> Really can't believe threads like this are still being made in late 2016 >
It really is because of how big MAME has become.
I fired up one of the old versions of mame32 (.31). That GUI is *very* straight forward (basically a pick list). You know exactly what to click on to make it work. Roms in the folder, double click a name you are in a game. Finding 'new' games is not bad as there are maybe 300-400 in that version all fairly unique.
You fire up MAME now and well over 33k in choices to be made (with a large mix of clones and nonworking). Even more if you include the console lists. I personally know what to do, but for someone who is coming in new it is very daunting. Take for example pac-man. One of the earliest games in there. There are a few dozen choices just to get that 1 game running (pucman, pac man, pacman, pac-man, mrs, super, handheld, console, re-makes, clones, which is the US set, etc). You and I know what to pick, but that is not really always clear from the GUI. The internal GUI is decent at guiding you around and is probably closest to the old mame32 feel (and officially supported). But it is still kinda interesting to pick the right game.
QMC2 is my goto GUI of choice these days. It 'feels' like a wall of text at first and takes a bit of work to customize it. That is nothing against QMC2 but is the nature of where the whole project is going. It has thousands of systems and software and making a GUI that works decently with that and a 'newbie' can instantly understand? That is a daunting challenge.
I know there is not much to it, but at first MAME feels like a sink or swim sort of thing to use. I am not sure there is a real good way to fix that. That is why people ask 'is there a good GUI'. What they are asking is 'is there a GUI that works like I think this thing should and find the game I want to play and looks pleasant to me'.
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