Can Amiga run on game roms from...

[Legerdemain]

the Vs Nintendo arcade classics like Excitebike, Ice Climber, and all of the Mario Bros Classics? Anyone know, I love those games. And if it is true, where would I plug in the files within the WinUAE gui?

To run such roms together with WinUAE you would need to install a NES-emulator on your emulated Workbench/AmigaOS install which you are using together with WinUAE.

There is nothing particularly special with the Vs. roms, besides some special mappers used in some games. If the NES-emulators out there avaible for Workbench/AmigaOS manages those roms, I don't know.

You can NOT start the WinUAE gui and from there select the roms, you would have to install Workbench/AmigaOS FIRST. Then an emulator. Then start the roms from there.

Really. Go with a NES-emulator for Windows instead. You will produce a much better result.

[Legerdemain]

you can use nes emulators for amiga to run nes roms. finding the roms online is tough and most of the emulators arent that great but they do work. i have run some roms on an a1200 with a 50mhz 030 accelerator.

ShapeShifter is close to perfect, according to me, but I haven't used it to the extent that I've tested its limits, so I wouldn't know.

AmiMastergear runs mostly all SEGA Master System and SEGA GameGear games without any problems at all (I'd say that 95% of all the games I've tested have had zero to close to no glitches at all, running at full speed on my 060 and most of the time in full speed on my 030).

AmiMSX is also a very very good emulator (a shame that he who made those AmiXXX emulators stopped developement, since they are really great stuff!).

Besides these, I don't really know of any good emulators for the x86 Amiga. Which have missed out on?

[Legerdemain]

Aha, but then it is an entirely different story.

Concerning MAME running on AmigaOS I have no clue whatsoever what works and what doesn't since I haven't run MAME in ages.

Concerning what OS to go for, I don't know what to recommend. I'm running OS3.9 but some would probably say to go for WB3.1 and then download what you need to get 3.1 up to date. I think it would be easier to go with OS3.9, though, if you are rather unfamiliar with AmigaOS/Workbench in general.

I'm running out of more of help to say, I think.