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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 0.145

05 Feb 2012

MAME 0.145 is now available.

MAME 0.144u7

29 Jan 2012

MAME 0.144u7 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.
Hopefully going to release 0.145 for next week, just in time for the 15th Anniversary.

MAME 0.144u6

15 Jan 2012

MAME 0.144u6 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.
All drivers are been updated with a major video overhaul, so as usual please report anything wrong to MAMEtesters

MAME 0.144u5

08 Jan 2012

MAME 0.144u5 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.

MAME 0.144u4

24 Dec 2011

MAME 0.144u4 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.

MAME 0.144u3

14 Dec 2011

MAME 0.144u3 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.
Another round of modified drivers, again please test them out and report anything wrong at MAMEtesters

MAME 0.144u2

04 Dec 2011

MAME 0.144u2 is now posted to the Latest Updates page.
Many drivers have been modified on this round, so please give some testing to them and report anything wrong with them to MAMEtesters