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Scumgriever:

--- Quote from: Corbet on December 09, 2006, 12:22:24 pm ---Ahh, thanks. I actually re-checked this post because I discovered front ends. What ones are regarded as the best? There seems to be way to many to try out. I'm looking for something free but if there are any that are worth paying for I'd gladly buy one.

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I spent a couple of weeks mucking around with frontends and by the sounds of things I was coming from a fairly similar position as you. (going for nice looking, simple to program and use.

I ended up choosing MaLa. It's great.

It has completely customisabe layouts with an included layout editor.

Best yet though its super easy to set up MaMe and as many other emulators you want, each can have its own layout and design if you want.

It has lots of functions that are all selecable using a windows style preferences box.

I'm running MAME for my arcade games, Zsnes for the Super nintendo, VirtuaNES for the NES, Fusion for Megadrive and master system. It supposedly does GameGear and SEGA CD too but I don't have any roms for them.  Also I'm stuffing around with a Gameboy and PSX emulator.

All through MaLa with ZERO difficulty.

For a nice touch it plays a video of the highlighted game rather than screenshots on the game selection screen :)

Its best feature is by far its ease of use.



javeryh:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on December 09, 2006, 09:04:00 am ---If you REALLY are serious about keeping things cheap (because everybody says the same thing at some point), don't be tempted to build the "one cabinet to rule them all" (and that can happen bit-by-bit as you add "just one more" component). All that cool stuff costs money. Decide in advance on controls to support a specific set of games and stick to it. That will really help control costs and you can always (and probably will) build another cabinet down the road.
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This is the best advice someone can give you, IMO.  There really isn't an "all-in-one" solution that works for everything.
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