What Emulator Has The Best Interface

[racketboy]

There is probably better ones by now, but I've always been impressed with the interface of NesterDC for the Dreamcast.
Can anybody beat that?

[Mozgus]

There is probably better ones by now, but I've always been impressed with the interface of NesterDC for the Dreamcast.
Can anybody beat that?

Sure. NesterDC S.E.

[racketboy]

There is probably better ones by now, but I've always been impressed with the interface of NesterDC for the Dreamcast.
Can anybody beat that?

Sure. NesterDC S.E.

Hah.... I played with SE and didn't like it...

[Mozgus]

There is probably better ones by now, but I've always been impressed with the interface of NesterDC for the Dreamcast.
Can anybody beat that?

Sure. NesterDC S.E.

Hah.... I played with SE and didn't like it...

But...SE is better in every way. The guy spent years making it. More compatibility, better menus, more features. What did you do wrong?

[racketboy]

Sure. NesterDC S.E.

Hah.... I played with SE and didn't like it...

But...SE is better in every way. The guy spent years making it. More compatibility, better menus, more features. What did you do wrong?

IIRC, it took longer to navigate. The graphics for the screenshots, etc slowed it down.
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was a little trickier to swtich games on the fly.

[Mozgus]

IIRC, it took longer to navigate. The graphics for the screenshots, etc slowed it down.
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was a little trickier to swtich games on the fly.

All true I believe. The load times did suck. But it helps if you use a dummy file to push the roms to the edge of the disc. I only inserted the complete USA set, with no duplicates, so I had a fairly clean layout of games, 98% of which had all the scans, screenshots, and manuals and such.

But the menus were so slick, and the whole process was idiot-proofed. I was finally able to get my casual gamer friends into their Dreamcasts again. The regular NesterDC's menus and hotkey system frustrated them, but in SE they were able to figure it out. The ony thing they had to remember was how to exit a game, with left on the stick and start, right? It's been a while. Regular NesterDC had to press L + R + Start, which made more sense.

Outside of these things though, I think SE was fantastic. I can't seem to find a single game that it struggles with anymore. Regular NesterDC had glitches or speed issues with even some of the most popular games.

[arion]

Nnnester j for the pc lacks a gui but it lets you associate .nes files so you only need to double click the rom to start playing and it also lets you double click to switch to fullscreen i find this handy since i like to use my tv to play emulated games and dont need to use the keyboard to run the games for something like alt+enter for fullscreen or esc to close fullscreen.

[neohx_7]

Snes9x for Mac has nothing incredibly custom in the gui, but the whole polish of the program blows away any other SNES emulator for any PC. It was also the first program I know about to have the really nice built in save state gui with date/time/preview that easily be used even with a joystick.

[racketboy]

Nnnester j for the pc lacks a gui but it lets you associate .nes files so you only need to double click the rom to start playing and it also lets you double click to switch to fullscreen i find this handy since i like to use my tv to play emulated games and dont need to use the keyboard to run the games for something like alt+enter for fullscreen or esc to close fullscreen.

Those are some pretty handy features
I wish more PC emus did that...

[arion]

http://www.zophar.net/nes.html
http://www.emulation9.com/nnnesterj/

figured i should have added a link with my description of nnnesterj. And in this case zophar is right about nnnesterj being the nes emulator of choice.

But since this thread is about nice gui´s Rocknes has a good gui