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A web interface for MiSTer
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Arcade question/issue #3

Closed pividivi closed 4 years ago

pividivi commented 4 years ago

I am giving feedback about: WebMenu

My opinion is: Great idea. Good start!

I believe that because: I like to be able to remote control what the mister is running. This way I can sort of make it a "jukebox" to run some demo's or attract modes from arcade cores, without requiring to grab a controller or dig up the keyboard.

But: The Arcade part of the webmenu does not seem to correspond with the menu structure on the mister menu. I suspect the webmenu only scans for the arcade .rbf's? I think it actually should be scanning and parsing the .mra files. Because in it's current state, you can launch an arcade core, but most of them do not run correctly; the core is there (loaded, F12 gives you the core menu) but I think the needed rom is not loaded because I only see a black screen outside of the menu.

nilp0inter commented 4 years ago

Right now WebMenu does not support .mra files, only .rbf as you mention, but .mra it is the next thing on the roadmap. I expect it to be ready by next week.

I REALLY like the "jukebox" idea! Thank you!

I am opening a couple of issues to improving tracking, one for the .mra support and other for the "jukebox" feature.

nilp0inter commented 4 years ago

I am closing this issue. You can keep track of both feature requests in #6 and #7.

Thank you very much!

nilp0inter commented 4 years ago

Hi @pividivi ,

I've implemented MRA support in https://github.com/nilp0inter/MiSTer_WebMenu/releases/tag/v0.4.0rc2

I am probably not releasing a stable release until Monday in the mean time it would be very helpful if you can give it a try.

pividivi commented 4 years ago

Hi Roberto,

I tried the v0.4 version. There is progress! I notice the following things:

[image: image.png] As far as I know this is the standard structure when using the updater script and the default Retrodriven update script. With the new version of the WebMenu I seem to be missing all the cores in the _Jotego, _Sega System 1, _Unofficial and _Alternatives folders. They are not visible in the WebMenu after a (re)scan. It would be nice to scan and see them as sub-folders under Arcade in the Webmenu. Or prefix the core's name with the dir name/. Or only see the _Unofficial and _Alternatives folders as sub-folders, while the _Jotego & _Sega System 1 folders are mixed in with the rest in the default ARCADE view (the "root" view).

[image: image.png] For instance, the above core shows Missing, but it works correctly when I launch it. The only cores that show "ROMs: Found" are: Pong, Computer Space, Pacmanic Miner and Mr. Do Nightmare

Hopefully my findings will help!

regards, Pieter

Op vr 8 mei 2020 om 01:35 schreef Roberto Abdelkader Martínez Pérez < notifications@github.com>:

Hi @pividivi https://github.com/pividivi ,

I've implemented MRA support in https://github.com/nilp0inter/MiSTer_WebMenu/releases/tag/v0.4.0rc2

I am probably not releasing a stable release until Monday in the mean time it would be very helpful if you can give it a try.

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nilp0inter commented 4 years ago

Hi @pividivi ,

It looks like you responded via email. Unfortunately I think Github does not support adding images to email responses, so I don't see them and seems pretty important.

Could you please respond through the Github UI so that the message is well formatted. Also could you do that on issue #6 instead on this one?

Thank you for your time!