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RedCapsMan

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  1. Aright, I found the screenshots thats perfect, thankyou. The weekend is coming and I'll do a full install of the whole torrent since I've had the whole thing for days now plus my extra roms. The slow loading issue could be my harddrive since I've had this particular hdd running over two years, who knows. My issue with the videos in the correct aspect ratio aren't with the screensaver, per se. Its with the video playing in the games list GUI. The screensaver is nice but really I'm too busy browsing and playing games for that to be an issue. The one or two times I let the screensaver go for over 30 mins I never had any problems or glitches. I made my own screenshots of the recently added games so no packs needed! Love the help tho guys, I'm having a great time.
  2. I've been seeding at >100KB/s for over a day now. Big torrents take patience I'll be seeding until the start of next week. The videos are slowly winning me over. I've got a mix of pics and videos for my 1000+ collection of roms and I'm trying to take screenshots for the games that don't have any (because of recent game compatibility updates). Is the screenshot function working? I'm hitting back+a+b but I'm not sure its doing anything. I'll try with an actual wired controller instead of my panel or the wireless one I had tried last night.
  3. Hey, thought I'd show everyone what I use CoinOps on and why I'm so excited about each and every release. I've just finished the control panel but I think I'm going to put a layer of plexiglass over the artwork for a polished shiny finishing touch. Excuse the camera phone quality I'll be taking better quality pics once I'm happy with the result. http://s618.photobucket.com/albums/tt269/R...=1006090122.jpg
  4. I've got the entire Showcase now and I put the videos in with my previous install of R2. It seems like the games load a lot slower now and even the transition back from a game to the GUI has a long lag time. I'm assuming thats because the music and videos take up a bunch of ram and that that ram has to get rid of the video before it loads the games or conversely needs to load it up before the GUI shows. I turned off the "video preview" option and went back to screenshots but that lag still persists. I'm going to do a full re-install this weekend when I've got time to see if I screwed anything up there. Also, vertical games play their videos stretched to fit the screen. Is there any way to make them centered and at the correct aspect ratio?
  5. I've got 5 Gigs so far but I'm only grabbing the vids. Will seed what I get for a couple days.
  6. How does lightgun input actually work in CoinOps? Is it possible to use mouse input to control a gun cursor or is it specifically tied to an xbox lightgun? I'd have tried out a usb mouse already but I can't find the adapter I made eons ago. I only ask because of the AimTrak that was recently announced ( more info here http://www.ultimarc.com/aimtrak.php ). It seems like this thing would solve most of the calibration issues with the lightgun games since it emulates a mouse. It would be a very DIY option that I might be interested in pursuing.
  7. There are other people like me? I miss the rotate option the most. Didn't realize it was in the *.ini file though. I had been using R2 for that. A usable rotated skin should also be in there too. Something simple with just a list of games would be great. Personally I don't need videos just the game list and maybe a pic to go with it.
  8. Its because they were such sucky games that nobody bought them and they just aren't around anymore. Hard to find = sought after collectible. Hot Slots is the worst game ever, but thats off topic. I think the gabillion King of Fighters games are just a waste of time. Anything with so many sequels just means they can't get a game right and keep trying and hopes nobody notices as they pump in quarters They could have stopped in the late nineties and be done with it. Also: Captain Tomaday. Whats up with that game?
  9. People have brought up some valid points. Not all games will get played BUT, if you're going to release something this big why would you skimp on whats available? 8 Gigs vs 10 Gigs doesn't matter cuz its gonna take forever to download anyway unless its put on the newsgroups. I've got over 1000 proper roms for this already so all I need is the standalone coinops update and the vids. I'll then probably upload the vids to alt.bin.games.xbox myself. Can't get in too much trouble for video clips as opposed to spreading roms about. Make it as big as you can is what I say. *edit for additional thoughts* Doesn't the option to add games to your favorites list make your list of things to search through shorter? I thought that that was what the favs list was for. It takes some time to setup but anything worth doing has a cost.
  10. It will be a momentous day indeed... This is one of my most watched topics/projects online!
  11. Hey BP, I've been away for work and haven't been keeping up on your progress on a regular basis... and the first thing I see is this! Good luck, it looks good to me. I hate to beat a dead horse but is the screen rotation and a rotated skin going to be included in any of the new builds for ReIgnite? It seems like after you got the videos integrated this emu took off in a whole new direction. I'm the only one asking for this but you'd make me a happy man.
  12. Yes, a pm for me too if thats possible. I'm only missing 67 of 1.29's roms and I'm dieing to try out the latest incarnation of your work kenshiro. PS. Waal, you are my hero for the whole of today! I love the internet...
