MaLa v1.72 is released. MaLa is a multi emulator front-end designed for all 32bit Windows operating systems (I have had reports it work fine on 64 bit) . It supports the Windows command line version of MAME with XML ROM info (> 0.84), PC Games and all command line based emulators. You can easily make it run on earlier versions of mame (as I do) by using a XML file generated by a later version.

What Features does Mala Have?
* Rotatable in any direction (0, 90, 180, 270) on the fly for horizontal and vertical screens
* Controllable by arcade controllers with configurable controller settings for all front end functions
* Controller detection: rotate and load game list depending on the controls that were touched (cocktail tables)
* On the fly programming of keyboard encoders
* Mouse support for trackballs, spinner and dials
* Virtual shift, key, full control with less controls
* Keyboard hook and hotkeys: No need for wrappers or specialized emulator versions
* Hardware Support: MaLa Hardware (LED + LCD), Ultimarc PacDrive (LED), BetaBrite Displays, serial LCD, GGG LEDWiz (LED), Ultimarc UltraStik360, ...
* LED Attract mode
* Comprehensive game list filter options and memorized filter sets
* Plugins - including support for hardware like LedWiz, Serial LCD's & Ultrastick (you can make your own if you can code in C++ or Delphi)
* No ini file editing
* !! AND MORE !!

MaLa v1.72 Changelog:
Improvements
• Put workarounds and logging in code to better handle failed graphic load attempts
• PluginSDK - Added better plug-in configuration window example-
• PluginSDK - Added Arzoo's MaLa stub tool
• PluginSDK - Is now packaged with the standard MaLa download to encourage Plug-in development.
• Removed the Unsupported Checkboxes on the Plugin list
• Extra Logging
• Added code to stop more than one instance of MaLa being opened at a time (only works with 1.719 and above)
• Added comments to Mame.ini editor to advise if may not cover all options
• Added extra logging for Playlist loading
• Added auto pause to BG music if Video Screen saver is triggered with sound enabled Added hi info page and improved the way Most Played lists are configured
• Removed Extra video check code. I think new Video Engine handles this better on it's own. :-)

Bugfixes
• Fixed Bug with 'remove brackets on the fly' option. MaLa could get hung in a endless loop if brackets unpaired.
• Fixed bug where selected game in list would jump up/down one item after orientation change (really fixed it this time)
• Fixed BG Muzac for Layouts (I hope)
• Fixed bug displaying some images if first in list selected

Download: MaLa v1.72
Source:Here