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General Discussion & Help / Re: Mame configuration for Arcade cabinet
« on: February 08, 2018, 07:33:45 PM »
Thanks again for the great support.
Could you upload a screenshot of the theme looks on your screen to get a better idea of what you're facing?
>> I'll post a pic when I get home later. I think the root cause is that I don't have the artwork in the MEGA set, and am just using what I have which is the artwork from MAME extra. I think I'm halfway downloading the MEGA set, so hopefully it will all look awesome! I assume I'll have the same issue when I add new emulators.
1. It's possible to define in the theme what font and fontcolor is used when art is not available or even if text is shown at all. The missing manufacturers are probably pulled from the _common collection. It should be included in the full version from this website as well as the base pack from EmuMovies. The background images are probably expected to be in the fanart directory; I have a decent set available in the MEGA set as well as the MAME collection pack on EmuMovies. It's far from complete though. The videos can be found in the MEGA set as well as the MAME video pack on EmuMovies.
>> I'm sure it will work when I'm done downloading the art from Mega. It takes a while :/ It may useful for the themes or documentation to list what type of artwork is required for each theme (e.g. fanart, complete set from MEGA, ... )
2. You can add/remove keys for the favorites set, and use them from within RetroFE. Alternatively, you can simply create/edit the text file in the playlists directory of the collection.
>> To clarify- Is there a key when I'm in "all games" that I can press say after playing a new game to add a game to favorites? Or do I have to manually edit the favorites.txt (which is what I did, but it's less than ideal).
3. A theme can display the name of the playlist. I'm just not sure the Animatic theme does that at the moment. It can be displayed as text or as image, depending on the theme.
>> Can't wait for the update! Thanks!
Could you upload a screenshot of the theme looks on your screen to get a better idea of what you're facing?
>> I'll post a pic when I get home later. I think the root cause is that I don't have the artwork in the MEGA set, and am just using what I have which is the artwork from MAME extra. I think I'm halfway downloading the MEGA set, so hopefully it will all look awesome! I assume I'll have the same issue when I add new emulators.
1. It's possible to define in the theme what font and fontcolor is used when art is not available or even if text is shown at all. The missing manufacturers are probably pulled from the _common collection. It should be included in the full version from this website as well as the base pack from EmuMovies. The background images are probably expected to be in the fanart directory; I have a decent set available in the MEGA set as well as the MAME collection pack on EmuMovies. It's far from complete though. The videos can be found in the MEGA set as well as the MAME video pack on EmuMovies.
>> I'm sure it will work when I'm done downloading the art from Mega. It takes a while :/ It may useful for the themes or documentation to list what type of artwork is required for each theme (e.g. fanart, complete set from MEGA, ... )
2. You can add/remove keys for the favorites set, and use them from within RetroFE. Alternatively, you can simply create/edit the text file in the playlists directory of the collection.
>> To clarify- Is there a key when I'm in "all games" that I can press say after playing a new game to add a game to favorites? Or do I have to manually edit the favorites.txt (which is what I did, but it's less than ideal).
3. A theme can display the name of the playlist. I'm just not sure the Animatic theme does that at the moment. It can be displayed as text or as image, depending on the theme.
>> Can't wait for the update! Thanks!