I always try to find new ways to make use of the “4th display” area on my middle screen.
For MAME, I knew there were some cool programs out there that would let you see your control panel layout and other info for each game, either by pausing, etc..
I just wanted a way to show what the controls were for each game in MAME since there are so many different layouts. When someone else is using the cabinet, it would be nice not having to explain to them the controls for each game….but when I found CP-Wizard, I found exactly what I had wanted.
I am basically trying to setup as standard control panel layout for each control type for each game in CP-Wizard. I just made a background pic the size of my middle screen with the MAME logo at the bottom. Then I made the layouts I wanted and saved them as separate layouts. Then I had CP-Wizard configured to use whatever layout for each control scheme as required.
I didn’t need to have CP Wizard running in the background. I just had CP-Wizard do an Export-batch, creating control panel images for each game automatically with the correct naming of the files. These pics work with Pinball X as my DMD screen images for MAME. They display while browsing through each game and stay displayed while playing. Simple and easy to see to see while playing at any time. I may just use this for PC Games and other emulators too.
Here’s some pics of my current layout. Its simple, and probably not final, but works quite well.
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