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Posted February 05, 2017
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the very first MAME release.
Way back in 1997, Nicola Salmoria merged a few stand-alone arcade machine emulators into the first Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Could he have possibly imagined the significance of what he’d built? Over the past two decades, MAME has brought together over a thousand contributors to build a system that emulates more machines than any other program. But MAME is more than that: MAME represents the idea that our digital heritage is important and should be preserved for future generations. MAME strives to accurately represent original systems, allowing unmodified software to run as intended. Today, MAME documents over thirty thousand systems, and usably emulates over ten thousand. MAME meets the definitions of Open Source and Free Software, and works with Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD running on any CPU from x86-64 to ARM to IBM zSeries. As well as a general-purpose emulator, MAME serves as a reference for people repairing vintage electronics, a development platform for testing homebrew/unofficial software, and an educational tool.
http://mamedev.org/?p=439
Posted February 05, 2017
mmmm, I remember first using it back in 1999, the emulation was already OK for most "old" games (lates 80's/early 90's). Thanks to unlimited virtual credits, I finally got to finish "Moonwalker" which had eaten many of my coins back in the days :)
Posted February 05, 2017
I started using mame in early 2000, but I do still waste a few coins whenever I'm near an arcade "shop" especially when going out for the night to the movies. There is something different to play an arcade game in an arcade than playing it on your computer at home
Posted February 05, 2017
Mame is great : )

However, I still wish that publishers could finally sell their roms properly, making people leave that "grey area" for good.
Post edited February 05, 2017 by phaolo
Posted February 05, 2017
I have never managed to get it to recognize roms on the desktop, the set up is complicated, and getting the correct compatible roms. I managed to get it working better on Android. But it remains an esoteric program to me.
Post edited February 05, 2017 by eksasol
Posted February 05, 2017
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phaolo: Mame is great : )

However, I still wish that publishers could finally sell their roms properly, making people leave that "grey area" for good.
I doubt that will happen soon, I know there was a few companies who sold "arcade packs" but their roms differed too much from what mame has
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eksasol: I have never managed to get it to recognize roms on the desktop, the set up is complicated, and getting the correct compatible roms. I managed to get it working better on Android. But it remains an esoteric program to me.
I never had a problem, all one have to remember, roms need to matc the version of mame used.
Posted February 05, 2017
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te_lanus: I started using mame in early 2000, but I do still waste a few coins whenever I'm near an arcade "shop" especially when going out for the night to the movies. There is something different to play an arcade game in an arcade than playing it on your computer at home
Joystick-based games generally play just fine, but games that were designed to use non-standard controllers rarely emulate well. Star Wars: The Arcade Game, for instance, just doesn't feel right without this: http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/1181242172186.jpg
Posted February 05, 2017
Italians do it better, always (It was Nicola Salmoria who started the MAME project, fyi) :-P
Post edited February 05, 2017 by KingofGnG
Posted February 05, 2017
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KingofGnG: Italians do it better, always (It was Nicola Salmoria who started the MAME project, fyi) :-P
Eh, come on, let's put silly nationalism aside on an international forum.
Post edited February 05, 2017 by phaolo
Posted February 05, 2017
I've been meaning to mess around with MAME. There's a flea market nearby with an old Blasteriods cabinet and I wanted some practice before spending some quarters.
Posted February 05, 2017
I have actually used MESS (which is now part of MAME) to run the old Bard's Tale games, which you can get by buying last decade's Bard's Tale, trying to start the classic games, and then finding the disk images that the newer game extracted.

It should be possible to run things like BASIC (for any supported computer system that had a version of BASIC).
Posted February 05, 2017
20 years yet every time I launch the program it crashes on launch.

And I don't know how to get it to work with X-Men Konami Arcade game.
Posted February 05, 2017
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KingofGnG: Italians do it better, always (It was Nicola Salmoria who started the MAME project, fyi) :-P
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phaolo: Eh, come on, let's put silly nationalism aside on an international forum.
In all honesty, with all the vile ethnonationalism and far-right conspiracy theorism that seems to infest this forum (and which is spammed all over many news forums online nowadays), I find a little harmless boasting about something as trivial as this in the name of national pride to be quite okay.

Even if the claim is tenuous (the MAME project was international even in its early days), I'd even see it as a pleasant reminder of what national pride was all about before people started using it as an excuse to demean people of other religions and races and spread conspiracy theories out of their own egocentric insecurities.

Anyway, personally, I remember Nicola Salmoria for his excellent icons project on the Amiga back in the day - his work single-handedly made using the Amiga's Workbench desktop a half-way tolerable experience.
Post edited February 05, 2017 by jamyskis
Posted February 05, 2017
Well... Happy birthday, then!
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phaolo: Mame is great : )

However, I still wish that publishers could finally sell their roms properly, making people leave that "grey area" for good.
One of my biggest wishes ever. But it seems so hard...
I remember when, back in the early 2000's, even downloading 5 Mb roms was such a big deal! The first time I managed to launch a game in MAME (don't remember which one... maybe Altered Beast? But I'm not sure) was a mind-blowing experience for me. Having all those dear old arcade games inside your PC was incredible. Basically it was the fulfilment of a dream from your childhood, when you had to content yourself with so-called "conversions" for C64 or Spectrum or Amiga...
I've never been a proper "romaholic" but I used to spend much time playing with MAME and surfing on ROM websites, trying to find all those old games you remembered from yonder times. But nowadays I don't do those things anymore.
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andysheets1975: Joystick-based games generally play just fine, but games that were designed to use non-standard controllers rarely emulate well.
True; games with "dialers", for example (which I don't remember ever seeing in arcades, maybe the weren't used in Italy?). That's why I would like to build a customized MAME cabinet with different sorts of controls. One of my wildest dreams, to be sure.
Posted February 06, 2017
Bless MAME. It it weren't for it I could never have found closure to all those unfinished games of my youth, and my shmup library today would be missing many seminal pieces.
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