Arcade Emulators

This page should contain brief descriptions of various emulators. If more information is needed for a particular emulator, an individual page may be used.

MAME™

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is the big daddy of all the videogame emulators out there. Currently it supports over six thousand different arcade games. Standard vanilla versions of MAME can be found an MAME.net, intermediate versions and development notes are at MAMEDev.com.

MAME32

MAME32 is a Windows version of MAME with a built in GUI/Front-End. It is available for download here, and is mirrored on MAMEmirror.tk

MacMAME

Like the name implies, MacMAME is the Mac port of MAME. Due to the limited number of available programmers, the official version is not updated as often as its Windows counterparts. You can find more information at [1]

MAME Derivatives

Since MAME is an open source project, many people have created modified versions with various extra tweaks and features. Here are just some of the versions out there:

AdvanceMAME

AdvanceMAME includes advanced video support, allowing users to create tweaked video modes from software and thus achieve near perfect display using an arcade monitor. It also has several other unique featues, such as a simple internal scripting language. It is available in Windows, DOS and Linux versions and can be found on its SourceForge page.

BuddaMAME

BuddaMAME is a derivitive work from MAME maintained by Buddabing since version 0.84.

There are four major extensions to MAME which BuddaMAME provides:

1. Artwork display when pause is pressed
2. Automatic generation of said artwork
3. MAME Movie Maker
4. Support for Buddabing's LED controller

The home page for BuddaMAME can be found at http://cpmaker.mameprojects.com

PowerMAME

PowerMAME is a collaborative build of MAME for Windows that includes many tweaks and mods to make MAME more arcade cabinet friendly. PowerMAME is the brainchild of MikeQ and is available for download from UnappliedBraincells.com. Documentation of its features can be found a the PowerMAME Wiki. It includes support for LEDWiz output controllers.

VectorMAME

VectorMAME is a special build of MAME that allows games to be displayed on a vector monitor using Zektor's Vector Generator. It is available for download from Zektor's website.

Daphne

Daphne emulates laserdisc games like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. It's available from Daphne-EMu.com.