Emu Loader v4.3.3
posted in Frontend News by mfc on Jan 13th, 2004Emu Loader, a nice and relatively powerful frontend for MAME, was updated again recently. Here is what's new:
- Fixes:
- Games List not being focused when starting in full screen mode
- Main menu showing when in full screen mode... but it shows up again after using a popup menu or opening a window (only if you restart with full screen enabled)
- The last column was being ignored when applying changes, no matter what data you putted there (Columns Editor)
- A few systems with bios were not being correctly handled because the bios name is different from the driver name, preventing certain games from running
- The index of the last selected game filter was not being correctly updated
- Feature "Update favorite games", it's working again (Favorite Users Manager) :)
- Columns sorting routine now works at it should :)
- "Check for Missing Icons" and "Check for Unneeded Icons" duplicated folder... (sorry MAMU_)
- Games with .chd files are working again. It broke when I was trying to fix the Win9x freezing bug
- A bunch of functions being execute over and over again, on every language changed (those functions were ment to be executed only once, when initializing)
- "Stretch Pictures" toggleing bug
- All games lined-out
To fix this, delete all .dat files from "resources" folder (games files) and recreate the games list - Viewing parent images on clone game selection works again :)
- Changes:
- Favorite games are now loaded from the game filters list
- Language file updated
- Game filters, refresh games and parental lock features unlocked when viewing favorites lists
- Toolbar icons updated
- Arcade controllers drop-down list, in buttons toobar (main screen), now displays the controller description
- All .dat files from "resources" folder are deleted before creating a new games list (only necessary files, not all files)
- Added progress counter for a couple processes when creating a games list, to better display the progress of parsing files, since they take a few seconds
- Enabled the title bar's close button in a few screens
- File "EmuLoader.exe" is not packed with UPX anymore (it uses more memory anyway)
- File "bios.ini" now has a complete list of all games that use bios.
They are in section "games" (only master, not clones)
This is necessary since the same driver has more than one bios set:
eg.: "SegaC2" driver has "Megaplay" and "MegaTech" bios / "ZN" has "Capcom ZN1", "Capcom ZN2", "TPS" and "Taito-FX1" bios
- Removed:
- "Show Favorite Games" button from buttons toolbar, main menu "View" and "Games" popup menu
- A couple of pointless private variables that are not needed anymore (and were wasting memory)
- "Favorite Games" option from "User Profile Editor"
- Button "Close" from a few screens
- Optimized:
- Bios / CHD files detection
- Games list loading (game filters)
- Favorite games loading (game filters)
- Moved two variables from public to private section (saves memory)
- Removed a few unused codes and variables which were using memory
- Games sorting routine
- Create games list rountine
- New Additions:
- New game filter: "Favorites"
Favorite games option is now grouped into the game filters list (first button in buttons toolbar)