> There are also other front-ends who keep up with the times such as EmuLoader - you > mentioned QMC2 which, admittedly, has a pretty steep learning curve but can handle > virtually everything you want to do with any emulated machine. MAME now also has a > decent UI now (thanks to MEWUI author contributions) at its base which can handle > most things people want from a front-end such as snapshots, .dat file viewing, > favorites, categories and more.
There's some decent QMC2 tutorials as well, and of course Rene's very good with questions.