Seriously all Mac MAME front-ends are dead projects. To get a proper MAME application for my Mac I had to bundle it myself. To spare you the same trouble here is MakeMame4Mac. It's a set of files that download and build everything to make a MAME application bundle that runs smoothly on your Mac. Just download the archive, uncompress it and run make. It is tailored for 64 bits processors (core2), so you may need to tweak the configuration if you have a different processor. The Makefile will download and build SDL and MAME and bundle the whole package in a nice Application Bundle. You will end with a Mame.app, just copy that in your /Application directory and you're good.
Note this is just a simple bundle for MAME, not a front-end. To configure the location of your ROMs you will need to edit the make.ini file by yourself. This file will be located in your $HOME/Application/Mame/mame.ini. It's just the standard make.ini file, check the MAME documentation to set it . If the $HOME/Application/Mame directory is not here, just run Mame.app once and quit, this will create it. All the different vnram files and co. will also be created under $HOME/Application/Mame so you won't get anything .
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