Quote Originally Posted by Trebuken View Post
http://www.arcadecab.com/

I was going to use this site when I am ready to make one for myself.

Any alternatives or options are always cool though. I think the only stopping point for me is what I want to do for the monitor?

I think another useful tool is how to 'best' configure the software. Do you use MameWah or simply Mame32? Do you configure the MAME Gui in any special way? How-about other emulators?

There are plenty of sites for this information but none of them are as thorough as they could be for a newb, nor do they cover many more complicated tasks (like using an actual arcade monitor) effectively.
This will be your most valuable link once you get your project started.

And the most favored frontends are MaLa and AtomicFE. The differences between the two are pretty subtle, and they both handle other emulators.

As far as your monitor, I think that depends on whether your going to use a real arcade cabinet, or make one. Also, do you plan to play actual arcade boards? You'd want an arcade monitor and a JPAC. If you just want to run a PC it'd probably be easier to use a PC monitor.

www.ultimarc.com has plenty of adapters and things, like the JPAC.