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This is Topic: Frontends
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SimpleLauncher v4.7.0
Posted by retroK on Monday, December 08, 2025 - 02:56 (52 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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 SimpleLauncher ist ein Frontend für verschiedene Emulatoren (nur für Windows).
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- New Features
- Group Files by Folder: Groups multi-file MAME games (e.g., Software List CHDs/ROMs from PleasureDome) into single UI entries. Compatible only with MAME—warnings shown for non-MAME setups. Handy to launch MAME Software List CHDs.
- RetroGameCoverDownloader: New tool to help users get cover art for their games.
- Automatic Creation of 'Microsoft Windows' System: Introduced an algorithm to automatically add links to Epic Games, Steam Games, and Windows Store Games to the frontend.
- Advanced Global Search: Filter by system, filename, MAME description, folder name, and recursive search.
- First-Run Welcome Flow: Guides new users to Easy Mode for quick setup.
- Kebab Menu: "..." button on game entries for quick context actions.
- Configurable Status Bar: Timeout (default 3s) with detailed feedback for loading/saving/actions.
- Core Refactoring
- Dependency Injection (DI): GameLauncher, GamePadController, UpdateChecker, ExtractionService, PlaySoundEffects, etc., now instance-based services.
- ExtractionService: Refactored from ExtractCompressedFile with IExtractionService interface; retry logic for file locks.
- Thread Safety: SemaphoreSlim for game caches; Dispatcher.InvokeAsync preferred.
- .NET 10: Target framework upgraded; C# 14 features.
- UI/UX Improvements
- UpdateHistoryWindow: Native Markdown rendering (no external deps).
- EditSystemWindow: GroupBox → Expander (collapsible); persist states.
- Resizable Windows: SetFuzzyMatchingWindow, SetGamepadDeadZoneWindow.
- Dark Mode Toggle: Navigation menu icon/handler.
- Loading Overlays: Consistent across windows; disable UI during ops.
- Tools & Emulators
- Updated Binaries: tools (bchunk.exe, GameCoverScraper, FindRomCover.exe, BatchConvertIsoToXiso.exe etc.).
- New Emulators: Ymir (Saturn), NooDs (DS), Gearlynx/Gearboy (Lynx).
- Docs: Updated parameters.md/helpuser.xml with Amiga models, MAME rompath examples.
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Steam ROM Manager v2.5.32
Posted by retroK on Monday, December 08, 2025 - 02:49 (48 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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Mit Steam ROM Manager ist es möglich, ROMs in Steam zu verwalten. Damit kann beispielsweise der Big-Picture Modus von Steam genutzt werden.
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- #776 (games with a plus sign in their title not appearing in searches).
- #779 (attempting to kill steam in Linux doesn't work in 2.5.31). Added bonus for this one, also added handling for flatpak steam installs.
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Steam ROM Manager v2.5.31
Posted by retroK on Saturday, December 06, 2025 - 11:19 (74 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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Mit Steam ROM Manager ist es möglich, ROMs in Steam zu verwalten. Damit kann beispielsweise der Big-Picture Modus von Steam genutzt werden.
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Fixes
- Fix SRM uncategorizing non SRM non Steam shortcuts
- Fix auto killing steam functionality on mac and linux
Removed
- Compatibility with older versions of steam that use
localconfig.vdf to store categories (it's been a year yall)
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IV/Play v2.4.9
Posted by retroK on Thursday, December 04, 2025 - 08:56 (88 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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IV/Play ist ein Windows Frontend für den Arcade Emulator MAME von John IV (MAMEUI).
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- Allow a nonworking machine to display its own art asset if there is one.
- Prevent snap scanlines on vector games and non-MAME generated art (flyers, marquees, PCBs, etc.)
- Allow saving off the random bkground tracking .json before a full factory reset.
- Allow DAT peek with art type ‘None’.
- Auto-populate paths for the current common art types if present in the MAME.exe directory structure
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IV/Play v2.4.8
Posted by retroK on Monday, December 01, 2025 - 01:16 (90 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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IV/Play ist ein Windows Frontend für den Arcade Emulator MAME von John IV (MAMEUI).
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- SOFTWARE LIST FILTERING & FAVORITES
- A large refactoring of the handling of software lists now allows for filtering/searching across the entire 100K plus collection of MAME software items. This means it’s now possible to search for an item like name:Zaxxon and get the hits for Zaxxon across all of its ports. Software list items are also now eligible for inclusion to the favorites.ini file. Add or remove them with the same key Ctrl-D. They can be grouped at the end of the main game list favorites (sorted by machine) or integrated into the main list via descriptive name. The favorites audit will now extend to include these items, so a2600/combak vs. a2600/combat will be flagged. Inclusion of softlist hits in the filter can be toggled off in the F1 config.
