Not MAME

[Humanoid4500]

I have recently upgraded my mame cab and am left with a system I want to attatch to the living room TV.  I want to emulate the following systems:
Genesis
SNES
NES
and possibly:
TG16
Atari
divx playback
mp3/wma playback

I am in search of a Frontend capable of running these emulators (at least the first 3 anyway) with a gamepad as the sole means of interface.  I have tried emulators like Gens and Snes9x but the interface requires a mouse, and I don't want a mouse in my living room, just the gamepads.  Any suggestions?

[Jakobud]

This is my cabinet setup:

Frontend: Game Launcher
Arcade - MAME
NES - Virtual NES
SNES - ZSNES
GENESIS - GENS
TG16 - Magic Engine
LaserDisc - Daphne

You can run all those emulators from Game Launcher.  They can all load games via the command line, so game launcher handles them fine.  ZSNES, you can easily configure it to exit with the press of any button you want (except ESC...but there is some way to hack the ZSNES.EXE so you can exit with ESC...search the board...that solution is on here somewhere).  Gens, unfortunately the only way to exit that emulator is to 'right' click the mouse while playing the game and choosing exit from the menu.  TG16, no problem there. Virtual NES, no problem there (the absolute most configurable emulator I have ever seen by the way).  Daphne, no problems.

So basically you choose your games through Game Launcher and it launches the appropriate emulator with command line commands and off you go. Can't help you with mp3's though.

[cdbrown]

Have you ever tried MESS http://mess.emuverse.com/index.html.  Has a similar interface as mame32 and can play many home console systems.

*Shrug* (c) Rampy 2003
Try it out - you may like it or then again you may not as it is very windozy.

Cheers
-cdbrown

[Minwah]

Howard's commandline wrapper can be used to quit Gens with the escape key.

Also, MESS used to have a commanline version (ie not MESS32) which is very MAME-like.  Last time I tried it the console support was pretty preliminary so the standalone emu's work a lot better.  It may be better now tho (?)

[Humanoid4500]

Thanks for the great tips guys, but I want to use actual gamepads through either the USB or Gamepad port on my computer (not a stick emulating the keyboard as in my MAME cab).  Do these suggestions still apply?