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pmc:

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Actually, that's not a bad idea.

I left Mamewah for MaLa due to the ease of configuration -- the best thing I did was download it to check it out. It's worth it to download and try out a couple of candidates.

I always wanted to configure multiple front-ends so that I could switch to whatever I was in the mood for. But I never did that...

-pmc
LeedsFan:

--- Quote from: pmc on January 12, 2008, 10:09:57 am ---
--- Quote from: Cero21 on January 11, 2008, 08:20:58 pm ---
I left Mamewah for MaLa due to the ease of configuration -- the best thing I did was download it to check it out. It's worth it to download and try out a couple of candidates.


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Mamewah is an excellent front end nut I gotta admit that Mala is better for a new person to get to grips with.  Personally I wanted to be able to reuse my old Mamewah skin and have the U360 plugin to change maps behind the scenes. Mala suited me perfectly so this is the FE I use now.
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DaveMMR:
Asking us which frontend you should use is kind of like asking us what your favorite food should be.  It's hard to really nail down what fit your wants and needs best.  You basically need to pick a few based on the feature lists (check the wiki entry) and do some test runs.

If you have specific hardware needs (U360s, LEDs, etc.), you can narrow your list down a bit (Mala, GameEx).  Otherwise, they're all pretty good.  Even without specifics, I would recommend taking a look into Mala and GameEx as well as Mamewah.
Green Giant:
Mala was my choice because of hardware support, but basically there are the big three.

Mala, GameEx, and AtomicFE.

Look at those the most, they are under constant development and the most up to date.
Lilwolf:
Most of them can handle a single mame.exe pretty easy, so its nice to download a few and see for sure. 

But now, lots have the same themes/skins also.  So thats becoming less necessary. 

But since you are going to look at it every day, I would start looking at the theme pages (if your not artistic) and go from there.  Many have very similar feature sets, they all have a bit of configuration needed to do anything weird. 

I just recently moved from Mamewah to Mala just for a theme.   
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