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    <title lang="en"><application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> Manual</title>

    <abstract role="description">
      <para lang="en">GNOME Video Arcade is a front-end for the <application>Multiple Arcade
      Machine Emulator (MAME)</application>.</para>
    </abstract>

    <copyright lang="en">
      <year>2007</year>
      <year>2008</year>
      <holder>Matthew Barnes</holder>
    </copyright>

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    <authorgroup>
      <author role="maintainer" lang="en">
        <firstname>Matthew</firstname>
        <surname>Barnes</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <revhistory>
      <revision lang="en">
        <revnumber>GNOME Video Arcade Manual 1.1</revnumber>
        <date>2008-02-24</date>
      </revision>
    </revhistory>

    <releaseinfo lang="en">This manual describes version 0.5.6 of GNOME Video Arcade</releaseinfo>

  </articleinfo>

  <section>
    <title lang="en">Introduction</title>
    <para lang="en">
      The <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> application allows you to play
      classic coin-operated arcade games on your GNOME desktop using the
      <application>Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME)</application>.
    </para>
    <para lang="en">
      <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> provides the following features:
    </para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para lang="en">
          Play classic arcade games on your desktop.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para lang="en">
          Tag favorite games to easily find them again later.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para lang="en">
          Read historical information and tips about your favorite games.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para lang="en">
          Game recording and play back.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para lang="en">
          Search.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title lang="en">Getting Started</title>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">Starting GNOME Video Arcade</title>
      <para lang="en">
        You can start <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> in the following ways:
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en"><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              Choose
              <menuchoice>
                <guisubmenu>Games</guisubmenu>
                <guimenuitem>Video Arcade</guimenuitem>
              </menuchoice>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>Ukazna vrstica</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              To start <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> from a command line,
              type the following command, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>:
            </para>
            <para lang="en">
              <command>gnome-video-arcade</command>
            </para>
            <tip>
              <para lang="en">
                To view other command line options that are available, type
                <command>gnome-video-arcade --help</command>, then press
                <keycap>Return</keycap>.
              </para>
            </tip>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">When You Start GNOME Video Arcade</title>
      <para lang="en">
        The first time <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> starts, it will
        build a database of game information and analyze available ROM
        files to determine which games are playable.  This process may
        take several minutes to complete, during which time the following
        window is displayed:
      </para>
      <figure>
        <title lang="en">GNOME Video Arcade Building the Game Database</title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_building_database.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <para lang="en">
                Shows GNOME Video Arcade main window while the database is being built.
                Most of the elements are grayed out, and a progress bar is
                shown at the bottom.
              </para>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <para lang="en">
        The window will then change to look like this:
      </para>
      <figure>
        <title lang="en">GNOME Video Arcade Start Up Window</title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_main_window.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <para lang="en">
                Shows GNOME Video Arcade main window with a sample list of games.
                Contains menubar, game list, view buttons, start game button,
                properties button and statusbar.
              </para>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <para lang="en">
        You may see a different list of games, depending on which ROM images
        are installed on your system.
      </para>
      <tip>
        <para lang="en">
          If you know that ROM images are installed on your system but
          <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> does not list any games, it may be
          that <application>MAME</application> is misconfigured or none of the
          installed ROM images are playable.  See the Troubleshooting section
          for more information.
        </para>
      </tip>
      <note>
        <para lang="en">
          Occasionally, the database may be rebuilt when
          <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> starts.  Most of the time it will
          skip this process and go straight to the window in Figure 2.
        </para>
      </note>
      <para lang="en">
        The <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> window contains the following
        elements:
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">Menubar</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The menus on the menubar contain all the commands needed to
              use <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application>.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">Game List</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The game list displays a list of games to choose from.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">View Buttons</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The view buttons control which games are displayed in the game
