Attract Mode Enhancements

[Fwiler]

Most people (not all) have Platform view when starting up.  The problem with Attract Mode is that the Time Between Movements also applies to Platforms, not just games within those platforms.  If you have longer game videos such as 30 seconds, then you have to view Platforms for that long too, which I don't believe most people would want.

Possible Solution-

-  Allow shorter view time when Big Box switches between Platforms, while allowing longer time for view of games.

I would really love Attract mode to scroll through all games in all Platforms without selecting All Games as the default view.  This would give a far better chance for random games coming up especially for those that don't have 1000's of games.

-  All Games view could be a solution but it doesn't retain Remember Separate View For Each Platform.  So my Arcade games show Arcade Marquee, but my SNES games show a box.  In All Games view, it shows the Default View, so it makes viewing All Games look ugly.

-  Don't allow same Platform or Game to be shown twice in a row.  I don't know how many times I see the same platform or game come up again after a spin.  It's really uncanny.  At least have logic of "if same as last spin add 1 (or 2)". Better logic would be to create random list each view change, and not allow duplicate.

-  And finally-  Allow finer control of Time Between Movements.  I spent about a bajillion hours creating custom videos of all my games at 30 seconds each.  The issue is, I didn't account for the wheel spin time.  So my videos start over for a few seconds before going to next game.  Not a big deal, but I believe this could be an easy implementation.

Thank you.

 

Edited October 21, 2020 by Fwiler