Sevenlives

I bought the following mini PC, but had to return it. Unfortunately, BigBox proved too to be much, and even mame was running with audio glitches. iKISMET Dream Quest Mini Desktop PC Intel Celeron J4125 8GB DDR4 128GB Win10 I'll try to splurge a bit more to get this running. Anyone know what I should at look to maximize? 16gb ram?

Thank you!

Gotcha! Maybe I'm overthinking it. I just don't want to spend 100+ on a mini pc just to play 16bit mame games. Im trying to find something (even if older) in the 50 bucks range. Thanks!

Thank you so much for the information. Would a MiniPC with an N4000 or N4020 be enough for Mame 2d games?

Ah! I figured it out, I had to go into retroarch itself and assign a folder. thanks anyway!!

So I'm looking to get a miniPc to be able to emulate mame nothing much further than that (perhaps duckstation, but that's it). Can someone recommend me a cheap miniPC that won't break the bank that will be able to run this just fine? I've heard Launchbox doesn't play as nicely with Intel as it does with AMD chipsets. Any truth to this? Thanks in advance!!

So I built a Head to Head table (cocktail) and my goal is to focus it and load it up with some of my 2d Fighters. I currently have a Legends Core Plus as the "brains" for it and there are a few games that will split the screen for two players. Only about 4 or 5 fighting games however. (Legends core pictured). It's decent (I got it for 20 bucks used) but I'm making the transition to Launchbox (Bigbox) to add more fighters. I've managed to get all of my SNK fighters (about 20) to split screen. I'm using Retroarch with the mame_libretro core. Dip-switches allow me to go on cocktail mode, however even after enabling the bezels, they do not appear, Just black bars. I'd love to get it to look like what's in the picture for the Legends Core, but nothing I do, works so far, Any help? I can provide additional info if needed. Thanks in advance!