MedGui Reborn

A Windows Front-End for Mednafen multi-system emulator

Project maintained by Speedvicio Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

MedGui Reborn ia a Windows Front-End/Gui for Mednafen multi-system emulator.

A video tutorial is available on YouTube, watch it to learn how to use MedGui Reborn.

Modern “Metro” style by MetroMed GUI appendix
Scanning of rom with comparization with NoIntro Dats
Support for compressed files and multi archive in. rar, .7zip (via SevenZipSharp.dll Library)
Mount on the fly cd based games in compressed zip/cfs/ciso format by Pismo File Mount
Configure by Medpad GUI all Input for all module and device supported by Mednafen
Convert audio and cue file in a format compatible with Mednafen (through Sox converter)
Playback of cue sheet audio files supported by Mednafen (wav/ogg through Sox converter or by Mednafen itself)
Automatic/Manual download of available Game Box Art
Experimental cheat manager
Displaying detailed information of Roms in local and/or Internet mode
Support for Snaps and Title .png image
Scrape of boxart and info from TheGamesDB
Support for IRC chat session (through IrcClient.dll by Kobe)
Auto-ips patch for PSX games
Auto-bps patch
Auto Cartige Backup type for GBA games
Automatic detecttion of real name for Saturn and PSX games
Palettes maker for gb/gbc roms
Snaps Manager and Renamer
Custom DAT maker in standard ctrlMame format
Scrape game music soundtrack from ModLand server
Navigate into GUI menu with a directinput compatible joypad
Net Client with list of opened netplay session by user
Create Desktop Shortcut of Game with icons (if boxart available)
Convert on the fly vgm/vgz/gbs to make it playable by Mednafen
Any game utility
Customizable grid and GUI aspect
Convert ecm/pbp/chd file into generic iso format

Extract MedGuiReborn archive into a folder, run the ‘MedGuiR.exe’ executable and choose your Mednafen directory.
You can import a single file or a entire folder by pressing icon on top left of GUI, or by set def/custom folder on ‘Rom Path’ section or by drag & drop file/folder into main grid.

Automatically download and upgrade using the ‘Updates button’ (blue icon) located into ‘General’ tab ** You can tick ‘Force’ to update MedGuiR into intermediate version
You can update also Mednafen to the last version by ‘Updates button’ (blue icon) located into ‘General’ tab
Tick ‘Auto’ to perform a update control at MedGuiR start (it control the last available MedGuiR and Mednafen release)

You can found the last stable release on:

Q: My antivirus reports executables as malicious programs.
How should I behave?
A: The executables are all developed with Visual Studio Community, the code is probably not signed and all new releases are intercepted as possible malicious programs by any antivirus. Unfortunately I have no intention of purchasing any signature certificate as the programs are all free, MedGui and then MedGuiR have been running on the web since 2007 and no one has ever complained of anomalous behaviour.
Q: The frontend has too complex interface, why don’t you simplify it?
A: Mednafen runs well on very old PCs and Medgui was created to run on Windows XP and upper and on netbooks with very small displays (7” and upper). I have no intention of rewriting the code solely for aesthetic reasons and in any case no particular computer knowledge is necessary for the basic functions of the frontend.
Q: MedGui tries to connect to x/y server, why?
A: The program checks for Mednafen and MedGui updates on GitHub. Other connections concern the download of the Boxarts from thegamesdb.
FTP connections are made on my personal servers, only for old systems that do not support TLS 1.2 and higher protocols, to guarantee updates and downloads to XP users and to be able to play online session via Mednafen (don’t worry, I don’t know what to do with your data regarding online gaming sessions).

SevenZipSharp.dll for the support at compressed archive
7z.dll for the support at compressed archive
Proxy7z to expand 7z.dll to others compression methods
Modern7z in congiunction to Proxy7z to add support at Zstandard compression method
NoIntro DATs for get real name of the rom
A modified version of IrcClient.dll for IRC Chat support
TheGamesDB API for Boxart Scraping
SoX for convert/play wav<>ogg file
FMod.dll to play mod in About screen
CoreAudioApi to manage volume peak for left and right channel on About screen (only on Vista and upper OS)
Multimedia PeakMeter Control dll to visualize volume peak on About screen
flips.exe for support at .bps patch file
copstation.exe to unpack pbp file format
unecm.exe to unpack ecm file format
DiscTools.dll to detect PSX serial number and PC-FX cue/ccd file
ps1titles_us_eu_jp.txt from CaptainCPS-X for get real PSX Name
vgmPlay.exe to convert vgm/vgz file in bin format
Modland server for get all chip music
An FTP client library for .NET 2.0 for perform all ftp job on MedClient session
Mico and Sico to convert png to ico
A modified version of GBS2GB to convert gbs in gb format
Superb console icon set by Yoshi-kun
Json.NET to manage and convert json into xml