I use mameplus 'under the hood', and attractmode for my front end.
For sanity I have mame in c:/Mame/ and attractmode in C:/Attractmode/
You can grab my theme here to get you going:
http://depositfiles.com/files/x2fwe4t5a
Copy this into Attractmode/layouts/ (so the files are in Attractmode/layouts/pb4u/)
So on attractmode... load it up (assuming you have mame already up and running OK).
Setting up your emulator:
1. Press the tab button, and go to emulators at the top, press 'enter' to go into that menu.
2. Select mame and press enter
3. Go to the executable option (2nd down) and type in the location of your mame exe. Mine is c:/Mame/mamep.exe (because I am using mameplus - yours may have a different name)
4. Set up the rom path location - mine is in c:/Mame/Roms/
5. System identifier should be left as 'mame' and the file types should be .zip;.7z;(dir) (more than less than symbols there, the forum doesn't like those)
6. You may want to add your artwork paths (at the bottom). Select 'Add artwork' and add the name of the artwork and your paths at the bottom for flyers, marquees, snapshots and wheel art - just like you set up the roms path. ie.:
flyer c:/mame/flyer
marquee c:/mame/marquee
snap c:/mame/snap
wheel c:/mame/wheel
7. Finally select 'generate collection/rom list'. This will add your mame roms to a list that attractmode uses for the front end menus. It should say 'generating Rom List xx%' and will take a while if you have more than a handful of roms.
8. If you don't already have artwork you can try the 'scrape artwork' option (it can take a very long time). It can pick up quite a few for a quick start but I prefer to modify my own manually these days.
Setting up the frontend style:
1. press the tab button and go up to the 'displays' item. Inside that go to 'add new display', and call it 'myDisplay'
2. 'myDisplay' should appear in the menu above you, so go into that, and you'll see the display options.
3. At the top you can name it what you want 'my display for testing' or whatever.
4. Then the important bit.. the 2nd option is layout. Go to that, and then press up/down to select layouts that are available from the layout folder. 'pb4u' will activate the one you have downloaded - there are tons of others you can download and some that come with attractmode like Attrac-Man. You can try any that you fancy.
5. Set collection/Rom List to 'mame' - the entries are pre-filled here, so up/down selects them
6. That should be all that is needed. If you back out of all the menus, you'll get back the default front-end layout. Then left/right by default should swap layouts (you can define the controls later if you don't want this).
Flinnster2016-11-22 21:49:16
