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MAME
MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect". Joystiq has listed MAME as an application that every gamer should have.
The first public MAME release (0.1) was on February 5, 1997, by Nicola Salmoria. The emulator now supports over seven thousand unique games and ten thousand actual ROM image sets, though not all of the supported games are playable. The project is currently maintained by MESS project leader, Miodrag Milanovic.
Games run pretty effortlessly under the current implementation in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Some games will require you place the require ROM files (which most may refer to as the cabinet's BIOS) into one of two locations:
RetroRig/ROMs/MAME
or
RetroRig/BIOS/MAME
Many games that are in a zip format contain the necessary ROM/BIOS files in them (especially if you usesd the MAME4ALL ROM-set), but many still need their respective files. You can check that files are required by exiting RetroRig and inputting this on the terminal, substituting Your_Game with the title of the file/game you have:
mame Your_Game.zip
The terminal window will push back with what file(s) are missing or launch the game correctly. If you are missing a file or two, you can open the zip file with the "Archive Manager" Ubuntu has pre-installed, and copy in the files you need. You shouldn't need to create a new .zip archive. For more, please see the MAME website.
Within XBMC, this binary call is executed:
/usr/games/mame %ROM%
RetroRig does the following general settings changes
- Preset controls for P1-P4
- ini file locates predefined for ROM sets
All settings are up for debate, and if you have any trouble, or would like any defaults changed, please let me know via an Issue ticket.