> How many current-code UI builds are there? Looks like only MESSUI, with original
> MAMEUI being current but not in the interface features.
The UI builds are dying, this shouldn't really come as a surprise.
There are various reasons for this, it's easy to blame the UI code for being awful, but the UI builds were the option for the 'cool crowd' and MAME is becoming increasingly irrelevant to them as we've really not managed to move past emulating 90s 2D games in a convincing fashion* while the rest of the scene is several generations beyond that.
MAME is doing a decent job for really obscure things, and non-gaming platforms, but people using those have no need for the UI builds and are less likely to create new forks based on them, or maintain the ones that already exist; I dare say a large chunk of the people with a true interest in those things aren't even on Windows so the UI builds are completely irrelevant to them.
I'm not claiming my work is any exception to this either btw, I know for a fact that interest in 'Super Two In One' and 'Mahjong Senpu' will be practically 0, but they needed emulating all the same.
* yes, I know there are cases where we do, but MAME's requirements for such cases are often outrageously high in the eyes of the general public, and compatibility not great. There are playable Wii U emulators, even PS3 to some degree while MAME is trying to impress people with a picture of the original Xbox dashboard, which while an impressive technical feat isn't going to actually be used by anybody as long as it runs at 3fps, especially not those also interested in UI builds, there's no overlap.
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