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Avrus:

--- Quote from: rgw20014life on September 18, 2007, 07:23:42 pm ---I use it because I'm a graphics whore and I liked the built in opengl transitions. Its very simple to setup as well and is pretty idiot proof. It also does include a skin editor. I will make a skin in the future when I have time; but the current one is fine and does the job. It also has support for tons of emulators, but I guess its not enough for some people. It was either Maximus or GameEX that I was going to pay for and while GameEX was more featured and powerful; I just did not like the out of the box feel of it. If that makes sense.  :P

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Yup I'm going with Maximus as well.  I tried all the free alternatives, and although they have the ability to customize everything, the amount of effort I had to put into it simply wasn't worth it.

Maximus took me 15 minutes to setup 9 emulators, I attempted to do the same with 4 free alternatives and finally gave up.

I'm sure you can make it look great with hours of effort, but my time is worth more than the $25 for a program that I can have doing what I want to do in a short period of time.

Just my two cents. (1.94 cents US, we're catching up!)
VegasD:
I paid for MA and am happy with it.  I enjoy the look, and found it easy to use so I went with it.
Bloodwyn:
I feel that Maximus development is very slow compared to the free front ends.
User customization and layout manipulation is very limited.

If you want a front end that comes with a clean look out of the box and are not picky about features to make your front end unique, then it is fine.

I had very specific needs for my front end and I thoroughly enjoyed testing a slew of them.

I agree with Youki about support. Its pretty important if you are having issues to be able to get them resolved quickly.

I was blown away by the support from the these specific authors.

Swindus and Loadman (Mala)
Youki (Atomic)
Minwah (Mamewah)
Headkaze, Tom Speirs (GameEX)

Just my 2¢

PS. This is my sample WIP shot of my layout (MALA).




Bloodwyn  ;D
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