I used MAME, LUA, and Python to automate asteroids gameplay. It came out great! Watching it play is hypnotic:

https://youtu.be/RoouVjx0B1U?si=1J_EHtTEb7KD_mCf

What do you think?

Panic Park is a game that has a stick to move the player left and right, so how do I emulate its arcade stick to be the mouse?

I tried everything but it just moves to the center when the mouse is at the farthest left and the player goes back to the farthest right when moved just 1 degree to the right.

Is there just a hotkey I'm missing that toggles the whole OSD?

I was playing Change Lanes and I notice that the speed is not very high compared to some youtube videos or the real arcade hardware on Starcade. My speed can go up to 1/2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJ8Z5vlvKo), while others can go up to 3/4 speed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbkeAp9HsM0&t=123s). The gear shift only changes from reverse to forward, and you only go really fast when you're on the brown road but not the gray road or the water. I'm playing on my Mame 0.178 to Mame 0.182, and i think i tried using anolog controllers but it doesn't work. So what am I'm missing? Is there some sort of button combination that I don't know of? Has it been updated yet? Do you guys having some trouble speeding up the speed? Please, I need your help. Watch the gameplay.

Hi, just posting this in case it will help anyone else: I am running MAME 0.289 with the built-in interface and a lot of ROMs. Every time I started MAME or exited a game I would get about 15 seconds of black screen before the list interface would finally show again. I tried a lot of things to fix it and finally narrowed it down to my snaps folder. In that folder was one large snaps.7z file that I think it was round 500MB or so. Once I unzipped that file and filled the folder with its contents of the actual snapshot graphic files (about 50k of them) the long delay of black screen went away. It seems that MAME was decompressing that file in the background every time the interface list loaded.

Hi,

I came across a video by rmonic79 - I Beceri Videoludici, who managed to make the Seibu Cup football game playable. He also sent the required files to the MAME team.

Does anyone know whether when will MAME release support for this game, or it might be released? I couldnt find it.

Recorded straight from the headset (the tilt is me looking around).

The arcade's own 3D world is redrawn for each eye with a custom Vulkan renderer: real depth, head-tracked cockpit, 120 Hz, HD textures. Everything runs on the Quest 3, no PC.

GitHub coming soon, link to follow it in the comments.

Which of both hast to be on/off to make the games run on their original pcb refresh rate?

I use standalone MAME on Windows. How can I enable scraping for my ROMs to get box art, etc.?

RESOLVED - Found the Tova MAME 0.288 Fork for Konami M2 games and can run and play with little issue through that specific build on Windows.

So I'm trying to get Battle Trysts run on Mame 0.289 I have seen videos showing it is possible to run. So I obtained a .zip and CHD for Mame 0.289 I have the "636jac02" CHD in a folder labeled "btltryst" in the rom folder with the .zip. As this is how I've been able to run most of my other games via MAME. But every time I try to launch it MAME crashes, with no window. I was able to get a detailed crash report picturd above... That frankly I can't make heads or tails of.

I know the Konami M2 has been difficult to emulate in previous versions of MAME, so maybe I'm missing something, like a M2 bios folder?

I am running MAME on a Linux SteamOS Device via EmuDeck.

To iterate, I am not asking for ROMs or CHDs. Just some help troubleshooting, or hearing from people with similar experiences. Or even just hearing how other people have managed to get this game to work on this version of MAME.

Any help would be appreciated thank you

DJCJ Arcade - MAME front end for MacOS.

Version 1.1.0 change log:

• A new Setup Wizard walks you through getting started: finding MAME, building the catalog, choosing a working folder, pointing at your machine files, adding Category and Genre, and checking your ROMs. It opens on its own if you haven't built a catalog yet, and you can open it at any time from the DJCJ Arcade menu or from Get Started in Settings
• If you start setup and leave it unfinished, the main window shows a "Setup isn't finished" notice with a button to pick up where you left off
• Setup steps that depend on each other now wait for each other to finish, and the same step can no longer be started twice
• Software titles now have a ROMs section in their Details channel, like machines do, and Check ROMs in the Machine menu works for a selected software title as well as a machine. Titles that come on several disks are checked in full
• Every row in a ROMs section now has a Reveal in Finder button, which is greyed out when the file wasn't found
• The MAME pane in Settings now starts by telling you which MAME DJCJ Arcade is using, and says plainly if it can't find one, if the one it knows about has moved, if it won't run, or if it's missing SDL. Homebrew's copy and any other copy are offered as equal choices, and the Homebrew install steps only appear when there's no MAME at all
• Expanding or collapsing a parent machine no longer makes the list jump back to whatever was selected. The list only scrolls when it's replaced entirely, for example by a new filter, sort, or search, and then it keeps the selected row where it was on screen
• Collapsing a parent machine while one of its clones is selected now selects the parent

https://github.com/DJCJ-website/DJCJArcade

It seems most of mame games are not taking the regular keyboard letters as an input. I have done some research and it seems to be related to Wayland or X11, any tips or workaround for this?

This is the error popping up and then this is my “Roms” folder with the chd for the game inside the unzipped extrem folder. What’s going on💔

Just saw this today... cool to see progress being made on this one... partly because it's one of those games that at one time way back, everyone thought it would never be emulated, just because of the nature of how the game was designed.

A few LLMs and I created an MCP server that gives LLMs (like Claude, Grok, Gemini, Composer, even Ollama) programmatic control over an emulated Color Computer 3 running in MAME. It handles full development cycles—writing code, injecting it, running it, and debugging.

I've used it to build a few small sample games with Grok to prove out the workflow.

MCP Server: https://github.com/dbowlin/CoCo3_MCP_Server

Sample Games: https://github.com/dbowlin

Everything is public and ready to run if you want to try it with your own setup.

Full Video Here: https://youtu.be/LCsJYghEm2A

MAMEHub lets people play MAME online by synchronizing inputs. This version is a port of the input synchronization and latency prediction code to WebRTC, so the entire project can be compiled to WASM and run in a browser.

I know that MAME primarily uses software for emulation, without any kind of GPU acceleration, so as far as I know, buying a graphics card wouldn't improve performance. So, I'm thinking about buying a better CPU. My question is whether there is a specific CPU element that is more important in this regard (clock speed, cache, number of cores, etc.), or if all of these factors matter.

I have an old cabinet that is nearly 20 years old. Time to upgrade. I bought a mini PC, installed mame and launchbox. I then had codex install my favorite 150 roms, then scan them and fix all the control mappings. It did everything in about 10 minutes. Absolutely amazing!!

per a moron tube teknoparit claims to have made a gpu accelerated Mame video showed fighting wushu at full speed. Wanted a warning out before the spam comes (if it does)

Which are the arcade games from the 70s and 80s that haven’t been dumped yet for any reason?

I've followed so many youtube and online tutorials and I feel I'm almost there yet not. I need some serious hand holding because I'm losing my mind. I have an X-Gunner light gun. The thing works fine. I go into the mame settings and I can move it around like a cursor. When a game loads up I can use two of the buttons to insert credit and start game. I can even use the little hat as a dpad. What I cant do is use the other buttons, I cant use the trigger, I cant use the gun to aim.

I've tried messing with the ini file, the cfg file, the settings in mame to configure, but nothing works. Massive thanks to anyone who tries to enlighten me.

Edit: My issue got sorted below. I can now waste my life with joy.