I am becoming more and more disenchanted with RetroArch. I'm used to MAME on the PC, which lets you set keys for various games buttons (either defaults or per-game settings), lets you use cheats, and gives you access to DIP switches and settings. Oh, and you get READABLE NAMES of the various games you have, not just eight-character filenames.
I just tried the VBA Next included in RetroArch, and that was the last straw. It doesn't run the games I've written well at all, and I've seen them running on a S7300 (presumably with a different emulator) just fine.
I've decided that it's best to simply find the individual emulators I want than rely on RetroArch.
Now I'm looking for a MAME that will run well ('80s and early '90s games, primarily) and give me some flexibility to, say, set up Pac Man in cocktail mode with the two joysticks used for the two players -- preferably without using Tincore.
So, this thread is for people to share their experience with various emulators on the S7800B, to help people such as myself who are looking for the best emulators to run what they want to play the way they want to play (within reason). Please post what kinds of games you're playing as well as what emulators you're using, so that people can find the emulators that will work for them.
Also, if you're running a multi-system emulator such as MAME, be sure to give the version number.
Also also, please don't turn this into a ROMz thread. The purpose is to help people to judge what emulators might fit their needs. Once they get the emulators, the rest is up to them.