> As i feel personally addressed with this, let me explain a view things. I mainly use
> MAME in a cab with a real CRT and want to play arcade games only with it. This is a
> reasonable statement, because of the following facts:
>
> Nearly no 2nd gen. console would make sense in a cab. Anything with analog
> controllers and shoulder buttons for sure. Nearly no computer (especially how this is
> solved with currently official MAME) makes sense in a cab. Too many freaked feature
> stuff in it, not to mention that many drivers are working only partially and with
> (still) better alternatives to it. I want to play and have a nice experience while
> playing in freetime. I still can have a guinea pig situations with my PC setup, but i
> dont want them at all in a cab-setup, that is made for gaming, so i *expect* from my
> frontend, that all this stuff is removed, that i dont want to see.
>
There are plenty of things that will work in a cab if you pick and choose from what's available tho, and with the lua autoboot features / save states you can set up a good number of the non-arcade systems to jump straight into gameplay, at which point even plenty of the computer games only require a joystick to operate.
There are also a LOT of arcade games you're not going to run on a standard setup, arcades were king of using custom controls, it absolutely pains me to see people putting things like OutRun on cabs with only a joystick to control them, but at the same time arguing that a MegaDrive game has no place there. (and then they end up saying that Aladdin is one of their favourite arcade games, even if it's just an ugly, broken, buggy hacked up bootleg copy of the MegaDrive game that doesn't run how the programmers intended at all)
Most people using a cab aren't going to want a Windows interface anyway, the fullscreen interface, if nothing else, is perfect for use with cabinet controls; if we did force a Windows style interface it's most likely the group running it on cabinets that would scream at us for 'killing MAME' ;-)
Again tho, MAME is a project for everybody so it isn't going to be dumbed down / limited for specific groups, there are people using it today who have little interest in arcades, arcades are nothing special, they're just systems that the end user couldn't really configure.
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