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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 and MESS 0.160

25 Mar 2015

MAME and MESS 0.160 are now available.

MAME Build Tools

28 Feb 2015

1. Download install.exe and complete installation. It will take some time to pull up-to-date code
2. Start buildtools.bat (plain cmd) or cmder.exe (fancy console) from installed folder (by default it is C:\buildtools)
3. From time to time run update in order to update tools
4. Download MAME source

git clone https://github.com/mamedev/mame.git
Console emulator is based on Cmder, with some small changes in scripts.

For those needed offline download
Download from here : buildtools.7z

For those already having GIT installed
git clone https://github.com/mamedev/buildtools
This works same as when installed with installer.

NOTE: This compile tools (as previous one) will not work on old PC's without SSE3 instructions

MAME and MESS 0.159

25 Feb 2015

MAME and MESS 0.159 are now available.

MAME and MESS 0.158

28 Jan 2015

MAME and MESS 0.158 are now available.

MAME and MESS 0.157

31 Dec 2014

MAME and MESS 0.157 are now available.

Help us improve MAME

15 Dec 2014

Our official roadmap is here and some of things listed are already implemented or in works. But we would like your input on these matters. So feel free to add new ideas by creating issue.

MAME and MESS 0.156

26 Nov 2014

MAME and MESS 0.156 are now available.
Please note that from now on we will create release every last Wednesday in month.