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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
Within XBMC, this binary call is executed:
/usr/games/mame %ROM%
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.
Currently, the following ROM sets and/or file formats are supported and accepted:
- MAME4ALL
- .zip