jamon, it's bad. janeow... janeow.. and the whole world wants to tell you right now... who's bad!? couldn't resist.(posted 9620 days ago)It's all in the properties of the dos window you run it in, the main reason the dos mame is bettter is that it usually makes better recordings and thus you can actually play things back more often if you use the dos version to record and playback. also before i thought win32mame performed better (i.e. F10ing plays back faster at a higher % frame rate) but now it seems the dosmame gets the higher frame rate.
Also hitting up arrow,return with doskey is soo much nicer rather than hitting alt-F,r or clicking on the record button in win32.
It may take a while to get the settings right (not that i remember what i did to get mine to work) but it is worth it to try. Maybe you have frameskip set to 8 in mame.cfg? win32 doesn't use that but dos does.