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Sorry, been away just got back is this resolved ?

I built an arcade mame machine, hyperspin etc, but recently added a zillion buttons for mfme and added more buttons for nudging in pinball but always fancied making my own pinball cabinet. I will get around to it one day. Really nice to see what builds people have and take ideals from them, many thanks for sharing.

looks good @Tolax is that a 27" monitor ?

Today has been one of those days working on FruitBar, I have been adding the ability to play Windows software from within FruitBar, so what does this mean ? It means windows programs can be added into the section and you can show the theme images for these games to run similar to how mfme, mame, etc runs. So you should be able to add any windows program and you should be able to use switches and even add roms so any emulation should in theory be possible, It's just another feature I am working on, video shows how this works in the real world, I have not added a side panel video for this simply because I have not generated the file meaning the panel is always there waiting to popup. YouTube would not embed but the link is below. https://youtu.be/oaVcagC-FJw

Once the PC section is running you would for instance be able to load up nintendo 64 - Mario64 or basically anything, if your emulator for mario64 allows command line switches you could could just add the executable with the switch and rom name and it would load into the rom, this depends on the emulator to do this. Graphics you just add your own as normal, side panel add what ever you want, video, image, animation, etc...

Thanks for your comments @Ginge and thank you for keeping the images coming they are appreciated. The copying process should work if you copy over the roms to your PC , there is a slightly different setup in FruitBar that I use for MAME I will have to write up the instructions for it, the system does with normals zips but I have not added cab's from memory it was a fairly quick implementation and I only wanted to add the main games I would run, lots of the mame roms are historical from way back in history or are in a different language are they are roms I would never load, Think I actually borrowed the code for mame which was used in the vpinball section mainly due to my cabinet not really being fast enough to run the uhd pinball roms so I borrowed the vpinball section..... The PC section needs a little more work so you will be able to run any windows programs and have them in a windows section this could be something as simple as a puzzle game, quiz, first person shooter basically any program should run but will see how good this is once the code has been completed, maybe fix it over the weekend.... obviously you would have your images in fruitbar to represent the games you load into this section, Hope this makes sense to anyone reading.

I created the FruitBar system to keep it simple rather than something complicated to setup I use folders, you just put the supporting files in a theme folder off the rom folder its that simple. I use a theme folder rather than putting all the images into the rom folder simply because it's good house keeping, it keeps the media files separate and easy to view rather than filling the rom folder with everything, personally it makes it easier to save just the rom or just the theme. Once you have the files in your theme folder its simple to copy a cabinet view into the rom folder and use for MFME manager if that is your wish everyone sets up their own system how they want it to be. You could put any images you wish into FruitBar but your images need to be in the theme folder named correctly, if I went down the other route with a setup menu you would be clicking through a zillion places to assign an image, video, audio to every rom which would be really intensive. Even more intensive when you have over a thousand or so Roms, I would wear my mouse out and certainly have a headache. As I posted previously I have a site setup specifically for images that can be dropped into FruitBar, users are free to upload their own images and share with the community of FruitBar users that includes logo images and cabinet views, I would ask that the images are not reused in other systems without acknowledgement of where the images came from as I pay personally for the hosting of the site and the space used by the images. As i stated you can use any images you wish in fruitbar so you dont even have to use a cabinet view but the cabinets work well in my view, maybe one day I will experiment and upload some themed images so the entire view is in grey scale, anything is possible basically. I hope explains the system a little with regards to the images, but feel free to ask any questions.

@Zakkieboy44 I did just glance at your content it doesn't show any artwork collection or any thing in the 15 posts you have made since 2018, it would be to see your collection on here so everyone can see where they can use your artwork.

Many thanks for your comment, By the looks of your comments its moved way past when you last used it, although the latest release is not online currently so there are lots of features that no one is using just yet with the left side panel where you can add videos, animations, images, text, basically you can add anything you want to add. There are full touch screen buttons and you can scale the screen and cabinets to your own view, etc basically you set the view how ever you want it, you can move everything on the screen to where you want it and it has had its own theme store for quite a few months now, so images are already created for this program. You can also add marquee videos, still images, sounds on roms, mame support, mfme, etc Generic exe support I presume you mean add any exe file, just sorting that now as I would like to add some puzzle arcade games. The intro will change in time and anyone is welcome to submit there intro for review by a few members I maybe even add the option to use your own intro but not many people create full intro videos. The intro video on there currently was a quick get an intro running type of intro nothing special but its was something to get things in place. It's away's interesting to see other peoples work so where can your collection be found ?

I did have one thought, I believe i'm right in thinking most quiz machines wont run in windows 10, so I will add the option to run PC applications that way you can add basically any program you wish to add along with all the graphics as normal. Lets call it a windows section....

It's 2022 and I found a new Frontend section so I better start a new thread. FruitBar is a frontend for mfme, mame, vpinball its basically a system where you drop supporting files into folders to create your own arcade it is basically that simple, there are not a thousand menus to tweak its basically a drag and drop exercise. If you did not know FruitBar does have its own online theme store which contains more than a thousand images of all different machines so you can get your system up and running quite quickly, many thanks to everyone involved for your support on this. The development of FruitBar continues to evolve in different directions and today I have decided I will see if i can get quiz machines integrated into FruitBar so you might see a new section in the theme store that will have the images that can be used within in FruitBar for quiz games. In a quiz game section you will be able to add the side panel and put anything you wish in there as shown below, it could be video, animation, text you name it its your panel you can put anything you wish in there, you can even have any effects you wish in there too. The images below show the current view of FruitBar in 2022... If you would like to suggest a feature or add any input please post below, generally a new feature takes a couple of days to add. Its always nice to see peoples ideals as that's how the development grows. Many thanks for reading, Andrew.

FruitBar does favourites, keys are in the setup you should be able to add and remove to fav's and also bring them up I forget the key to use as I move from different configurations so often, it also does filters if you set the system up to do them.

Thanks @davep180 there is a new build coming very soon, it does include some updates. @Robsonmeg46 this might be of some interest if you are looking for a front end,

If you have a pulldown arm it can be linked with something like an arduino and a few lines of code.

This is the bit that will take time to setup as every machine is different in what number assigns to which light Unfortunately I'm on my mac and cant post an image of mfme.

@johnparker007 not finished it but quickly added a couple of cabinets with videos, so the video is playing inside the cabinet, It actually doesnt look too bad, didnt do the marquee as I have not generated a video for it but I guess that would be next. It's actually good because the video's can be shunk to a much smaller size so things will load faster, play faster etc, as always work in progress. Not sure if anyone knew but yes I did already add VPinball, it seems there are lots of things I never seem to post about the features within the system

I guess we are on the same wave length if you had both the marquee video and the video snap you could display them both on the cabinet that would actually look really good but maybe half a cabinet view due to the panel width and screen height, not played around with it yet. Stuck in Android currently but really tempted to look at this later.

Not quite decided on the direction to head in just yet, I have a web enabled panel so I could just use internet based scripts to show video snaps where everything is online or I could keep it local i guess online scripts would be a premium service simply due to the server bandwidth etc... The cabinet images I would probably use then on the web enabled panels just to give them the wow factor, of course if you have any ideals feel free to pop them over.

Nice @Spidy21982 I might have a use for this myself am I ok to also use some of your work ?