MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Somewhat First Timer here, Tokusatsu Nut, and Hope to be with mame for Long Haul

> Salutations and This is somewhat of a first time post here. I go by JamesTCat as a
> personal username on a webcomic's forums I tend to frequent, and I will post
> webcomic's name alongside the fan work I am working on with said webcomic if
> everyone's in for the inane haul.

Welcome to the forum!!

> Anyways, A feature I hope to see implemented someday is the feature of having Mame
> automatically set the Game & Watch machine's time so you don't have to make it
> accurate every time you play the Game & Watch machines on Mame.

MAME is accurately emulating the machine like it works... a real G&W never turns off, until the battery dies. When the battery dies, and you replace it, you have to set the time again.

~~Instead of simply using ESC to end the game, you can create a save state [Shift+F7], then load that next time playing the game.~~ Nevermind... that won't work either, as it will be whatever time it was when you last played the game. We would need something to where MAME displays the time based on the system time on the end user machine. Maybe someone can come up with a LUA script for that later... that would be a cool add-on. Moving on...

> Also, I would like to see the software select prompt/bios without having to select
> software each and every time if to simply play custom software on MAME's Consoles and
> Handhelds.

This can be done today on the command line... after the system, define the type of media, and the location of the file. Example below is running the patched color version of SM2 Deluxe:

mame gameboy -cart c:\patched\sml2dlx.gbc

> Anyways, I will be keeping up with everything. I hope to Abide by the Rules and to
> treat everybody as if they were me. I am hoping to buy a most powerful and massive
> System76 machine possible to then make into my MAME Machine proper.

Appreciate the positive attitude. Hope you enjoy your time here!!

> Could possibly do some donations to The Dumping Union after buying well beyond 50
> thousand dollars worth in hardware and Mame accessories. Don't bite me just yet, I
> have yet to do something stupid or at the very least Inane.

RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.