Clone "sub-menu" in game list

[dapsaille]

Hello,

 do you think that it can be possible to view a no-clone mame list in mala BUT when you press a configurable key the clone sub-menu of the selected main rom appear ?


 It would be really cool ..

 Bad idea or already submitted or not possible ?

 What do you think about this feature ?

 Regards

[loadman]

Not Easily.

You might just want to make two gamelists. One with clones and one without?

[dapsaille]

Already did it 

 I've just thinked that it could be a cool feature but i understand that it involve too many deep modifications for now 

[Cananas]

It would be fantastic if a submenu appears showing the clones been able to select one to plat it (like AtomicFe actually do).

Maybe it could be possible using another screen, similar to the history.dat, control.dat or  hitotext screen, showing the clones of that game that are in your list, been able to select one to play it.

It is also a feature included in the to-do list of hyperspin.

And of course it would be useful, not only for mame, also for console games. It would work with a clones.txt (for example) generated by mala. For console games, you could make one being the parent (the US version, for example) and the other one the clones or whatever you would want.

I think it would be very useful.

[loadman]

hmm I will think more about it.  

The problem is right now is if you refresh the list with MAsters only then the clones are not in the gamelist (hidden or otherwise) for mala to be displayed

[gazz292]

i'd find that feature very very helpfull too, atm i have one list with masters only, and another with masters and clones, but it would be very very handy to display just the masters, then reveal the clones of that master by pressing a button, it's just be so neat and clean looking, as some games have silly numbers of clones, and it clogs up the list when you have clones displayed with the masters i rekon.

[loadman]

..right.

I would have to change the way MaLa creates game lists which is a non trivial change.

[gazz292]

so you'll have it done by the end of the month then?? kewl 

Don't do owt drastic on the feedback of 2 people who think it would be a cool idea tho, most of us have no idea how hard it is to impliment all these features we come up with.

[loadman]

I will ponder