charlesedwards Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) Have had a half built MAME cabinet for quite sometime that I had a very standard setup several years ago before the computer took a crap. Finally motivating myself to get it back up and running. What's the best front end out right now? Would like to setup to remove any windows look and feel and give it a full arcade feel with boot screens, etc. smash karts Edited April 19 by charlesedwards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 In short 'BigBox'. My cab originally had Maximus Arcade frontend (long out-of-support). It was great and served it's intended purpose. But I wanted a little more 'flash'. Not really knowing anything about these things called "frontends", I spent about 3 weeks researching looking and testing what was available. Found 1 that seemed to check all the boxes and spent a day trying to set it up. After that day of frustration [and not really even getting it going] I searched some more and came across LaunchBox. After quickly being able to get it up and running and then spending some time seeing what all it has to offer, I was convinced and bought a 1-year license (just-in-case, because that's how-I-roll). Along with several other enhancements, the license also opened up BigBox. Within a few months, I knew I was going to upgrade to the lifetime license when the year was up. This was about 7 years ago. Once you get LaunchBox/BigBox all setup to your liking, BigBox has a feature you can enable to boot directly to it when the computer (cab) is turned on. And no, it doesn't just add BigBox.exe to your Windows startup folder. But that's just my experience/observation/opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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