bulge2 Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 Ok the process of transfer is starting any unorthorised grabing of stuff will be punished its only a few days I dont want what happened last time so ill be keeping my eyes open I dont want to have to lock it down are you uploading a new build bp?
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 it wont work with arcades...but will do with any build you make no worries... I would appreciate it if you told me why. I understand that it won't work with Arcades, but I want to know what datfiles I am effecting by making changes like this. What are the repercussions other than not being in sync with Arcades?
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 no other issues at all. Just out of sync with arcades
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 no other issues at all. Just out of sync with arcades Good to know. Thanks BP. I've pretty much solved my problems so far. I've figured out how to remap most games. And I've figured out how to edit the game title in the GUI on a source level. Still having a huge problem here though. I can't seem to get the sort by Type/Genre to work in the GUI. For some reason the only options open to me are "Name", "Year", "ROM Status", "Manufacturer", "Parent ROM". Right now I am using your last skin for Arcades, but I plan to change the skin if I make a release of my own someday. Any idea how I could fix this BP? It's probably a datafile that I'm missing. Maybe my catver is messed up?
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) 24 hours time or so ill release a new thread. It will be alot tighter than this one (hint RX) with pics, no getting off the subject with the new thread or it will be cut as yes I need to get the build up and pin down a new direction of things...you will understand soon. Basically it will be a total new disc....it is being built with a new feature of version controls (each new patch can be installed and wont need any patch before it eg if you get version 10 patch you wont need all the other 9 they will all beincluded in 10) each patch from now on can be less than 20megs id say and will be mainly bug fixs, skin tweaks and UI tweaks as the roms are starting to get bloated now. So you will need a new disc (maybe a new title but penciled in Arcades Plus at moment) the standard disc should rock and patchs only for die hards...but I am including patch tech for me to easily produce patchs that dont rely on getting all of them in sequence to work. Sorry the release will be large but its a major overhaul of the rom package and also because of so many past builds I dont want them mixing up...so it will probably get a new save as well and a new folder so the 2 can run side by side if you wish although I dont know why you would do this. Edited March 26, 2008 by BritneysPAIRS
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) the skin wont work with the build your running sorry lots will be messed up id say.....maybe not id I would bet it probably is. Sort by cat is gone because the files arent synced Sorry RX your build questions take way to much time.... I wish all the best with your build but I must get work done here and my interests dont really lye in teaching you developement work there is still alot of things you havent fixed that are fixed in arcades (at least 50 different things that needed fixing for certain stuff) and your build to me as I say im not interested in, if I was it would have been done by now. I have an hour or so a day to do this cause although you say I havent got a life....well you are just saying stuff that you really know little about or should I take your word for it. Edited March 26, 2008 by BritneysPAIRS
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) the skin wont work with the build your running sorry lots will be messed up id say.....maybe not id I would bet it probably is. Sort by cat is gone because the files arent synced Sort by category had not worked since I first tried this source. It was the very first thing that I checked. So it didn't not-work because of anything that I did. Maybe the source that you gave me was already changed enough that the sort by genre function doesn't work. I don't understand why it wouldn't work though. The Category is derived from the catver, so no matter what changes I do to the source, I should be able to sort by the results from the catver. Any ideas on how I can get it working on mine again? I'm assuming that it's something I have to change in the skin.ini. Edited March 26, 2008 by ressurectionx
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 you are totally looking in the wrong area again I dont want to teach you how to develop I could fix it in 2 secs but I have allready done this..... it has to do with source vs other files fixing one will not fix it both must be synced. Like everything in mame any files arnt matched you will get errors. There are alot of other skin issues you have with that build right now if you look closer alot.... they will need to be fixed as well please dont ask me what they are I have fixed them and why do I have to do it all again for you all the time when its done and done years ago
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) Im sorry rx but id bet if you put it to a vote people would rather I do stuff and release it vs teaching you and letting you do your stuff its no offense but people should be more pissed as you really are getting in the way of progress and eating half the dev time I have Vote A ) Let me develop Arcades in peaceVote B ) slow develop and teach RX the basics of mame new thread more on the actually subject tommorrow (wasning for anythone time wasting off the subject will result in warnings) anything about the actaully release is no worries Edited March 26, 2008 by BritneysPAIRS
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) Because I've figured out this much at this point. I'm not asking you to fix anything for me. I'm asking you to tell me which files are being effected. I believe at this point I've proven that I'm not an idiot and I can figure a lot out on my own. Throw me a bone here. Which file(s) do I have to edit to change options in the GUI. If I know which files, I can figure the rest out on my own. If it would take 2 seconds for you to fix, it couldn't take you long to just tell me where to go to fix it. EDIT: I don't see how you've wasted any time here today. I've figured it out all on my own up to this point and you haven't answered any one of my questions except to tell me when I've done something right. Edited March 26, 2008 by ressurectionx
BritneysPAIRS Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 (edited) class files are unmatched plus need to be assigned to skin.ini skin H and Cpp and to cat H and CPP filesthen skin.ini and cat.xml must match the calls RX is Voting for B by looks Edited March 26, 2008 by BritneysPAIRS
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 class files are unmatched plus need to be assigned to skin.ini skin H and Cpp and to cat H and CPP filesthen skin.ini and cat.xml must match the calls I don't know what class files are, but I'll figure that out. At least I have some names to go by. I know what the skin.ini file is and where it's located. I've found the skin.h and skin.cpp files and will check them out later. But I can't find cat.h or cat.cpp.... a search for "cat" in the source only gives mcatadv.c and mcatadv.obj, which are the drivers for Magical Cat Adventures. The only xml file I find is romstatus.xml. so I'm not sure what these "cat" files and the cat.xml file you speak of are.
ressurectionx Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 well i voteA.not a tough one to call. That's pretty selfish of you fumanchu. The scene will die in a year or two with the last batch of coders because they didn't hand any of their secrets down. If you're happy with unfinished projects like Surreal64 then I can't blame you for voting A. If you'd ever like to see more stuff getting done though, I would think it be in your best interest to see people who are actually getting some coding done learn the tricks. People who actually post about actually fixing problems they have with XBox and not people who whine about problems they have or only come around to say anything when a coder releases a new build. BP hasn't spent any time helping me here. He knows it. He may have spent time here today, sure, but he hasn't helped me out. I've figured this all out for myself. It would be nice to have some of the missing pieces filled in though. It's not as if I'm a bumbling retard n00b that can't figure stuff out. I've already exceeded BP's expectations.
oldskool Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 Vote A. To ressurectionx, After reading some of your posts on this thread and the xbox-scene "Mameox128 - Working Romset Project" thread, you have got far more than you deserved (i.e the arcades source) even after insulting BP. I'm sure alot of other people in BP's position would have replied in a much harsher manner than he did ...
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