> To my knowledge, no frontend has the ability to play a video before loading the
> emulator.
Agreed, but I can see a way that might (note the conditional) make it doable.
If the front end allows the user to explicitly specify the location of the emulator executable, it may be possible to alter that string so that it calls the video player first, then calls the emulator immediately at the end of the video player's run.
Example: if the frontend defines the location of the emulator as /opt/local/bin/mamearcade64, changing that location to something like the following may work:
/path/to/videoplayer [path to video to play] && /opt/local/bin/mamearcade64 [insert variable containing commandline options for MAME here]
Total conjecture on my behalf, though, as I haven't tried it, and converting that to whatever Windows would use in this instance is an exercise left to the reader 
My guess is that whether it works or not is going to be highly dependent on the frontend in use, however.
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