@DjGenEsIs Personally, I just use lr-fbalpha as my primary arcade emulator for the latest and sometimes better/faster emulation (compared to outdated emulators), with lr-mame2003plus and lr-mame2010 as my secondary emulators.
I can't say if all the games I'm running in lr-fbalpha are at full speed or have better emulation than what I might get in one of my secondaries, but I at least gave them a first pass and didn't notice any slowdown or problems, with the bonus of not having to put too much time into testing.
Still, if I could, I'd use the latest libretro MAME. Just don't have the power for that on a Pi.