Mame in cab thread. Frontends, gamelists, configuration etc.

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Re: Mame in cab thread. Frontends, gamelists, configuration

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Nice and tidy cools, good work!! :awe:

The only thing I'd like to do at some point now is setup a win 7 version with an i5 or i7 but tbh for the amount of time I get these days to play it I'm fine with my Xp64 setup for the mo!
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Cools, what is that tiny little switch you had installed in a screw hole on the underside of your Pony's CP? I've been looking in the Pony Mk III thread but can't find it.
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Just a little panel mount momentary switch. On the Pony that thomj now has it was wired as a credit button, but on mine I wired it for the JAMMA switcher.

I did have to make the hole a bit larger than it was though. :blush:
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Ah did you?

Then was it one of these by any chance?..

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Yeah that sort of thing. I found some really small ones in maplin one time I had a few left of.
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cools wrote:appears to have a frequency protection on both jamma and VGA outputs selectable for 15/31k
Not so sure about this. Need a manual to check the jumpers. The Toshiba PF protects itself from out-of-range frequencies, and the passthrough VGA connection on the JVS/AMP board happily passes through anything.
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Noticed attractmame 1.3 released, will have to download this and see how the rotations working now? :)
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It's better. The behaviour is still weird if you change rotation once it's running but that's understandable due to how the layouts work. A rotated layout no longer has wonky text though.
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Protip: set DIP 1 in Solar Assault to ON, then reverse P1 left and right controls in MAME. It then plays as a digitally controlled game correctly.
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cools wrote:It's better. The behaviour is still weird if you change rotation once it's running but that's understandable due to how the layouts work. A rotated layout no longer has wonky text though.
Had a quick look last night, screensaver is much improved. Screen always defaults to hori on boot unless i have to enable "auto rotate" on options?
Flyers unfortunately still look stretched in vert, shame there's no way of having 2 separate screen profiles built into attractmame so when you switch to vert or hori it uses it's own unique set of scaling, layout positions...etc.

had a blast of Mr.Do last night and found it was running too fast, changed frame delay from 1 to 2 and that fixed it!! :)

This frontend is still the best out there for a cab imo.... :awe:
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There is a way, but you have to do it in the layout - it's not the frontends job. I'm going to work on it at some point when I get the motivation to.
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cools wrote:There is a way, but you have to do it in the layout - it's not the frontends job. I'm going to work on it at some point when I get the motivation to.
Gotcha...thanks for the info cools...for some reason I got it into my head that actually splitting the layout selector into 2 separate selections, 1 for hori and 1 for vert and then getting attract to call on each one separately might be poss.

Not needed though, love this frontend with your custom layouts...quick selections and still pretty! :awe: ;)
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Hidden gem: http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?m=20071201"

Best joystick controlled breakout game I've played. And all of the artwork is drawn properly for 640x480 so it looks fantastic in 31k with no scanlines.
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cools wrote:
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Is that a JVS adapter there? Will the PC pick up on the inputs via that USB cable and just "work"? Or is there more to it than that? I've got a New Net City and a spare desktop, I'd love to do that if all you need is to plug the PC into the JVS adapter...
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A JVS-PAC from InvZim here. Plug and play.
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Good cheap (new) processor for MAME:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =CP-531-IN"

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... Hz&id=2267"

Easily the best value around at the moment.
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cools wrote:Good cheap (new) processor for MAME:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =CP-531-IN"

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... Hz&id=2267"

Easily the best value around at the moment.
It's meant to OC very well too.
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I was wondering why people go through the trouble of setting up windows/crt emudriver/groovymame if you can just download a bootable ArcadeOS that will do the same. I guess i'm missing something (havent used it yet), is there a reason ArcadeOS doesnt quite cut it?
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What bootable ArcadeOS?
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My bad, i meant GroovyArcade

http://code.google.com/p/groovyarcade/"
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