> You're both right. GameEx is an absolutely phenomenal frontend for use in a cabinet, > or if you're interested in gaming. QMC2 is also a fantastic frontend if you're > interested in fine-grained configurability of the emulated machine(s).
> Well, if you're interested in *arcade* gaming. GameEx breaks down and explodes into > useless mush if you want to use MAME anywhere near its full potential (can it even > configure MVS multi-slot yet?) Or (ironically) on the iMac they show on their front > page. He's using C#, so the lack of features is kind of disconcerting.
Well, i dont know tbh. GameEx can everything what a commandline to MAME can and even more. *arcade* gaming? well, it can do the consoles pretty good too. iMac? well, there is a version for macs. How well it works, i cant tell. Lack of features? I cant take you seriously at this point.
MAME anywhere near its full potential? Well, i didnt read much of something missing from MAME in the forums. My experience with for example C64 is, that there is many stuff, but it doesnt help or work properly and i mean those precious fine-grained configurability like Speed-Dos, Dolphin-Dos etc.
> Are you sure? There's the skinnable qmc2-arcade component that works with a > controller.
Where? Does it work in a lowres CRT-environment? Is there a theme-editor, where i can decide where a button is, a snapshot is, how the text description looks like, have a animated background etc.? Can i decide which sound is played by a click or entering a new menu? And what if i want to control it with a lightgun? Do i have control over my hardware RGB LED-buttons? Can i decide which buttons blinks or not and in which color? BTW, thats a feature that i would say, uses the full potential of MAME.
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