Trying to think about a more user-friendly WolfMAME
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:28 am
WolfMAME is obviously the most used MAME build for recordings. Since 0.106 it lost all the exclusive features of MAME Plus!, including for example the built-in autofire (which isn't allowed for MARP recordings anyway). However, the biggest problem's always been the lack of a frontend. Still today, a lot of users (newbies or not) are constantly playing with the very obsolete 0.106, losing a lot of good games and an infinite number of improvements, mainly because newer versions are not as user-friendly as a build created to play should be. That's a big shame.
Some time ago the old MAME Plus! UI has been removed in favour of a new, very good frontend: M+GUI. It's very similar to the old one that everyone knows, it works perfectly with almost every build (including WolfMAME) and it keeps every option for the build it's linked to. So what about including the M+GUI file into the WolfMAME installation? In my opinion, it would be a little but very important change.
I'm not proposing this idea for lazy people. As MAME Italia and Arcade-Extreme user, i've received a lot of questions about how to use newer versions of WolfMAME (even in recent times) and i've ultimately came to think that this little change would concretely encourage many users to use post 0.106 builds.
Some time ago the old MAME Plus! UI has been removed in favour of a new, very good frontend: M+GUI. It's very similar to the old one that everyone knows, it works perfectly with almost every build (including WolfMAME) and it keeps every option for the build it's linked to. So what about including the M+GUI file into the WolfMAME installation? In my opinion, it would be a little but very important change.
I'm not proposing this idea for lazy people. As MAME Italia and Arcade-Extreme user, i've received a lot of questions about how to use newer versions of WolfMAME (even in recent times) and i've ultimately came to think that this little change would concretely encourage many users to use post 0.106 builds.