GameEx Alternatives
GameEx is described as 'graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, GameBase, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a complete Home Theatre PC solution or plug in for Windows Media Center' and is a Game Emulator in the Gaming Software category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GameEx for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Online / Web-based and Android. The best alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GameEx are Playnite (Free, Open Source), LaunchBox (Freemium), Nostlan (Free, Open Source) and HyperSpin (Free).
- RetroArch is a graphical frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- iPad
- OpenPandora
- Steam
- Raspberry Pi
- Playstation
- Xbox
- Video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin and Uplay, providing one unified interface for your games.
- LaunchBox was originally built as an attractive frontend to DOSBox, but has since expanded to support both modern PC games and emulated console platforms.
- A front-end or user interface (UI) is the presentation and interaction layer of an app or website. Most modern emulator apps have basic game list UIs that you can interact with using a mouse/keyboard but not a game controller.
- HyperSpin is an animated arcade frontend for Windows for use on Home Arcade Machines. HyperSpin allows you to create custom menu systems to run most executables with that arcade look and feel. HyperSpin takes a more artwork oriented approach to creating menu's.
- QuickPlay is a windows powerful universal emulator 'frontend-of-frontends', which has support for countless emulators and systems, old and new, with a philosophy of being quick and easy for new users, yet comprehensive and flexible for old-timers.
- AdvanceMENU is a GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows front-end for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator.
- Gelide is a configurable frontend which let you manage any kind of emulated system (PC, console, arcade, etc) letting you to catalog and launch any game from any existing emulator under GNU/Linux.
Discontinued
Last update 2013-05-27. See http://gelide.sourceforge.net/index.php?sect=downloads
- Wah!Cade is a GNU/Linux friendly clone of Minwah's excellent MameWAH.