Don't know if this is the right place to post this so if it's not I apologize.
I recently found a gutted arcade machine on Facebook market place for free and with my newfound free time I would like to make a MAME Emulation Machine with it. I am not worried about the hardware part that seems simple enough I'm more worried about the software side of things. I have a old system sitting around that I plan on using (i7-3820,16GB DDR3,GTX 780 Ti) I want to have 80s arcade Classics up to more modern emulated games from the 6th Console generation (GCN,PS2,etc). I feel that I'm conformable with the console side of emulation I'm just worried about the Mame Part. I understand that I will need to get my own roms but after that I'm kinda lost. I know I need to setup MAME and a front end (most likely attract mode or launchbox). So to get to my question once I get My Roms, My front End, and Mame what would be the next steps to configure them?
