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Complete Noob needs any and all help with first arcade machine
alexasb04:
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Hi everyone. I have just recently obtained a strong desire to build my own arcade machine after coming in possession of two broken machines (mortal kombat 2 and Toki). I spent hours tinkering with these machines to no avail when I decided to gut the better of the two cabinets and build my own machine. That's when things became difficult.
I know a good amount about computer hardware and I have all the buttons and wires I need from the old machines, plus I have ordered the ipac2. I also have used emulators in the past and learned a bit about MAMEUI recently. This is where I am stuck. I have no idea how frontends work nor do I know how to run DOS. I basically want to be able to turn on the machine and be greeted with a menu screen with a list of arcade games which I can navigate with the joystick (no mouse or keyboard) If at all possible, I would like to also be able to play other emulators on the machine, but that is not priority for my first machine. I have heard a little bit about MaLa, but I dont know where to begin.
Basically any advice would be great or any references to helpful web pages would also be appreciated. thanks everyone.
BASS!:
If you are just getting started, just read through the wiki. Thats how we all got started. You are going to need to do many things, but why not read through, and when you are ready, and need something that is not allready outlined there, let us know. Good luck!
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Main_Page
odysseyroc:
the wiki and the mala subforum are your friends. I've never used windows in my life and I was able to set up a friend's computer with the info on this site.
bigredsk10:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mala_SetupEmulators
At the bottom of that page is a .doc called "Emulator installation and configuration plus Visual Pinball by UncleT". I used that as basically a user's manual for setting up mala. It really helped a ton (thanks to the author by the way!).
Trebeck:
if you want a simple front end try out Maximus Arcade. It's been great to me.
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