kawaks was just an easy emulator to use for people like me who was a newbie a few months back. what i hate the most is the controllers for me is not as great. i got mah arcade stick programmed to kawaks and it would get stuck during gameplay. like it would continuosly jump or walk forward. i thought it was mah stick but on MAME it worked jus fine. anyways, yeah i wish the controller settings would be better bc u gotta change it constantly even if u changed the default ini., u still gotta reload it from the options. graphix wise, its pretty friendly with me when i put it on the tv out. MAME is pretty standard too, jus looks more complicated than Kawaks. Kawaks is pretty much MAME for DUMMIES. I like it haha.