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MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName) [UPDATED v1.2]

Posted: October 3rd, 2018, 5:12 pm
by Fuzzymannerz
Hey there!

Whilst planning an arcade cabinet build I remembered I had an LCD screen and thought it would be awesome if it displayed the name of the current game from MAME. (https://www.mamedev.org/) along with some other system information.
I couldn't find any plugins so I wrote one and present it to you here today...

Updated to v1.2 - Now auto detects 32 or 64bit and is compatible with MAMEUIFX32/64 & ARCADE32/64.

mameName v1.2
Displays the name of the current running game ROM in MAME. (mamedev.org)

USAGE:

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$dll(mameName,1,[hideLongName (0/1)],0)
The first parameter is always 1, the last is always 0.
"hideLongName" will show the full name when set to 0 and attempt to show the game name only when set to 1. 1 is the recommended setting.

Say we are playing the ROM titled "Galaxian (Namco set 1) [galaxian]".

Here's how it would look with different settings:

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$dll(mameName,1,0,0)
LCD Display: "Galaxian (Namco set 1) [galaxian]"
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$dll(mameName,1,1,0)
LCD Display: "Galaxian"
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Also MAMEUIFX compatible:
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DOWNLOAD v1.2:
mameName_1.2.zip
Latest will always be available at: https://fuzzytek.net


:)

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName)

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 12:44 am
by trihy
Fuzzymannerz wrote:Hey there!

:)
Hi. Thanks. Cool plugin.

Im using mameuifx, do you think it will work with this one?

Tried but got mame not found on lcd screen.

Edit. Tried with mame from mamedev and works fine! I usually use mameuifx, if there is a way to make it work with other mames will be great.

Also, maybe you could change the message of mame not found by something like waiting for mame. It will look better, not sure how easy will be changing this, just a suggestion :D

I check your github and saw you have a spotify track converter. Could you take a look at my spotify plugin request? Maybe you can help me :) It`s here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3692

Thanks

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName)

Posted: October 4th, 2018, 2:05 pm
by Fuzzymannerz
trihy wrote: Im using mameuifx, do you think it will work with this one?
Also, maybe you could change the message of mame not found by something like waiting for mame. It will look better, not sure how easy will be changing this, just a suggestion :D
Thanks
Hi! Check original post! :)
trihy wrote: Could you take a look at my spotify plugin request? Maybe you can help me
https://fuzzytek.ml/misc/spotify2lcd/ ;)

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName)

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 1:50 am
by trihy
Fuzzymannerz wrote:
trihy wrote: Im using mameuifx, do you think it will work with this one?
Also, maybe you could change the message of mame not found by something like waiting for mame. It will look better, not sure how easy will be changing this, just a suggestion :D
Thanks
Hi! Check original post! :)
trihy wrote: Could you take a look at my spotify plugin request? Maybe you can help me
https://fuzzytek.ml/misc/spotify2lcd/ ;)
Hi, both works perfect.

At first try mameuifx wasnt working, then I realized it was looking for mameuifx. So, renamed the .exe

In case you want to add it to the detection list, mameuifx I think got renamed to arcade64.exe and arcade32.exe. I use the one here for new builds https://insertmorecoins.es/arcade-0-202 ... ts-no-nag/ or here http://www.emucr.com/2018/09/arcade-v0202_28.html

Thanks.

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName)

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 11:16 am
by Fuzzymannerz
trihy wrote: In case you want to add it to the detection list, mameuifx I think got renamed to arcade64.exe and arcade32.exe. I use the one here for new builds https://insertmorecoins.es/arcade-0-202 ... ts-no-nag/ or here http://www.emucr.com/2018/09/arcade-v0202_28.html
Thanks.
Done, updated initial post download. :)

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName) [UPDATED v1.2]

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 3:14 pm
by Guest
Great. Works perfect.

There is more info we can snatch from mame?

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName) [UPDATED v1.2]

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 3:57 pm
by Fuzzymannerz
Guest wrote:Great. Works perfect.

There is more info we can snatch from mame?
At the moment, the way the plugin works there isn't, maybe I'll look more into it sometime in the future though.

Re: MAME Arcade Game Name Plugin (mameName) [UPDATED v1.2]

Posted: October 5th, 2018, 7:57 pm
by trihy
Thanks. It's enough for me :mrgreen: Was mainly for knowing purposes.