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Title: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Statsman1 on October 19, 2008, 12:45:28 pm

Don't know if you guys have done this (I'm sure many of you have), but...

1.  I'm allowed ONE arcade machine in the rec room.
2.  So if I want it to emulate many different systems, that one will have to do it.
3.  No matter what.

...so is there a front end that will incorporate MAME as well as the other emulators?

I've been a video game freak for 30 years (I'm 38 now) and love playing the old stuff (Air/Sea Battle on the 2600 is STILL a blast), as well as the newer stuff.  So with all the emulators out there, I want to build one machine that handles them all.

Not to mention old PC games.

The cabinet I'm building (slowly) will have a 22" CRT, a two-level control panel, slide-out keyboard and mouse (wireless) and all that.

So...ignoring the PC games bit, is there a front end that can help me here?

Preferably, it's one that is easy to configure.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Cakemeister on October 19, 2008, 03:47:31 pm

Tons of them.

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Front-Ends

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: jharris on October 19, 2008, 03:57:27 pm

Yup, read the wiki. It's a matter of personal taste. If you read a bit you will find the popular favorites very quickly.

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Statsman1 on October 19, 2008, 04:23:23 pm

Argh.  "Read the Wiki." is right.  I'm such a dope.  Thanks for reminding me.

Ok, another question.

If you ARE using a front-end for multiple emulators, which do you use?

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: DaveMMR on October 19, 2008, 04:39:37 pm

Quote from: Statsman1 on October 19, 2008, 04:23:23 pm

Argh.  "Read the Wiki." is right.  I'm such a dope.  Thanks for reminding me.

Ok, another question.

If you ARE using a front-end for multiple emulators, which do you use?

It's really all personal preference.   Each one has features that you may want or limitations that may be a deal breaker.   The most popular ones are Mala, Mamewah, Hyperspin, Atomic, etc.   But again, read the Wiki and see the feature list and you'll probably gravitate towards one or two.

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: jharris on October 19, 2008, 05:10:39 pm

Quote from: Statsman1 on October 19, 2008, 04:23:23 pm

If you ARE using a front-end for multiple emulators, which do you use?

There is a stickied poll at the top of this forum called "Favorite Front End." Check it out.

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Lilwolf on October 21, 2008, 08:29:39 pm

And you can also use multimame to get the rest of the frontends to work with multiple emulators.

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Havok on October 21, 2008, 09:21:26 pm

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=85832.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=85832.0)

 :applaud:

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: MarcC on October 22, 2008, 04:00:28 pm

I currently use Hyperspin front end.

Lovely looking front end and support all emulators and they have a full forum for suppot.

http://hyperspin-fe.com/

Check it out, but as everyone on here says there is loads of them out there, Check out hyperspin on youtube, some nice vids of it on there as im sure there is of most front ends

Best of luck :)

Title: Re: Front End for Multiple Emulators?
Post by: Statsman1 on October 24, 2008, 10:04:26 pm

Thanks for the input, everyone.  I'll give a couple of these a whirl and see what happens.