kxmame

A KDE frontend for xmame/xmess emulator. Based on gxmame plus many new features:

- Support xmame, xmess, sdlmame
- Added a "systems" category where roms are classified by systems (neogeo, neogeo64, cps1, cps2,...)
- Vastly improved joystick browser, customizable joystick buttons.
- Customizable game icon size and toolbar.
- Auto-rescale screenshots. Added video previews (need kaffeine installed).
- Improved gamelist search, categorization.
- Support launching game using alternative emulator instead of xmess.
- Fast, responsive

Usage:

Download "catver.ini" (or "catver") from http://catver.com to help kxmame categorize mame roms. (Or from http://www.progettoemma.net/ if you prefer the Italian version).
Use menu Settings->Directories to tell kxmame where to look for ROMS, snapshots, preview videos, xmame executables, catver.ini ....
Use menu Settings->"Configure kxmame" to specify xmame options.

kxmame-2.0-svn20070603 changelog:

This is a snapshot from current kxmame development. New from kxmame-2.0-beta includes sdlmame support from Sven Gothel and xmame/xmess 0.106 bug fix from Brandon Corey. Plus many smaller bug fixes.

kxmame-2.0-beta changelog:

- Support xmess using the same simple kxmame-1.x interface. It's as simple as selecting your game console, double-clicking your rom file to launch a game. Individually zipped roms are supported.

- Overhaul of kxmame navigation using joystick. Without touching keyboard or mouse, you can use your joystick to browse the game list, the filter list, launch a game, switching between xmame/xmess executables, launch alternative emulators. The joystick buttons used for these tasks can be customized in the menu. (The default button settings are for my PS2 pad, so it mightnot work with other joystick).

- Crudely support alternative emulators for xmess. See the file "alternative.dat" included in kxmame source for details (kxmame offers no controls over the video, audio or input settings of alternative emulators). Using this file, you can even trick kxmame into running emulators for systems that are not supported by xmess yet!

- Many other smaller improvements: more meaningful error messages, slightly more efficient memory usage, better context menu, allow disabling video preview in "configure kxmame".


Enjoys ! Don't forget to report bugs or suggetions at sf.net website.