What emulators are best with MA?

[Nidz]

Hi there people. This is my first post and I hope I haven't gone over something already covered but it there a list of recomended emulators for each system? I've tried a few for each but I find some work better with this frontend than others. Can somebody out there list the most recomended emulators for as many systems as they can then I can get some idea of what others are using. So far I've setup mame and visual pinball. I'm having a real hard time setting up Future Pinball and I haven't even started on the Nintendo, Sega and Atari systems.

Could MA's future builds include control setups for many of the popular emulators? Most use CFG files. Having 1 place to setup a universal set of controls that will then carry on to all the other emulators would be much easier. Something with a GUI interface.. Just an idea. Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[waeberd]

Hey Nidz, welcome to the club!

I guess you've seen the list of supported emulators, for example here:
http://maximusarcade.com/max.htm

If you're running a cab (without any visible keyboard, with a mame-control panel), I can recommend the following emus:
* KEGA Fusion (for Sega stuff)
* Magic Engine (for the PCEngine)
* VisualBoyAdvance
* ZSNES

I am having trouble to control N64 games / PSX games without using (original) gamepads, so maybe you should try
the ones above first?

Could MA's future builds include control setups for many of the popular emulators? Most use CFG files. Having 1 place to setup a universal set of controls that will then carry on to all the other emulators would be much easier. Something with a GUI interface..

Sounds good but I honestly don't think it's doable! Every emu coder has preferences and handles stuff (like launch in full screen, launch in a specific resolution) differently. Mameseer already does a GREAT job by trying to override relevant settings when launching an emu.

I also think that most emus are easier to setup than the beasty "Future Pinball", so don't give up! (but don't try to setup ZINC next, it's horrible to configure )

Hope that helps!

Daniel

[Nidz]

Hey thanks for your comments. Yeah There's a fair bit of messing around to get all the emulator systems to run. I've been trying one with the Genesis but can't get it to run full screen. I suppose there's full screen load tags I can put in for these to get them to run the way I want. It's a matter of learning each emulator.

But I hope the next update comes out soon so I can get the pinball all configured nicely.

[Nidz]

I'm having a few issues with some emulators. Wondering if anyone has any better alternatives.

I can't get Jagulator the Jaguar emu to run properly. Wondering if there's a better one out there?

Also with the GBA and GBC, I need an emulator that will stretch and do full screen. Even if it's resized as long as it shows full screen and not in a window. Anyone used anything better than GBA Advance?

Thanks for any replies.

[Nidz]

I'm having a few issues with some emulators. Wondering if anyone has any better alternatives.

I can't get Jagulator the Jaguar emu to run properly. Wondering if there's a better one out there?

Also with the GBA and GBC, I need an emulator that will stretch and do full screen. Even if it's resized as long as it shows full screen and not in a window. Anyone used anything better than GBA Advance?

Thanks for any replies.

[waeberd]

Also with the GBA and GBC, I need an emulator that will stretch and do full screen. Even if it's resized as long as it shows full screen and not in a window. Anyone used anything better than GBA Advance?

Check out "VisualBoy Advance"! Great emu!

For fullscreen, enter
'-F "%file" '
in the commandline options

[Nidz]

Ahh cheers. thanks for the tips. I usually work with the GUI and rarelt with the command line parameters.. I'll give it a go.