Multiplatform
MAME
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is a free and open source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators.
The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect". The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The emulator now supports over seven thousand unique games and ten thousand actual ROM image sets, though not all of the supported games are playable. It worth mentioning that the sister-project MESS was integrated into MAME.
Unofficial recent MAME 32-bit versions are available here..
Last Release:
0.274
Dated:
31-01-2025
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Windows: Vista SP1+
Linux: Nothing reported
MacOS: 10.9+
CPU: Intel Core series CPU or equivalent 2.0 GHz+
GPU: modern card with Direct3D 9.0c+ / OpenGL
RAM: 4GB+
Support files
File maintained by MASH containing all the information from "mametesters.com". It gives information about the status of games in MAME-Arcade (i.e. development, bugs, improvements).
Category, Version and Alltime inifiles - 0.274
Sort by category, release year, version, etc.
Access all trivia, facts, tips and other information for the games and machines
Used to prevent cheating (.inp) and important for establishing records
Provides in game instructions manual to games that supports it. For example, you can view the individual command lists for fighting game characters.
Unofficial Hiscore DATFILE - 0.261
It's a complimentary file for saving high scores. Most Mame games save their high scores by default, but over 2500 games do not save their high scores. Needs MAME v0.174 or higher.
It's a Windows compatible GUI wrapper with the benefit of being light on ressources and doesn't force you to fuss with difficult configurations, while being compatible with all M.A.M.E games.
Provides the initialization procedures of some games emulated by MAME
Pugsy's MAME Cheat Pack File - 0.264
The XML/JSON Cheat Collection archives are packed together and will find a large cheat.7z. It's this cheat.7z that should be placed in the same directory as your MAME execute-able.
It's a cheat pack for MAME.
Mesen2
Mesen is a multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, Game Boy and PC Engine) for Windows & Linux built in C++ and C#. It focuses on accuracy, though does incorporate graphic mappers and filters (i.e. HD packs in HDNes format as well). It also allows video recording, some form of online gaming or even the use of cheat codes and has a debugger.
Last Release:
2.0 (Dev 991136e)
Dated:
14-02-2025
ares
Ares was originally Near/Byuu's last project and was subsequently continued by new developers (including Luke from Cxbx-r). With that in mind, it's a multi-system emulator focusing mainly on accuracy and some of its exhaustive features include but are not limited to native multi-platform UI adaptive sync, dynamic rate control, save states, run-ahead, rewind or fast-forward and much more..!
Current supported systems
Arcade
Atari 2600 (Experimental)
WonderSwan / WS Color
Pocket Challenge V2
ColecoVision
MSX (Experimental)
MSX2 (Experimental)
PC-Engine / TurboGrafx
PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx CD (Experimental)
PC-Engine SuperGrafx
My Vision
NES / Famicom
Famicom Disk System
Game Boy
SNES / Super Famicom
Satellaview
Nintendo 64
SuFami Turbo
Game Boy Color
Nintendo 64DD
Game Boy Advance
SG-1000
Master System / Mark III
Mega Drive / Genesis
Game Gear
Mega CD
32X
ZX Spectrum (Experimental)
Neo Geo (AES/MVS) (Experimental)
Neo Geo Pocket
Neo Geo Pocket Color
PlayStation
Last Release:
143
Dated:
17-02-2025
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