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MAME UI that displays more than one graphic? (Snapshots, artwork, marquees etc.)
07/16/12 02:03 AM
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I'll elaborate. Somebody went through a lot of trouble to assemble half a dozen separate collections of images associated with many/most of the games emulated by MAME. Snapshots are easy. Marquees, cabinet images, bezels.. these had to have taken forever.
Most MAME UIs I have seen allow the user to view the snapshot image associated with whatever rom they have selected. Or the flyer. OR something else. They can tab between these various images. But on a display made in the last decade or so (with HD-ish resolutions), this seems shortsighted. There's plenty of room on the screen for displaying more than just ONE of the several images available.
Solution 1: At first, I reasoned that one or more of the UIs probably permitted me to adjust the layout so that I could have several of those image tabs open at once. But as far as I can tell, this was wishful thinking.
Solution 2: A frontend. Theoretically, this would in fact be the solution to this specific problem. In practice, not so much. The first problem is resolution: There are really no freely available 1920x1080 (or in my case 1920x1200) layouts, and scaling a 1024x768 layout to fit 3x that resolution gives bad results. Second problem: See, the likes of Mamewah and Mala were designed to transform the PC into a video game box of sorts. Navigability is reduced to simplistic title scrolling; gone are the options to search for (or sort by) specific character strings, manufacturers, years, etc., as well as details like what the game is a clone of.
I suppose really what I'm hoping is that I've overlooked a good UI that does in fact enable more than just one lonely image at a time. For now, I'm stuck with MAME Plus UI and its bizarrely slow text display.
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