I just want everyone to know that no news is not "No work on AAE".
My current (unfinished) allegro based build has "Mame equivalent" mouse and joystick control, with specific support for xbox 360 joysticks, plus rotation for vertical games.
It should be much nicer, at least from a control standpoint. The holdup is from a couple of things, one is that I needed a break and stopped working on it for a couple of months. The menus and input configurations still need totally reworked, and trying to support so many types of input configurations is not as easy as MAME makes it look.
The other holdup is the number of complaints about compatibility, especially 64 bit. My problem is the antique library I built things on, "Allegro" and it's eternal beta cycle. I have decided to write my own GL, directinput and directsoundcode, which has been a slow process.
But things are ramping up again, and the fact that people are trying to use this hacked together emulator makes me want to work on it even more
Look for test versions sometime this summer, with hopefully something nice coming soon.
BTW, Thanks for the youtube video, awsome large screen there!
Thanks!!!!!