If you have the time and money to build a cabinet, it shouldn't be a problem for you to get the best hardware. I think a petition is the wrong way to go about your problem. Upgrade your hardware. Run it on a raid partition. Have you tried a defrag. Maybe your video card is slow as dirt. Correct me if im wrong but doesn't direct draw use the video subsystem? Just a thought but if you download a free program shouldn't you do atleast everything you can to make it work on your end before complaining. Besides, I think the features are what separate it from other things. Anyone can write a simple program to launch thier mame games. But when I can check the weather get a mame screensaver and listen to all of my music from one program I'd pay money for it...