Hello,
In my opinion EasyMame is indeed the best MAME F.E. for my use because :
Fast to install.
Light in ressources
Displays the MNG videos previews
I also experienced recently problems when I re-installed a new version 5.8.1 with mame0153b:
No game list displayed in the left part so impossible to use ...
After some investigations I found the root cause and reported it to the developper so waiting for feedback...
The problem is due to a Filter Bug when the "All games" is selected !!
So the workaround is just to select another value in Filter (Ex: Raster Games) and the filtered game list is displayed
and can be launched !!!
So good news is : Easymame works fine with mame0153b with the beautiful MNG previews !!
Hope it helps.
Fabien