2014-05-22

Emu Loader v7.6

EmuLoaderEmu Loader v7.6 is released. Emu Loader was created to manage an arcade games emulator called M.A.M.E. With this frontend, you can change practically any option that is available in the emulator, like the screen resolution, sound quality, game options, etc. There are lots of extra features that makes your life much more easier, like the snapshots viewer where all captured images from M.A.M.E. games can be viewed when selecting games.

Emu Loader v7.6 Changelog:
Fixed
Game info and game icon displayed when editing MAME/HBMAME custom settings: horizont.ini; vertical.ini; debug.ini; vector.ini
Hint texts not showing on some menu items
Splash screen resize function for 740x480 / 640x480 resolutions was being executed on every FormShow() call. It should be executed only once
Messages dialog height is bigger than Windows resolution if the text is too long. Fix for all resolutions, not just low res
Minor interface tweaks

Changed
Moved driver status settings from customize columns dialog / View Mode tool bar button to preference screen, "Games List" page. It makes more sense. The customize columns dialog exists purely to change columns positions, visibility and their sizes (details/grouped view modes)
Read/write settings also moved from [Configuration] to [Preferences] section (EmuLoader.ini)
The following screens/dialogs automatically adapt their layouts to fit 640x480 / 720x480 resolutions (only when needed)
- messages dialog
- emulators setup screen
- customize columns screen
- select system dialog
- delete/copy/move single game dialog
- view file versions (redesigned, main menu "View")
Preferences screen redesigned to fit 640x480 resolution... and to avoid waste of space
The following screens/dialogs were resized to fit 640x480 /720x480 resolutions
- frontend's select file custom dialog
- frontend's select folder custom dialog
- favorites manager dialog
Images manager update (main menu "Images")
- layout updated to maximize workspace and to fit 1024x768 resolution (minimum res required!)
- proper image folder detection, in case the folder is defined but doesn't actually exist
- removed the image category column as you can only scan one category at a time; category now shown at the top (missing icons list)
- added all driver status fields; icons only, no texts (columns cannot be resized)
- added driver name column
- new scan option: "Scan Devices With No ROMs", disabled by default so you can eliminate device sets like "sound", "screen", "spc700", "5380 SCSI"
- fixed a few bugs, internal and visual
MAMu_ icons manager update (you should reset columns sizes in "Options" button, status bar)
- layout updated to maximize workspace and to fit 800x600 resolution (minimum res required!)
- proper folder detection, in case the folder is selected but doesn't actually exist
- added all driver status fields; icons only, no texts (columns cannot be resized)
- columns order changed for better viewing: game title; game name; clone of; bios name; driver name; driver status; emulation status; color status; sound status; graphic status; manufacturer; version added
- new scan option: "Search Icons for Devices With No ROMs", disabled by default so you can eliminate device sets like "sound", "screen", "spc700", "5380 SCSI"
- fixed a few bugs, internal and visual

Improved
none

Removed
none

Added
Support to read/write mame.ini in "emu_dir\ini\" sub-folder
Detection of "drivername.ini" files in "emu_dir\ini\" folder along with "emu_dir\ini\source\" on set/delete custom driver options (MAME/HBMAME)
Small tool bar buttons is back! Icons size used is 28x22 pixels (main menu "View" / "Tool Bar Buttons" or customize tool bar dialog)
The main filter button only show the "all games" icon no matter what filter is selected
Read/write support for "arcade.ini" config file, exclusive for UME v0.153ex2 and newer (games popup menu, Custom Settings sub-menu)
Watch game video previews using a media player of your choise. This feature was created with "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" portability in mind... http://mpc-hc.org
- any video/audio format is supported as long as you have the codec installed in Windows and/or an application to play them
- only the first file found is played if there are multiple files with same gamename but different extensions (TSearchRec search pattern: gamename.*)
- any media player application that load video/audio from the command line can be used
- feature settings located in "Video Preview" page, preferences screen and saved in "el_dir\ini_files\video_preview.ini" file
- command line parameters support for more control over the media player (switches)
- a %1 tag is required so it can be replaced by the video/audio filename (no surrounding quotes required)
- relative paths are relative to the frontend, not emulators
- folder recursive scan is NOT supported to avoid dog-slow file search, excessive disk reading and pointless waste of RAM/CPU resources
- executable or batch files can be used
- media player parameters are saved based on the app filename, you can have as many media players setup as you want. Emu Loader will remember parameters for each of them :)
- manual playback: "Shift-V" shortcut; "Play Video Preview" in games popup menu or button in images tool bar buttons; assigned button for arcade controllers
- setting "AutoPlay" to play videos as you select games (disabled by default for safety reasons)
- setting "Parent Game Video" to play video of parent game, if selected game is a clone and the video is not found (disabled by default)
- setting "Play Videos Enabled" to toggle the feature ON/OFF in case you wish to completely disable this feature (enabled by default)
Columns header custom font. That's right, now you can customize the header font in details/grouped view mode. Found in games popup menu and preferences screen, "Games List" page

Download: EmuLoader v7.6
Source: Here

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