Switching frontends, looking for recommendations

[telengard]

Upgraded to WinXP SP3 and now my setup no longer works, figured it's a good time for an upgrade.  Hoping for some recommendations from those using other frontends.  There seems to be a lot of them out there now...

Currently using Advmenu which has all the features I need.  Ideally, a frontend replacement could do the following:

Rotate between vertical/horizontal w/ a button press.
Launch mame or misfitmame w/ the current rotation flags
Allow me to categorize and switch between categories w/ a button press.  Advmenu has 2 different sorts of categories which I utilize.  For one set I use orientation (horiz, vert) and the other set I do it by controls (2 buttons, 4 buttons, 4 way, 8 way, etc).  So I could for example look at all the horizontal 4 way games by switching each categories (each set is a different button).
Work/look ok on an arcade monitor

That's about it, anything else is gravy.  Only fancy feature I use is the audio snippets for games and screenshots.  I have my own frontend for launching advmenu and other emulators like daphne so if it could also do multiple emulators that would make things much easier...

~telengard

[Mister Hat]

I'm pretty sure MameWah (or WahCade) has all of what you need and is pretty basic by default. Very customisable and runs very lightweight. I recommend it.

[zorrobandito]

I did an assessment of the top 5 (GameEx, Mala, Maximus Arcade, Atomic FE and Hyperspin) as an alternative to mamewah a few months ago. It might interest you.

Mister Hat is correct, MAMEWah will fulfill your requirements.