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|[http://attractmode.org Attract-Mode]

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|[http://quickplay.sourceforge.net QuickPlay]

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|[[RetroFE]]

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|[https://pegasus-frontend.org Pegasus]

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|[https://www.mgalaxy.com mGalaxy]

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|[https://digdroid.com Dig]

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|[http://attractmode.org Attract-Mode]

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[[File:LaunchBox-Screenshot-Nintendo-64.jpg|100px|left]]

:Was originally built as an attractive front-end for [[DOSBox]] but has since expanded to support both modern PC games and emulated console platforms. It comes with an integrated metadata scraper, and the interface is highly customizable, likely the most customizable alongside HyperSpin, but only with a license for the premium version. Premium also includes Big Box, which is an HTPC version of the frontend. Launchbox can also be launched natively from Kodi.

;[http://attractmode.org Attract-Mode]

:A great general gaming frontend for GNU/Linux with support for running Windows games with [[Wine]] and [[Proton]]. However, for the emulation use cases it has some downsides, such as: there is no bulk import for ROMs. There is a [https://github.com/hwangeug/lutris-bulk-adder lutris-bulk-adder] script which might solve this.

:A general gaming frontend for Linux. At the moment it's not useful for huge ROM collections as it [https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/103 seems to crash] when bulk importing.

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|Genesis Plus GX, PicoDrive

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|Snes9X?

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|[https://github.com/Swordfish90/Lemuroid#supported-systems Limited]

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;[[RetroArch]]

:The flagship project for libretro, and the most widely available.

;[https://ludo.libretro.com Ludo]

:A Linux launcher for PC games and a libretro frontend. Very easy to use, almost no setup. You'll need the GNOME Settings app to be able to bulk add ROMs.

:Really nice looking frontend for Raspberry Pi that only support [[Sega Genesis emulators|Sega Genesis]] games. Has a similar UI to the NES/SNES Classic Edition.

:Same as Blast16 but for [[Super Nintendo emulators|Super Nintendo]] games.

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|[https://github.com/strippato/gnome-arcade gnome-arcade]

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|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/mameplus M+GUI]

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====Comparison====

;[http://qmc2.batcom-it.net QMC2]

:QMC2 is a multi-platform MAME/MESS/UME frontend.

;[http://www.mameui.info MAMEUI]

;[http://babelsoft.net/products/negatron.htm Negatron]

:An [https://github.com/xinyingho/Negatron intuitive and info-oriented front-end] for MAME; & a prettier derivative of ageing MAME32/MAMEUI. For computers and consoles, it needs builds of the [http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm NegaMAME] derivative. For arcade games only, you can use Negatron with regular MAME instead.

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|[https://github.com/Asnivor/MedLaunch/releases 0.5.25.3]

|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/medgui MedGui]

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==See also==

* [[Comparison of Emulator Frontends]]

[[Category:FAQs]]

[[Category:Tools|*]]

[[Category:Frontends|*]]