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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: riley454 on September 02, 2010, 02:52:08 pm

Title: Simple Frontend solely for MAME
Post by: riley454 on September 02, 2010, 02:52:08 pm: I've scrolled through the poll on frontends and read thousands of posts here and everywhere else and I am looking for CURRENT opinions on the frontends that are best suited dedicated for MAME and are simple to configure and friendly to use.

I currently have about 50 favourite arcade games that might increase up to 100, mostly with screenshots. My eventual goal is to be able to plug-n-play a USB drive into any computer and play these games(along with my plug-n-play joystick console of course!) Although I am reasonably computer savvy, I don't want to spend too much time on altering files etc, mainly because one computer may recognise a usb drive as
"Drive F" whilst another may be "Drive Z" so referencing to roms and screenshots needs to be simple.

As the poll here has been running for 2 years and software changes so regularly, are the overall results still a credible indication of the most popular FE?
Title: Re: Simple Frontend solely for MAME
Post by: WhereEaglesDare on September 02, 2010, 03:43:33 pm: MAMEWah, and I have looked at the USB problem a few times and I don't think there is anyway around it. You could just use a NAS on your network and then you can assign the Drive Designator using NETUSE commands through a batch file. Thats the only way I could find plug and play to work in that way.
Title: Re: Simple Frontend solely for MAME
Post by: riley454 on September 03, 2010, 12:43:57 pm: Thanks Eagle. For some unknown reason Mamewah has been my FE since I found out about MAME but I've only used its basic format on my pc whilst I'm engineering my standalone MAME system. So it appears I'm on the right track in that regard.

The USB is a complete other issue. I was hoping to drag my soon to be built joystick console to any number of mates houses, plug it into a ps2 or usb and also plug in a portable usb hard drive and go nuts arcade gaming impressing them with my time machine that takes them back into the smoke filled pinball parlors of the 80's.
Title: Re: Simple Frontend solely for MAME
Post by: Havok on September 03, 2010, 03:43:52 pm: AtomicFE uses relative paths, unless you specify a drive letter, so would work well with a USB drive...
Title: Re: Simple Frontend solely for MAME
Post by: nitz on September 03, 2010, 04:09:48 pm: Not sure about the USB thing, but if you want simple to configure and friendly to use, you can't go wrong with MaLa IMHO.