The MAME port is really nice as it is for a first release. This is outstanding work and Franxis has worked miracles.
I have a couple of ideas that would enhance it.
Yes we all know that a .fxe frontend would be nice. Not going to go into that further.
One other thing may be even more useful though. That is to have a config file .CFG that would go with each ROM. Franxis would know the best way. I thought of a MAMECFG dir with the ROMZIPNAME.CFG files in that but can be done many ways.
What this would do is when a game is loaded it would read the CFG file and set up all the parameters automatically such as Clock speed, sound options, frameskip, even screen orientation. This would help because games all run better with different settings. Pac-man runs better w/FS1 and 133, while others need FS2 and 166 and some you may want to run at FS0 and 144, on and on... I always have to load a game, then go back and forth then play around tweaking with the settings a bunch of times to get it at its good combination of settings. It would be great if this could be saved for each game so that you don't have to try to remember what games work best with which settings every time.
Hell, this could even be used for an eventual frontend/launcher. The frontend could read this .CFG file and it would then know which .fxe to load! It would solve many problems
I think it wouldn't be too hard to add, and would make things much nicer, just an idea. What do you think?
I have a couple of ideas that would enhance it.
Yes we all know that a .fxe frontend would be nice. Not going to go into that further.
One other thing may be even more useful though. That is to have a config file .CFG that would go with each ROM. Franxis would know the best way. I thought of a MAMECFG dir with the ROMZIPNAME.CFG files in that but can be done many ways.
What this would do is when a game is loaded it would read the CFG file and set up all the parameters automatically such as Clock speed, sound options, frameskip, even screen orientation. This would help because games all run better with different settings. Pac-man runs better w/FS1 and 133, while others need FS2 and 166 and some you may want to run at FS0 and 144, on and on... I always have to load a game, then go back and forth then play around tweaking with the settings a bunch of times to get it at its good combination of settings. It would be great if this could be saved for each game so that you don't have to try to remember what games work best with which settings every time.
Hell, this could even be used for an eventual frontend/launcher. The frontend could read this .CFG file and it would then know which .fxe to load! It would solve many problems
I think it wouldn't be too hard to add, and would make things much nicer, just an idea. What do you think?