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abispac:
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For me its always the best way to go, using windows 7, plus hyperspin with groovymame, its a no brainer, the only drawback is that BBB the developer, never fixed the bug of hyperspinnot not acepting more than 99 video modes, so when using groovymame with emudrivers you can only create 99 modelines, but thats ok , that covers most of the classic games,if you have a game thats not covered you can always use 640x480 and it does the trick. All regular themes are rezised automaticly and look great, i even used it on a vertical mode and it looks great to. The vertical cocktail themes and it looks great to. The other thingg they never fixed to, its hyperspin taking longer to load the first game, but after that games loads all other games load fast if you have a decent pc for it.
chijb55:
AttractMode is fantastic. Easy to use, setup, and customize.
For Raspberry Pi: I think I'm sold on the Batocera. So much easier to use than RetroPie. But not 100% sure (yet) that it supports all the games I need. Stay tuned.
Havok:
Launchbox, using BigBox for the front end. Got the forever license and very happy. Can't beat the auto setup and download of basically everything except the roms. Extremely active development and regular updates\fixes. I had an issue and submitted it - got resolved within a couple of days.
This Attractmode looks pretty cool though - is it totally free?
DaveMMR:
There are no wrong options here so long as your rig can handle it. If you have the time and patience, try them all out.
Personally, my latest project is using Batocera. It's self-contained, completely eliminates the need for Windows and has a fairly active community with regular updates. The downside is that there is definitely a little more mucking around in Linux to get things set-up exactly how you want. Also, I'm using it as an all-in-one game machine, with console emulators alongside MAME. If you are only concerning yourself with arcade games, it might be a little too bloated for that purpose.
Rautz:
For my driving cabinet which is running a G923 wheel, im looking at Checkered flag.
Im just going for mame, model 2 and supermodel use but the frontend needs a bit of configuration to get games loading into fullscreen