Thanks for the info Progets, approciate it. I couldn't agree more, hyperspin is beefy. I have around 51 systems almost complete and have been working on it for over six months. I'm currently having the time of my life attempting to run pinballx with hyperspin. I'm running a dual core G3258 with 8gb of ram and at times, my wheel will stutter. For many i'm sure the pi is fine, who can complain when it comes to cost. The only reason i'm interested is because i'm building two cabs, one each for my little brothers. The nice part is, once all my configuration is done, it should be cookie cutter for any future builds using the same versions. My hyperspin cab has two hard drives, boot from ssd and all my roms are on F:\ i don't know what i was thinking. Converting it all to C:\ is a pain for other builds using one drive without creating a partition.
Idealy i want to keep AM fairly simple, i liked the looks of a video i saw with just a cabinet and game video inside it, with marquee and a blue background listing systems. The actual "themes" i don't care for as i feel it's still completely visually appealinfg. Like you stated, by running most things it would bog down anyways. All i want to do is be able to have a wheel for each system that will run well to simplify things. Sounds like i can do this.