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16 minutes ago, Robert said:

Yes, but they can be loaded into MAME as loose software, or if they are fussy you can update the software lists with them. MAME isn't locked into software lists exclusively. Alternatively, FBNeo has a lot of homebrew console roms enabled.

Besides, in the end, I don't want to spend time on it. Sorry.

You asked, I gave you my opinion. Arcade64 is the past MAMEUIFX/MAMEPLUS have now not so much interrest, most of their interresting features are now in MAME and the few improvements (mostly driver hacks) can be done in the original MAME. For the rest there is no need of cutting MAME to only arcade as it's not faster nor less consumming nor anything. In fact it's just a limited version without the full power of MAME. softlist support is the futur as for now having to launch softlist games using command line is only good for dev or linux users

 

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2 hours ago, Robert said:

HBMAME is for homebrew arcade. That's its purpose. I'm not sure what else you're expecting it to do.

 

there are many hacks, homebrews and bootlegs of console/computer games too

[Experimenting with WinUI]

For my part I would like to see again MAMEUI (complete) with softlist support and the same for HBMAME (why it would be only arcade?)

 

[Experimenting with WinUI]

Thanks for working on it

But in fact I think it's time to do an external UI working with all actual MAME versions (official or not)

It could be quite easy to do a frontend somehow like MAMEUI. I tried myself and I got promising results. but I stopped because in fact there is a needed and missing info we can't get nor extract from MAME....

In fact MAME's configuration uses machine type (arcade, console, computer, others) but this "type" info isn't provided by MAME and without we can't do any accurate configuration tool... that's a shame... ;(