Wait.. you aren't Stefan Gagne, are you? If so, it's been a few years since I last saw you around.
Yeah, MAME has fallback options. I know it'll fallback from Direct3D to DirectDraw, and from there to GDI if you're not meeting the requirements to run whatever display mode you're set up for.
I'm not entirely sure if HLSL will fallback*, though, but it probably does. A very big tip for you-- get a copy of DXWebSetup and put it on a USB stick. Run it periodically to keep your machine up to date. Microsoft's handling of DirectX 9.0c updates has been a complete nightmare and looks like it'll continue to be a nightmare for years to come.
If you were on a brand new Win7/8 install, you may not have DirectX9 installed (whereas DX10/11 are separate and don't replace X9, unlike X9 replacing X1-8) yet, and MAME'll still run in that state-- just not as well as if you actually have everything up to date.
Hope the technical info helps.
*It's a little bit of a pain to actually test that. I'd probably have to set something up to be using the shaders so HLSL initialization fails on MAME startup..
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Try checking the MAME manual at http://docs.mamedev.org
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