Mame Romset Download
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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.
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.
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 Romset Torrent
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 0.209 | Windows (64-bit) | Freeware | Apr 25, 2019 | 69209 Kb. |
| MAME 0.209 | Windows (32-bit) | Freeware | Apr 25, 2019 | 68711 Kb. |
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Download MAME ports
These are unofficial ports of MAME.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAMEUI 0.209 | Windows (64-bit) | Freeware | Apr 25, 2019 | 58357 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 8.7.2 | Windows | Freeware | Dec 7, 2018 | 13415 Kb. |
Download support files
These files provide additional information and capabilities to MAME.
| File | Platform | License | Date | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mameinfo.dat 0.207 | N/A | Freeware | Mar 12, 2019 | 3040 Kb. |
| Cheat.dat 0.200 | N/A | Freeware | Aug 12, 2018 | 1894 Kb. |
| History.dat 0.207 | N/A | Freeware | Feb 28, 2019 | 8387 Kb. |
Cutting Down MAME RomSet to Best Of
I've searched around and around and tried out a couple of different things to try and cut my complete most recent set of lr-fba-next roms down to a less imposing set of games. I'm looking for a couple hundred of the best/most popular games. 2 players, no light gun or trackball. Some clones are fine like 2 player TMNT though.
I tried using RomLister but ran into problems with not being able to find the catver and controls files to even get it to do anything. I've seen tools and best of stuff floating around for Hyperspin but that stuff doesn't apply to Retropie.
So I'm wondering how everyone here cuts their list down to something a little more welcoming to their friends and family who are playing their system. Obviously 10 different versions of street fighter can seem a little overwhelming. I know I could do it manually but I'm not well versed in what's popular aside from a small handful of classics and with a handful of different versions of the same game, I don't even know what the best version to pick would be. To me it seems like a long daunting task and I don't really know where to start.
Any help or points in the right direction would be much appreciated. With all the different front ends and romsets it's hard to get started.