Reg Posted August 15, 2020 Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 Good Afternoon All. Firstly, and most importantly a warm welcome to @tspeirs to this forum, he is the author of Pinball X that I was using extensively over the Christmas period. During this time, I reached out to Tom and asked him if he would consider doing a version for MFME. Pinball X is hugely configurable and would be ideal in cabinets - especially those that people wished to have a lot of options available to them to include multiple emulators. Two days ago - Tom came back to me - he was going to make this happen for us here so we could have a front end that fits multiple purposes and today we have Touch-Play available to us all. A picture is worth many words so here is a video just under five minutes of this running that I have on my desktop. The key point here is the customisation that is present - this is from a basic install and then a few minutes’ work and I have cardinally not touched on everything this can do. NOTE THERE IS NO AUDIO ON THE VIDEO - IT CORRUPTED ON THE CAPTURE SO UPLOADED IT SILENT THERE WAS ALSO SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CAPTURE - IT APPEARS TO BE RUNNING SLOW THE SPEED DOES NOT REPRESENT THE ACTUALL USAGE OF BOTH TOUCH-PLAY AND MFME WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION THE SECOND PART WITH THE ASSET UPDATES IS IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS OF THE VIDEO There is the option to have videos playing instead of the static picture but I have not got that configured yet. The static pictures were very easy to grab by simply hitting S during the running of MFME. To exit the emulator while playing you have three options. Q will stop any emulator running and go back to Touch-Play. You can also hit ESC a couple of times to quick MFME while running. You can use the default way of exiting the emulator by clicking on the cross on the top left of the screen that appears when you move over to that target area - ideal for touch screens. The changes between the first part of the video and the second part is I used a few custom assets and changed a couple of options. My version of MFME is setup as follows... My version of Touch-Play settings for MFME... What Next ? Tom said that he would add to this thread and asked if I could post one for him so this has been done. This site is NOT the official site for this product - but it is an introduction to it. Please pop over to the official Touch-Play site ( link below ) if you have any interest in this product. www.touch-play.com Sign up to his site and see what he has to offer. We have been troubleshooting a couple of problems here and Tom has been great in the response over the past 24 hours. If you run into problems - please be polite and courteous at all times - people do this for the love of their skills and we have no right to demand anything. Here is a support thread for this forum if needed. @tspeirs thank you very much for your work on this great front end of emulation presentations of all sorts and adding in MFME. Attached is a quick .RAR file of the modified assets I used for the second part of the video. Reg. Media.rar 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinhood75 Posted August 15, 2020 Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 Wow this looks really interesting, I will be giving it a go for sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 Quick Guide to Adding Machines This is a few steps but in practice it only takes about a minutes end to end. Touch-Play can import games for your - I am just going the longer way around so I can ensure everything is as complete as I'd like it to be. Download the machine and copy it into your layouts directy that you see in the Layout Path on the Touch-Play settings - shown above. Click on the Game List Manager. The below screen will appear. Click on Add Game from the menu bar. On the empty game box that appears, click on Select. Choose the game you see you want to add by double clicking. Complete the Description and the Manufacturer fields in the game box. Close down the Game List Manager. Load Touch-Play and lauch your new game. At the point you want a screen grab press S. Exit your game and all is completed within Touch-Play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 15, 2020 Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 (edited) Hi. Tom, here. Hope you enjoy and thanks for the lovely introduction I have already covered Arcade and Pinball front ends so this front end was to tick all three off the bucket list and get something done for slots/fruits. I am British so know the difference. I spent a misspent youth in Southend-On-Sea but was a video game bloke, The front end was partly specifically made to cover MFME as mentioned and one day maybe I will build a cabinet with touch-play in it. I already have arcade and pinball and for me this completes the set. Note that you don't specifically need to use my site but if you need help or encounter a bug and I don't see it try posting at https://gameex.info You will need to go there to download touch-play anyway. Edited August 15, 2020 by tspeirs 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davep180 Posted August 15, 2020 Report Share Posted August 15, 2020 Like the look of this! It does look a bit like Hyperspin, but if it is easier to set up, could be a great addition to my setup. Thanks for your work on this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 Is it possible to customise the whole look of the theme? Thanks for this, excellent, been screaming out for a full touchscreen interface solution J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 Great looking front end. From the video it looks like if you have a touch screen only you would have to scroll through loads of machines to get to one starting with say M if you had hundreds installed. Is there any way of jumping to a letter with only touch screen or can you bring up a keyboard to type a machine name in? