Ok thanks,

we will struggle to get any major improvements with new versions of mame because the N900 is classed as low powered in the eyes of mame and these later builds are created for a more high powered machine.unless a new version comes out with massive changes and from my experience (i update mame on my pc regularly) mame improvements are quite small for my usage.

I am not sure what everyone else thinks but if we could have an older version which supports roms pre year 2000 with good performance on low powered machines like our N900 and that would still be 3000+ roms - running along side the latest builds so the overclocking folk out there can still get there fix of the latest roms. that would make mame emulation on the N900 stand right out.

There are some simple roms on mame which do not run as they should and without overclocking your N900 it would be good to have this option.