In the case you don't know what is this MAME I am speaking of: MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software.

I was wondering, in this community do anyone have MAME installed in their systems? If so, do you play some games more or less regularly? Which ones?

Personally it is some years I do not play MAME's game, but in the past I played quite a bit and my favorite were Samurai Shodown 4 and The NewZealand Story.

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id rather have a supergun with a jamma harnas and play actual pcb's

or naomi cardridges\gd roms

what's the concept behind mame, do you need a special bios/plugins that emulates many different arcade motherboards? where can you find out which titles are 100% playable and which are not?

Took me a while to get it working, but yes I've got it installed. Mostly because I desperately wanted to play the arcade version of Golden Axe, and check out Sunset Riders again.

Sunset raiders and Golden Axe, oh yes. :) I liked them too, overall the former.

I had MAME installed on older comps, don't have it on this one. Pretty wide range of old arcade games from Shinobi to one of my personal favorites: Mappy.

What you gone and did, what did you remind me, MAME... I want to cry now.

MAME is a very painful story for good old gamers and a sad chapter in the glorious of Emulation, one. When it was first launched, everyone was immersed in it, it was FREE, games were being distributed abundantly and long story short, it made such a killing, that people preferred playing 10-20 years older games than go out and buy modern ones! It even reached a point when full collections of games were being gifted through pc-magazines!

Then copyrights and legal dung hit it with a sh*tstorm. Games were prohibited from being shared, many sites forced to take them down, MAME devs faced trials even and the aftermath was that MAME was to be constantly updated, its newer version to be even LESS compatible with already existing games and roms. Today, very few games are actually compatible with current versions and/or play normally, you need a ton of other files such as BIOS, calibrating the damn thing is a damn pain very close to being worthless and vain to delve too deep in and major companies sell their "centuries" old games in cheapskate collections with MAME incorporated (which ISN'T theirs) in them, selling a handful of Roms for INSANELY high prices, where and when they should have been completely free for the download. Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation is a painful chapter in the nostalgic and nostal-geek pc master race, alas.

Best is to find older versions, especially with GUI (graphic interface). A very good version had been the latest one of MAME 32 and it had been compatible with a wide variety of roms. Downloading roms is CONSIDERED to be illegal, as are VERY, MANY, other things. Thankfully the internet is still free and as of now, no oppressors and their sh*t can completely ruin the fun of someone who wants to relieve the good old days, without spending LITERALLY a fortune to buy very few things in return and needing to own a huge place in which to put in endless arcade cabinets. I would provide links, but as i said, this is illegal. And alas, more recent games being emulated cannot run at all, in the good old, STABLE, mame versions.

Now i want to cry. And did i mention i want to cry, too, again?

I never had problems calibrating anything, but it is true that some games do need some extra ROM a part of themselves, usually a it is bios.

About copyright, it is just another case of the effect of insane laws made to protect the money of the few. People love it, it seems. If it were different companies like Apple or Valve simply would not exist with current policies. I can even ask personally. Do you use Windows? Or Steam? Or OSX? Yes? Then it is also your fault.

However, this thread is not about the legality of the ROMs. We all know the truth, but lets assume everyone has the original hardware and manually extracted the .zip file from it.

I use windows but cracked, of course. I don't use Steam, i was scammed to use it, because retail games back then failed to mention that Steam was obligatory for them to run. So no, i really and honestly don't believe it is "also my fault".

And those companies who forced MAME to be discontinued are bums. They were completely ignorant or uncaring for the emulation at first, because they were calm at the thought that ancient antiques wouldn't interest gamers. It was only AFTER emulation hit the jack pot and rocked everyone, that they were pissed because people were enjoying stuff for free while they were making ZERO PROFIT off of it the process and took measures AFTERWARDS... Such as*es... Many games too are over 30 years old with expired copyrights, yet they are being taken down, too... And they sell *legal* "collections" with MAME (or other emulators) incorporated in, even though it is NOT theirs or copyrighted to them; also, very FEW games are actually included in them and are priced near the price of a brand new one, which is clear thievery, right off the bat. Corporations are the real pirates, after all.

Waaaay back in the day, for me the fun was in trying all the unknown games.
I got bored of all the arcade games pretty quickly.
There was a cowboy one I kind of liked, sort of like Tapper but with guns.

I just remember another game! Bubble Bobble, the original one. I still think is one of the best plaformer/puzzle around.

I still have MAME installed, although I tend to favor 16-bit console emulators as of late, I guess that's because console games tend to be less insanely difficult or so it seems to me.

I think I jumped off the neverending update thing with MAME32 0.106 or so, it was pointless keeping up because it already flawlessly emulated most if not all of the good ones, and by updating you often ended up with a non-working rom which never had any problems before the update.

I think my most played game in MAME is probably 1943: battle of Midway, not that I am any good at it :)

the last time i had MAME installed, i was emulating the 2nd DnD arcade game. works great. couldn't get the other arcade roms to work though. apparently almost every single rom i'm interested in playing requires a specific version of MAME to work. good luck finding a compatibility list though.

i swear the MAME devs are schizo.

To me that is like asking if anyone has ever heard of, or even tried, DOSBox. :) Try DoDonPachi. It'll blow your socks off, and then make you eat them too.

There was also another shooter which was more relaxed and much less flashy, but I don't recall the name now... I mainly remember it had two blue beam weapons which would home into the closest enemy, and stay attached to it until it was destroyed.

Overall the problem with arcade games is that they are designed to lure you into inserting more coins, which restricts what kind of games they can be. They must be easy to learn, you must be in a hurry all the time (so that you can't play too long with one coin) etc. That's why I nowadays have less interest to MAME (or coin op games in general).

That's funny, for me is pretty much the opposite. I am thinking to MAME (or MESS, or UME) just for that reason. I find the new games too slow to play and being older I cannot afford to much time to video games...