openMenu Alpha 1

[sionisaac]

https://youtu.be/hwbMWAMCf9M GDMENU
https://youtu.be/TTbQbhOm1kE OPENMENU

Same dreamcast, same sd card, same TV, same AV Cable

[mrneo240]

Thank you, interesting the sega spiral looks fine.

I'll try to figure out what's happening but im honestly not sure.

[mrneo240]

Minor Updates:

Theres now a basic GDMenu theme in case you want to stick with that
https://streamable.com/xjm44s
preview:

Grid view now has some basic animations and doesnt force you to see the fullsize (its now hold X)
https://streamable.com/qwu4bm

[NeORomani]

Ok, this is a MUCH better looking menu than the made-in-garage GDEMU menu.

My GDEMU takes a lot to load the menu because the high number of games inside it, I would be happy if Openmenu takes just the same time to load.
How to install it?

Grid view moves very fast!

[mrneo240]

It's instant loading time

[FlorreW]

Very nice Mrneo , looks really fluid and nice

[NeORomani]

Ok, found the instructions on the first post.
Right now, all my games are in cdi format, so I hope some day CDI is supported too because I like this menu much more, and if you say it is instant, then is unbeatable

[Teuton1379]

I just did a quick run through with this and really liked it. After adding a few games I tested the card - cover art in the menu did not match the game listed. I put the card back in the PC and relaunched the program. I added two more games (all gdi - did not try the shrink method), manually re-ordered the list and finished the card. All worked well, with proper art showing up per game. This is excellent! It even worked on a PC that the will not run the latest MadSheep tool.

[fredericcking]

Very good, thanks!

[mrneo240]

todays updates:

-wrote a tool to make personalized DAT files for your specific gamelist
* takes less space on your SD card
* copies faster

-reorganized the codebase some

-wrote a small packer to compress openmenu and decompress on load (binary size 280kb down to 194kb, decompressor is 384 bytes)

-started work on cataloging PAL+JAP boxart for the DATs
* should be done in the next free days
* everything retail should then have a cover when loaded