MAME is an
emulator application designed to recreate the
hardware of
arcade game systems in
software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.The first public MAME release (0.1) was on
February 5 1997, by
Nicola Salmoria. As of version 0.120 (actually the 164th proper release), released
October 15 2007, the emulator now supports 3648 unique games and 6858 actual
ROM image sets and is growing all the time. However, not all of the games in MAME are currently playable; 851 ROM sets are marked as not working in the current version, and 35 are not actual games but
BIOS ROM sets. The project is currently coordinated by
Aaron Giles.
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