Which Frontend to use?

[bearzilla333]

Hello, I got a question, I got a friend that has an older PC with a Pentium 4 in it with WinXP. He fell in love with my arcade I did, I used HyperSpin in mine, I told him I could toss in some other emulator in there for console games since he will just be sitting in a chair with a controller, however I tried setting up GameEX on his older PC, and it seems like it might be too much of resource hog, is there a frontend that is not too taxing on an older PC like this? Which frontend has the lowest overhead? Thank you for any input it is greatly appreciated.

[empardopo]

You could test MALA. It's very easy to use. Question here.
Greetings.

[keilmillerjr]

I'd try AttractMode or retrofe.

If he will be sitting in a chair using a controller, I'd just buy a raspberry pi and install emulation station.

[BadMouth]

I've installed Mala on a 600mhz Pentium 3.  Works fine.

[bearzilla333]

I will give a try, thank you 

[lamprey]

If he/you like hyperspin you should be able to use that if you want. I use it on little netbook with an atom processor and have no problems. I did turn off transitions and tried to stream-line it as much as possible.

[lamprey]

Forgot to mention, that I have heard that using the MP4 game play videos instead of the FLV ones uses less CPU. Not, sure how big of a hit the difference is, but if you are limited in machine power, you might want to use the MP4 videos (assuming you are using them).

 

[Slippyblade]

I like to use MALA.  It's low impact and amazingly simple to set up.  If you want to got animation crazy with all the bells and whistles, HyperSpin is your game.

[haynor666]

MAMEWAH probably uses even less RAM and CPU power.