Ah, I see. I get the impression there's been a bit of drama (or at least a few drama queens) concerning this MAME variant before?
As for updated builds, MAME Plus Ashbuild also has sample hacks for the toaplan games and unlike ThunderMAME it is updated to 0.159. I mention this alternative because personally I prefer MAME Plus's custom button mechanisms over UIFX's systems for autofire, but YMMV.
ThunderMAME32UI+ used to be updated more frequently (its at 0.155 unlike his other variants) but the guy doesn't update all the time. I guess he's part of the party that believes new MAME isn't necessarily best MAME along with Nimitz and a few of the shumpsfarm members that used to run their own MAME builds. Nimitz's about as active on shumpsfarm as a rock anyway so I'd call Shmupmame "on ice" rather than abandoned for the time being.
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