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Title: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: RoboG2 on December 22, 2004, 02:04:41 pm

Is it a good frontend?  Any known problems or bugs?  Does it support multiple emulators or just MAME?  Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: Howard_Casto on December 22, 2004, 04:13:55 pm

Just mame. 

It's good, but it's horribly outdated and the mame gamelist is hardcoded into the program and can't easily be changed. 

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: Mike on December 22, 2004, 04:40:30 pm

Actually the only real problem with using it is that is when you browse the the games using the alphabet it browses by file name and sorts them by it, but when you go one at a time through them it goes by the actually title. It is a pain in the but and can cause you all kinds of headaches.

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: RoboG2 on December 22, 2004, 04:58:33 pm

Thanks.

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: Stormy151 on December 23, 2004, 01:37:49 am

I thought Arcade FX was pretty cool at first, but it hasn't been updated in a while, it looks like it will NEVER be updated, and there's too many things that should/need to be changed.

Try MAMEWAH. :)

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: Magnet_Eye on December 23, 2004, 04:14:02 am

i seem to recall Ed posting recently about it and I thought he said he updated the database to a more current version of MAME...?

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: RoboG2 on December 23, 2004, 08:43:17 am

I want to try MAMEwah so bad nut it doesnt support a mouse for a trackball.  If it doesnt have mouse support, can you still use a mouse in the actual games?

Title: Re: What do you guys think of ArcadeFX?
Post by: RacerX on December 23, 2004, 04:26:21 pm

Quote from: RoboG2 on December 23, 2004, 08:43:17 am

I want to try MAMEwah so bad nut it doesnt support a mouse for a trackball.  If it doesnt have mouse support, can you still use a mouse in the actual games?

Yes.  MAMEWah is just a front-end program that launches other emulators.  The emulators themselves are what dictate the controls that game uses.