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Roughy:

I feel kind of weak just for asking this, but I kinda have to.

It's been over a year since I built my cab--and I've come into a second one for a song.  I've just picked-up a dirt cheap box from Fry's (even had XP Home on it) and I want to (basically) replicate the EXACT setup that is on my existing cabinet box.

All the settings (except that the new box may have a different keyboard mapper), the GUI, the ROMs, etc.

I'd love to think it's as simple as "copy (all of this) to <location (disk, network, etc.)>, copy to <new machine>, DONE!" but I'm guessing it's not.

And, I'm posting this as I begin to do the work, so I'm kinda a bit bad about it all, but my luck isn't so good as to have it work that way.

Any advices or suggestions?

Thanks!

somunny:

That's what I did.  I partitioned the hard drive and labeled it the same as my original mame drive (e:).  Then just copied everything over.  There were a few little tweaks needed but otherwise it was totally painless.

BamBam:

Just copy it.  I do all my graphics work and Mame tweaking on my main computer and then copy it to my arcade.  Just make sure that the path is the same ie. C:\mame.  If you copy it to a different drive letter, you will have to ammend the mame.ini accordingly.

spacies:


Yip, just copy it all.

If you run MAMEWAH you will need to run the system file again on the new PC.

jelwell:

You're going to lose any Windows settings/changes, especially any work you've done to hide windows. You could try Ghosting it. Although if your motherboard/cpu is different you're likely to cause more problems than you'd solve.
Joseph Elwell.

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