MAMEUI request: parent/clone universal icon color

[mame-licious]

Hi

For some reason the chip color for a working parent is grey but the chip color of a working clone of this parent is green. I don't know if this is a bug, but it's applied everywhere for each parent/clone available. A parent, for this reason, can NEVER have a green chip color.

According to me there is no need to have a color difference between a working parent or its working clones. It makes sense to display them all green, no matter if it's a parent or clone.

Would you be interested to change working parent icon's color to green, the same as their clones? It's very confusing the way it works now (the proof is that I was confused about this for days until I found out this specific behavior in MAMEUI)

Below a screenshot of the latest MAMEUI version:

 

- wboy is a parent, working, but grey color

- wboy2 is a clone of wboy, working, and green color

[mame-licious]

You can see the yellow color for parents is working, because if you look at the screenshot, there are 4 games displayed yellow and they are all parent machines.

So if you apply my request, chips having grey color will be completely eliminated from the games list because:

- parents can already have yellow color chips (this behavior is already correct right now)

- parents that WERE grey will be converted to green (if you apply my request) and this eliminates grey color chips completely

This makes the game list have universal yellow/green colors for parents and clones and this is according to me the best to display them.

I hope you can apply this change

Edited 5 hours ago by mame-licious

[mame-licious]

I looked at how ARCADE is doing it and there working parents are green chips. And even more, I like the way the icon chip colors are used in ARCADE more and I would like to ask if you want to apply the icon colors of ARCADE to MAMEUI because they are much better and intuitive for beginners too.

ARCADE:

- working parent: green chip (example "wboy") / working clone: lighter green chip (example "wboy2")

- not working parent or clone: red chip (example "wheelfir")

- partially working parent or clone: yellow chip (example "wow")

- missing roms for parent or clone: grey chip (example "warlords")

 

Why is this better then current MAMEUI icons? You can immediately see working (green), partially working (yellow) or not working (red) while missing roms are grey chips. MAMEUI is displaying grey for working parents and a red cross for not working parents/clones. The grey chip for working parents can create a lot of confusion and the red cross for not working parents/clones could better be replaced by a red chip (since the green and yellow chips also are complemented logically with a red chip for not working games)

It's more consistent and intuitive if the chips are used for ALL green/yellow/red status. And in addition grey chips should be used for MISSING roms (grey is now used for working parents in MAMEUI which is totally not-intuitive !!!).

Edited 1 hour ago by mame-licious