- F1 CUSTOMIZABLE KEYS SECTION
- The main alterable key combos have been surfaced into the F1 dialogue. All the remaining keys are editable in the IV-Play.cfg file.
- THE ARCADE GAME LIST
- IV/Play now has a curated, subjective, arcade-only game list; accessible via Alt-INS / Alt-DEL cycle keys or F1 in the custom game list drop down. Excludes all the non-coin-op, mahjong, fruit, gambling, bar top, quiz, pinball, redemption, mechanical, and BIOS machines. With clones and non-working filtered out it’s about 3400 games.
- SUPPORT FOR ZIP AND .7Z ART PACKS
- Added the ability to use snapSnap.zip|.7z and iconsIcons.zip|.7z and the other art types, cabinets, flyers, marquees, etc. Note: 7z solid archives are not supported due to performance degradation, the app will warn if it finds one in its asset search. The Snap.7z and Icons.7z from the IV/Play Homepage can now simply be dropped in to the icons and snap directories for direct use.
- MULTIPLE MAME LAUNCHES AND TILING
- IV/Play now allows for using a single session of itself to launch multiple windowed instances of MAME; selecting either different games or the same game multiple times for multi-player gaming on a single screen. Use Shift-1 through Shift-9 while launching a game with ENTER or double-click to create that many windows. This allows for playing networking supported games in MAME like linked Cruisn’ USA cabinets or similar. Note: Only the first instance gets the sound, to prevent the cacophony of all of them outputting at once. The first windowed game also takes the mouse vs. the others for easier navigation and windowed placement, as desired.
- MOVE FROM .NET 9 TO .NET 10
- Upgraded the project from .NET 9 to .NET 10 to take advantage of long-term support and further runtime optimizations, delivering faster startup responsiveness, smoother UI interactions, and improved memory efficiency for a more stable user experience. For most users this requires a download of the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime 10.0.0 from Microsoft. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0
- ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- The art border size and the opacity settings now have a preview box next to them to visually balance out some of the other additions to F1.
- Verbose logging is now a toggleable option in F1.
- IV/Play’s start-up time is now displayed on the F1, this includes time to an interactive UI and the final completion of background threads.
- Added a 5-layer history drop-down to the MAME command-line override combo box in F1, with the ability to assign a shortcut key to cycle, currently Ctrl-Shift-L, tweak in the *.cfg key mappings section.
- Added a ‘User Guide’ button to the F1, this will launch this document if it is in the same directory as the .exe.
- An individual machine can now be benchmarked; use Ctrl-B on a selected item to get the same result the full bench suite produces. The duration is the default 90 emulated seconds. This can be adjusted in the *.cfg file as desired.
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pfeMAME v3.3.1
Posted by retroK on Saturday, November 29, 2025 - 08:37 (77 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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 pfeMAME ist ein Frontend für MAME, das in der Programmiersprache Python geschrieben wurde. pfeMAME läuft platformübergreifend, getestet wurde es vom Autor unter Windows, Linux und macOS.
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Howdy,
I am releasing an early build of pfeMAME for windows to fix an issue that likely broke it on the previous release for any new installations.
The new version 3.3.1 fixes an issue that broke the ability to navigate through some windows (especially the Filepaths window which is a bit of a deal breaker).
Please note, the auto updater is still a bit dodgy so I suggest you just download and install manually (you can overwrite existing files).
You can find this new release on Sourceforge here.
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Retrom v0.7.44
Posted by retroK on Monday, November 24, 2025 - 08:39 (125 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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 Retrom ist ein Frontend für verschiedene Emulatoren sowie PC Spiele im Allgemeinen (Open Source / Rust von John Beresford).
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configure native fullscreen handling (546e1fd)
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ROM Properties v2.7
Posted by retroK on Monday, November 17, 2025 - 08:22 (167 Reads)
Topic Frontends
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ROM Properties ist eine Shell Erweiterung mit dessen Hilfe man sich im Dateimanager Zusatzinformationen zu vielen ROMs anzeigen lassen kann. ROM Properties ist zur Zeit für Linux und Windows erhältlich. Changelog
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- Android packages (APK)
- Nintendo 3DS: Z3DS compressed format
- Details view (Windows and GNOME Nautilus)
- Windows installer using Inno Setup
- Windows ARM improvements, including ARM64X and localization
- Windows version now has special handling for 16-bit EXEs for icon thumbnailing.
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