Any tool to choose emulator after start up windows ?

[Cologne69]

Hi,

since this is my first post please apologize if i choose the wrong forum for my questions.

Im looking for a tool to choose between different Emulators / Images after start up.

Like this:

Please choose:

- Hyperspin
- Retroarch
- HyperV
- Vertiwild

etc.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

All the best from Germany,

Cologne69

[meyer980]

Hm, you might need to explain more what you're looking for. People typically use a Front End to choose between different emulators but you're listing multiple front ends in your list. I'm not sure why you would need multiple front ends running on one system?

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah it's not hard to do what you want to do... you just use yet another front-end to launch those front-ends but the question remains.....Why would you want to?

[Cologne69]

It was my mistake . I wasn't aware that these are all Front-Ends 

I would like to choose because i would like to switch between these front-ends since all of them are very different and i can't choose between CoinOp Pinball VS Arcade and HyperV etc.. Im currently building a Vertical Bartop and and not 100% sure yet which ist the best Front-End (Image) to go...

Best,

Cologne69

[gildahl]

You may want to check out my classicLauncher, posted a bit further down in this forum, for a possibility.  In addition to being an emulator launcher, one of its features is to be a wrapper and launcher for front-ends too since I (like apparently you) like to experiment with different front-ends. 

Note that cL is a command-line utility (a "front-end" for your fingers, as I call it), but designed with the idea that one can use it as the engine behind custom GUIs to do specialized one-off personal project thingies similar to what you're looking for.  For example, here's a simple ahk script that I wrote and tested just now that will let me select from two front ends (GameEx and BigBox) or the MAME built-in GUI, Berzerk (launched fully configured for my CP, just the way it launches in GameEx or BigBox), or Funhouse in Virtual Pinball (also fully configured):
 

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Gui, -SysMenu
Gui, Add, Button, vStart x10 y140 w60 h30 gStartClick, Start
Gui, Add, Button, vClose x80 y140 w60 h30 gCloseClick, Close
Gui, Add, Radio, vMyRadio1 x20 y25 gRadioClick, Run GameEx
Gui, Add, Radio, vMyRadio2 x20 y45 gRadioClick, Run BigBox
Gui, Add, Radio, vMyRadio3 x20 y65 gRadioClick, Run MAME
Gui, Add, Radio, vMyRadio4 x20 y85 gRadioClick, Run Berzerk
Gui, Add, Radio, vMyRadio5 x20 y105 gRadioClick, Run Funhouse

GuiControl,, MyRadio1, 1
Gui, Submit

Gui, Show,, Launcher
return

Start:
if (MyRadio1 == 1)
Run, D:\Classic\classic.exe gameex
if (MyRadio2 == 1)
Run, D:\Classic\classic.exe bigbox
if (MyRadio3 == 1)
Run, D:\Classic\classic.exe mame
if (MyRadio4 == 1)
Run, D:\Classic\classic.exe mame berzerk
if (MyRadio5 == 1)
Run, D:\Classic\classic.exe vpinball "Funhouse (Williams 1990)_1.3"
return

StartClick:
Gosub, Start
ExitApp

CloseClick:
ExitApp

RadioClick:
Gui, Submit, NoHide
return
Now there's nothing to prevent you using this little script to launch your front-ends (or any other exe for that matter) directly--and maybe that's all you need; but if you use cL behind it, then you have some additional flexibility in unifying the emulator launch experience by using its single emulator configuration and front-end wrapper capabilities.