  13. I'll send a bottle of white! Can't wait for R5 and especially 6!
  14. if you like the mk games you do know about the mk pack dont you?? mk1,2 and 3 ripped from midway arcade treasures and lets you play the games right off the dash. Of course, I've got that too. They're great and obviously run the smoothest. My first mame/xbox arcade machine was Mortal Kombat themed. If I remember correctly the mk pack didn't let me remap the buttons the way I wanted for mk1 (or was that the extra disc from deadly alliance?), plus the games are all set for free play and I like to setup the coin slots to actually be usable. That way my friends and I can play with real quarters then tally up how much we would have spent. mamedist-b6 seems to work best for this so far.
  15. Both R2 and R4 because R4 is the newest thing out there (I was testing out sound in the MKs) and R2 cuz thats the last release that has the proper screen rotation settings in the hidden menu! The screen I'm rotating is small and isn't permanently installed in anything yet and I've got it leaning against my entertainment center. I've also got quite a few boxes around using different setups for different machines, tvs and monitors...
  16. Theres one big reason why the Coinops releases are better than 128plus for me: coinops works with the vga bios. It looks great on a vga lcd monitor and that saves me a ton of room when I've got lots of hardware stuffed in a cocktail cabinet. LCD means that things run alot cooler too and I don't have to worry about fans and ventilation as much. BP also has been kind enough to listen to some of my complaints/suggestions, and (even though hes pushed back some of the menu screen rotation stuff I need) hes been working on adding things in for me. At least I hope he is... its hard to be patient sometimes. Lets face it, MAME can be intimidating for people first venturing in to it on any platform. I think BP's vision is a mame that just works right out of the box for people that want to play the big classics and not have to deal with VMM and button config issues. Do I use other versions of MAME? Sure I do. On my many xboxes I've got MAMEoX128plus, CoinOps R2, Coinops R4 and mamedist-b6 (b6 is just for Mortal Kombat) all coexisting peacefully. And like most of us I'm closely watching FBAxxx's progress as well. Each one serves a purpose. An xbox is the cheapest and most versatile machine you can get either for emulation or as a media center and I'll be using mine for a long time to come.
  17. Aw... No rotated selection screen? Sound in midway games is a good tradeoff I guess. I personally won't be using video previews but I can see how everybody will want that since RX has put together his Xtras Packs.
  18. Will there be an HD vertical skin, an SD vertical skin or both on this release? You said before that you'd only be doing one but it wasn't clear as to which. I've been playing with the VGA bios and am just waiting on some parts to build the proper cable. If all goes well my cab setup may be in HD this time. I've been enjoying R2 for awhile now, you deserve a break after R4.
  19. "-Added prelim code for new screen on its side hidden settings" Oooooh I took the first steps at setting up my first cocktail mame cabinet with coinops and xbmc as its centerpiece last night. Small lcd screen and an xbox takes up most of the available space and I haven't started hacking together any controls yet but it was a great success. My friend and I set up Donkey Kong as a cocktail cabinet and the screen flips around for the second player! Its just perfect. Then we drank some beers and played through Turtles in Time. If I could just pull myself away from the video games I would take some pictures. If I could just get XBMC to rotate too this thing would ROCK.
  20. R4 sounds awesome. Thankyou again for changing the release naming system, its much easier to keep track of now. I'm ready for a pm too whenever R4 is ready.
  21. Excellent news! Thanks for the responses. I double checked and had the three different versions of ignite on one xbox just to make sure I wasn't going crazy. Fu, thanks for the quick PM and I'm excited for R4 when its ready!
  22. BP I've spent most of the day with R3 and I like the additions like the wma soundtrack and random select options. But what happened to the "Video Screen Mounted Vertically" option?! I was hoping that you'd be adding a vertical skin so I could use that as a template and make a custom one, not take away the one option I was so excited about. Is this still on the table or am I going to have to make do with R2? Maybe I'm missing something like an Ultra Hidden Menu. Then theres something else I've been thinking about. Getting cuts to work again will be fantastic, but is there a way to to have Coinops start a game automatically? So this way if I setup coinops as my dash and I turn the xbox on it will boot right into a specified game instead of going to the menu? Then you could just exit the game and go into the menu. That may be an odd request and is really superficial compared to how much I want a vertically mounted screen and a proper skin, but you're the man BP. You've made huge advances with this last batch of releases.
  23. Hey could I get a PM for this? I've got big plans and a weekend away from my girl to give this a thorough play. Thanks, I can't wait!
  24. An option to spin the menu around both ways would be ideal! And having just an SD skin is good enough for me for now. Maybe someone could try to do an HD skin later (or maybe I could give it a go). I've done some more playing around and I'm excited about the whole trackball thing, too! Thanks again BP.
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