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Welcome to The Official Site of the MAME Development Team

What is MAME?

MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.

MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. 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?). 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.

License

The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. A great majority of files (over 90% including core files) are under the BSD-3-Clause License and we would encourage new contributors to distribute files under this license.

Please note that MAME is a registered trademark of Gregory Ember, and permission is required to use the "MAME" name, logo or wordmark.

MAME 0.141u3

28 Feb 2011

MAME 0.141u3 is now available on the Latest Updates page.

MAME 0.141u2

09 Feb 2011

MAME 0.141u2 is now available on the Latest Updates page.

New Free ROMs Posted

25 Jan 2011

Thanks to the generosity of H.R. Kaufmann, president of Xidy, and Reinhard Stompe, founder of Video Games GmbH, we have several new ROMs available for free, non-commercial use at our ROMs for Free Download page.

The new games are: Hard Hat, Victory, Fax, Top Gunner, Super Tank, and Looping.

Thanks also to Tafoid and Andrew Gardner for assembling the ROM information pages.

MAME 0.141u1

23 Jan 2011

Time for the first 0.141 source update. Get it from the Latest Updates page.

MAME 0.141

31 Dec 2010

Happy New Year! Well, not yet here on Pacific Time, so technically MAME 0.141 is the last MAME release of 2010, and not the first release of 2011. Have fun!

MAME 0.140u3

23 Dec 2010

The final update of the 0.140 dev cycle is now available on the Latest Updates page. Assuming nothing exciting happens, expect 0.141 before the end of the year.

MAME 0.140u2

07 Dec 2010

Time at last for MAME 0.140u2. Download it from the Latest Updates page.