Ok, so long story short (a bit of history often helps)...
I used to have a bar-top arcade and found a full-size cabinet for sale in eBay (with a proper CRT monitor and 2 player setup)...so I bought that with the idea of transplanting the innards across.
Just so happened I had a spare PC knocking about that wasn't anything special but was more powerful than the laptop which was an old Pentium. I thought it'd be great to play newer games as well and emulate some consoles (up to N64 level) to make it more of a 'all in one' cabinet.
So I bought all the bit's and bobs and did a 'copy' of the old machine (as it worked) - I was using Maximus arcade on the old laptop so I bought another license to make things easier for me...and that was the mistake!
Onto the issue...
I've never been able to quite get to grips with the software (not helped by the fact I paid for unsupported software!), setting the thing up (etc). I had issues with the video previous taking a few seconds to load (on the laptop it was instant) so I installed an SSD for the OS and front-end and that's helped but it's a bit of a mess and so I'm thinking I may just wipe the thing and start again.
So, I guess the question is this;
"if you wanted an arcade cabinet that played MAME and a selection of consoles and all the hardware was in place but you wanted software that was easy to configure - what would you use?"
Please bear in mind I must be able to setup a trackball and properly configure it. I managed this on the old bartop with the x-arcade trackball and have invested in a proper arcade trackball because there are certain games I will be playing and want to re-create the controls as best as possible.
Any advice is greatly appreciated
I used to have a bar-top arcade and found a full-size cabinet for sale in eBay (with a proper CRT monitor and 2 player setup)...so I bought that with the idea of transplanting the innards across.
Just so happened I had a spare PC knocking about that wasn't anything special but was more powerful than the laptop which was an old Pentium. I thought it'd be great to play newer games as well and emulate some consoles (up to N64 level) to make it more of a 'all in one' cabinet.
So I bought all the bit's and bobs and did a 'copy' of the old machine (as it worked) - I was using Maximus arcade on the old laptop so I bought another license to make things easier for me...and that was the mistake!
Onto the issue...
I've never been able to quite get to grips with the software (not helped by the fact I paid for unsupported software!), setting the thing up (etc). I had issues with the video previous taking a few seconds to load (on the laptop it was instant) so I installed an SSD for the OS and front-end and that's helped but it's a bit of a mess and so I'm thinking I may just wipe the thing and start again.
So, I guess the question is this;
"if you wanted an arcade cabinet that played MAME and a selection of consoles and all the hardware was in place but you wanted software that was easy to configure - what would you use?"
Please bear in mind I must be able to setup a trackball and properly configure it. I managed this on the old bartop with the x-arcade trackball and have invested in a proper arcade trackball because there are certain games I will be playing and want to re-create the controls as best as possible.
Any advice is greatly appreciated
(well I mean Emulation Station which is the backend for Retropie)
