Many years ago, I built my cabinet on an AMD 939 PC running XP.
Fastforward years and moving and it just kinda stopped working and I never found the time to fix it.
Last year, I rebuilt it. The old PC was dead, but I was able to pull the drives and get most of the roms and config and apps for the controls, lights, and all that.
Naturally over the years, a lot of the apps had changed or died. It didn't flash the button and say the function anymore, but the games played and things lit up and I had it running on Windows 10.
For like 2 weeks.
I don't know if another drive died or PSU died or what... but it's another year into just sitting there and I want to make it work and stay that way. What do you guys find makes a config more reliable or at least easier to backup and redeploy?
I would assume Pi systems are far weaker than desktop PCs. As I recall, MAME also now uses GPUs?