Free xmame software for linux

Cxmame project is a simple console-based frontend for xmame.
It uses the ncurses library. It was originally intended for xmame.svgalib, but works with all xmame targets.
Before you run cxmame you have to create a ~/.cxmamerc file containing the name of the xmame exectable you want to use (with full path if its not in your PATH ), followed by a ;.
The first time you run cxmame it will scan your roms and build a gamelist from them. This could take a little while depending on how many roms youve got in your rompath, but it only happens the first time. ( you have to set your rompath as per normal , eg in your xmamerc file ).
Enhancements:
- Ripped out wmaker gui because i like the idea of keeping cxmame slimline.
- Fixed a bug that stopped the menu being displayed in an xterm when you have game names over a certain length.

GXMame is a frontend for XMame using the GTK library, the goal is to provide the same GUI than mame32. For the moment it will just have the same gui, the final goal is to be able to share config files with Mame32k (or any version of mame32 that write config files instead of saving data into windows registry) allowing dual booter to have the same environment (favorite, timeplayed, last game selected, gui preference...) under windows and Linux.
I wanted to learn GTK and have a decent frontend for xmame, gnomame didnt work on my computer and I didnt like other front end in Tk, so I decided to start this project, just after I discovered gRustibus, the very good front-end from Kjetil Thuen. I took this front end as a model for the creation of GXMame Im not sure that I could have go so far and so quickly without this model.
Main features:
- Detailed view
- Small icons view
- Indented view (shows clones games under the original one)
- Font color and size selectable
- Icons support, .ico files or a zipped archive from Mamu or Mame32QA
- Tools bar
- Folder(filter) panel
- Screenshot panel
- Display snapshots, Flyers, Marquees, Cabinets, Titles.
- Support of zipped pictures
- Display mameinfo and history
- Status bar
- Support of catver to sort games by version and categories
- Random game selection
- Quick check: only check if a romname.zip file exist in roms folder (also works with clones)
- Audit of all roms
- Window with the properties of all games
- Audit of a single game
- Popup menu to easily access to most used functions
- Preferences for games(global and specific)
- Joystick support (new 386 1.x.x linux driver only)
- Creation of gamelist from xmame
- Multiples executables support
- Scalable icons
- Additionnal options string
- Sortable columns (in any views)
- Sortable selectable columns order (in detail view)
- List view
- Large icons view
- and lot of others...

TkMAME project is a Tcl/Tk Front End for XMAME.
It is a full featured graphical front end for MAME (The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). It is written in Tcl/Tk and runs under both Linux/Unix and Windows platforms.
Main features:
- Capable of running on Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1 (with DOS MAME), and Linux/Unix operating systems (with xmame).
- Source code is publicly available
- Smallest front end in its class for MAME in existance (less than 100k in size)
- Intuitive user friendly graphical user interface
- Ability to view ROM screen shots stored in GIF format
- Ability to save individual ROM configuration settings for each ROM
- Automatically recognizes new ROMs available with new versions of MAME
- Actual MAME command line is visible while you are configuring your ROM allowing you to see how the command line changes as you change options available to you
- Contains user interface widgets for every MAME option
- Ability to automatically download new cheat data from Pugsys Cheat Page
- Capability to automatically upload new high scores to the MAME Action Replay Page
- ROMs are grouped by year and manufacturer as well as vector games
- Capable of redifining ROMs, adding new ROMs and creating your own ROM groups
- Quick search capability to easily navigate to ROMs in your list (e.g., typing "su z" will take you to Super Zaxxon)
- Menus in TkMAME can be detached to become separate windows
- TkMAME uses your mame.cfg file to get its default values
- Capable of displaying which ROMs you are missing
- Automatically scans the gamelist.txt file and extracts game information for each ROM as you browse through your ROMs
- Capable of verifying ROMs and samples directly from the user interface
- Diagnostics feature available to help you check all of your ROMs at once
- Color and fonts can be changed to customize the look of the user interface
- Capable of configuring ROMs to use alternate versions of MAME

IT-MAME project is a Tcl/tk Front End for xMAME.

A graphical front end for xmame (Unix version of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). Easy to use and written in Tcl/Tk.

IT-MAME is a Front End for the great Unix arcade emulator xmame, wich is based on M.A.M.E. project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). It has been written on tcl/tk, and yes, it already exists a tk frontend called tk-mame, but IT-MAME is smaller, quicker, and easier to use.

This script was developed and tested over the 0.36rc1 version of xmame, so i dont know if that works on prior versions of xmame, if you can test it, please let me know.

KMameleon is a slick and easy to use KDE XMame. An UNIX/Linux/*BSD version of MAME, Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator wrapper.

It supports a vast section of options provided by the emulator, and it supports X11, SDL and XGL versions of it.

KMameleon is not really "just another XMame wrapper". It has really simple interface for game selection with a really powerful backend, which it makes it user-friendly for anyone. For newbies there can be just a couple of clickable options, which are stated "fullscreen" for the mode and "rompath" in "paths" module.

As in the very same time you have whole lots of options for the advanced user and (new in KMameleon 1.0) a module to write your own switches in, so if there are some new switches, or you feel better to keep all "under control", you can use that.

Actually... I havent seen any other _good_ XMame wrappers for KDE. There are 2, that I can name at this very moment: KMameRun (last release for KDE 1.1) and QtMAME, which is not that bad, but 1) natively is written in Spanish and 2) paths are fixed, and it doesnt honour the $HOME directory, and its written purely in Qt.

Thats not bad, but as KMameleon is natively written for KDE, it uses some of the KDEs nifty gadgets, like DCOP for having unique application and lots more.

Romeo MAME frontend project is a Java frontend to MAME.

It supports XMame and the Windows command line, and it has a lot of features.

This application is skinnable. It can automatically download ROMs, screenshots, flyers, and other related types of media.

A different config file can be used for each game.

pLauncher project is an emulator front-end for multiple emulators.
pLauncher allows you to centralize all of your emulator/ROM launching needs.
It is open ended enough to allow the launching of any emulator (xmame, snes9x, xmess, vgb, dgen, WINE, etc.) and its ROMS/binaries.
Main features:
- Small and fast
- Works with any emulator
- Customizable views
- Easy to use
Enhancements:
- Added a rom count
- Added support for personal config file ~/.pLauncher
- Added graphical installer
- Fixed Help menu item to bring up HTML manual in Netscape (should be customizable in the future)
- Fixed bug which gave warning with no custom views