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Newbie here planning a cabinet! Tons of questions
ivwshane:
Just use mame32, it's recognized by most front ends anyway.
A good and easy front end to use with a lot of emulators is mala but there are plenty of others.
CheffoJeffo:
Welcome!
You may be interested in:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Software
javeryh:
Hi - welcome to the boards. You should definitely look at the wiki. Practically no one uses command line DOS to launch MAME. Everyone uses "Front Ends" to launch the games with MaLa, Maximus Arcade, Gamelauncher, Mamewah, GameEx and a few others being the popular ones.
Also, a widescreen monitor is not ideal for MAME at all, IMO. Everything will either be stretched or have black bars. Also vertical games will look particularly awkward (and tiny). I've used a 4:3 (or 3:4 depending on orientation) LCD and CRT and they both look great. I've also used a 5:4 monitor and I don't really notice a difference with the picture.
severdhed:
the monitor size depends alot on the cabinet it will be going into. i have a 19" 5:4 LCD monitor in my cabinet and it looks good. (it originally had a 20" CRT arcade monitor) however my friend has a dynamo cabinet that originally had a 25" monitor, the 19" LCD looked way too small.
command line emulators are the way to go for a cabinet. i highly recommend MALA since it is very easy to get set up with multiple emulators, and is very easy to customize it's appearance...you can always change it later
as for the PC< i was running an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb of ram, geforce 4 mx440 video, 20gb hd. i recently upgraded though because i had the parts lying around..now it is:
Pentium 4 3ghz, 2gb ram, radeon 9600xt video, 80gb hd.
i havent gotten around to really play it much yet, but it runs most stuff pretty well.
Spinach:
Welcome, from one noob to another!
I'm running a dinosaur AMD 1.5 from 2001. I can run many old games and a few (very few) newer games (MKIII is just not going to work). I think a lot of this is due to my video card for the newer games although for MAME I read the card plays little effect, so maybe my processor is to dogged slow?
For the monitor I am in the same boat as you. I am going to start out with a 5:4 17" inch LCD I have with the computer. I actually purchased a 22" WideScreen but found I gained only 1" in height and increased my width by another 50%. I felt this would make things look/play wierd, so I took it back. I'm thinking a 24" might be a better choice, that should give me about 2" more height, and again, another 50% + width, which seems unavoidable at this time.
I use Mala for the front end, very easy to set up.
Good luck, and measure twice!
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