Nov 29, 2025 · MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from …

Official Source Code Packages The latest official MAME release is version 0.283. The table below provides links to the source code. We recommend cloning source code from our official git …

MAME Documentation Note This documentation is a work in progress. You can track the status of these topics through MAME's issue tracker. Learn how you can contribute.

MAME's main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent …

MAME, formerly an acronym which stood for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator, documents and reproduces through emulation the inner components of arcade machines, computers, …

Using MAME If you want to dive right in and skip the command line, there's a nice graphical way to use MAME without the need to download and set up a front end. Simply start MAME with no …

After almost two months, we’re ready to release MAME 0.252, the first MAME release of 2023! As promised, there are some big updates, and some of them may require you to make a few …

Tools for building MAME on Windows MAME's official repo on Github Redump.net's MAME/MESS GIT Repository Browser MAME Git History at Dorando. Extra Files for MAME Catlist Colors.ini …

This section describes general usage information about MAME. It is intended to cover aspects of using and configuring MAME that are common across all operating systems.

If you installed MAME using the package manager that came from a Linux distro, you will type mame -createconfig into your terminal of choice. If you have compiled from source or …