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Front-Ends & Emulators on Linux
retrostark:
one thing i do that has worked good for me is going and getting old computers at garage sales, and working from there, although how many front ends and emulators actually work with linux? because i might decide to install that on the machines instead.
404:
wahcade works on linux. so does lemon launcher.
Honestly though, I have never personally had a good out of the box experience with emulation on linux in general. It's always been something that has bothered me quite a bit. The arcade distros that are out there also never really seem to satisfy everything that i would want out of a distro either.
keilmillerjr:
QMC 2 has a rom management app and an arcade front end app, but the arcade app still needs polishing.
I've run into issues/bugs with wahcade/mahcade.
I wish I could recommend using linux. Its fast, free, and easy to customize. Support with mame people just isn't there though. That needs to change. Unfortunately, I'm probably going to be using mala or Maximus arcade with windows. :/ I wih I had the time to learn how to make my own linux front end.
Ansa89:
Front-ends:
- advancemenu
- wahcade
- mahcade
- cabrio
- arcan
- lightning
- retrofe (sources - announcement)
- attract-mode
Emulators:
- nestopia
- nes9x
- zsnes
- snes9x
- gens
- gngeo
- stella
- dolphin
- visualboy-advance
- pcsxr
- pcsx2
- groovyume (which contains both mame and mess)
keilmillerjr:
Cabrio looks awesome! Thanks for the link! It worries me though that the last commit was 8 months ago. I'll try it out anyways. I have a ton of virtual OS installs on my iMac. ;)