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Some advice for a simple Mame setup with front end
Ledsigns80:
Hello All,
Recently re-did my basement and re-arrange my very small 3 cabinet personal arcade. While I have always wanted to build a mame cabinet, I realized I'll never have the time nor space to give to it. However I have always loved the concept of mame and always wanted some sort of option to play classic games with arcade controls. My solution is this. I have a 42" flat screen mounted behind my bar in my basement that is hooked up to a old Pentium 4 HT PC.....it runs mame and plays games like Killer Instinct, UMK3 games just fine with no lag. I tried running hyper-spin but it just seems to bog the machine down and freeze it up. So I would like to try a different front end such as MaLa, but I'm looking for suggestions???
Part 2 of this is my controller method: I know it may seem stupid but I use two of these (Mortal Kombat Fight Sticks) as my controllers because I can store them when finished and I mainly just like to play fighting games. My question is how do I go about getting them to work with mame and the front end. I know how to do it on a per game basis....for example I mapped all the appropriate controls for Mortal Kombat to the appropriate buttons on the arcade sticks, however to do this for all the games seems to be a very time consuming. Thanks in advance.
ant2:
Gameex is much more light weight and that's what I run on my p4.
Just change the controls globally instead of changing the controls just for the game itself within mame.
BadMouth:
I like Mala, but the default layout sucks pretty bad. You'd have to at least learn how to make a layout for yourself.
It's basically just a background picture, then you place the gamelist and pics where you want on top of it.
Mala Wiki : http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mala_Wiki
Uncle T's step by step setup guide: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56010.0
Emulators are a bit dated, but Mala still works the same way.
Maximus Arcade is probably the most noob friendly.
Ledsigns80:
--- Quote from: ant2 on December 12, 2013, 03:37:11 pm ---Gameex is much more light weight and that's what I run on my p4.
Just change the controls globally instead of changing the controls just for the game itself within mame.
--- End quote ---
Thanks any advice on how to run setup on Gameex or a step by step guide???
Dawgz Rule:
Game Ex is pretty straight forward. Just run it and you will see. The support community is pretty good too.
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