Ce frontend MAME pour Windows vient d'être mis à jour. L'impressionnante liste de nouveautés et la suivante:
- fixed: Neo Geo filter use a new driver name: neodrvr.c
- fixed: Games list not being properly generated with Daphne v1.0. Note that game names between v0.99.7 and v1.0 are different
- fixed: A couple bugs in favorites profile editor
- fixed: Shortcut texts on main menu and popup menus are correctly displayed now :-))
- changed: Renamed "Cycle Image Types" to "Auto Previous/Next Image Type" and move it from preferences screen to main menu "Images"
- changed: Merged images settings and images files/folders into one place, preferences screen, "Images" tab. All image types description are customizable now
- changed: Made image view mode button in images tool bar invisible by default
- changed: Lots of bloatware removed:
-> features removed:
.Random Game Preview (no real use... EL is not for arcade cabinets)
.Times played and played count (columns were also removed)
.Audio clips playback (why keep it if there is no mng playback ?)
.Fix aspect ratio for image preview (this settings makes images look distored)
.Several GUI customizations and settings
.Custom games support. EL is not ment to be used with systems other than the ones supported
.Parental lock. Don't want kids playing mature games ? Don't have them or hide them
-> games columns removed:
.Screens resolution, refresh rate, video type (all 4 screens)
.Control type (useless for games with multiple controls)
.status types (driver, color, etc...)
.save state (this info is still displayed in "Game Details" screen
.times played (no real use since there is no statistics screen)
.played count (no real use since there is no statistics screen)
-> games .el files in "\arcade\" folder are also changed. You will need to create
you games lists all over again
- changed: Custom command line updated
- changed: Moved "Hide Bios" tool bar button to main menu "Games List", sub-menu "Bios Sets"
- changed: Removed "Correct Name", "Correct Size", "Correct Checksum" columns from audit games screen. They are shown like this now "field [correct data]"
- changed: Move "Filter Games By Main CPU" from "Games List" main menu to "Games Filters" main menu
- optimized: Several entries in "EmuLoader.ini" are renamed and moved for the sake of consistance
- optimized: A few routines were merged and optimized
- optimized: Removed some memory variables not really needed
- optimized: main menu and popup menus
- removed: Image index label from image tool bar buttons (useless...)
- removed: "Grouped + System" view mode is gone... uses too much memory and memory leaks
- removed: "Fill All Clone Entries". Please use grouped view mode to group parents and their clones
- removed: Images filename format: "Old Format (shortname0000.png)". MAME does not support this anymore, there is no point on keeping it. eg: game name: galaga, short image name: gala0000.png
- removed: Some Win9x GUI settings. Win9x OS is too old, but still partially supported by EL
- removed: Column "Bios Name"
- removed: Customize audit columns
- removed: Several UI icons
- added: Enable/disable MAWS game info (preferences screen)
- added: Two new image types:
."PCB Preview": Use this to display PCB images
."Game Artwork Preview": Use this to display game snapshots with artwork embedded in the image
NOTES [General]:
-> "Custom" image type has been removed...
-> Files have been renamed "image_??_name.ico"
NOTES [Game Artwork]:
-> if artwork image is not found, game snapshot image will be loaded if
"Display Game Snapshot if Artwork Not Found" setting is enabled (main menu "Images")
-> Set a folder for the artwork preview files in preferences screen "Files / Folders"
tab, "Images" sub-tab, "Game Artwork Preview" edit box. Both zipped and unzipped files
are supported (.png file formats only)
-> When this setting is enabled, the icon tool bar is similar to the game snapshots but
with an extra "artwork" label
- added: New main menu: "Games Filters" -> will hold some extra filters for the games list
- added: New games filter: "Artworks" (main menu "Games Filters)
To be used with "artwork.in" from Mr. Do!, also found with "MAME Plus!" package
Just put the file in \ini_files\" folder
This feature have 3 options:
- List Both
- Games With Artwork (show only games listed in "artwork.ini")
- Games With No Artwork (show only games NOT listed in "artwork.ini")
... feature requested by Mr. Do: http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/mame_artwork.html
This is used by M.A.M.E. system only
- added: New games filter: "Games With Bios" / "Games With No Bios" / "List Both"
...main menu "Games List", "Bios Sets" menu item
Use this to show games that use a bios set or games that do not use a bios set... or both
To show/hide bios (neogeo, tps, playch10, etc...) use the "Hide Bios Sets", same location
- added: Image info label is back. It's at the top of the image preview. Background color and font color can be customized (preferences screen, "Images" tab) It does not display zip/image full path though, just the filename
- added: New feature: "Hidden Games" (main menu "Games Filters"). To replace parental lock. It works similar to PL, but without password protection and no file encryption. New file is created "\ini_files\hidden_games.ini"
NOTES:
- Toggle feature ON/OFF using "Hidden Games Enabled" setting ("Games Filters" main menu)
- Customize hidden games with the editor ("Games List" main menu)
- Add games with "Add Selected To Hidden List" (games popup menu)
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