Houb

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

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

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?)

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... ;(