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| mabu:
My old NeoGeo=>Mame cabinet has been sitting my place for a long time with no mods. I ran into weird problems with games crashing and various front ends not working properly so I've got a new computer to replace in the unit. It's been several years since I've updated the cabinet so I'd like some advice on what front end(s) to run. I'm mainly running arcade games but I'd love to also add other emulators. I've got a jamma setup with a neogeo monitor and video card that links to the monitor. The problem is that I need to run 800x600, or more likely 640x480 resolution in the front end to make it work right.. what do you all recommend? I posted this same query about a year ago but never really picked back up on the project: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73025.msg753884#msg753884 |
| cmoses:
I think MALA FE is the easiest to configure and setup. There is a very good walk through in the MALA section on setting it up. It seems to be able to handle all of the emulators out there. Can be configured for different resolutions. |
| CathalDublin:
I'd personally go for Hyperspin if you have an anyway decent PC If not mala is quite good but not quite as aesthetically pleasing as hyperspin mala demo [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHY3g--FhI[/youtube] hyperspin demo |
| leapinlew:
They got the name of hyperspin right. It just about gives me a seizure. |
| mabu:
HA ha - thanks for the good advice and comments. I am working on setting things up. I have played with Mala and it seems pretty interesting but I will definitely check out the other recommendations. I am running an AMD Athlon with MSI K8N Neo 2 motherboard (which I've grown to hate but it's what I'm stuck with) - I think I've got about 1G of RAM and am using Win XP Pro. I've compiled one of the later versions of Mame, and it runs many of the games pretty slow.. I don't understand.. I used to run an early version .8 something and it rocked. But these later versions seem really bogged down, or is it something with my computer or settings? All the street fighter games are almost in slow motion - I'm not a big fan of them but I figured a newer/faster machine would make them almost operable but I'm not seeing that. Any advice? |
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