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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 0.137u4

04 May 2010

The MAME 0.137u4 update is now available for download.

MAME 0.137u3

21 Apr 2010

Come and get it! The MAME 0.137u3 update is here. Make sure you play games that use the TMS5220 speech chip and report any problems.

MAME 0.137u2

08 Apr 2010

The second update to 0.137 is here!

MAME 0.137u1

25 Mar 2010

Time to grab the first update to 0.137.

And kindly stop harassing us if you hear that an update is coming but it hasn't been posted yet. Each update is validated against 8 different build styles on a relatively middle-tier system, and that validation takes a while, especially when it finds issues (which is why we run the validation steps in the first place!) and we have to start it all over again.

MAME 0.137

11 Mar 2010

Believe it or not, the first official MAME release of 2010 is finally available, so head on over to the Latest Release page and grab yourself a copy!

MAME 0.136u4

04 Mar 2010

MAME 0.136u4 is now available on the MAME Updates page. Next release will be 0.137.

MAME 0.136u3

14 Feb 2010

Happy Valentine's Day. Now you can ignore your S.O. and go play with the latest MAME Update instead. Have fun!