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Title: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: telengard on December 15, 2005, 05:45:53 pm

I'm building a mini-itx emulation box and am looking for a frontend that can handle overriding command line options on a per game basis.  Advancemenu doesn't seem to and from what I could tell Mamewah doesn't either.

Any suggestions?

thanks,
~telengard

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: Necro on December 15, 2005, 05:48:28 pm

MameWah v1.62b9 can.  I plan on using it for some games in an 'arcade' list that uses Mame and Zinc.  Check the mamewah forums for more info.

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: telengard on December 15, 2005, 05:57:43 pm

Quote from: Necro on December 15, 2005, 05:48:28 pm

MameWah v1.62b9 can.  I plan on using it for some games in an 'arcade' list that uses Mame and Zinc.  Check the mamewah forums for more info.

Sweet thanks.  I didn't have a lot of luck getting mamewah going with layouts I found but this may be a good incentive to invest more time.   :)

~telengard

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: SirPoonga on December 15, 2005, 06:25:55 pm

What kind of commandline options?

If it is something that can be changed in the mame.ini file then you make a romname.ini file and it will override mame.ini for that game.

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: telengard on December 15, 2005, 07:03:58 pm

Quote from: SirPoonga on December 15, 2005, 06:25:55 pm

What kind of commandline options?

If it is something that can be changed in the mame.ini file then you make a romname.ini file and it will override mame.ini for that game.

This will be mostly for non-mame emulators, atari, apple, c64.  I already have a mame cab for that stuff.    :)

~telengard

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: Howard_Casto on December 15, 2005, 11:36:04 pm

Dk supports it

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: youki on December 16, 2005, 05:43:30 am

Atomic FE does that too.

Title: Re: Any frontends that support per from/game settings?
Post by: telengard on December 20, 2005, 04:24:30 pm

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  I downloaded the latest Mamewah beta and it works very well.  I had much better luck with the beat than the latest stable for some reason.   I started realizing I needed some oddball features so I started writing my own front end.  It's almost done.  I used pygame which is a really nice gaming toolkit for python.  The frontend doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles visually but it does what I need it to.  If folks are interested I can post a link once it's done (hopefully by the weekend).

~telengard