Marquee Magician, and HyperLaunch

[chillinwater]

Its still alive and kickin over in the spesoft\gameex forums

Marquee Magician 2.0

a search over there may bring up some more recent feedback and workarounds.

[Dogman213]

Guys,

Oh man ! after the steep learning curve that is Hyperspin I am almost and I mean almost ! at the point where I have a ready to go (into a cab) HS Setup ! and some one throws in a spanner ! I mean Marquee Magician - I have downloaded marquee pack from emu movies but yet again I feel I am faced with a mountian to climb in getting this to work with HS !!! has anyone seen a good 'how to' on this programm or is there another easy to use marquee program ?? any help appriciated !

[RayzzorBlack]

Hi question with Marquee Magician I can't seem to find an answer for. I have two screens obviously. One is set at 1920x1080 the other is set at 1280x720. When I setup a system in MM, I want the pictures and stuff on the top 1280x720 screen. Setup goes fine, but when I save and then try it, the images will spread to both screens and screw up mame. I tried setting the emulator screen size in MM to both of my screens but it doesn't help on either system.

Anyone have a solution? Should I try something different? Thanks for any answer.

[trublu289]

make sure the resolution in whatever emulator your using is the same with what ever monitor it's running on.

[RayzzorBlack]

I did, it is, and it still doesnt work right. Driving me nuts.

[trublu289]

there are a couple of things that can cause that. There are a couple of options to look at in Ifranview. stretch to both monitors, and whether you want all images to be fullscreen. Also one thing to keep into account by default ifranview will remember the last window it was closed in so it's a good idea to move the window to whatever screen you want it to appear in and close it. I actually got tired of fiddling with marquee magician as it drove me nuts. I got it setup but I just simply started using ifranview via autohotkey waaay easier.

[dgspeedyz]

Hi Everyone,

I have been reading this thread for some time now. Since Megaupload is down for good, I am not sure of any other place to get the MM Hyperspin setup file earlier in the thread. Does anyone have the file that they would not mind sharing or can point me to a place where i can get the file? It would be much appreciated.

The other question that I have is how to get it working with Hyperlaunch 2.24e because it says a lot about 1.0.

Thanks in advance!

[warriorpoet]

Hi question with Marquee Magician I can't seem to find an answer for. I have two screens obviously. One is set at 1920x1080 the other is set at 1280x720. When I setup a system in MM, I want the pictures and stuff on the top 1280x720 screen. Setup goes fine, but when I save and then try it, the images will spread to both screens and screw up mame. I tried setting the emulator screen size in MM to both of my screens but it doesn't help on either system.

Anyone have a solution? Should I try something different? Thanks for any answer.

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To reply to this I have done. I have two monitors on larger 22" and 19" above it for the Marquees.

I took marquee and copied its contents to my HS. I can open MAME play a game while it displays my WHEEL graphics and then when I exit HS regains focus without a hitch. I only have one picture - had two but didn't like the white boarder splitting them. Hate the boarder around the monitor. Someone figure that out would be great.

PM me if you would like copies of my setup.

[JayRolla]

Hi

Got this launching with Mame in Hyperspin editing the AHK.

Now the problem is Marquee Magician will only show my backup image but the not the marquee.

The path to the Infranview window is correct.

Can't figure it out....It's Driving Me Crazy....

Please Help...

[Xevious99]

I decided to patch and compile my own mame with some marquee support in it for my attempt at making a arcade cabinet with a marquee. Running hyper-spin on the video card I used was just a bit too much for it.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

more info here

http://www.xevious.site50.net/The%20Bartop%20Arcade%20Machine.html

[horseyhorsey]

####

To reply to this I have done. I have two monitors on larger 22" and 19" above it for the Marquees.

I took marquee and copied its contents to my HS. I can open MAME play a game while it displays my WHEEL graphics and then when I exit HS regains focus without a hitch. I only have one picture - had two but didn't like the white boarder splitting them. Hate the boarder around the monitor. Someone figure that out would be great.

PM me if you would like copies of my setup.

Yea, I pretty much had enough of that. I just use the LEdBlinky workaround now.

[bluc]

Is this usable in the latest hyperspin how do I set it up?

[bluc]

Ok so with heaps of help from NUker43 thanks again!! I got marquee magician working heres what we did. Running mame 152 and RocketLauncher.

To have it run with any module add this code to the "User Functions Init.ahk" file. It should be in the hyperlaunch/lib directory.

Run, "C:\Marquee Magician v2.0\Launch MM v2.0.exe" "%systemname%" "%dbName%"

Progress, b w200, %dbName%, NOW LOADING..., Ultimate Cabinet
Progress, 99 ; Set the position of the bar to 50%.
Sleep, 2000
Progress, Off

The path obviously will need to be changed to where your marquee magician exe is and the "progress" code lines are just a little loading box i made. You can keep it or remove it.

This should launch marquee magician and in order to exit after you are done with a game you need to add this code to the "User Functions.ahk" file which is in the same folder.

; Use this function to define any code you want to run in every module on start
StartGlobalUserFeatures(){
Log("StartGlobalUserFeatures - Starting")
Log("StartGlobalUserFeatures - Ending")
}

; Use this function to define any code you may need to stop or clean up in every module on exit
StopGlobalUserFeatures(){
Log("StopGlobalUserFeatures - Starting")
Run, C:\Marquee Magician v2.0\Launch MM v2.0.exe kill
Log("StopGlobalUserFeatures - Ending")
}

we also added this to the mame.ahk which is located in the modules folder which is in…\hyperlaunch-3\Modules\MAME\mame.ahk Note this has to go under

;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
StartModule()
BezelGUI()
FadeInStart()

I had one row of space so click at the end of “FadeInStart()” and press enter twice don’t know if you have to but I did and it works.

Run, "D:\Hyperspin\utiliitites\Marquee Magician v2.1\Marquee Magician v2.1\Launch MM v2.1.exe" "%systemname%" "%dbName%"
Progress, b w200, %dbName%, NOW LOADING..., Ultimate Cabinet 
Progress, 99 ; Set the position of the bar to 50%. 
Sleep, 2000 
Progress, Off

Cheers. And thanks again nuker43 

[kcorcoran]

I decided to patch and compile my own mame with some marquee support in it for my attempt at making a arcade cabinet with a marquee. Running hyper-spin on the video card I used was just a bit too much for it.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/images/attach/jpg.gif

more info here

http://www.xevious.site50.net/The%20Bartop%20Arcade%20Machine.html

thats a cool cabinet!