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MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. This is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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iCade bluetooth keyboard mappings for MAME?

I just got an iCade -- it is technically for an Apple iPad, but it is basically a generic bluetooth keyboard arcade controller. It's great! But once I paired it with my laptop as a bluetooth keyboard for testing, I discovered something odd that…
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How to add more ROMs to MAME on X-Arcade

We take the off-hours entertainment seriously here at Stack Exchange, so we got one of the X-Arcade cabinets installed at the office. Trouble is - we can't seem to be able to add more ROMs to it. The whole thing's backed by a PC running Windows 8.…
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MAME shows 'the selected game is missing one or more required rom or chd image' error message

I now have a problem with MAME playing some old arcade titles. I tried to search for the issue on google first but I still haven't got a viable answer. My problem is this: I've downloaded MAME by using apt-get install mame command on my Debian…
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Is there a way to limit max credit number or coins inserted on mame?

I'm using RetroPie as my retro videogame at home(using Recalbox as for today, but I still have a sdcard with RetroPie for thinkering). Default emulator is lr-mame2003 and it is pretty well integrated with EmulationStation(the graphical…
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MAME "distributions": which one is better for what thing?

I've used MAME almost from the beginning of the project and love it. But today there exist so many variations and "distributions" of the original that I can't keep count. I used the MAME Plus project but today I like the MAME Plus! XT a little more.…
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Mame "Required rom/disk images for the selected system are missing or incorrect"

I downloaded a ROM file from a Google search, and then I downloaded the latest version of Mame, "mame0231b_64bit.exe". Now, when I tried to run it, I got "Required rom/disk images for the selected system are missing or incorrect". What is wrong?…
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Can't seem to get off-screen reload working on Mame32

I'm trying to play some light gun games on Mame and Mame32. I tried mame gamename -offscreen_reload -mouse, and that didn't work, even though the wiki faq specifically says that this is the way to make this possible. It's supposed to make Player 1…
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How can I automatically restart mGalaxy (MAME) if it crashes?

I fixed up an old arcade cabinet my office has and everything is working just trying to out the finishing touches on it. The cabinet is hooked up to a Windows 7 machine running MAME. I am using mGalaxy as a front end for MAME and looking for a way…
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Crash and Reboot When Running mame.exe (MAME Emulator)

I downloaded the latest version of the MAME Emulator (version 0.142 - mame0142b.exe) from the address below recently: http://mamedev.org/release.html Unfortunately, when I execute the mame.exe file from the command line it just crashes (screen goes…
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How to activate console mode?

I'd like to be able to change the mode from "Arcade" to "Console" (that enables things like training mode on certain fighting games, etc.). Is there a way to do this on MAME OS X? There's no option in the preferences window, and if you enter the…
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How determininstic is Metal Slug?

There are bonuses in the Metal Slug games that can change value wildly (e.g. from 30000 to 100), in an apparently random fashion. I have the impression that at least some of them aren't completely casual: for example at the boss of mission 1 in…
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Use an xbox controller with MAME for light gun games?

How do you use an Xbox 360 or generic USB controller for MAME light gun games? The sensitivity is too high and the gun cursor always goes back to the center of the screen when you release the control stick. I've noticed when you use a keyboard it…
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Is it possible to control the volume on the mame Simulator?

I am currently enjoying metal slug on my pc thanks to the MAME32 simulator, but I also want to play my music on the same pc simultaneously, but I can't seem to find where in the settings I can control the volume for games. Is this even possible?
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How to configure MAME to run ColecoVision games?

Since it was merged with MESS, I guess MAME should emulate all those systems, ColecoVision included. But emulating this seems like an impossible task for me. Despite my best efforts, nothing was enough. So far, I have: MAME64 running on Windows…
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Does JOYSTICK-IT work with MAME on PC?

I'm thinking of getting a JOYSTICK-IT by ThinkGeek, the guys who developed the iCade. However, I would like to know if the Joystick works for a MAME Emulator on PC. It should be able to connect fine, since it is Bluetooth based, however I have…
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