Hey everyone! Its Zak again with another report. This time I'm finishing on my 2nd half of Emulation. Today in this emulation discussion is about MAME. Some of you might know the MAME program, but for those who aren't to familiar, I will explain. But before doing that I would like to say my Public Service announcement. Gamerandy.com and myself do not encourage illegal emulation, however we do think backing up your data is a smart move.

Ive only messed with MAME a couple times so Im not sure on a lot of the options.. but I could only think of these

MAME is an emulator, like I said before. MAME is actually an acronym meaning:

Multiple
Arcade
Machine
Emulator

Yes, MAME is an arcade emulator. Mame has been around sine 1998 and its a one of a kind program. It supports arcade boards from the early 80's to almost now, including Neo Geo (which is freaking sweet!). The problem is if you want to play a game thats more modern (like San Francisco Rush 2049) your going to need a very good and well equipped PC. Now the lowest PC I have ran MAME with is a 200MHz e machine, and yes it played "Pac-Man" fine.

The current MAME version that is out is .103 and luckily it plays on both Dos and Windows, sorry mac users, I haven't found a MAME for mac yet. The windows version is usually called MAME32 (unfortunatly I can't find it, but google “mame32 .103” it and it should show up) which is the pure windows version (I'm trying to not rub it in my mac friends) its a lot easier to use than the MAME dos. It does offer a save file option, some allow some cheats and you can alter some some of the features: like lives, credits, anything that can be altered on the board. . Though it does support joystick inputs. There is a lot of support on that part, the market has a huge variety of very good Joysticks from gamepads to pure arcade look-alike.

You can find MAME at http://www.mame.net/

Well thats all so far for MAME. If a mac version is out there please contact me asap! But for now, enjoy your emulation time and enjoy!

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