Each game seems to run at its' own speed. I never add "glow" but sometimes games are preconfigured with glow and it needs to be turned off. Any art will slow things down and overlays will really slow things down but it's different with each game. I got Armor Attack to play perfect, with the overlay and all, perfect and no slowdown. But Star Castle chokes big time with the overlay, I have to turn it off to play at full speed.
I've played with a few different mice in terms of spinner control and it made me think twice about installing a spinner, for now. The biggest disappointment about this is Major Havoc. MH looks really, really good. Good enough to consider a dedicated spinner but the sensitivity is critical in MH and my other spinners are all being used in other cabs right now. If the sensitivity can be cranked up just a tad in the next revision, and Cosmic Chasm added, I WILL install a spinner.
Another thing to mention is Asteroids (Deluxe). I like that the bullets glow but it would be nice to be able to turn this "down" a bit. When the asteroids blow up the explosions are a bit exaggerated for my taste. The bullet glow in the regular version of Asteroids looks much better to me, almost perfect, just tone down the explosions a tad and do the same with a version of AD and it will be PERFECT. I find myself playing Asteroids because it looks so much better, even though I much prefer to play AD. You can keep all that work you did and just change one version each of Asteroids Deluxe and Asteroids.
If you're doing any real tweaking, if possible, PLEASE stretch the aspect ratio of Black Widow wider, this isn't for me, it's so the hard core vector peeps will consider this as a serious option for vector games. I already have a Black Widow cabinet.
Another thing that peeps should know is that arcade controls can be configured to only 1 key at a time. So an encoder needs true "shift" functions like an ipac to be able to get to config controls without touching the keyboard or assigning a special buttons.
With a bit more tweaking, AAE will be SUPERIOR to ZVG vectormame...
And BTW i use an old ipac2 for controls with no issues.
Long live AAE!