Whats the best front end for lower spec pc's

[monkeychunkuk]

Im using Hyperspin for a front end but i would like to run mame on a lower spec laptop for a single player cab, i still want to have a user friendly front end to run mane games,can someone advise a front end that will run on older pcs.

Many thanks
Steve

[Well Fed Games]

MALA should work great, it is it nice light front end.

[404]

depends on what your pc specs are and OS. i use mamewah for a small pentium 3 build i have. works great.

[monkeychunkuk]

Thanks ill try those both got any links please ?

[BadMouth]

http://www.malafe.net/

The layout it comes with is horrible, but it's real easy to make your own using the layout editor.
You basically just make a background in photoshop and drag boxes where you want the various elements to appear.
(snapshot, video snaps, gamelist, marquee, etc)
Not real fancy, but you can pull off some slick looking layouts if you're good with a photoshop type program.
There are a few tricks to get just a little fancier, but not many. 

There are also other layouts available for download on the Mala site.

Slowest PC I've run it on is a 600mhz celeron and it worked fine.   

[HaRuMaN]

+1 for MALA

[brad808]

Before you try to figure out a new front end maybe try going into hyper hq and disabling the fancy stuff. At that point it would basically be just a list without the bling and see if that runs on the laptop or not.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

[jahilton2002]

http://www.mgalaxy.com/index.html

[HaRuMaN]

^ That doesn't look like it will run well on a low end PC...

[jahilton2002]

thats a shot of the website..... the blue area is the frontend. my 2.4ghz p4 with 1gb does well with it.

[Dawgz Rule]

GameEx requirements are fairly low:

http://www.gameex.com/Support/MinimumRequirements.aspx

[monkeychunkuk]

Thanks for the links ill try them all out
Oh btw i have tried to do yhe lowest setting in hyperspin and its still lags a little plus all the videos take up a lot of hd space

[brad808]

Ok if you've already tried lowering the settings to the lowest and it still lags then obviously ya time for a new frontend. Just an FYI though you don't need the videos you can simply have screen shots instead. That's what I've done for a couple of games I can't find videos for.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus