But if you take it back to the original emulator of 'Mamedox' which was used soley to run arcade games.

Mamedox then turned into Coinops over the years, as more driver optimization was added to it. Having used the original Xbox for many number of years as an emulation machine, Mamedox started on original Xbox which was based off of the 'Mame 0.78' romset, and it had many driver upgrades added into it for optimum game performance, all running on the original Xbox which was 733mhz cpu with only 64mb RAM. Apart from 'pfba' which is really great but it struggles with certain games hardware. But if you end up trying different versions of MAME (and corresponding ROM versions) because you like ehow one runs better than another, you might consider moving everything into Arcade once you have them working.One thing that is lacking on vita is good standalone emulators, and a decent 'Mame Arcade' emulator. If everything works under one emulator to your satisfaction, great. Sure, it's harder for me to setup and keep everything straight, but it is easier for users who don't need to know the details. The user can find and launch them all and does not know or need to know which emulator I have configured to launch each ROM. I can mix zip files from different romsets together (of course I need to keep track of them in a spreadsheet or something) so they work with the emulator I want, but the whole list will be under one group in Emulation Station. By putting everything into Arcade, I can setup which emulator gets used to launch each game with the RUNCOMMAND. I may have my titles memorized as to what emulators they use, but he will have to hunt through three lists to find what he wants to play without any clue as to why. You see, I would need to explain the technical reasons behind the use of different emulators to someone who doesn't know or care. Where is it? Oh, that's in a different MAME. Next, he wants to play Asteroids, but it is not in the list. So, I show my system to a friend who is non technical, and he wants to play Joust.

For example, I use lr-mame2003 for most games, but vector games I use AdvanceMAME., and NeoGeo I use FBA. Most of us who use ARCADE do so because multiple versions of MAME and FBA befuddles users who don't know or care about the difference.

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