ArcadeKO
New member
I have been tossing around the idea of building a MAME machine but the front ends I have tried seem to be really hard to work with.
I have played around with:
MameWah
MaLa
Hyperspin
I only want to run arcade games (not all the other emus) and I want to make a dedicated cabinet that doesn't use a keyboard (or a bunch of buttons that have keyboard equivalents - I want the standard 2 joysticks, 6 buttons per player and 1+2 player start.
Anyway, so I tried to set up a few of these and I don't understand why MaLa and Hyperspin all come pre-loaded with like 8000 games in the list. I just tried to set up a mame with a handful of roms to test it out and even when I tried to choose the game from the list it wouldn't launch...
Anyway - I figured these front ends would be smart enough to read the rom directory and build a list of games from that (Like easy mame appears to be able to do) but so far i haven't had any luck.
Anyone recommend a decent looking FE that is a little more self configurable? Or maybe there is a menu building tool that I am not aware of for MaLa?
I have played around with:
MameWah
MaLa
Hyperspin
I only want to run arcade games (not all the other emus) and I want to make a dedicated cabinet that doesn't use a keyboard (or a bunch of buttons that have keyboard equivalents - I want the standard 2 joysticks, 6 buttons per player and 1+2 player start.
Anyway, so I tried to set up a few of these and I don't understand why MaLa and Hyperspin all come pre-loaded with like 8000 games in the list. I just tried to set up a mame with a handful of roms to test it out and even when I tried to choose the game from the list it wouldn't launch...
Anyway - I figured these front ends would be smart enough to read the rom directory and build a list of games from that (Like easy mame appears to be able to do) but so far i haven't had any luck.
Anyone recommend a decent looking FE that is a little more self configurable? Or maybe there is a menu building tool that I am not aware of for MaLa?


