Hello MAME team! How can I create a frontend for MAME? What programs do I need to use to create a frontend?
I hope you can help me. I look forward to your replies. Greetings from Argentina!
Re: frontend for mame
Hi. I get the feeling that you do not fully understand what it takes to do such a thing. First and foremost, you would need to learn how to develop software using a programming language. I assume (but you know what happens when we assUme) it would likely be something like C or C++.
Greetings back to Argentina!
Re: frontend for mame
Hello again, I know a little about C++ programming, but I don't know how to start using the program. Perhaps a tutorial on any platform could help me learn. I hope you understand my message here. Note: I use Google Translate, and the words I type aren't always accurate. I look forward to your reply. Greetings again.
Re: frontend for mame
There are quite a few (self-study) books out there that can teach you how to program in C++. It will teach you how to write software using that language, and (presumably) how to use developer tools like an IDE and a compiler. The platform you would want your software to run on (MS-Windows, Linux, MacOS) will most likely help determine what specific developer tools that would be.jdv40 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:04 pm Hello again, I know a little about C++ programming, but I don't know how to start using the program. Perhaps a tutorial on any platform could help me learn. I hope you understand my message here. Note: I use Google Translate, and the words I type aren't always accurate. I look forward to your reply. Greetings again.
However, I have no personal experience with any of such books so I cannot make any recommendations myself here. Perhaps other people can.
And again, I think you are greatly underestimating what skill set(s) it would take to create software in general, and a front-end in particular.
Re: frontend for mame
There's no C++ liability for a MAME frontend. It all depends about the scripting capabilities of a given language(s) and how it can read XML out the box. Can be done in Python, in LUA, in Rust, with any web frontend and so on ...
Re: frontend for mame
Thanks for the correction.
One would still need to learn the given language though, and any tools (IDE/compiler/build system/etc.) that might go along with it (perhaps more likely with compiled languages like C++, and less likely with interpreted languages like Python).
I just got the impression (but may be wildly mistaken here) that the original poster is/was underestimating what it would take to create a frontend (and that it takes more than simply 'installing a program').