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My old MAME rig finally died... Questions about using new vs old MAME version

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goldenageofarcade:
My mame rig was built in 2003, it's running MAME V.72, and I was using MAMEWAH as my front end.  One thing I didn't like about MAMEWAH was that the version I was using couldn't create custom lists, which wasn't important to me back then, but my cabinet has evolved over the years and now has many different control panels with layouts set up for specific genres of games.  As such, I'd like to be able to have a game list for each CP that corresponds specifically to that control layout.  I know the more modern front ends can do this, but they don't seem to be compatible with older MAME versions, it appears MAME went through a change sometime between when I was building mine and now.

I think I'd prefer to use my existing MAME version and ROMs, but I'm having trouble finding front ends that work with that old file structure.

Does anyone know of a front-end that will work with "old" MAME as far as custom gamelists go? 

Alternately, is there any reason I shouldn't just scrap my old ROMs and go with the current stuff and "re-learn" MAME again with the newer, different technical considerations?

One other thing is that my old machine is about a P3 1GB with 2GBs of RAM, I really don't want to build a new PC for it, I intend to run either Windows 2000 or XP using my existing ArcadeVGA PCI card.

Any advice would be appreciated! 

Gray_Area:
Wait a minute.....if your old machine died, you have have to build a new machine. Or at least get another older one. Right?

goldenageofarcade:
I mean the HDD died, the machine itself is fine.  I want to pop in a new drive, dig up my 30 CDs of ROM and start over again.  When I originally built it I had a single (very large) panel with every control on it, so the 2 MAMEWAH lists (ALL and No-Clones) were fine, but since I'm starting from scratch, I'd love to have seperate lists for my 4-way 3 button panel, my dual 8-way panel, etc etc.  I'm finding things to be very different with MAME now than it was then, a lot of XML files stuff I never have dealt with.

goldenageofarcade:
Alright, I gave in and have decided to go with the most current MAME version.  I only hope the games I care about play correctly, I've heard bits here and there that some of the old games aren't right anymore.

But dual trackball support for Marble Madness is too cool to not take advantage of!

6of1:
i re-built my mame PC around the same time (unsure of version) and I am also running mamewah. maybe yours is an older version but i have custom lists.. ill boot up and take a look at version of mamewah if you want..

mame 0.71b
mamewah 0.9.0.7

I looked :)

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