Attract/Screensaver Question

[jombee]

I have the attract/screensaver set to use mame and other emulators using my favorites. I have noticed that Daphne, Zinc and Model2 games never come up in the game cycle. I have all three systems intergrated with mame using the GameEx config. Is it possible to have these games also show up in the attract/screensaver?

[bkenobi]

I was just about to check on that myself. Maybe you have to set the emulator to "use in screen saver" for it to show up? Not sure.

Actually, I had another attract mode question (not to derail your topic, but it's related so I don't want to post a whole new one). When I have a MAME game playing and I add coins, I can play the game. However, after ~3 minutes the game quits and goes to the next screen saver selection (video or game). I checked the runitgame.bat and see that GameEx doesn't tell MAME to quit after a time period, so GameEx must not be seeing my interaction with MAME. I'm using custom keyboard input in GameEx and a gamepad in MAME in case that helps. Any thoughts?

[jombee]

  bkenobi said:

I was just about to check on that myself. Maybe you have to set the emulator to "use in screen saver" for it to show up? Not sure.

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Well, the "emulator" is Mame, I think. I do not have these set up as separate emulators, they are set in GameEx options to run off the Mame list with the Zinc, Daphne or Model2 emulator, instead of mame. The other emulators in my favorites (Vpinball, MagicEngine, SSF, etc.) all work fine. It is just the Daphne, Zinc and Model2 games that never show up in the attract/screensaver. I have no idea how I would set them to "use in screen saver".

[Tom Speirs]

  jombee said:

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Well, the "emulator" is Mame, I think. I do not have these set up as separate emulators, they are set in GameEx options to run off the Mame list with the Zinc, Daphne or Model2 emulator, instead of mame. The other emulators in my favorites (Vpinball, MagicEngine, SSF, etc.) all work fine. It is just the Daphne, Zinc and Model2 games that never show up in the attract/screensaver. I have no idea how I would set them to "use in screen saver".

Thats not currently supported in GameEx. I am aware of it.

[jombee]

  TSpeirs said:

Thats not currently supported in GameEx. I am aware of it.

Thanks for the reply Tom!

Can you please consider this a new "feature" request then?

Thanks again!

[Tom Speirs]

Yes, will do.