MAME Testers (official bug tracker for MAME and MESS).Official MAME Development Team Site (includes binary downloads, wiki, forums, and more).If you're on a *NIX or OSX system, it could be as easy as typing Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important 'vintage' software from being lost and forgotten. MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework. So for single player, insert coin by pressing 5 and start the game by pressing 1.Static analysis status for entire build (except for third-party parts of project): As MAME is also available as Libretro core, you could also use RetroArch as frontend.Ī lot of arcade games were coin-operated, so when you start a game you might wonder: 'how do I insert a coin?' The answer can be found in the input configuration, but let me spoil it for you: keys '5' to '8' on your keyboard insert coins for players 1-4 and keys '1' to '4' are the start-buttons for those players. If you do not like this menu, there are a few other options: the MAMEUI port (which, as the name suggests, adds a Windows user-interface to MAME) or frontends.

As of version 0.162 MAME absorbed its sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) which means it is also capable of playing games for classic game consoles.Īlthough MAME is a 'command-line' application, as of version 0.171, you will get a simple 'DOS-like' menu when you open it where you can do the usual things of selecting games and changing the configuration. The intent of this emulator is preservation the ability to play games is considered a 'side-effect.' MAME supports thousands of classic arcade games, although not all of them are playable. MAME is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

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