As far as I know, game configs work exactly on traditional MAME, MAMEUI, ARCADE and, if ROM available in the list, HBMAME.
Just move the appropriate folder ("cfg", "autofire", etc.) from one emulator's path to another. The same goes for other INI and CFG settings.
I generally keep ARCADE and HBMAME in the same folder. I even merge their ROMs, and everything works fine. Only Knights Of Valour 1: Super Heroes Plus had problems with different file sizes when checksums were the same, but as of a certain release (0.279, it seems), that's in the past.