> In the > real world, even if MAME's default UI was perfected into the most awesome thing ever, > it's still just for MAME, and any arcade cabinet or HTPC setup you create is going to > want to run binaries besides just MAME.
There actually are arcade cabinets that run only MAME. And you underestimate the ambition of MAMEdev. We *will* make you not need to run any other binaries.