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What features do you wish were available for your "Dream FE"?

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Lilwolf:
Here is my list.

Good way of filtering games... 

One that can run with screen shots, and not just titles.

One that can have more then one group of games for multi control panels or rotating monitors.  And switch them easily.   So when you have your trackball installed, your only looking at trackball games.  Maybe also changing the UI for monitor changes.

One that handles more then one emulator easily.  So you can use zinc, mame36 for some games and latest mame for all others.

One that hides adult games unless you specify your interested.... and you turn them on with a way that kids wont figure out.

One that handles some animation would be nice.  Looking good is nice.

Configuratable UI is good.  But might not be needed to a level that most do. 

I would love to see a good opengl one.  I wrote one that was just getting good... but then had probems that the engine I was using wounldn't work on ATI cards.... but worked GREAT on nvidia.... my dev system uses a nvidia... my cabinet... guess now...

Works with joysticks, keyboard and trackballs..

All I can think about for now.

Minwah:
Just a few comments:


--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on January 09, 2007, 09:50:48 am ---(3) HISTORY.DAT support

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The next Mamewah beta will feature this.


--- Quote ---(5) Screenshots and Animations that are the correct dimensions when viewing from a vertical layout.

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Mamewah has this, it is just broken in the latest beta(s).  Fixed ready for the next release.


--- Quote ---(7) A working "screen orientation" option for list generation.

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Again, Mamewah has this, but I think one of the recent listxml changes broke it.  Fixed ready for next release also :)

lingpanda:
A FE with built in network play. It could be for those emus that only support it. Or a better wish. Network support for mame. A chat room.(I believe GameEx is doing this). Ability to show more then one screenshot/video on the screen at a given time.

Minwah:

--- Quote from: meltman on January 09, 2007, 03:57:44 pm ---I would like much better interface support.

Along the lines of mame's interface support with the ability to bind multiple controls to a single function. It seems that every front end I've looked at only allows limited support to do what I want to do.

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Well I based Mamewah's input system on Mame's, so it is very similar (well to the old style ctrlr files anyway).  At the moment the only two limitations are:

1) True analog joystick support is iffy....but analog joysticks work fine in digital mode.
2) Joystick devices need to appear in Control Panel as game controllers, and some unusual controllers seem to refuse to work.

FrizzleFried:
Any ETA on the release Minwah?   I have been waiting with bated breath for god knows how long...i've even fiddled with MALA a little but refuse to go to the dark-side... I need more FORCE...er...enuff with the Star Wars crap...JUST RELEASE B13 DAMNIT!  :hissy:

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