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SirPoonga:
Yes, you could.  However controls.dat isn't as complete as nplayers.ini because control information is the main goal.

Take a look at the data that is stored in controls.dat
http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/report.php?theGame=1944
A tad more info than nplayers.ini :)

Plus I wonder how nplayers.ini is generated, someone just trying out all the games and reporting what they are? 

SirPoonga:
I am finally settled in and am ready to start looking at frontends :)
I am debating how I am going to do this.
I have a dual celeron 366 system that I am going to get running for my arcade cabinet.  I know some of the more intensive frontends won't hack it because that is only going to have a voodoo3 in it.  So I will probably try the frontend both ont he arcade and main computer.

Buddabing:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 27, 2005, 11:14:35 am ---I am finally settled in and am ready to start looking at frontends :)
I am debating how I am going to do this.
I have a dual celeron 366 system that I am going to get running for my arcade cabinet.
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SirPoonga:
I have to see if my ATI 128 is still working.  I think it failed and that was the ultimate demise of my last computer, or the AGP port died.

Anyway, yeah, they will definately be tested on the voodoo3 as that what will be in my cabinet :)  If there is one that doesn't work I will probably install it on my main pc.  Or if it is too slow on my arcade I iwll try on main pc.

PC specs:

Arcade
Dual Celeron 366 on an Abit BP6 motherboard, not overclocked (been abused too much, the highpoint driver is flakey now so the harddrives have to go on the normal IDE ports)
256 unless I can find more dimms
Will probably only have a 5-10 gig harddrive.  I am trying to remember the size of the extra harddrive I have...  I think it is 8gig.  The roms will stay on my main machine and be mapped through a network drive.
Voodoo3 3000 PCI

Actually, if I can get my USB stick to boot on the arcade I might skip a harddrive all together.  I thought I saw a windows 98 on a stick somewhere.

Main Pc
AMD 64 3200+ on an Abit KV80 motherboard (can you tell someone likes Abit).
512Meg of memory (plan on going to a gig sometime soon)
Diamond Stealth S120 (ATI 9550 chipset).

Wish I had a gigabit ethernet card for the arcade, would direct connect to main PC then.  Hmmm, fast transfer rates...

However, not sure what OS to install on the arcade.  Debating between Win98 and XP, considerings the specs...

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Buddabing on July 27, 2005, 11:29:53 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on July 27, 2005, 11:14:35 am ---I am finally settled in and am ready to start looking at frontends :)
I am debating how I am going to do this.
I have a dual celeron 366 system that I am going to get running for my arcade cabinet.
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