Mame Fruit Machine
MAME is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. The intent of this emulator is preservation; the ability to play games is considered a 'side-effect.' MAME supports thousands of classic arcade games, although not all of them are playable. As of version 0.162 MAME absorbed its sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) which means it is also capable of playing games for classic game consoles.
Although MAME is a 'command-line' application, as of version 0.171, you will get a simple 'DOS-like' menu when you open it where you can do the usual things of selecting games and changing the configuration. If you do not like this menu, there are a few other options: the MAMEUI port (which, as the name suggests, adds a Windows user-interface to MAME) or frontends. As MAME is also available as Libretro core, you could also use RetroArch as frontend.
- The machines that are emulated run an 'operating system' called MPU4, this is no longer used in 'real' fruit machines, after 1998 machines use an OS MPU5, this is not emulated, also even if someone did manage to emulate MPU5 they must wait at least 3 years after a machines release to emulate that machine, altough there are of course still MPU4.
- Thanks to the persistent efforts of David “Haze” Haywood, various fruit machines from JPM are starting to become playable in MAME. Interestingly, these machines rely on similar Brooktree RAMDACs to NCD X11 terminals, and Motorola DUARTs used by numerous other systems emulated in MAME.
A lot of arcade games were coin-operated, so when you start a game you might wonder: 'how do I insert a coin?' The answer can be found in the input configuration, but let me spoil it for you: keys '5' to '8' on your keyboard insert coins for players 1-4 and keys '1' to '4' are the start-buttons for those players. So for single player, insert coin by pressing 5 and start the game by pressing 1.
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The fruit machines, handhelds etc are important to the project and should not be ignored no doubt, but when there is a list this long of titles that need help it seems like the fruit machines and such are getting an unfair amount of attention. Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister.
How to get MAME ROMs
For legal reasons, this site does not contain nor link to ROMs. But MAME is an exception, as the 'ROM site' in question is none other than the Internet Archive (archive.org). You can find the game ROMs, BIOS ROMs and all other files needed to play games in the MESS and MAME collection on their site as both direct downloads and torrent files. Be aware that a complete collection can take a lot of disk space (over 50GB, and you need double that to extract the archive that holds all the ROMs). After downloading you can place game and BIOS ROMs in the 'roms' subfolder inside the MAME folder.
MAME handles ROMs a little different in that you do not have to unzip every individual game. MAME can open them as ZIP files. The reason for this is that arcade ROMs tend to consist of multiple files.
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Download MAME
These are the official versions by the MAME team.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAME 0.229 | Windows (64-bit) | Freeware | Feb 24, 2021 | 85185 Kb. |
| MAME 0.217 | Windows (32-bit) | Freeware | Dec 26, 2019 | 74402 Kb. |
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Download MAME ports
These are unofficial ports of MAME.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAMEUI 0.229 | Windows (64-bit) | Freeware | Feb 24, 2021 | 79612 Kb. |
Download MAME frontends
These are alternative frontends for MAME.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IV/Play 1.8.2 | Windows | Freeware | Sep 7, 2017 | 951 Kb. |
| Emuloader 8.8.1 | Windows | Freeware | Aug 18, 2019 | 16942 Kb. |
Download support files
These files provide additional information and capabilities to MAME.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mameinfo.dat 0.212 | N/A | Freeware | Aug 4, 2019 | 3102 Kb. |
| Cheat.dat 0.206 | N/A | Freeware | Feb 8, 2019 | 1931 Kb. |
| History.dat 0.211 | N/A | Freeware | Aug 29, 2019 | 8465 Kb. |
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