Hey everyone, just started getting into the whole MAME/arcade cabinet hobby not too long ago. I've recently finished a portable 2-player arcade controller setup that hooks into a laptop and plugs into a TV. Trying to get the software half of the equation working properly before I take the next steps.
Anyways, in addition to MAME and my console emus, I would like to be able to launch PC games from it too. Nothing spectacular, games like Mugen, Super Mario War, and maybe some of the more classic PC games (You Don't Know Jack,
I'm using Maximus Arcade right now, and it works great, but I can't get it to run PC games. I know you have to use batch files to get it to work, which I tried. The batch files work just fine if I double click on them, the game opens right up. But for some reason within Maximus Arcade I get a never ending black loading screen. I tried using a couple different versions of the bat, changing the syntax a little, and still nothing.
I played around with MaLa a little bit, and still no joy with bat files or windows shortcuts. This one seemed a little harder to configure, but I think I had it right.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good FE to use? I don't need much in the way of features other than it being (somewhat) straightforward to setup, support multiple emus, and be able to play nice with PC games.
Thanks in advance!