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Author Topic: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?  (Read 2043 times)

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Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« on: May 13, 2005, 10:11:51 am »
Hey

I've got my carpc setup and am using mame and zsnes and a few other frontends in the car.

i've made it so when i touch my touch screen for 5 seconds it sends the esc key to get back out of the game.

Now i've got a problem

I've got a nice carpc frontend which embeds external apps nicely and im using a usb joypad to play the games.

But what i need is a sample of a list of games from a xml or text file whatever it might be and it lets you scroll down the page and show a ingame image of what it looks like.

Only reason i need this is i need to be able to have a frontend that runs in a window and uses the mouse click to select the game (hopefully doubble click)

I know it's a bit of a ask but i wanna have this so it's all intergrated into the frontend so i have mp3 divx/dvd image viewing gps tv and games all at the touch of the screen without it looking like windows.

Any help is welcomed :) if there is a frontend that can run in a window on xp and lets u select a game by hitting the left button click 2 times then it be perfect.

It's on a 600mhz mini itx so nothing to cpu hungry if possible.

Again i know it's a big ask so thankyou :)

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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2005, 10:13:28 am »
It sounds like MAME32 is what you're looking for.  Have you tried it?

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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2005, 10:20:17 am »
Could you use your pad to select the game and run it by pushing a fire button?

If yes, i think you can find lot of frontend to use.  Mine (AtomicFe) could work too.


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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2005, 11:03:46 am »
Mame32 is useless because it doesn't show other game systems

I wanna be able to use snes mame sms nes atari 2600 in the one frontend.

The problem is i need a frontend that can be shown in a window and not full screen.

I'll try your atomic FE but if it doesn't have the option to loadup in a window then it will be useless.

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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2005, 11:05:45 am »
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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2005, 11:25:04 am »
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I'll try your atomic FE but if it doesn't have the option to loadup in a window then it will be useless.


It is an Hidden option.

Open the config file with the notepad (by default Atomic.cfg) and look for the line :
WINDOWSMODE=NO

and change it to :

WINDOWSMODE=YES

But in order to make it works with all layout you have to set up windows in a 16bits/pixel  video resolution mode. not 24 or 32.










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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2005, 12:36:21 pm »
Well thats no use then i need the higher up colours :(

Thanks for your help tho

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if i had some source for a launcher then i could adapt it to other emulators.

I can make a launcher myself but i have no idea how i can get the games list to show up with games that are only on the pc.

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Re: Visual Basic examples of Mame launchers?
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2005, 01:12:18 pm »
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Well thats no use then i need the higher up colours


It works in other mode, but there is a little graphical bug when a layout uses alphablending.  If you use a layout which doesn't use it , there is no problem.