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ProtoBox 2 emulation environment [Updated]
relay01:
More info on the project:
I initially started this project because after working with many different frontends/emulators, I found portability to be a major issue. "<Insert Frontend Name> Setup Guides" were very prevalent but there were no portable, transferable solutions out there. I aimed to take a very configurable frontend (Mamewah) and make it portable. So any gamepad/control panel could be configured once, and the changes would just work for all emulators in the front-end, so a directory structure didn't have to be exact for games to be found, so I didn't have to generate a gamelist every time I added a game to the frontend.
I started creating ProtoBox 2, for myself, so I could use the same "setup" on my netbook (on the go) and my arcade computer at home. But I started putting so much work into making things "easy" that I figured others may want this too. Only recently did I start putting in work to release it publicly. With the help of a friend, we stripped out trademarks (ProtoBox name was based around my favorite video game character), prettied it up, and got permission for emulators/utilities that didn't allow even "free" distribution, and added a method to add emulators not free for distribution. Creating ProtoBox 2 was a labor of love, prepping it for distribution was not :-).
Brian74:
Here to give a helping hand!
Le Chuck:
I'm down to test. Sounds interesting and useful.
rovingmind:
I havn't used mamewah, i'm up for testing your system.
relay01:
Though I sent the link to about a dozen people total, I only really got feedback from a few.
So preliminary reports from testers/trial participants were not favorable. General consensus is that this is not ready for release. I'm working on tweaking and fixing the things I can and writing up a quick little GUI for the gamepad configuration script. (Though a lot of people hadn't tried that out, it's admittedly very confusing). Also working to make it very clear without reading the docs what the user should do. I'm starved for time these days so I don't know exactly when I'll have and update but I'll either post it here or start a new thread.
Thanks to all who have participated, your feedback was greatly appreciated. I'd have rather had a few people tell me up front that it was terrible then a bunch of people instantly hate it and never attempt to try it again.
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