MAME Frontends

**dieKatze88** · 07-05-2009, 03:59 PM

Ok, so I own a cab now and I plan on getting a multisync monitor for it, however, I want to know if anyone has any experience with mame frontends? and if they do, what would they recommend? The cab I've got is a 2p 6button cab, and I'm wiring it in a reverseable way so it can still be used with regular JAMMA boards (or wired for JVS later)

Anyone have any experience with MAME frontends and has something to recommend? mostly playing older titles on Mame.

Hiryuu · 07-09-2009, 03:19 PM

Most frontends I've had experience with weren't really for MAME more than they were specific arcade ROMs. Specifically, ZiNC to make a few games like Tetris - The Grandmaster work but that was on a dual-core computer. As for inside a cab...never have...but it's not to say I don't know those who've been there.

I'd say ask my forum on it, Computing Section, if you get no additional leads. I know a few people that have built arcade cabs similar to what you're attempting. Pretty sure BMF owns a cab such as that.

**dieKatze88** · 07-10-2009, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Hiryuu

Most frontends I've had experience with weren't really for MAME more than they were specific arcade ROMs. Specifically, ZiNC to make a few games like Tetris - The Grandmaster work but that was on a dual-core computer. As for inside a cab...never have...but it's not to say I don't know those who've been there.

I'd say ask my forum on it, Computing Section, if you get no additional leads. I know a few people that have built arcade cabs similar to what you're attempting. Pretty sure BMF owns a cab such as that.

Word, there's like a billion frontends and I was hoping that they might be more flexable than that. It might be time to see how flexable Stepmania is. Because I know for fact that lua has an execute statement...

Excel-2010 · 07-10-2009, 08:22 AM

I hear AdvanceMAME is optimized for arcade displays. I don't know much more about it, though.

**dieKatze88** · 07-10-2009, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by George Washingmachine

I hear AdvanceMAME is optimized for arcade displays. I don't know much more about it, though.

Well I plan on buying a real multisync monitor, so optimized for Arcade displays isn't a huge deal, running the frontend at VGA and changing when a game starts isn't a huge problem. In fact, almost preferable for display clarity.