Talk:Console Emulators

The table we used in table and frontend, can it not been used in the emulator page as well? Like this?

This page contains brief descriptions of various emulators for each console. If more information is needed for a particular emulator, an individual page will be created.

Company	Machine & Wikipedia link	Players	Control Type	Nr of Buttons	Cabfriedly Emulator(s)
3DO Company	3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer	?	?	?	?
Atari	Atari 2600	2	Digital	1	?
Atari	Atari 5200	?	Analog	?	MESS
Atari	Atari 7800	?	?	?	MESS
Atari	Atari Jaguar	?	?	?	?
Bally	Astrocade Bally Astrocade	?	?	?	MESS

We should only list machines and emulator, that can fit into a cabinet. Otherwice there are other page, that are lots better doing that (like Zophar). Spacefractal

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I like that, it give a nice overview of consoles and direct information. The emulator page should always point to a page in this wiki, in my opinion, there is most certainly cab related info for each emulator (perhaps have links to front-ends that support this emulator etc.) Another idea: have an alternating colour backdrop to keep brands (especially Atari, Nintendo and Sega) together like this:

Company	Machine & Wikipedia link	Players	Control Type	Nr of Buttons	Cabfriedly Emulator(s)
3DO Company	3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer	?	?	?	?
Atari	Atari 2600	2	Digital	1	?
Atari	Atari 5200	?	Analog	?	MESS
Atari	Atari 7800	?	?	?	MESS
Atari	Atari Jaguar	?	?	?	?
Bally	Bally Astrocade	?	?	?	MESS
Bandai	Bandai Atmark (Apple Pippin)	?	?	?	?

Felsir 07:22, 26 March 2006 (EST)

Yep, your right. We could even change the table to this one (Each company have one cell):

Company	Machine & Wikipedia link	Players	Control Type	Nr of Buttons	Cabfriedly Emulator(s)
3DO Company	3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer	?	?	?	?
Atari	Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari Jaguar	? ? ? ?	Digital Analog ? ?	? ? ? ?	? MESS MESS ?
Bally	Bally Astrocade	?	?	?	MESS
Bandai	Bandai Atmark (Apple Pippin)	?	?	?	?

Wich table version do you like most?

You are right about the emulator page. on these page, we could link to the officiel page, wrappers, hacked versions of a emulator, so it can get this to work on a cab.

--Spacefractal 09:24, 26 March 2006 (EST)

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Hmm, not really sure, I do like the one-cell-per-brand option you suggested. I'm not sure if the table would still work if -for example- Atari 7800 has three of four emulators; would the lines still match? What about this mix?

Company	Machine & Wikipedia link	Players	Control Type	Nr of Buttons	Cabfriedly Emulator(s)
3DO Company	3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer	?	?	?	?
Atari	Atari 2600	2	Digital	1	?
	Atari 5200	?	Analog	?	MESS
	Atari 7800	?	?	?	MESS
	Atari Jaguar	?	?	?	?
Bally	Bally Astrocade	?	?	?	MESS
Bandai	Bandai Atmark (Apple Pippin)	?	?	?	?

Felsir 07:22, 26 March 2006 (EST)

It better. We should only show emulators, that CAN been run from command line, or use of a wrapper.

Some machines have a lots of emulatos, like NES (there are bunch of emulators to this machine). It may been stupid to list them there. But it could been showed in the indept page instead (like the frontend and jukebox section), and maybe some heklp how to intall and config to a arcadecab (like links to wrappes). It even better show emulators in the indepth page, so it can link emulators to linux and dos too (as long these are cabfreidly).

What do you think with this changed table (system buttons like start/select and so on should been shown here):

Company	Machine	Players	Control Type	Game Buttons	System Buttons
3DO Company	3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer (WikiPedia)	?	?	?	?
Atari	Atari 2600 (WikiPedia)	2	Digital	1	4 (2 swithes)
	Atari 5200 (WikiPedia)	?	Analog	?	?
	Atari 7800 (WikiPedia)	?	?	?	?
	Atari Jaguar (WikiPedia)	?	?	?	?
Bally	Bally Astrocade (WikiPedia)	?	?	?	?
Bandai	Bandai Atmark (Apple Pippin)	?	?	?	?

--Spacefractal 14:45, 26 March 2006 (EST)