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Hehe. to me this is recent history.
My retro-gaming is all ZX-Spectrum and Amiga emulators.

I never play with emulators, i get confused trying to figure them out and get roms working. I'd be all over emulators if I had them plus tons of roms from online or something.

I am guessing that is where this software like this comes in.

eg. setting up UAE can be fiddly with the variety of Amiga setups possible. The "Amiga Forever" package has pre-configured setups, and because it is a commercial product, you get the ROMs needed.

Console emulators are much simpler, but MAME can be a pain.

DeusIX said:

IMHO this is the greatest emulator frontend in the world and it should have more than 4 users!

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Having a name like that doesn't help your program to get a wider attention.
You should rename it to something like "The Amazing Frontend To All Known Emulators So You Don't Have To Fiddle Them Yourself". That's so much better.

So this works with PCSX-R and VBA? Does it allow you to set custom emulation settings for a specific emu and specific game, because that would be very useful

Looks really nice, I tried to setup a similar thing using XBMC last year but it just didn't work well.

It does look good, is there somewhere to download screenshots (and loading screens) that work with it, such as for all SNES games, all Megadrive games, etc? And also screenshots for PC games, though for PC shots maybe the ability to choose which ones to download will be better as we'll all have only a few PC games on our drives even if we all have complete SNES/NES/Megadrive/Spectrum/C64 etc rom sets installed too.

OK mate, thanks.

DeusIX said:

I thought of that, but couldn't figure out why would anyone want/need per game settings? So, please tell me why

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Well, a lot of PSX games need different plugins, settings, or game fixes to run properly. For example... on PCSX-R 1.9.93 you cannot run Vagrant Story properly with Pete's OGL/D3D plugins, because PCSX-R's core breaks framebuffer effects no matter which hardware plugin or settings you use. So, the best plugin to use is Pete's software renderer. Eternal SPU provides the best sound in this game.

Same goes for SOTN, in addition to turning analog 'off' on your controller plugin. This can be done using a keybind but it'd be a lot nicer if it could be done automatically via a profile. And again, you want to be using Eternal SPU for sound - just make sure you set the timing mode to SPU Async, otherwise some odd audio glitches will happen every now and then.

On the other hand, Gran Turismo 2 works fantastically with Pete's OGL plugin, especially when using improved GTE (vertex location) accuracy. But you're better off using Peops SPU. Eternal SPU doesn't always play nice with audio in GT2 and glitches will generally happen.

With Metal Gear Solid there's a slew of special settings you should enable in both the graphics plugins and Eternal SPU or Peops SPU to make the game run properly.

The Final Fantasy games / Legend of Dragoon also require special fixes that, when enabled, will break many other games.

These are just a few examples for PCSX-R. If using ePSXe things are similar but can often get even more specific because of the differences in the emulation core.

If you're running PCSX2 to emulate PS2 games, well, nearly every game needs different settings to run properly (depending on hardware, of course.) This makes a frontend without game-specific profiles essentially useless for PCSX2.

Sidenote: If you're using pSX as your PSX emulator, there are generally zero settings to change except analog on/off. pSX is designed to emulate the Playstation hardware as accurately as possible, and as such, has little in the way of settings for graphics and sound. The drawbacks to pSX are that it's outdated, has a crappy GUI, and can be slow even on modern hardware because emulation accuracy is higher.