> Thank you for your suggestions!
>
> - My pleasure Ive plenty of ideas, but no programming talent.
>
> As for starting faster, you might want to consider using Save States when available.
> That would skip the startup rom checks, and go right into the games demo / attract
> mode.
Ha ha, you and I think alike. That is also a strategy I had intended to employ, with a menu option from within the game popup menus to 'save current state as start state'. So when you started a game for the first time, you could reset the hardware, wait until the exact moment when the attract screen started (i.e. right after initialization), then bring the pop up menu up (which pauses the game), and select the 'save current state a start state', and boom - forever thereafter, when you started a game it would start from that spot, skipping all of the initialization.
> For me, theres something magical about seeing many classics next to each other..
> especially if they are all lit up and playing.. much like how we remembered
> experiencing them.
>
> A custom game order would be nice, so one could for example, order certain games in
> the circle as you wanted them to be experienced / viewed near each other.
One thing I didn't show is that if you highlight the top list item on the left and press a button, the list 'flips over' and there is another list on the back (you can repeat this for more lists). One of the lists is 'favorites' and one is 'most recently played'. If you could order the favorites list then I think you could get what you're asking for (assuming that multiple models on the screen was implemented).
> I dont care much for the walk-through arcade environments, because nobody really
> wants to spend time trying to run a virtual guy around a maze of games. Its much
> better to have a lineup of some sort, thats easy and quick to select.
>
> (however, other games could be virtually ran in the background for example, or
> merely displayed as a pre-made static picture.)
>
> As for the models, I think plenty of them will become available in a better format
> as the ability to use them with a good frontend presents itself.
Well I can only hope so!
Thanks again for your suggestions. I have been working on this for a while; as the only developer on it, and only being able to work when my kids are asleep at night, it unfortunately goes pretty slowly. And things like writing math routines to calculate where to put the screen rectangle in 3d space to be right in the correct spot on an arbitrary cabinet take me soo long when my math skills are quite weak!!!
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