Re: EA's Suggestions...


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Posted by Howard Casto on 1, 2001 at 8:47 PM:

In Reply to: Re: EA's Suggestions... posted by enemyace on 1, 2001 at 8:04 PM:

All of these new suggestions sound good, except for the image for the path thing. The problem is there's so many different versions of mame and there's no standardization of names. (I've seen some mames called things like neomameb1v17a.exe) There's no way I can tell which mame is which. I can do it with impact and modeler because there's only one supported name for the exe's to be.

Also it's a generic border plugin from the activeX plug-in I use. You can change it's thickness but not it's color.

: : : 4. Support for any program (DivX players, Arcade Jukebox, other PC games, etc). I'd love to be able to use RD as an all-in-one entertainment center.

: : Probably will never happen unfortunately. In good conscience I'll only add support for apps that have redefinable keys. Media players usually don't have this option. Arcade Jukebox is a definate yes. I love that prog so I'll find a way to include it. PC games are a definate maybe. But this is an arcade front-end, so it's low on the priorities.

: You know how people use PartyOn as frontend for other frontends? In addition to the rom lists, RD could have custom lists that would show other programs rather than roms. That way, you could launch movie players, pc games, console emu frontends, or whatever. The user can worry about whether or not the program has redefinable keys. If the user doesn't want a custom app list, he just leaves it blank and it doesn't show up. Each list entry could also have a box for command line parameters. Or maybe the app list behavior is customized in a text config file, like in PartyOn.

: : : 5. Console emulator support
: : Won't happen. This is for arcade cabs. I have been pondering the idea of a plug-in that's accessable through the RD that would launch a seperate console fe though.

: See above.

: : : 6. I think the heading above the game list needs to have a title rather than the rom path.

: : I can change that, but the only thing I could change it to would be the name of the exe.

: Maybe the list heading could be an image that would change for each different list. Mame has it's own image, Impact has its own, etc. Similar to how the rom images change for each rom, the heading image could change for each emulator. It could be skinnable, so the user could make custom headings that say whatever he wants.

: : : If I think of more I'll continue the list. Is it possible to get rid of the border around the two screenshot windows to the left of the game list if I want to?

: : I can add support for that, but the space on each edge is not going to be transparent. That's why I put the border in.

: You could make the border out of images like the gamelist, only thinner. Or else you could make it possible to change the border's colors.




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