way to multiple games into a playchoice 10 menu.
Right now, each game that is playchoice style is in a list by itself. Is there a way to combine them. Thanks
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I do nto know the answer to your question, but I believe the Play Choice games in Mame were specifically set up to only include one game at a time..... I would think combining multiple games into one Play Choice menu would not be straightforward.
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I don't believe there is a way, but it would be cool if you could.
Kind of like Neo Geo. Currently it's like there's a single slot based system, but if you could group multiple cartridges together, that'd be the bees knees.
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The reason you can't do it is two fold....
#1 There isn't any function to load multiple roms in mame. So while you could probably hack in support for all 10 slots, it'd require some sort of hackish hodge podge where 10 roms were combined into one.
#2 It would take a lot of memory. All the games would have to be loaded in memory, even when they aren't being played. Probably not a big deal for pc10 but it definately would be an issue for neogeo games.
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Those games aren't that large. Probably wouldn't be much of a memory hog.
I'm guessing Howards right though about forcing you to create a combinedrom with all of the roms combined. This would depend on how they handle loading the memory. It might be that it has access to each cart at one time and they each have a different base address.... or it could be that the system only has links to one of them at a time so you setup which cart your looking at and it switches so that the cart memory address is now pointing towards the right cart.
or possibly a combination of the two (since this would be needed for the frontend to work.
Basically, it would be very cool... but not all that useful for most people. So untile someone buys one of the mame devs a play10 cabinet and a machine to plop in there... so they want to have all the games accessable without someone elses frontend, I don't see it happening.