PRBITNA Posted January 24 Posted January 24 HI - I am still testing and will keep having questions/issues so will try and consolidate in seperate posts. I have installed latest MAME and pointed at rom sets. Some questions: 1) Searching/returning in large lists: I heard in the live stream/updates full searching is coming - GREAT. Will you also be addressing some minor issues like: when switching from list to artwork view, it returns you to the top of the list. Ideally context should remain. 2) Mame defaults: I installed latest MAME through HQ and great it all installed and metadata downloaded - but it seems the high score plugin is not available by default and 'nag' screen when launching games still appears. Any plans to default these ? Realise No-Nag is a mame patch but hi score is an official plugin (which in this current process I seem to have to launch mame and enable it) - maybe could be an option to turn on and off? 3) Mame Artwork - With all defaults on - i launched Space Invaders and the background artwork was not present - is this a seperate setting - or something we manually have to add? More to come.... 1
Dazz Posted January 26 Posted January 26 There is quite a bit of work that needs to be done with MAME. Personally, I'm not happy with how we are handling MAME right now. On 1/23/2025 at 9:30 PM, PRBITNA said: 1) Searching/returning in large lists: I heard in the live stream/updates full searching is coming - GREAT. Will you also be addressing some minor issues like: when switching from list to artwork view, it returns you to the top of the list. Ideally context should remain. I completely agree with this. Instead of going back to the top of any game list in HQ, it should remain where you left at. On 1/23/2025 at 9:30 PM, PRBITNA said: 2) Mame defaults: I installed latest MAME through HQ and great it all installed and metadata downloaded - but it seems the high score plugin is not available by default and 'nag' screen when launching games still appears. Any plans to default these ? Realise No-Nag is a mame patch but hi score is an official plugin (which in this current process I seem to have to launch mame and enable it) - maybe could be an option to turn on and off? I just downloaded new package of MAME .273b. It does include the plugins and looks like plugins are enabled by default. On 1/23/2025 at 9:30 PM, PRBITNA said: 3) Mame Artwork - With all defaults on - i launched Space Invaders and the background artwork was not present - is this a seperate setting - or something we manually have to add? As far as I know, MAME handles all of it's own artwork. Bezels, backgrounds, and things that you would find in the MAMEExtras downloads.
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