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 7 hours ago, Gary said: Great looking front end. From the video it looks like if you have a touch screen only you would have to scroll through loads of machines to get to one starting with say M if you had hundreds installed. Is there any way of jumping to a letter with only touch screen or can you bring up a keyboard to type a machine name in? I chose to address this with custom filtered lists, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 9 hours ago, A:E said: Is it possible to customise the whole look of the theme? Thanks for this, excellent, been screaming out for a full touchscreen interface solution J There are lots of customization options. Take a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 10 hours ago, Gary said: Great looking front end. From the video it looks like if you have a touch screen only you would have to scroll through loads of machines to get to one starting with say M if you had hundreds installed. Is there any way of jumping to a letter with only touch screen or can you bring up a keyboard to type a machine name in? Its a good point Gary. I just added paging controls in 4.55. Bottom corners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 One thing I would like to suggest from the community is we get a nice collection of manufacturer logos to use in the front end. You can see above from reg how he used a Maygay logo in the front end. A higher quality MFME logo would also be a plus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 6 hours ago, tspeirs said: One thing I would like to suggest from the community is we get a nice collection of manufacturer logos to use in the front end. You can see above from reg how he used a Maygay logo in the front end. A higher quality MFME logo would also be a plus. Do bear in mind that I am running at a very high resolution on my monitor so you might need to reduce these in size. I've been doing my logos as I go, this is what I have so far a I am using this for both MFME and MAME... The system logos are here, note on the MFME one the original PSD is really smally and would need to be rebuilt. I never had the original of that but the one is use was a slightly hacked version - but again - a small size. Until I can get that sorted I done a slight mod on it to just make it larger but trying to hide the face it's not built for that resolution, I think it works out ok ... System logos... Here are the MAME ones as well so far... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 The next question ( I can guess it's coming from at least two people so I should ask )... ...could you please find a way to make it work these type of games. They're ex-pub touchscreen games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 There is custom systems support in touch-play. Should be able to get it to work with any game or emulator. Have you tried? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 No it just occurred to me as I posted that and left for work ! Will be trying tonight on the Custom option, was not aware of that. Excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I'm working on it. Ideally needs an update. Will post shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 So you need the new version I just released. You want other systems > Custom exe. Should look like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 13 hours ago, tspeirs said: There are lots of customization options. Take a lot. I mean is there a way to re-position items. Like some sort of editor? Is there an .ini file or some kind of script for the layout? I wanted to look at designing a really slick theme for my cab at some point. I could possibly create some assets if you wanted to delve into that side of things with your launcher? J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 (edited) 53 minutes ago, A:E said: I mean is there a way to re-position items. Like some sort of editor? Is there an .ini file or some kind of script for the layout? I wanted to look at designing a really slick theme for my cab at some point. I could possibly create some assets if you wanted to delve into that side of things with your launcher? J It is not theme based and how it looks is vastly down to the media, such as wheel logos and videos, but like I said there are ways to customize, such as overlays and underlays. All images, videos, fonts, and sounds can be changed. Would certainly welcome anything you can come up with. Edited August 17, 2020 by tspeirs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serene02 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Nice, I will take a look. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspeirs Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Here is the launch after for the touchscreen games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Brilliant - thank you for this. Might not be until tomorrow I can play - just got in from a hellish long day and just shattered - but again - thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 This is turning into quite the front end, thank you @tspeirs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Few more pics... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Posted August 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 On 17/08/2020 at 01:08, tspeirs said: Its a good point Gary. I just added paging controls in 4.55. Bottom corners. I must be going blind - could you please share where these are in the menu ? ...also would it be possible to disable a block of text ? The game name and company is shown on the highlighted block in the middle. I can see it already by the picture, the company name is also shown by the Company graphics and the name also shows on the scrollbar. This is not a big deal - but my personal preference would be to hide that as the screen shot system works so well. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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