So im planing to build a dedicated robotron bartop with a 13 inch crt, using groovymame and emudrivers. I even followed a facebook group that is a robotron fan group. Long story short, people there like the jrok hardware that has robotron in it, and i arguee, that, since jrok is not the original hardware, is pretty much the same to use a computer with mame , but they say jrok is like an original but newer hardware. Now this is how i see it: Mame got the software part (roms) by dumping the original roms, and emulating the hardware, jrok runs the roms, probably taken from mame or maybe they dumped theyr own roms and basicaly, both are runing the same program or software wich is robotron. Now they say, Mame version is way harder than the original or the jrok version, wich to me would be God send as i almost never pass the 11 wave.
Now i would like to read some opinions from the experts or jrok owners here, what do you think? can mame be more hard to play than the original hardware? If so, why? If not , why?
Thanks for reading.