Play instantly the game actually running in screensaver

[lalandev]

Hi guy!

Yesterday, a friend, running a nicely built cabinet asked me if I knew a way to « jump » into the game that the screensaver is playing (MAME or consoles).

He finds this very « teasing » to see a game that looks cool but you never played; and when you press a button, youâ??re back in gameex without knowing what was the game.

A few toughts :

Is there a way to display the name of the game at the bottom of the screen?

Could we press a combination of buttons to get in the game?

[Palmore]

I too would love to see this, I haven't tried yet, but I know in MAMEWah you could just hit player 1 to load that game that was being displayed.

But I agree if that games loaded and running, you should be able to walk up, hit Player 1 or Coin 1 and start in that game.

If you are looking to display game info in Attract Mode, turn on Show MAME bezel in the setup, it will show the game info at the bottom as well.

I don't think this will work for other emus, I have yet to try it as I only have MAME games setup in my screen saver thus far.

Since we are on the topic of Attract Mode / ScreenSaver I had 2 things I've notcied in the 2-3 days I've been running GameEX that kinda bug me with Attract Mode.

1. when using the speech plugin and in attract mode, it says "Game Over" after each game, hearing that repeat once a minute for an hour drives you crazy. It's ok to hear it when you are actually playing a game I think the effect is cool, but can that be turned off during attract mode?

2. last MAME game played, may not really display last MAME game "you" played, if attract mode kics in and cycles thru your MAME games, the last one loaded will stay as the last MAME game played. That can be good or bad. In your case good cause you can goto the last game loaded in the attract mode and play it. Bad cause, to me, I didn't play that game so I'd rather not see the last game loaded (via attract mode) rather the last game the user actually choose and loaded. (is this possible?)

Thanks

[bkenobi]

You should be able to press the coin button in MAME to start that game. It should take it out of demo mode and GameEx should not kill it like it would if you press any other button. I'm not sure about console games though. It seems like that would be an obvious need, so I'm sure Tom has done something to make that work.

[lalandev]

  bkenobi said:

You should be able to press the coin button in MAME to start that game. It should take it out of demo mode and GameEx should not kill it like it would if you press any other button. I'm not sure about console games though. It seems like that would be an obvious need, so I'm sure Tom has done something to make that work.

So we'll wait anxiously that Tom takes a look at this thread... hehe

[chriss]

there was a discussion before about this. you can't play console games in attract mode for the time being. but pressing the coin button let's you play mame games which works really nice on my cab!

[Palmore]

I tried this today, here's what I've noticed

Inserting coins works, and allows me to play, but I have MAME audio muted via the setup of GameEX during attract mode, thus when I drop in coins, still no audio.

Also the bottom bar with the game info etc stays

[bkenobi]

Yup, that's going to happen. There's no way around that at the moment.

It is possible to get rid of the info screen if you hit TAB and go to the video options menu. Turn off bezels or overlays (I forget which one it is) and the info bar will go away.

[Palmore]

Thats what I was figuring.

I'd be happy to even see it reload the game upon coin insert, that way the bezel guys bye and the game sound comes back

[bkenobi]

Perhaps that would be a good work around that Tom could consider implementing. It seems a bit like a hack (closing the game then reloading it), but I don't know of any other way to get around getting the sound back.