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Updated info on the frontends, added RMG
==Front-ends==
This section will only cover frontends and packages that build on top of the regular mainline Mupen64Plus core and plugins. Multi-emulator programs such as BizHawk, OpenEmu and RetroArch also use a version of Mupen64Plus for their N64 emulation, though they do so by turning the emulator into a core that interfaces with the frontend through an API such as RetroArch's libretro. As such, their versions of Mupen64Plus are considered forks.
* [https://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#Third-Party_Front-end_and_Launcher_Applications Front-ends]
* [http://m64py.sourceforge.net/ M64Py] is highly recommended for a Mupen64Plus frontend. Not only does it come with everything set up, but it also comes with every plugin developed for maintained by the emulatorMupen64Plus development team plus GLideN64. This is great since it's very hard to find some of the plugins without compiling them from the source code. Sadly, it's not perfect, since the input config utility doesn't work with some gamepads.
* [https://github.com/dh4/mupen64plus-qt mupen64plus-qt]
* [https://github.com/m64p/mupen64plus-gui/ mupen64plus-gui] is a nice Qt5 GUI newly created in 2017. [[m64p]] is a package created by the same author, which combines recent builds of mupen64plus Mupen64Plus with the GLideN64 ParaLLEl-RDP and the Angrylion RDP Plus video RSP plugins and Mupen64plus-gui. This is arguably the most complete easiest works-out-of-the-box package for beginners, as there's nothing necessary to configure except controls, though this comes at the expense of not being able to use other plugins.* [https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG Rosalie's Mupen GUI] is the newest up-and-coming GUI, and aims to provide both ease of use and a complete emulation package. Each release comes with a recent build of Mupen64Plus, RMG itself, and up-to-date builds of GLideN64, ParaLLEl-RDP, Mupen64Plus HLE RSP, and ParaLLEl-RSP, with the end user option of using other plugins as well. Unfortunately, with the exception of August 2017GLideN64, plugin configuration must still be done by editing the mupen64plus.cfg file.
==Using Mupen64Plus==
