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Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 151/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! I've collected a nice collection of ROMS troughout the years, I've hooked my PC up to my TV, bought some gamepads, and finally I got my own "Retro System". Now I would like to have a nice interface to select my ROMS, see some screenshots and info, and then click and play them. I know there is some kind of frontend like that for SNES called "SNES-Center" for example. I was wondering if anyone of you uses such a frontend and can recommend me some titles. Or maybe somebody made some interface himself (in HTML or PHP for example) and would like to share it with me?  Thanks in advance for the help.  |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 4553/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Hm... what exactly do you mean? Basically a multi-system frontend? If so, I'm sure ZD has tons of them... *checks* Yup. And I can't see how you'd do something like that in HTML.  |
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windwaker Ball and Chain Trooper WHY ALL THE MAYONNAISE HATE Level: 61  Posts: 133/1797 EXP: 1860597 For next: 15999 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 6 days |
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| You could use ROM Center, it's quite good. | |||
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Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 153/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! It looks like ROM Center is indeed a nice program but...it gives me some strange "adress" error when I try to change the path to the ROMS...  I'm using WIN98, might be a problem? |
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elixirnova Red Paratroopa Level: 22  Posts: 87/177 EXP: 56507 For next: 1843 Since: 04-05-04 From: Midgar Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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ill have to look into it tomorrow...but i used to use zfe or somthing for zsnes roms i would imagine it would be best if you just had a seperate frontend for each system... and just have folder with shortcuts to each frontend in it  works for me. heheedit* wow that rhymed... (edited by elixirnova on 10-13-04 11:48 PM) |
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windwaker Ball and Chain Trooper WHY ALL THE MAYONNAISE HATE Level: 61 Posts: 139/1797 EXP: 1860597 For next: 15999 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 6 days |
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I guess the only suggestion I can give you is to not change the path to the ROMs  . |
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dan Snap Dragon Level: 43  Posts: 200/782 EXP: 534516 For next: 30530 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 20 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Quickplay is my recommendation. Pretty simple to use, and the fact that my brother wrote it, has no bearing on my recommendation.  |
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Sliver X Level: 8  Posts: 2/19 EXP: 1942 For next: 245 Since: 05-01-04 Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 3 days |
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| I've used frontends since URL/Etc were out (Back in the "old days" any sizable amount of ROMs was horrid to manage with the command line emulators of the era without some kind of menu system), and would have to say QuickPlay is definitely the best overall frontend you can get. Mainly, it lets you run zipped ROMs with any emulator (Plus adding a nice interface to run things from), but there's a lot more it can do. The command line options are so extensive that you can run even emulators like MESS easily, MAME support is awesome and easy to use, and it's even a mass zipper/unzipper. The thing I like about it the most is that you can scan for ROMs inside a single zip, so instead of having several thousand individually zipped ROMs you can put them all into a single big archive, which saves many MB that would ordinarly be lost to slack waste. As far as the program itself goes, it loads and runs very quickly and with barely any resources used, due to it being programmed in Delphi (Which also means no retarded VBx Dll's to find). I just wish he'd consider adding RAR and/or 7zip support to it; that would be sweet. I use it to run my PC to a TV for emulation, and can navigate all the menus with the PSX controllers I have for my PC.  I hacked QP a little to make the system name menu appear at the top, and with a program called JoyToKey set my controller's D-pad (In Analog Mode) to be Tab and Up/Down, so I can switch between the game list/systems list. JoyToKey can also emulate the mouse, so I set my right analog stick for that. I plan on using this setup in a nano-ATX system dedicated for emulation alone one of these days as some kind of Uber console. (edited by Sliver X on 10-15-04 07:14 PM) |
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Ok Impala! Buzzy Beetle Level: 31 Posts: 161/383 EXP: 183070 For next: 2293 Since: 03-16-04 From: The Netherlands Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 23 hours |
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| Ok! Thanks a lot! This program was exactly what I've been searching for and more. I got the same idea as Sliver, just making one "super console" and with Quickplay I'm even able to not using a mouse at all anymore. Great stuff! |
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