A WinForms based frontend application for launching emulators.
Works with MAME and many other emulators.
Configurable game list, launch options, key bindings and appearance settings.
Uses .NET 4.0 - Visual Studio 2010.
Now superseded by: https://github.com/drogoganor/ArcadeFrontendWPF
Game List View
Project Information
This is a simple frontend for emulators that supports a wide variety of emulators.
Game data is stored in XML format and you can specify many options for launching an emulator or other process.
The frontend uses a global keyboard hook to watch for a "kill command" if the currently running process requires it.
Games are organized by system - each game definition has a system name. This field can be set to whatever you need to categorize your games by.
Big game view and system select screen
Game List config screen
Key Commands
The keys are configurable, but here are the defaults:
- Esc - View menu
- Arrow Keys - Navigate game/system lists
- D - Switch to large game view/list view
- C - Select System screen
- A+1+2 - Terminate current game (if process hook registered).
- All others - Launch currently selected game
Supported Emulators
Currently I am using the following emulators with the frontend:
- MAME
- NeoMamePlus
- CPS2MAME
- PCSX
- Model 2 Emulator (Nebula)
- CPS3 Emulator (Nebula)
- Snes9x
- VirtuaNES
The frontend is free and licensed under the GPL if you wish to make changes.
I would like to add a new user interface some day - perhaps using Windows Presentation Foundation.
Thanks to
- George Mamaladze for his global keyboard hook: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/globalhook.aspx