View MAME gameinit

JoeViking245 · December 30, 2024

View game specific "Initialization(s)" and/or "Tip(s)" from MAME's gameinit.dat

Inspired from MAME's built in feature in the main UI and via their in-game Tab menu.

Not all MAME games require any initial setup to run, but some do. Currently, the DAT file contains 1439 entries.

A badge will be displayed if there is an entry in gameinit.dat for that game. (See below for Enabling Badges)

Currently only available in LaunchBox (not BigBox)

Prerequisites

Installing

Download and then open the plugin file using 7zip.
- if you don't use 7zip, first unblock the file (Right click, select Properties, and click Unblock) then open it as you normally would.
Extract the main folder from inside the zip file into ..\LaunchBox\Plugins\
- i.e. D:\LaunchBox\Plugins\MAMEgameinitDAT\
Start LaunchBox

Included Files

MAMEgameinit.dll
/Data/gameinit.dat (v0.263 [latest available] - downloaded from https://www.progettosnaps.net/gameinit/)

Using

Updating gameinit.dat

When loading the plugin, it will check the local version of gameinit.dat against what's available from https://www.progettosnaps.net/gameinit/.
If a newer version is available, you will be given the option to Update the local copy.
- Updating will attempt to download and then replace the existing file.

Enabling Badges

To enable the badge, click Badges, Plugin Badges, MAME gameinit
- The Badge image can be changed by replacing the image ../LaunchBox/Images/Badges/MAMEgameinit.png

As always, all thoughts, views, opinions, suggestions, comments and accolades are welcome. 😎

See all my plugins here:
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/profile/102158-joeviking245/content/?type=downloads_file

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