              list.  Choose between displaying all available games, a list of
              favorite games, or previous search results.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en"><guibutton>Start Game</guibutton> Button</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The <guibutton>Start Game</guibutton> button starts the
              highlighted game in the game list.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en"><guibutton>Properties</guibutton> Button</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The <guibutton>Properties</guibutton> button displays additional
              information about the highlighted game in the game list.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">Statusbar</term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              The statusbar displays the <application>MAME</application>
              version used to play games and contextual information about the
              menu items.  It also displays a progress bar while building the
              game database.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title lang="en">Usage</title>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Start a Game</title>
      <para lang="en">
        Choose a game from the game list and click on it to highlight it.
        Then click the <guibutton>Start Game</guibutton> button or choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>S</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>Game</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Start</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
      <tip>
        <para lang="en">
          You can also start a game by double-clicking on it in the game list.
        </para>
      </tip>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To View Properties of a Game</title>
      <para lang="en">
        Choose a game from the game list and click on it to highlight it.
        Then click the <guibutton>Properties</guibutton> button or choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>P</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>View</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        The <guilabel>Properties</guilabel> dialog displays information about
        the highlighted game, including some history about the game, tips and
        tricks to help improve your scores, pictures of the arcade cabinet,
        screen shots of the game in progress and some technical information
        about <application>MAME</application>'s emulation of the game.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        To close the <guilabel>Properties</guilabel> dialog, click the
        <guibutton>Close</guibutton> button.
      </para>
      <note>
        <para lang="en">
          Some of these features are not yet completed and will be available
          in a future version of <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application>.
        </para>
      </note>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Tag a Game as a Favorite</title>
      <para lang="en">
        To tag a game as a favorite, choose a game from the game list and
        click on it to highlight it.  Then choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>+</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>Game</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Add to Favorites</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
        The heart icon for the highlighted game will light up to indicate
        that the game has been added to your list of favorites.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        If a game is no longer your favorite, click on its name in the game
        list to highlight it.  Then choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>-</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>Game</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Remove from Favorites</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
        The heart icon for the highlighted game will turn gray to indicate
        that the game has been removed from your list of favorites.
      </para>
      <tip>
        <para lang="en">
          You can also click directly on a heart icon in the game list to tag
          the game as a favorite or not a favorite.
        </para>
      </tip>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Change Which Games Are Displayed</title>
      <para lang="en">
        To show all available games in the game list, click the
        <guibutton>Available Games</guibutton> view button or choose
        <menuchoice>
          <guimenu>View</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Available Games</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        To show only your favorite games in the game list, click the
        <guibutton>Favorite Games</guibutton> view button or choose
        <menuchoice>
          <guimenu>View</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Favorite Games</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        To show your previous search results in the game list, click the
        <guibutton>Search Results</guibutton> view button or choose
        <menuchoice>
          <guimenu>View</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Search Results</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Search for Games</title>
      <para lang="en">
        Choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>F</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Search...</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>
        to display the following dialog:
      </para>
      <figure>
        <title lang="en">GNOME Video Arcade Search Dialog</title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_search_window.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <para lang="en">
                Shows GNOME Video Arcade search dialog.  Contains text entry box, find
                button and close button.
              </para>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <para lang="en">
        Type your search criteria in the entry box.  Search by the title of
        the game, the company that manufactured the game, the year the game
