> I prefer program agnostic frontends. I don't use Kodi because it's not truly generic. > It's tailored towards media files and streams, and it isn't really intended for video > games. > > What's wrong with a frontend where you create your own lists, and each item in the > list is something like: > > 1) binary location > > 2) args > > 3) label > > Is that so difficult? That's all you need. Anything you can do with MAME you can do > with command line args anyway, so you immediately support anything MAME's ever going > to do once you support arbitrary args in a generic launcher.
So basically a batch file? I can do that without "independent" frontends. You can even sort them into folders if you want something UI fancy. The thing is the args are dependent of emulator versions so you need to a) find about them which beats the front-end purpose or b) update them according to the emulator version which makes them dependent of one. I don't think you have clear the purpose of a front-end.