I think I'm sorted with getting CRT Emudriver to work (well, display on my 15khz TV at least, still need a LOT of tweaking), but I'm not able to get a decent front end working so I thought I'd write to ask what people are using. I've already tried:
Big Blue Frontend – can't get this to work as the dialog/option boxes are larger than 640x480 - with no ability to grab the edge of the window and resize - so it's making it impossible to set this one up.
Attract Mode – you would think with the amount of hype surrounding this one it would be a no-brainer with the amount of tutorials and how-to videos on this one, right? ...until you try to scrape your entire 0.190 romset for OVER 80 HOURS, on two different computers, 2x different internet connections, on both Windows 7 and Windows 10...and you still can't do it...and nobody at Attract Mode GitHub responds to your support ticket (which you've already bumped once) in over a week. Yes, I am bitter lol.
So what would people suggest? Some things I'm finding I would like/need are:
• Compatible with 15khz 640x480 displays, including ALL setup windows/boxes/etc.
• Ability to automatically generate lists
• Some way to display games which actually work (I'm finding TONS of ROM's aren't functional, so why would they ever show up in the list, let alone have a video/screenshot loaded if they're not compatible and/or working in 0.190?)
• Is it possible to flag a ROM for removal? One of my hardest things to do is going to be slimming down the HUGE number of ROM's into ones I actually want to play.
• Fancy dancy videos and/or screenshots with a nice graphical display would be great
• Any sort of controller mapping options built into the frontend? That's my biggest complaint about MAME proper right now. (still haven't figured out how I'm going to map everything into 6x buttons + start/select so it works on my USB fightsticks and my regular SNES/PS/Xbox style controllers.)
is at least a nice screenshot of the game, but really am l, is an ability to see which ROMs are actually working (similar to the default MAME's