ProtoBox 2 Emulation Environment - Public Release

[relay01]

Hey All,
I had a project thread up for a while during early dev and I think I've finally got my emulation environment up to a point where I can release it publicly.

It's free, it's for windows, it's built around mamewah and incorporates other open source or authorized software/emulators to create a bundled, easy to configure emulator environment.

My project "ProtoBox 2" is an massive emulation environment that wraps the MameWah arcade frontend and various emulators in a portable, configurable, and versatile package. Its meant for those not in the know about emulation and arcade frontends to have a very approachable package to start off with. Its a freeware application written mostly in batch scripts. The members of this forum aren't exactly the target audience because it is meant to create a console-like experience as opposed to an arcade like.  It can however be used in arcade cabs as well (It works in mine at least).

Also should mention that it's a Windows based solution so Windows XP - 8 is required.

Currently ProtoBox 2 has support for the following consoles/game machines built in:
MAME Arcade (Uses a custom build of mame tweaked for ProtoBox)
NES (Nestopia)
SNES (ZSNES)
GBA (VBAM)
GB/C (BGB - [Used with permission])
Atari 2600 (Stella)
Sony Playstation (ePSXe)

These ones can be added in but are not bundled with ProtoBox:
Genesis (Fusion)
32X (Fusion)
SMS (Fusion)
GameGear (Fusion)
Sega CD (Fusion)
Sony Playstation (PSX)

More support to come.

Two things to note;
1. ProtoBox must be extracted to a path with no spaces. (I recommend the root of a drive)
2. You should change your display settings to 60Hz and 32-bit Color or some emus might not work right.


You can get more info about and find it on the project page.
http://pb2.dustingray.net

Or download it directly.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4DzdmfTzRtXVlJpazNNUWNDUTQ/edit?usp=sharing

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AJ

[relay01]

  Not a heck of a lot of interest from the looks of things.

Any feedback from anyone?

ProtoBox 2 Features:
Static emulator settings - emulator configs don't change unless you want them to.  This reduces the chance of accidentally breaking an emulator.
Easy to configure gamepads - plug in your gamepad, run through the configurator and all the emulators will work.
Portable - you can copy an existing "install" over to another computer and it works.  No reconfiguration necessary, no need to assure the path names are identical.  It's self contained.

[yotsuya]

I'll do a test install this weekend.