MAME alternatives?

[M]

I just found out that sdlmame now requires gconf and I don't want to install orbit and gconf on my t20 laptop with openbox! I used sdlmame on my gnome desktop and didn't noticed that from version 0.126 sdlmame uses gconf to get some font settings, totally crazy! So much about portability... gentoo dev that maintained sdlmame until that version wrote patch for this but upstream refused it, and think that linux == gnome and that all "modern" distros should have gconf...

Now, I installed raine, very good emulator, I had neoraine already so I was familiar with ui and I like that it has game specific hacks (mame prefer accuracy, not speed) but I can not play all my favorite arcade games with raine, from 20 in favorites I can play just 7,8... So, are there any similar projects? I am not sure for what specific arcade machines I need emu...

I already have snes9x-gtk for snes and gngeo/xgngeo for neogeo games, btw you can not believe speed difference if you compile gngeo for example with assembler instead of C code for an old x86 machine, gngeo ebuild disables asm by default but I have all emulators that I use in my local overlay with patches to make em compile, bios in files dir, preview images etc.

Little offtopic, but is there any good sega genesis emulator? I tried kega-fusion (binary but very good) and gens-gs but both support only opengl, not xv, I can not use it on an old laptop... I tried generator which support xv, games are fast but I can not save position... Something that gives good performance in wine maybe, something like that...

[broken_chaos]

I don't know of any maintained alternatives to sdlmame, but there is an out-of-date patch to make gconf optional. The patch, while it doesn't apply against current sdlmame code, should only need minor adjustments to do so (looks like just a rearrangement of the code in question, for the most part). I don't have a working Gentoo box at the moment, but if you don't feel like taking a crack at it yourself, I can do it in a week or two.

[M]

I tried that patch, it does apply but compiling breaks, on desktop machine which has gconf I can compile it but it still links to gconf, I will see to fix it if I can and if it is not big job I can at least maintain it in my local overlay... As I see sdlmame -debug also use it but I don't need that...