Picked up my Mame cab project after several years, front end issues

[harveybirdman]

I finally have a cabinet home for my Mame PC, IPAC 2 interface, and Mame is working perfectly.  At one point I've had Mala working pretty consistently for all my emulation platforms. 

Unfortunately I've changed layouts a few times to support different art themes I've had for the cabinet over the years.  And the pc has been setting now for over 4 years, and before it went into storage my kid used it for "school" during Covid and also downloaded games that likely affected some settings on the PC to support modern gaming.

Now Mala is breaking on return from game, not playing music, and not loading fonts and I'm sure some other bugs I've not found yet.

Is it better to try to re install Mala and try to fight the bugs through config, or is there a better frontend option that's relatively easy to set up and supports.

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[harveybirdman]

Its the loss of focus thing. Theres a solution on the forum in an old thread, will have to work on that today. 

[bobbyb13]

Man...
EVENTUALLY I really need to get back to my MAME boxes.
I have experimented with a few frontends and never found anything I could get to behave as I wanted!
What thread is it of which you speak?

[nitrogen_widget]

if it's a bought PC like dell or HP it should have a restore partition that will re-install the OS.
that is probably your best shot at this point.

[Zebidee]

OS? Platform?