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Ok - added a couple of new home screens for v20. Task for now is to scrap the current theme as I know it works and had to see something that all matched and try to build something based on the logo art where it says Kiosk ( the blue one ).

BACKUP YOUR ORIGINAL KIOSK DIRECTORY RELEASED: V1.0.19 Featuring Cash Transfer between emulators and GUI. Always ensure you can roll back - this is a live project in development. I do not see bugs, but you never know ! All art thanks to ChatGPT, it may not be to peoples taste but I needed to get something fully themed to make sure this worked. You will need to supply your own art or ask ChatGPT ! New Features - Shared Cash for some emulators enabled. - Banilla emulator added. - EQME emulator added. - Home screens ( 2 versions ) Fixes - MVFME slider increase to delay tear down of loading screen more. - Custom logos working. - Widgets now allow you to edit multiple buttons at once. Improvements - New group solution where games can be put into groups from Tag manager on main Kiosk ( CTRL T if enabled ). - Themes can now have a custom icon for background effects. - Additional sort where Most Played, will show the games most played first. IF YOU USE THE CASH FEATURE FOR MVFME, IT WILL WANT TO DO A MAPPING FILE FOR THE FIRST TIME YOU RUN EACH GAME WITH CASH ENABLED. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO DO THIS. A few pictures of a themed cabinet with these new features... This is the Kiosk using poster art for all systems for a homepage, this is the first of two homepages. This is the second of two homepages, using the card art for all systems. If you have a homepage setup ( you do not need to ), you can select only show the tab art for the current system - you can press the home icon to go back to the list. This shows a game selection screen using the custom icons without reducing the tab bar. This show the cash setup screen. Notice that some are orange, all this means is that the cash value will not show on the screen. At this release, cash transfer will move from these emulators: - Banilla - BVEE - EQME - IGME - MVFME Although the picture shows Mame is highlighted, that just means the cash value will be on that screen of the Kiosk. Remember MVFME needs the mapping done once per game, it will create an entry file on where to store credits on first launch. The process is basically... - Enter current value of bank. - Do a Spin. - Enter new value of bank. It should then narrow the cash value down to one entry and whenever you go back into that game again, you will transfer the balance from the Kiosk. Happy spinning...

Slight delay on the themes as I was struggling to get an emu working, it is now - so it now supports Banilla. Doing EQME then returning to the GUI and shared cash. I can fully expect an update before COP this week. Made some generic buttons so I can mess around with those for you and also have some posters for the full page kiosk art. This is just for internal testing, but allows me to have assets that I can actually see and adjust and also support your little buttons ( to make bigger ). You've seen a preview of the home tab, it will use buttons like this - you have to all create your own, this is just AI. But will also look at doing a different home screen that will have tile type buttons for the systems. Plan is to continue to keep this modular - but yes, everything being well - before the weekend. I wanna get most the work done tonight - watch football tomorrow - then fully test for an evening before release.

A wip... Those pictures will be A4 sized ( in terms of spec ) platform pictures - I'll reduce the size dynamially - but they flip left and right on the arrows and support custom graphics.

Sure I can do that next. In PM, you spoke more about a home screen - tell me exactly what your ideal home screen would look like please.

So pretty much all the bugs that @dudese raised are fixed - I think all of them - we have had a PM exchange going. What I am working on at the moment is the Kiosk to have it's own cash ( that will later be integrated into hoppers etc ). Currently, the Kiosk can have a running cash total, this is it for BVEE... I can go into a game and the balance transfers and works, I have use £1 of it to take it to £26.65. On the IGME emu, we can see after exiting the game the credit has moved over... This again is shown ingame... We then move to MVFME... We launch a game... ...this is one that we have not played since the cash update. It brings a popup saying that the this has not been mapped ( basically it needs the memory location of where the cash inserts ). It gives you a couple of instructions and then it is mapped and shared credits work across the Kiosk. If the mapping is already there - you go straight in with the credits. Icons now now use all kinds of available ones included SWF files. Work continues...

Take a look in the cab area, myself and others have built a few of these - you should find a lot of inspiration and we can answer any questions there.

The All tab, make a theme you like, save the theme in one of the slots and apply.

OK - PM me your entire kiosk folder but EXCLUDE the exe. I want all the files that sit next to the GPC Kiosk software please. Let me try go through your files.

I honestly don't know what your problem is with the community tab so it's hard to replicate. I have just done this for community and it works... DO NOT USE ANY GROUPS - LET THE EMULATOR DO IT'S JOB WITH YOUR GAMES DB. The groups is really only for bringing two groups into one.

So the only two outstanding things you have now are... 1. The timer for the loading screen - the request is to make it last longer... 2. The custom icons not showing... First point I can just add to that on the next version ( you can actually edit your mvfme-paths.json and change it there ). Let me know what value works for you an I can adjust the slider. Second point, did you enable them - they need to be turned on under the GUI.

I tried using the word Rainbow and it worked fine, it took the rainbow riches from the custom tab and appeared in its own and didn't show it. Ensure that the tag has community in the game name as well. You have to setup the tags, not just enable it. The MVFME delay is for the loading screen - if the emulator is loading quickly, then you want a shorter delay so the loading screen is there less time. For the image, you can hit HOME when a game is running, that should do the screen shot. You can also do CTRL R to start and CTRL R to stop that will record a quick video and if you enable video loaders, that will play instead. Nothing I can do if the screen gets pissed, that is likely the little screen on the PC.

RELEASED: V1.0.18 Fixes No blue flash at start. MVFME delay now works - was ignored by launcher. Search will show custom icons first if default for a group and also priority current system. CTRL+I works for icons in game. Improvements Basic GUI Modification Changes - Graphic Banner that can be changed. Custom icons can be set in config for groups. This is enabled under global kiosk settings to show. Scrolling pages with swipe up / down and mouse up / down as well as cursor up, down, left and right. Group config previously only worked off tags - now it also works off filenames as well. Example of what you can start to do - obviously use your own graphics...

Tomorrow when I get in from work, I think I've got everything fixed and added some new super sexy stuff outside of what I showed you on the PM. I'll do an hour or so testing and if good, the world has this one. I need to at least test the four bugs that were done - make sure they are good and I think we're there.

Now it does this... Priority is given to the tabs - so if MVFME has custom icons then when you search it will show that, so it can display a mix based on what you have. Whatever you see in the kiosk when you go into groups is what can be shown here.