        was released, or the name of the game's ROM set or
        <application>MAME</application> driver.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        Click the <guibutton>Find</guibutton> button to start your search.
        The <guilabel>Search</guilabel> dialog will close and the results of
        your search will be displayed in the game list.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        Click the <guibutton>Close</guibutton> button to close the
        <guilabel>Search</guilabel> dialog without searching.
      </para>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Record a Game</title>
      <para lang="en">
        Choose a game from the game list and click on it to highlight it.
        Then choose
        <menuchoice>
          <shortcut>
            <keycombo>
              <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
              <keycap>R</keycap>
            </keycombo>
          </shortcut>
          <guimenu>Game</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Record</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>.
      </para>
      <para lang="en">
        After you exit from <application>MAME</application>, your new
        recording will be highlighted in the following window:
      </para>
      <figure>
        <title lang="en">GNOME Video Arcade Recorded Games Window</title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_recorded_games.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <para lang="en">
                Shows GNOME Video Arcade recorded games window.  Contains list of game
                recordings, play back button, delete button and close button.
              </para>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <para lang="en">
        Each entry shows the title of the game that was recorded, and the
        date and time when recording began.  Click on the game's title
        to customize the comment.  You can add more information to the
        comment such as the final score or level reached.
      </para>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">To Play Back a Recorded Game</title>
      <para lang="en">
        Choose
        <menuchoice>
          <guimenu>Game</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>Play Back...</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>
        to display the <guilabel>Recorded Games</guilabel> window.
        Choose a game recording to play back and click on it to highlight it.
        Then click the <guibutton>Play Back</guibutton> button.
      </para>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title lang="en">Preferences</title>
    <para lang="en">
      To modify the preferences of <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application>, choose
      <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem>
      </menuchoice>.
    </para>
    <para lang="en">
      The <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> dialog contains the following
      sections:
    </para>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">General</title>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_general_preferences.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <para lang="en">
              Shows the General tab of the Preferences window.
            </para>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">
            <guilabel>
              Start games in fullscreen mode
            </guilabel>
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              Select this option to start games in fullscreen mode.
              Otherwise, games will be started in a window.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">
            <guilabel>
              Restore previous state when starting a game
            </guilabel>
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              Select this option to continue where you left off when you last
              exited <application>MAME</application>.  If this option is not
              selected, the emulator will boot the arcade machine each time a
              game is started.
            </para>
            <note>
              <para lang="en">
                State restoration does not take effect until the second time
                the game is started with the option enabled.  It does not
                apply to recording or playing back games.
              </para>
            </note>
            <warning>
              <para lang="en">
                Not all games support this feature.
              </para>
            </warning>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term lang="en">
            <guilabel>
              Show alternate versions of original games
            </guilabel>
          </term>
          <listitem>
            <para lang="en">
              Select this option to show alternate versions of original games
              in the game list in the main window.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
      <note>
        <title lang="en">What are alternate versions?</title>
          <para lang="en">
            From the
            <ulink url="http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:General_Games"><application>MAME</application> FAQ</ulink>:
          </para>
          <blockquote>
            <para lang="en">
              Games were often licensed to other companies for a variety of
              reasons: the most common was that the makers wished to sell the
              game in a country or region in which they had no distribution
              of their own.  In the early 80s, Namco had no US distribution
              network so their games were licensed to Atari, Bally-Midway,
              and others.  Conversely, Atari licensed their games to Japanese
              companies (usually Namco) for sale there.
            </para>
            <para lang="en">
              Sometimes a set of ROMs with a different copyright date is
              found, or a bootleg set, or another alternate version.  When
              the <quote>parent</quote> game has already been emulated in
              <application>MAME</application>, these alternates are usually
              easy to add.  In some cases, alternate versions are slightly
              different: Game levels are in a different order, the game is
              harder or faster, etc.
            </para>
            <para lang="en">
