Mame32 is an emulator.
Multi arcade machine emulator.
The intent of this emulator is preservation.
Its intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten.
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.
When you use mame in conjunction with images of the original arcade game s rom and disk data it attempts to reproduce that game as closely as possible and currently emulates several thousand different classic arcade games from the late 1970s through to today.
Multi arcade machine emulator by megamedia.
Simply put it enables a standard pc to mimic the internal hardware of a large number of stand alone arcade machines from 1978 to 2000.
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The ability to play games is considered a side effect mame supports thousands of classic arcade games although not all of them are playable.
While most of the cabinets on this list are manufactured by third parties using emulators to install huge numbers of classic games.
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It does this by emulating the inner workings of the emulated arcade.
Over time mame originally stood for multiple arcade machine emulator absorbed the sister project mess multi emulator super system so mame now documents a wide variety of mostly vintage computers video game consoles and calculators in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
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