I have to agree with you, Bill - I found that front ends mostly took far too long to configure properly, so I ran with the short cut options. Besides, when you get into the old PC DOS games and such (using DOS-Box and D-Fend), they all need to be configured differently as you play them.
I use MAME32 for the MAME games, and just drop the games I play the most in the Favorites filter, and run from that. Other than that, it's a desktop shortcut for the other emus.
It's not the fault of those putting out the emus, it's just not worth the time. I'd rather be playing NOW then spend too much time configuring a FE to run the game anyway.
Having said that, I wonder if there's an econimcal way to write one in QBasic or DarkBasic...
I have to agree with you, Bill - I found that front ends mostly took far too long to configure properly, so I ran with the short cut options. Besides, when you get into the old PC DOS games and such (using DOS-Box and D-Fend), they all need to be configured differently as you play them.
I use MAME32 for the MAME games, and just drop the games I play the most in the Favorites filter, and run from that. Other than that, it's a desktop shortcut for the other emus.
It's not the fault of those putting out the emus, it's just not worth the time. I'd rather be playing NOW then spend too much time configuring a FE to run the game anyway.
Having said that, I wonder if there's an econimcal way to write one in QBasic or DarkBasic...