> The next release of MAME will support icons for software list entries, and enhanced > ICO file support including PNG-in-ICO with alpha transparency. Software icons go in a > subdirectory of the icon path. For example, if your icon path is icons, you should > put your Game Boy software icons in the directory icons/gameboy/ or the archive > icons/gameboy/icons.zip and your V.Smile cartridge icons in the directory > icons/vsmile_cart/ or the archive icons/vsmile_cart/icons.zip (the filename for > individual icons should be the shortname of the software item with the extension .ico > appended. > > For example here's the Game Boy software selection menu with some icons for > illustrative purposes: > > > Software favourites in the machine selection menu show the icon of the system they'll > launch on (I have no icon for Zorba, Super Mario Land and Tetris will launch Game > Boy, and Link's Awakening will launch Game Boy Color): > > > The software selection menus may also be filtered on favourites now. This will > include compatible faourite software that's set to launch a different system. For > example, filtering Game Boy Color software for favourites includes Super Mario Land > and Tetris which are set to launch of Game Boy from the main favourites menu: > > > Hopefully someone finds this useful or fun. I'm not in a position to be producing > icon packs for this, but if someone does I'd love to see them.
Being able to use these icons is freakin' rad.
I remember I used to download MaMu's icon packs back in the day but the sheer amount of them made my computer slow down to a crawl (not to mention the files would weirdly take up a lot of space when uncompressed. I guess it had something to do with FAT32?)
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