Moved your post from the emulators thread to here. I discussed this in my previous post in this thread, as a matter of fact.

Since i'm posting, here's a status update: no progress on sdlmame yet. As my N900 has become more integrated into my routine, i've bumped into some things maemo that needed my attention more than games. Thanks to the forum i've resolved a couple problems without too much trouble, and have resolved one of the shortcoming with a stop-gap measure through some python hacking. I'll put up that bit of work once i can figure out the appropriate place.

I see from another thread that there's a need for a bit of information in the extended description of the sdlmame package describing where to put roms. Noted...