Any MAME Experts To Help With Guides?

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wow, this thread hasn't been touched in ages. you still wanting to do this article racketboy?

a coworker of mine recently donated his mame cabinet to the office so i've been having a blast getting it all setup. i chose advancemame because:
  • it's claim to fame is that it can run all the games at their native resolutions
    it can run on a true arcade monitor rather than a pc monitor
    it has a front end, advancemenu, that is catered to work without a keyboard/mouse and instead be controlled via arcade controls, which of course you would find on a dedicated mame cabinet
    it can launch any emulator (such as zsnes, for example)
it was a pain to configure and it's no longer in development, however i have not had any problems running any games yet. the other popular one for mame cabinets is mamewah and i haven't looked into that one at all yet.
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Yes, I'm still interested! :)
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advance mame sounds good. But i admit i have been using the latest command prompt mame as it does not to scan for roms at startup like mame32 or need audit roms just to get them to work and it does let you do a lot just by using the arrow buttons since the latest verison has added some gui.
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RE: MAME performance

I started a MAME benchmarking database a while back. It's ugly, but it's got some decent info in it to assist with choosing hardware to match the era of games you want.

http://benchmark.mameworld.net/
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