The goal of this blog is to post the process of setting up an frontend on a PC for playing arcade/console/computer roms. I have a fairly good understanding of PC's, programmed commercially in Visual C++ for a few years (about 10 years ago) and work as support for several software packages custom made for a large company. I feel I may have a little more understanding of of this type of thing then the average PC user. I am setting this up as I had tried several front ends (2-4 years ago) with little success, mostly due to lack of patients on my part. Most write ups on setting up frontends are hard to find, or wrote by people who made the Frontend so while very nice to have, are generaly from a person who has exstensive knowledge of the program. I'm going to point out where i feel steup is lacking , and also where my own stupidity/lack of understanding gets me in trouble. I have set up (succesfully) a couple front ends, and failed at a few also. The machine I will be setting this up on is a Intel core 2 duo machine running at 4mghz, 4 megs of ram, 2TB's of space on 2 drives, with a HD-DVD and DVD drive and a GForce 8800 GTX. I will be running Vista 64 with all updates and all drivers will be current as of about 3 months ago (1-1-09). Specific emulators and Front end versions will be noted when there relevancy is needed. I will be useing a MS 360 gamepad to run the frontends and the emulators.
I will go into more detail on actual settings and such when I get to that point, I plan on posts specific to each emu in each front end. So if you are looking for details, the part I think is lacking from most help things I have read, they will be here when I actuatlly get to a point where they will help.
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