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Re: MultiMAME released!
« Reply #40 on: October 19, 2011, 06:20:35 pm »
why would you wanna use this? when most front ends can use multiple versions of mame this day....

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Re: MultiMAME released!
« Reply #41 on: October 19, 2011, 06:42:25 pm »
is there a front-end that will let you mix multiple non-mame emulators in the same list?
I'd love to have a 'unified' favorites list in Hyperspin with games from all different systems.

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Re: MultiMAME released!
« Reply #42 on: October 19, 2011, 07:07:48 pm »
is there a front-end that will let you mix multiple non-mame emulators in the same list?
I'd love to have a 'unified' favorites list in Hyperspin with games from all different systems.

Mala does, but it takes a bit of a workaround.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68419.0

Seems like a major PITA at first, but once you get the hang of how it works, it's actually pretty simple.
For emulators that I don't plan to use for a lot of games, I just make an autohotkey script to launch each game, make a shortcut to that, & throw it in with the pc games.

MAME, Model2, Demul, Makaron, & Taito Type X games all show up in my main list.

I haven't used any other FE's.  I'd assumed they all did this (and more easily).
Seems like a no brainer to me.  All arcade games go under ARCADE GAMES regardless of emulator.

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Re: MultiMAME released!
« Reply #43 on: October 19, 2011, 09:43:03 pm »
Seems like a no brainer to me.  All arcade games go under ARCADE GAMES regardless of emulator.

No. FEs were created with MAME first in mind, and with the idea that you're either using the current version, or some version you favor. Plus, the handling of XML is some seriously determining factor. (And apparently other emus don't have as definitive a database.)

I remember Youki saying AtomicFE allowed each game entry to have it's own emu path - but I couldn't figure it out. Haven't seen Youki in an age, either.

If I were doing it, I would have it set up simply:

- each emu would have a main list; you can select games - individually or by highlight+shift like in computer OS - and right-click>game list (with the option to create the list at that time, similar to how browser favorites work).

- each game entry in a 'user' game list would have 'underneath' it the path, etc data.
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Re: MultiMAME released!
« Reply #44 on: October 22, 2011, 12:35:41 pm »
btw, I don't use it anymore.  But its like 3 years old now.  At the time, I wanted to have different mame configurations for different games *(like all vertical games use one cfg file, and horizontals using another... or dual 8way games with 6 buttons use one cfg (with buttons 1-3 on top, and 4-6 on bottom, but all other games swapped).

But I started adding additional games because I was swapping between a frontends because I wasn't happy with any... and once you had the setup, all frontends were basically a few seconds to setup. 

But now I've been happy with Hyperspin for years, and now I wrote webmame to REDUCE the games listed, instead of having all 5000 and configuring all the genres for me.  I have a swappable control panel, and when I have a control panel on my arcade, I only want to see the games that run with it.  So I can add all games that work with my starwars controller to the starwars genre, and everything automatically is setup in hyperspin.  And I can do all the configuration from my desktop from a webbrowser.

Anyway, webmame was to setup thousands of games generically.  Webmame is to only configure the games I want easily.

why would you wanna use this? when most front ends can use multiple versions of mame this day....