SOFTWARE:

The computer is just a standard PC I built. The videocard is an Geforce2 MX 400, operating system is WinXP.

MAME software is windows MAME(not mame32), I tried all sorts of frontends and settled on Game Launcher - which is AWESOME. You can use the trackball to select a game and doesn't look anything like Windows.

Before I found Game Launcher, I tried making my own little menu that would launch windows GUI versions of MAME, MESS, DAPHNE, etc. But decided against it all because it reminded me too much of being a computer, not an arcade. I built my own launch menu in Quick Menu Builder. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like:

yeah my name's tom.

I scrapped this idea, but it could work for some. All the pictures glow red when you mouseover, with little sound effects, etc. Anyways it works but I don't like the concept anymore. Can you tell I'm not a programmer?

Summary of software I'm using:

Game Launcher, Daphne, Mamew, MESS, Znesw, windows xp pro(ugh all i had but daphne looks better in xp anyways)