The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: telengard on October 08, 2011, 04:38:44 pm
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Upgraded to WinXP SP3 and now my setup no longer works, figured it's a good time for an upgrade. Hoping for some recommendations from those using other frontends. There seems to be a lot of them out there now...
Currently using Advmenu which has all the features I need. Ideally, a frontend replacement could do the following:
Rotate between vertical/horizontal w/ a button press.
Launch mame or misfitmame w/ the current rotation flags
Allow me to categorize and switch between categories w/ a button press. Advmenu has 2 different sorts of categories which I utilize. For one set I use orientation (horiz, vert) and the other set I do it by controls (2 buttons, 4 buttons, 4 way, 8 way, etc). So I could for example look at all the horizontal 4 way games by switching each categories (each set is a different button).
Work/look ok on an arcade monitor
That's about it, anything else is gravy. Only fancy feature I use is the audio snippets for games and screenshots. I have my own frontend for launching advmenu and other emulators like daphne so if it could also do multiple emulators that would make things much easier...
~telengard
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I'm pretty sure MameWah (or WahCade) has all of what you need and is pretty basic by default. Very customisable and runs very lightweight. I recommend it.
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I did an assessment of the top 5 (GameEx, Mala, Maximus Arcade, Atomic FE and Hyperspin) as an alternative to mamewah a few months ago. It might interest you.
Mister Hat is correct, MAMEWah will fulfill your requirements.