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| sWampy:
Gameex looks pretty good, but a little to much like windows out of the box for most people here. 3d Arcade does look really great, but is fairly slow to move around in due to all the beautiful 3D rendering of machines, and takes quite a lot of horsepower to run. The Dragon King is good looking, but some reason I've always had trouble getting it set up and running exactly like I wanted it to. |
| JoyMonkey:
Speaking of XBox skins, does this look familiar? I got permission to do a rendition of the XBMC Project Mayhem 3 skin from its author, it was for Kymaera- but then Kymaera dropped off the face of the planet and the new features that would have made the skin really cool were never implemented. :'( |
| markb:
As mentioned 3D Arcade looks very good and has several different modes, but I would recommend the minimum specs to use it of 800mhz CPU, 256mb Ram, 32mb Graphics and probably higher if you want to run some of the video items. You can however change the way the menu's are presented so they are more 2D like Mamewah than 3D and still have a very presentable frontend. |
| Howard_Casto:
Gotta remember, 3darcade also has a very impressive 2d mode. That's why I mentioned it. It also has 3d, flat-skins. (2d skins that use 3d objects). I would never reccomend running 3darcade in fps mode (at least for use as a front end). It's this "3d flat-skins" deal that will be the main addition of the new dk. Among other things. :D Btw I also like kymaera, as far as 2d fes go it's the only one that's on par with the other two. The only reason I didn't mention it is, as you said, it disappeared. Also I wouldn't consider gameex a front end. It's more of a complete and total rip-off of xp media center's gui. ;) I wouldn't classify it as a mame cab front end, rather a set-top box navigation menu. In other words, while it looks nice, it also looks like it should be on a pc hooked to your living room tv, not in a mame cab. So I don't think it should even be compared with the others. On the minimum system requirement complaints, I'm not sure why this is still even being discussed at this stage. While fe's like 3darcade, dk and kymaera sometimes require more resources (for fancier skins only, I should make that clear), it should be a non-issue as the average pc these days is at least a 1 gig processor with 256 megs of ram, more than enough to run any of them. I honestly hope you guys aren't building big expensive mame cabs and getting all cheap on the pc. It is the heart of the machine ya know. Also reading back what I said I'm my first post, I think people might mis-understand what I meant. By saying that mamewah and atomic don't come to mind when I think of "pretty" I didn't mean that they were ugly. Mamewah and atomic could both be made to look very nice, it's just as far as I can tell the skins in atomic don't really take advantage of what it can do in a visually pleasing manner, and while mamewah could potentially have very nice skins, it's limited rendering capability seriously holds it back. So one has reached it's limits in what it can do graphically and the other hasn't utilized it's potential. I don't want to get nasty messsages over mis-wording. ;) |
| Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: JoyMonkey on March 23, 2006, 11:11:01 am ---Speaking of XBox skins, does this look familiar? I got permission to do a rendition of the XBMC Project Mayhem 3 skin from its author, it was for Kymaera- but then Kymaera dropped off the face of the planet and the new features that would have made the skin really cool were never implemented. :'( --- End quote --- New features? Looks like a standard skin to me. What does it need? |
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