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Firebat138:
Gotta love HS... Still setting up some stuff, but I love me some eye candy, although I find myself using plain old Mame64 sometimes.
Harakiri:
--- Quote from: Harakiri on March 05, 2010, 09:30:42 am ---Hello!
I'm looking for a minimalistic GUI for MAME. The latest MAMEGUI that i compiled successfully crashes randomly (such as the previous one) and most of the frontends are biased towards arcade cabinets. I'm looking for something like this:
It's very frustrating not being able to use xMAMEgui with basic mame though... :'(
If anyone knows of a similar approach to this please let me know ok!?
Thanks in advance!
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I found the solution to my very own problem!
If you tried to compile the lastest MAMEUI using MAME compiler and you are experiencing random crashes here's a simple solution:
1- Compile the latest version of MAME
2 - Download MAME+GUI mamepgui-1.5.0.win-20100305
3 - Run the program, locate compiled version of MAME, set the rom directories and other options
There are no crashes with this setup. I noticed that MAME+ emulator by itself doesn't skip nag screens in certain games so i decided to try this setup and it works flawlessly.
Have fun! :)
eclipso:
--- Quote from: tspeirs on March 06, 2010, 08:06:07 am ---It seems most folks prefer visuals over content, which is where GameEx stives. Ill keep pushing on though.
Blatant promotion below ;)
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For me I actually prefer this type of FE. I enjoy having all the historic data at my finger tips as well as being able to play alot of great games.
RobbyMac:
I use maximus/ Easy, simple, customizable. Support sucks I know.
Hyperspin has alot of eyecandy... but ultimately I want to play games, and navigate through menus quickly and easily... I'm not much interested in being entertained by the front end.
shateredsoul:
--- Quote from: RobbyMac on March 14, 2010, 01:31:56 am ---I use maximus/ Easy, simple, customizable. Support sucks I know.
Hyperspin has alot of eyecandy... but ultimately I want to play games, and navigate through menus quickly and easily... I'm not much interested in being entertained by the front end.
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I've not completely given up on Hyperspin, but I definitely have had trouble. If they add a auto list generator (based on your games) then I'll come back and check it out. Funny thing is that I think having the box art for nes and snes games is way more interesting than the themes... the boxes give me more nostalgia. I might come back to it when they've had more time to work things out and make the theme, wheel image, box art, collection a little less painless. I think I heard Dazz was working on on a folder for the ftp that would have all the art already setup so we'll see. I must say hat I do like how easy they made it to add emulators.
Maximus us just really easy to setup, and it doesn't look that bad, it's pretty nice. The support does suck, but many issues have already been solved or are not too hard to figure out. I must say that I love it and a lot of the issues can be fixed with a hopefully upcoming update. Lets keep hoping on that.
I think if I was having a group of people who loved videogames over I'd use Maximus Arcade, if I was having a party with non gamers and wanted the cab to be out then I'd use hyperspin and have MAME as the main wheel.
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