Package: mednafen Version: 0.9.39.2+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Hello! mednafen is the best emulator on Debian in my opinion (not to say best emulator ever) but it is a bit on the technical side to work with, especially for the less technical users out there who just want to play games.
In this regard I just came accross the mednaffe pacakage. I haven't tested it extensively but it seems to be a superb front-end for mednafen and I'm sure I'll be using it from now on - and I believe it would help others have a better gaming experience with mednafen as well. If you would consider adding it as a "recommended" package it will make sure that some package managers will install it together with mednafen. The mednaffe comes with a start-menu shortcut so users that install mednafen will be able to just go to their game section and start mednafen via mednaffe and not even notice they're two different programs. I am a technical user and I understand that mednafen is to be launched from the command line and I even set up my own shortcuts and file associations in my file manager/explorer to automatically launch games. Most gamers though don't know how to do that, not to mention find and configure the emulator. mednaffe makes launching and configuring your games as simple as possible considering the complexety of the emulator itself. Please kindly consider adding it as a recommended companion program (which advanced users are then free not to install). -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mednafen depends on: ii libasound2 1.1.2-1 ii libc6 2.24-5 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.0-13 ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116] 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-3 ii libmpcdec6 2:0.1~r495-1 ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg1-4 ii libsndfile1 1.0.27-1 ii libstdc++6 6.2.0-13 ii libtrio2 1.16+dfsg1-3 ii libvorbisidec1 1.0.2+svn18153-0.2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b3 mednafen recommends no packages. mednafen suggests no packages. -- no debconf information