              In some cases, ROMs were hacked to run on hardware they were
              not intended for.  For example, when
              <productname>Pac-Man</productname> was <quote>hot,</quote>
              some arcade operators found a way to dump
              <productname>Pac-Man</productname> ROMs and hack them to work
              on <productname>Scramble</productname> machines so they wouldn't
              have to purchase extra <productname>Pac-Man</productname>
              boards.  Since these hacked versions are masterpieces in their
              own right, the <application>MAME</application> developers have
              included them.
            </para>
          </blockquote>
      </note>
    </section>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">Columns</title>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/gva_column_preferences.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <para lang="en">
              Shows the Columns tab of the Preferences window.
            </para>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <para lang="en">
        The <guilabel>Columns</guilabel> tab allows you to configure the
        game list in the main window to show additional information about
        the available games.  The column names are listed in the order that
        they appear in the game list.  Reorder columns and show additional
        columns using the <guibutton>Move Up</guibutton>,
        <guibutton>Move Down</guibutton>, <guibutton>Show</guibutton> and
        <guibutton>Hide</guibutton> buttons to the right of the column list.
      </para>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title lang="en">Troubleshooting</title>
    <anchor id="troubleshooting"/>
    <section>
      <title lang="en">No games listed in the main window</title>
        <section>
          <title lang="en">
            Are any ROM images installed?
          </title>
          <para lang="en">
            For legal reasons, games are not bundled with
            <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> or
            <application>MAME</application>.  The
            <ulink url="http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Setting_Up"><application>MAME</application> FAQ</ulink>
            has some suggestions for obtaining ROM images:
          </para>
          <blockquote>
            <para lang="en">
              There are several means of obtaining ROM images for use in
              <application>MAME</application>:
            </para>
            <itemizedlist>
              <listitem>
                <para lang="en">
                  A small number of ROM images are now available with the
                  copyright holders' permission at the
                  <ulink url="http://mamedev.org/roms/">mamedev.org ROMs page</ulink>.
                </para>
              </listitem>
              <listitem>
                <para lang="en">
                  The
                  <ulink url="http://www.hanaho.com/Products/HotRodJoystick.php"><productname>HotRod Joystick</productname> control panel</ulink>
                  from
                  <ulink url="http://www.hanaho.com/">Hanaho Games, Inc.</ulink>
                  comes bundled with a CD that includes
                  <application>MAME</application> and a selection of Capcom
                  ROMs.  Hanaho also sells the
                  <ulink url="http://www.hanaho.com/Products/ArcadePC.php"><productname>ArcadePC</productname> cabinet</ulink>
                  with a different selection of Capcom ROMs.
                </para>
              </listitem>
              <listitem>
                <para lang="en">
                  You can purchase your own arcade PCBs (on
                  <ulink url="http://www.ebay.com/">eBay</ulink>, for
                  example), buy a ROM reader, and use it to copy the ROM
                  chips' contents into files for your personal use.
                </para>
              </listitem>
            </itemizedlist>
            <para lang="en">
              Always check if the particular arcade games' copyright owner
              is selling the ROMs legally (as with Capcom).  That way you
              will support the companies that support emulation.
            </para>
          </blockquote>
        </section>
        <section>
          <title lang="en">
            Can <application>MAME</application> find the installed ROM images?
          </title>
          <para lang="en">
            <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application> relies on
            <application>MAME</application> to find installed ROM images.
            To test where <application>MAME</application> is configured to
            look for ROM images, type the following command on a command
            line, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>:
          </para>
          <para lang="en">
            <command>gnome-video-arcade --inspect rompath</command>
          </para>
          <para lang="en">
            The command should print a directory name such as
            <computeroutput>/usr/share/mame/roms</computeroutput>.
            Move ROM images to this directory and restart
            <application>GNOME Video Arcade</application>.
          </para>
          <para lang="en">
            If the command does not print a directory name, it may mean
            that <application>MAME</application> is not properly configured
            on your system.  If you obtained <application>MAME</application>
            from a <productname>GNU/Linux</productname> distribution, please
            contact the maintainers of that distribution for further
            instructions.
          </para>
        </section>
        <section>
          <title lang="en">
            Is the Available Games view selected?
          </title>
          <para lang="en">
            If no games have been tagged as favorites, the
            <guilabel>Favorite Games</guilabel> view will be empty.
            Similarly, if no searches have been run, the
            <guilabel>Search Results</guilabel> view will be empty.
            Switch to the <guilabel>Available Games</guilabel> view
            to ensure all available games are listed.
          </para>
        </section>
    </section>
  </section>

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