Last update:

01/04/2002

Here you will find resources for the world's most popular arcade game emulator - MAME. MAME is an emulator capable of playing over 3229 classic, and even some not so classic arcade games! MAME even runs Neo Geo games, which can be considered arcade or console, depending on what you prefer. 

MAME is an emulator. It reproduces, more or less faithfully, the behaviour of various arcade machines. But hardware is useless without software, so images (files) of the ROMs which run on that hardware are required. Such ROMs, like all commercial software, are copyrighted. Therefore, it is illegal to possess a ROM image file if you do not own the original ROM. Needless to say, ROMs are not distributed together with MAME. Distribution of MAME with ROM images is a violation of copyright law and a violation of the MAME  license, and it should be promptly reported to the authors so that appropriate legal action can be taken.

MAME was originally started in January 1997, by Nicola Salmoria. Originally, Nicola developed single emulators for individual games, such as Lady Bug, Mr. Do!, Pengo, and a multiple game emulator of the various early Pac Man games. A month later, Nicola decided to combine the emulators into a multiple game emulator format, which is now known world wide as MAME. Today, there are well over 100 people contributing to the MAME project.