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youki:
Hi,

Seeing your machine specification, all FE will fit .

As said loadman look the wiki.

And i also suggest you concentrate your choice on the four major .  Mala,GameEX,AtomicFE and Mamewah.

I don't know if it is already in the wiki but Khameleon  seems very promising too.

If you have question about AtomicFe, i'm here and i have also a english forums here :

http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=1d92bcadf01441a7fdcab70c70b965c8




Green Giant:

--- Quote from: gonzo90017 on October 17, 2007, 12:12:06 am ---Don't forget Mamewah.   :angry:

--- End quote ---

Mamewah was nice and very powerful for its day, but time has passed it by.  As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any development with it in about 9 months.  Don't want to rain on your parade since I was originally setting up my cab to run with mamewah, but the constant work on mala allowed it to pass up mamewah in features and ease of use.

Also, can you run mamewah with the latest version of mame?  I would assume you can, but you probably have to update and modify every .ini since they have changed mame so much from .107.

Go with the big three, Mala, AtomicFE, and GameEX.

gonzo90017:

--- Quote ---Also, can you run mamewah with the latest version of mame?  I would assume you can, but you probably have to update and modify every .ini since they have changed mame so much from .107.
--- End quote ---

I just tried it with Mame 0.120 and it works great. I don't know what you mean about the ini files though. I just use this:


--- Code: ---### mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            mame

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  E:\videogames\Winkawaks\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  auto:[emuexepath]\[emuexename].dat
nms_file                                  auto:[emuexepath]\[emuexename].nms
catver_ini_file                           auto:[emuexepath]\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             C:\videogames\mame37\nodelay.exe {nowait}{autoquit}
emulator_commandline                      C:\videogames\newmame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       auto:[emuexepath]\snap;[emuexepath]\marquee;[emuexepath]\control;[emuexepath]\cabinet;
movie_preview_path                        auto:[emuexepath]\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                          auto
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0
--- End code ---

TAG:
I'm running Mame .119 and several other emulators (Daphne, vivanonno, Mjolnir, Model2, etc. etc.), and Mamewah still works great.

Having said that, it's hard to go too wrong with any of the front ends that have been recommended.  I'm just too stubborn to start over again, particularly since I'm not having any problems with it.

torcer:
I love MaLa, you can't go wrong with it.  It's versatile and easy to use.

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