Spent more time setting up everything today. I wanted to tweak the monitor settings to see what I could get to look best. I was leaning towards SmoothMAME yesterday, but today I've decided to go back to MAME. After adjusting the monitor rez's everything looks so awesome. There are only two small things now that are a bummer. One is some vector games don't look the greatest (a little fuzzy), and that on others, the refresh rate is a tad low and I can start to see it a bit. For the most part these are limitations of using an arcade monitor. They also affect very few games. I am more than satisfied with the results.

I also started setting up my frontend today. I am using MAMEWah as my frontend. While it's not perfect, it is pretty damn good. It has a neat feature where you can play MP3s while you're looking for a game to play, and I happened to find some MP3s of general 80's arcade abience, and it sounds really good (if a bit hectic). Should work great in the installation. Right now I'm in the process of tweaking the colors and the layout, etc. That needs some work. The default is sorta ugly.