Homebrew Retroarch and best MAME version.

[butfluffy]

hi guys. i was thinking of setting retroarch up on my cfw wiiu but there are a few versions of the mame core available.
which version is recomended? 2000, 2003, 2010 and so on. i'm thinking 2003 may be the best way to go but i figured some guys here might have tried all versions and recomend the best one.
any info would be great

 

[Covert Maverick]

Bump

 

[mightymuffy]

A general rule of thumb is to plump for the 2003 one as it's sort of a happy middle ground... more games than 2000, faster than 2010.
In this day of high speed internet though, what's stopping you from testing for yourself really? Personally I'd go for 2003, grab the 0.78 romset, and if it's missing any games you oh-so-want then grab the romset for the others..
I don't think anyone on here has gone through 6000+ games on each core in a bid to find 'the best one', but I will tell you 2003 has played everything I wanted to play without an issue.

 

[butfluffy]

thanks for the reply and i already chose 2003.
i kinda gave up on getting a reply so i decided to go inbetween 200 and 2010 and try 2003.