MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history.

This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions.

The source code to MAME serves as this documentation.

What’s New

MAME 0.275 is out now!

It’s been a short month, but there’s still been plenty of interesting development.

Some graphical glitches in Konami arcade games have been fixed.

The Oberheim DMX drum machine is now fully emulated.

We’ve even optimised the recompilers a little more this month.

MAME Testers bugs fixed

New working systems