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AlanS17:
I'm sure there are plenty of front-ends that could be configured this way.

How many games do you plan on having on there, though? If it's more than about 20 then you're gonna want something that shows more at once.

AlanS17:
Otherwise, yeah I like it too. It would probably come in handy for an upcoming cocktail project of mine.

Wade:
I want one like this for DOS.  I don't like Windows frontends, nor do I want to run Windows on my Mame machines.

The source is available for Gamelauncher, and it has a vertical setting already.  I think it could be made a lot nicer with some relatively minor tweaks, if someone wanted to take the time to crack it open.

Wade

AlanS17:
You could already make it work in GameLauncher without making any changes. It would look slightly different than what you've got there, but it's about the same.

You'd just have to set up an instance of MAME for every game you plan on using. It sounds tedious, but you wouldn't want a front-end looking like this one if you were going to have too many games anyways. This part would take about an hour after you get it all down into a rythm.

Then to get the screen with the space scene and all that, you'd have to custom make one for each game and replace the standard screen shots. This is the part that would take a while. However, there currently are no logos available for display right now, anyways - only marquees. So you'd have to do some custom artwork regardless of what front-end you chose.

Wade:
I thought about doing this but yes it would take some time.  However, the things I'd really like to add are things like an attract mode, and some sort of animations in the game browsing list.  Things like that.  However, for the standard 12-in-1 setup I stick on 4-way vertical cocktails, just making custom screenshots would be a nice improvement and not much trouble.  Hmmmm....

Wade

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