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Step 4Computer - The Frontend
Now you can't imagine you'll always want to have a keyboard dangling somewhere on your cab to input commands. Luckily there exist quite a few front ends for MAME. We are going to use the excellent frontend called WahCade! which is a port to linux from the windows version MAMEWah. The front ends are customizable in themes, layouts and lots more. Just check out the sites for screenshots.
It is probably not in the standard repositories but the sites contain all the install information that you need.
(sorry windows users i have no experience with MAMEWah so your on your own here. However i do know that WahCade! is a near 1 on 1 port so it's possible that every thing is interchangable)
When you got it installed just run
wahcade-setup
and feed it all the information it needs. When your done let it generate a list from your roms folder.
This will ensure that when you are in the game selection menu, you will see the full name of the game instead of the filename (ssf2tu for example). To check if it works just launch WahCade!
wahcade
The first time wil always take longer than the rest because it needs to parse all the roms that were generated in the setup. Give it a few minutes.
When it's running notice that you can navigate with your arrow keys and standard MAME input controls, which is a big advantage for us because we want to build the actual arcade controls that use the standard MAME input keys. Again for exact controls and options consult the programs documentation.
It is probably not in the standard repositories but the sites contain all the install information that you need.
(sorry windows users i have no experience with MAMEWah so your on your own here. However i do know that WahCade! is a near 1 on 1 port so it's possible that every thing is interchangable)
When you got it installed just run
wahcade-setup
and feed it all the information it needs. When your done let it generate a list from your roms folder.
This will ensure that when you are in the game selection menu, you will see the full name of the game instead of the filename (ssf2tu for example). To check if it works just launch WahCade!
wahcade
The first time wil always take longer than the rest because it needs to parse all the roms that were generated in the setup. Give it a few minutes.
When it's running notice that you can navigate with your arrow keys and standard MAME input controls, which is a big advantage for us because we want to build the actual arcade controls that use the standard MAME input keys. Again for exact controls and options consult the programs documentation.
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