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I like setups like that . .. although with mame at least it can search for what the zip files are named and populate your game lists easily. Too bad I'm not really a programmer but I never mind working a lil to try and mimic the same idea. So I take my poor poor html skills . .lol and instead of vb, c++ or whatever I try to accomplish the same look with an html page >_<

http://users3.ev1.net/~amfest/bakaloader.jpg

Yes it's silly but hey it works for me. I just have the launch point to a shortcut file I setup with the command line options I want. Looks really ugly right now though but oh well. Wish I knew more about c++ or something but I've only done simple console stuff with c++ and have never messed with vb . I don't really mind having to open up and manually edit things. lol. But it'd be nice if someone would make an actual frontend that looked like it.

 

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haha thats pretty neat, the only problem is you cant use a gamepad to navigate a webpage

a program would probably be a lot easier to handle adding games and such. editing defaults seettings, setting game cover jpeg, setting screen shots jpeg... etc.

=P

Actually you can setup a controller to navigate your computer and such as having the analog become your mouse cursor and such. You can also setup joypad keys to change your config for different applications or games. Try out a lil program called joytokey. I suggest using the analog stick buttons since alot of games don't actualy use that. You could push in one stick button to change to a profile setting config then push any other button to get to different configs . And if I knew a lil more I could techinally make a form that writes to a file therefore I would be able to add games and such. About the only thing that wouldn't work would be the shortcut files ..but then I could just make them batch files instead and write to those also. Maybe I should start up flash again . .I believe it could do it . .I already have it installed though I believe anything you write to would have to be in a certain folder due to security risks.

 

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yeah i know about joy2key.. the problem with joy2key for me.. is its good for navigating an interface.. but once you get into the actual emulator you'll run into problems with the emulator's joystick settings conflicting with joy2key. i've never really had any real success with it

Remember how I said to make the analog click buttons which are typically button 11 and 12 . .profile switchers. That's to say you are using a playstation controller or one that actually has all 12 buttons. You could then have the default as your mouse navigation sorta thing then click the left analog button 11 or 12 to switch to a profile that doesn't use any of the other buttons typically used. Like I move analog stick for mouse and click with button 1 to mouse click . .starting up emulator . . then click button 11 which switches my analog sticks to no use int he program so the emulator's settings take over . .button 12 becomes escape .. so I play my game as normal .. then click button 12 to go back to the interface and click button 11 to use the pad as a mouse again. Works for me.

Only games I can think of off hand that used the analog stick buttons 11 and 12 were twisted metal 2 ( for turbo only if I recall and you didn't even have to use it on there) and I think . .not sure Apocalpyse. So there really shouldn't be any conflicts for most that I know of.