Hi there, fellow forumers!
I've been meeting random people on irc and on kaillera servers who are desperately trying to play, say, KoF 2003 or use 15 emulators for all their favourite fighting games. I try to preach and help whenever I can. But in reality, Kawaks is every fighting game player's best bet. And I say that not because I need to look like an instructive smug prick but because it's an objective fact. Here is some proof:

http://img182.exs.cx/img182/8642/kaw18ku.png
http://img182.exs.cx/img182/922/kaw28wc.png

All of those titles working perfectly, great speeds, video blitters for everyone's needs and preferences, that's what Kawaks gives you.

And when you combine the software goodness with some hardware sexiness:

http://img163.exs.cx/img163/3001/psx6iv.jpg

... you get the perfect combination.

If only more people who use broken SNES emus to netplay SFA2 would listen to my words...

I agree with your post. I think Kawaks is a great emulator that does a great job at what it was built to do. However, I'm moving on to FBA and MAME because I can modify them, add games, and are more challenging to get to work, not because Kawaks is any less impressive. My top reason why Kawaks is great (it's not greater than all, they are all good) is the speed it runs games and the blitters.

Kawaks is good if you can't do sheit or lazy to do all the work for the open source stuff.

I'm the latter.

Count me in there too. Kawaks never gave me much affection, so I moved to Nebula Loader. Does the job and that's all I need and it does pretty much the same things as Kawaks. Tie break.

You know what's weird in Nebula, it slows down when it plays Garou but it runs perfectly in Kawaks. I don't know the deal is but that's the main reason I switched from Nebula to Kawaks.

Strange, Garou has never been slow in Nebula on my end.

I love nebula, it was a biatch getting all my games to work but in the end im very pleased with it.

Nebula is more resource hungry. But it is not so noticable.
There will be slowdown when you are starting the game, but after
that, it will be alrite

Eh, I must have such an awesome computer that it doesn't matter.

Like Gryph, I will experience slight slowdown at the beginning if using Nebula when playing Garou, but not in Kawaks.
SOme other games that have this symptom are Metal Slug 3 and 5,
SVC Chaos and LB2. All CPS2 games work fine though

Although I also use MAME and Nebula, Kawaks is definately great for me because it's easy to rip game sprites and the like. Nebula is cool for it's NeoGeoCD capability, though.

Kawaks is cool coz i could always pull wolf version off filemirrors to play svc chaos at school and at work etc

Oh well Im back with FBA now my first emulator for all this. I loved it back in the days it didnt play Neogeo even... which was sorta the only reason I used Kawaks at all

Pity kawaks doesn't support rasters

Well usually i like Kawaks because it user friendly, but to bad the feature in Nebula is much than kawaks, for example the Graphic Enhancment, Nebula already support HQ2x and LQ2
well at least Kawaks screencapture is more eficient than Nebula

Mame , FBA I use most. Simply becuase they are closer to the correct emulation.

This man speaks the truth. Shot Factory & Tile Viewer = <3

Plus the macros are really helpful for poor SOBs like me without PC controllers that otherwise would be stuck trying to pull off all that crazy fighter jazz on a keyboard.