Arcade Emulators

MAME™

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is one of (if not the) most widely used videogame emulators. Currently, it supports over six thousand different arcade games. Standard versions of MAME can be found an MAME.net, intermediate versions and development notes are at MAMEDev.com.

Since MAME is an open source project, many people have created modified versions with various extra tweaks and features. Here are just some of the versions out there:

AdvanceMAME

AdvanceMAME includes advanced video support, allowing users to create tweaked video modes from software and thus achieve near perfect display using an arcade monitor. It also has several other unique featues, such as a simple internal scripting language. It is available in Windows, DOS and Linux versions and can be found on its SourceForge page.

BuddaMAME

BuddaMAME is a derivative work from MAME maintained by Buddabing since version 0.84.

There are four major extensions to MAME which BuddaMAME provides:

1. Artwork display when pause is pressed
2. Automatic generation of said artwork
3. MAME Movie Maker
4. Support for Buddabing's LED controller

The home page for BuddaMAME can be found at http://cpmaker.mameprojects.com

fastMAME

The authors of this build have this to say about FastMAME:

"This is a heavily optimized MAME build for Windows which results in up to a 10-30% speed increase. If your computer can't run some games you want to play at full speed (for example Stun Runner, Taito F3 stuff or Mortal Kombat) you really should give it a try."

The last known version of FastMAME is v0.98, released in July of 2005.

You can download FastMAME v0.98 from http://www.geoshock.com/getfiles/?fastmame098b.rar. Source code is -not- included.

MacMAME

Like the name implies, MacMAME is the Mac port of MAME. Due to the limited number of available programmers, the official version is not updated as often as its Windows counterparts. You can find more information at [1]

MAME32

MAME32 is a Windows version of MAME with a built in GUI/Front-End. It is available for download here, and is mirrored on MAMEmirror.tk

MameAnalog+

MAMEAnalog+ improves handling of analog controls.

• Multiple mice in windows98 & windowsME (USB mice only)
• Multiple mice in windowsXP
• Mappable mouse input (including changing the axis and player)
• Improved mouse simulation with analog joysticks

It is maintained by BYOAC user u_rebelscum.

The home page for MAMEAnalog+ is http://www.urebelscum.speedhost.com/

NoNameMame

NOT UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

The author of NoNameMAME is BYOAC user TheGatesOfBill. He wrote this about what NoName is:

"No Name MAME contains many extra drivers and a few extra features. Basically, I didn't want to have several versions of MAME so I could use all the features, many of which hadn't been updated in months if not years, so I started my own version."

The last release of NoNameMAME was version 0.84u1, in July of 2004.

You can download NoNameMAME from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91067&package_id=95932

PacMAME

NOT UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

This version of MAME played a lot of versions of the various Pac-Man games which are not included in normal MAME.

PowerMAME

PowerMAME is a collaborative build of MAME for Windows that includes many tweaks and mods to make MAME more arcade cabinet friendly. PowerMAME is the brainchild of MikeQ and is available for download from UnappliedBraincells.com. Documentation of its features can be found a the PowerMAME Wiki. It includes support for LEDWiz output controllers.

VectorMAME

VectorMAME is a special build of MAME that allows games to be displayed on a vector monitor using Zektor's Vector Generator. It is available for download from Zektor's website.

X-MAME

Xmame is a port of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It runs primarily on Linux and various flavors of UNIX, although some other operating systems, such as BeOS, are supported to some degree.

The X-MAME home page is at http://x.mame.net

Daphne

Daphne emulates laserdisc games like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. It's available from Daphne-EMu.com.

Vantage

Vantage is an acronym for Vertical ANTiquated Arcade Game Emulator.

VAntAGE is designed purely as a replacement for your 'classic' arcade board collection.

It was written to be as small and fast as possible (to keep the cost of the host PC to a minimum) and to run the arcade games 'as intended'.

With this in mind, it supports:

• rotation (i.e. correctly orientated video)
• screen flipping
• cocktail modes (for all games)
• screen video mode tweaking (see Video Mode Tweaking on home page)
• arcade monitor output
• various options to run 'tall' vertical games on a horizontal arcade monitor

The Vantage home page is http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/vantage.html

ZiNC

ZiNc is an emulator for arcade video games based on Sony PlayStation hardware. This includes systems from Capcom, Taito, Konami, Tecmo, and Namco, among others. These games are also supported in MAME, but ZiNc can frequently run them faster and with graphics and sound enhancements.

The Zinc homepage is at http://www.emuhype.com/index.phtml?s=zinc&ss=index