Front End Russian Roulette

[grippie]

Does anyone else spend hours upon hours of tweaking and setting up a front end, then get bored and go looking for others to play with?


I have hyperspin, GameEX, Maximus Arcade, Mala, Emulation Station, Mgalaxy and Attract Mode all about 80% complete. I think Hyperspin and Maximus are are around 95% complete but still not perfect. I Love the modern and slick emulator select screen from emulation station but the game select screen is so static that I feel like i'm wasting all of this beautiful artwork that I've downloaded. Specifically the 3D boxart which is what reminds me most about playing games as a kid so I really want that in there.


Oh yea throw in Kodi (XBMC) with Rom collection browser. that is really slick but the themes are super limited. shoot me. Now I see why people just rock simple text lists with title/video that plays.


scuse me I have to get back to screwing around with GameEX

[pbj]

didi mao

[eds1275]

I dunno. I think Hyperspin is a resource hog that looks like las vegas - it's obnoxious. I like my simple layout with gamelist, screenshot, marquee, and themed background music. I think you need to ask yourself what you are looking for in a front end - I need somewhere to choose a game, and that is hassle free after initial setup. I have video game soundtracks, video game movie soundtracks, spinal tap songs, and audio clips from spinal tap playing in the background. My menu selection noises are a collection of sounds I made on my electric guitar. The theme of everything ties in together nicely and leaves me satisfied.