Controls.dat Project ready for volunteers...

[Howard_Casto]

We are back in full swing again with the project that's goal is to label the buttons and controls of games among other things.  go to fe.donkeyfly.com or pm me or sirpoonga to sign up as a volunteer.  NO programming experience is necessary, just some free time and an internet connection.  

[eightbit]

Where's dem instructions?

[SirPoonga]

do to dem site!  The instructions have been there for two day:)

[gnateye]

i have been working on a cat file like this, i have it up on my site, please feel free to use it however you can to help the project, its upto date for .60 mame

http://www.cosmicbreaks.com/images/arcade_stick

its at the top called 'controls_.60'


cheers

[Howard_Casto]

I appreciate the offer but that file is about useless to us.  It only tells you the number of buttons, ect which we can get by parsing mame and klov.  What we are doing is actually lableing said controls as to thier function (like "fire", or "jump" ...ect).  

Again you offer is much appreciated though

Feel free to volunteer if it meets your needs too.  

[gnateye]

oh, that is helpful

i wish i had some free time........

[eightbit]

Is the information being compiled going to be FE independant?

[SirPoonga]

Yeah, just going to be a textfile in ini file format.  HC is making a viewer too which will eventually become part of his FE, but it will be standalone for now.

[Howard_Casto]

Actually I will probably keep it seperate from my fe and launch it externally.  It will keep my code cleaner and that means I can give it special tweaks and attention.  It'll be called like this.....  

controls.exe romname [parentname] [skin template]

and when you press any key it will exit....

so any fe that wanted to use it could add it in with little to no code

[eightbit]

Actually I will probably keep it seperate from my fe and launch it externally.  It will keep my code cleaner and that means I can give it special tweaks and attention.  It'll be called like this.....  

controls.exe romname [parentname] [skin template]

and when you press any key it will exit....

so any fe that wanted to use it could add it in with little to no code

Thats really cool, not that there is anything wrong with your front end but the more portable it is the more chance it will succeed, maybe even become officially mame blessed.