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Title: Mame Front Ends....
Post by: Ovalblue on October 10, 2003, 03:09:02 pm

Heres a two part question...

1. I am trying to decide which mame front end I want to use.  I think I will go with a Windows based one since I am not too familiar with DOS or command line.  What are some suggestions?

My system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+  (overclock to a 3200+)
512 MB RAM
Aracde VGA Card
Windows XP OS

2. What are some Front ends you guys are running?  How do you like them?

Hope to get a good response from this...  8)

-OB

Title: Re:Mame Front Ends....
Post by: TalkingOctopus on October 10, 2003, 04:30:15 pm

I have tried several frontends and I ended up using mamewah.

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/ (http://mamewah.mameworld.net/)

Although it is initially hard to set up, it is very customizable.  You can also get it to run any emulator/program.  I also like the mp3 background music and the screen saver support - I use emusaver, it cycles through mame games (http://www.oscarcontrols.com/lazarus/).

Title: Re:Mame Front Ends....
Post by: Jakobud on October 10, 2003, 05:41:22 pm

post this stuff in the Software forum please.

Title: Re:Mame Front Ends....
Post by: grafixmonkey on October 10, 2003, 07:06:40 pm

yeah, software forum - mostly because that's where you'll find help with front ends, not here.

(but also because we're trying to pretend we're organized, and you're messing up our Chi!  I can already feel my aura turning the wrong color...)

Title: Re:Mame Front Ends....
Post by: Magnet_Eye on October 10, 2003, 10:20:21 pm

Is this for use in a cabinet or just your desktop pc?

i suggest using MAME32 for desktop use.

http://classicgaming.com/mame32qa/