ultrastyle v2.0 Released

[ultrastyle]

Here's what's new...

Changed:
- Attract.txt is now AutoPlay.txt
- ultraconfig tab Attract Mode renamed to AutoPlay Mode as to not confuse the addtion of attract videos
- MAME devs removed -listinfo and ultrastyle now uses -listxml|xml2info to generate li.txt
- wheel changes have been animated to give a more arcady feel
- When checking on cube art, if a clone does not have a picture for a specific kind of art, it checks for the original ROM's art as well.
- In both the Favorite and the AutoPlay treeviews in ultraconfig, games are now listed by game name instead of ROM name.

Fixed:
- When starting with the filter wheel, the cube would not be the right size. This has been remedied.

Added:
- MP3 Background music can now be played while searching for a game to play in ultrastyle
- You can now add to your favorites from within ultrastyle
- Added a checkbox to ultraconfig to lock out the adding of favorites from within ultrastyle
- Attract videos have been added into the mix. If you have videos of the attract mode, they will play on the screenshot cube
- Control the volume of Events, MP3, and Attract Videos
- New sound for adding a favorite game
- Paths in ultraconfig for MP3 and Attract Videos, both are optional
- When adding a favorite game, a small green globe pops up next to the marquee and a visual acknowledgement
- LastGame.ini keeps track of the last game played. It is a new starting option as well.

Enjoy,
Chris

www.mameworld.net/ultrastyle

[Paul Olson]

Thanks for the update.  Trying to figure out the rom names in favorites was driving me nuts.  

Please keep up the good work.  This is the only FE my friends want to use on the cab.

Paul

[gregor7777]

hmmm...looks promising but I keep getting memory access errors...I have to give it another fresh start

[jerrydel]

I get the memory error also.

[ultrastyle]

I have a couple of people getting the memory errors, pop over to the forum and see if any of my suggestions help you out.

http://ultrastyle.proboards26.com

Chris

[Trenchbroom]

I tried the suggestions on the other board-still giving me memory problems.  

[ultrastyle]

I just added error trapping and re-released the whole app. I also added just a fix d/l. It *should* give more information on whats causing it to error out.

Chris

[SirPoonga]

I have some suggestions for you.  SINCE you only support one version of mame at a time, why not look up a bunch of the config info in the mamepp.ini file?  Also you need to be able to support more than one folder, especially the roms.

[ultrastyle]

SirPoonga,
 I don't exactly get your first point. Do you mean to get configuration information from the mame.ini? Aside from Path info, what would you have me get out of there? ultrastyle does support multiple ROM directories...
But only in the sense of getting ROM names to add to a list, the native ability of MAME to handle multiple directories is what really fires off a game.

Chris

[SirPoonga]

Well, snaps can come from mame.ini too.

How do you do multiple rom folders?  It isn;t obvious how to do it.

Also why do you need to enter in mamepp.exe TWICE on two seperate screens?

[ultrastyle]

On the Filter options tab, just keep browsing for paths and it will seporate them with a ",". As for the mame.exe the 3rd tab reads info from the 1st tab, but doesn't make the change until you save it. I may have to dip back into that code to try and make it a live change. If you look at the title of the textbox it's 'MAME EXE name from Main Options' it's more so just a visual check to make sure the path and exe info was correct. I intended on making those textboxes read-only.

Chris

[SirPoonga]

Also, is it planned to adjust the cube size like you adjust the marquee size?  It doesn't take up much room on the right side leaving alot of dead space.

[ultrastyle]

Yep, it's already there, on the second tab in ultraconfig you can choose small or big cube size, it defaults to small.

Chris

[arcadecab]

Ultrastyle,

I have an XP setup with Microsoft .net 1.1 installed, however, when I select the ultraconfig, I keep getting a .net error that will not allow me to save any settings.  I am using the new version 2.0.  Any reason this is happening?  I cant get anything running properly because of this.
Thanks.

[ultrastyle]

I havent had anyone else report an ultraconfig error, can you tell me more about the .Net error?

Chris

[arcadecab]

It states:
An unhandled exception has occured in your application.  If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attemp to continue.  If you click Quit, the application will be shut down immediately.

Cast from string "Breakout" to type 'Integer' is not valid.

If I press continue and try to save main options, I get this message:

An unhandled exception had occurred in your application.  If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.  If you click Quit, the application will be shut down immediately.

Cast from string "" to type 'Integer' is not valid.

So basically, I cant get anything in Ultraconfig save because of these errors.  I am using XP and DO have microsoft net 1.1 installed.  
Any ideas??
Really want to get this new version 2.0 going.
Thanks.

[ultrastyle]

I do have an idea! The string to breakout thing. Did you copy your categories file from a different ultrastyle version or unzip 2.0 over 1.7? The error is in categories.txt. It used to be name number format, but now it's name number number. Re-run catconfig.exe or re-install a clean version. That it where the hold up is.

Chris