Continuous scroll game list?

[happy69]

I have built a cabinet using an i-pac keyboard encoder. I am using this without a keyboard. Holding  the joystick down to scroll through the games does not continually scroll, so it takes alot of joystick tapping to scroll down to a wanted game. Any suggestions?

[Carsten Carlos]

Same to me - this is quite some work when you scroll through 3400+ games, when you've no trackball connected!

For myself, I'll go with Game launcher. Great frontend, support for (mostly) all emulators, and very fast scrolling. Give it a try!

[JustMichael]

Happy69, it would help if we knew what frontend you are using.  Some frontends look for a keypress then move down.  It is this type of frontend that is the problem.  Frontends like that should have been written to look for a keydown event instead.  Then whenever a key is held down the frontend would see it.  I would suggest changing frontends.

[Howard_Casto]

Exactly Jm... I can tell you the ones that are coded properly. (To my knowledge at least)

Mine
ArcadeFx
Emuwizard
Gamelauncher

Aos seems to have a problem with it as does a few of the other dos fe's.  Mame 32 isn't coded properly either, but that's to be expected as it's intended to be used in a normal windows environment and not on a mamecab.  

[)p(]

Exactly Jm... I can tell you the ones that are coded properly. (To my knowledge at least)

Mine
ArcadeFx
Emuwizard
Gamelauncher

Aos seems to have a problem with it as does a few of the other dos fe's.  Mame 32 isn't coded properly either, but that's to be expected as it's intended to be used in a normal windows environment and not on a mamecab.  

hey...mine works also ok...yeah there is still a gamelist menu in it besides the arcade..in fact I optimized it a lot for next release ;-)

[Lilwolf]

JFront also works with this.

as an frontend programmer... when testing on your own cabinet... you catch this right away.

If your writing one for a computer... you wouldn't think about it since the standard keyboard encoder does this for you (where arcade ones do not)

[Howard_Casto]

hey...mine works also ok...yeah there is still a gamelist menu in it besides the arcade..in fact I optimized it a lot for next release ;-)

I wasn't sure if it still did so I didn't mention it.  

[SirPoonga]

JFront also works with this.

as an frontend programmer... when testing on your own cabinet... you catch this right away.

If your writing one for a computer... you wouldn't think about it since the standard keyboard encoder does this for you (where arcade ones do not)

Yep, exactly why on mine (not available to public, but it might) categorizes by categories, has a search, and has favorites.  All navigatable with the joystick, a select button, and a page up and page down button.

[)p(]

Yep, exactly why on mine (not available to public, but it might) categorizes by categories, has a search, and has favorites.  All navigatable with the joystick, a select button, and a page up and page down button.

That high score search was a really good idea! I use it a lot in Emulaxian... That reminds me that I still have to credit you for that idea in the docs ;-)

[happy69]

I am trying to use mame32 by the way I will try another front end maybe

[Lilwolf]

Mame32 really sucks on a cabinet.  It wasn't designed for it.  I would try a few of the newer ones that were built by arcade cabinet owners...  I personally hate the windows look of mame32.

If you like the windows look there is one around that was built for arcade cabinets.  I don't remember which (I never touched it).   Anyone know?

But you have a representitive in this thread for
JFront (mine)
Emulaxian (>p<)
Raging Dragon (HC's)

you are missing Ed's ArcadeFX (haven't seen him around for a bit)

[Minwah1959]

My frontend (MAMEWah) works fine with arcade controls too

Anyone know why can't I stay logged in to this board?  It keeps going back to 'Welcome, Guest'.  I have a new XP PC...

Minwah

[Howard_Casto]

read the ie users sticky note on the main board and follow the instructions