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Download MAME ROMs, games and BIOS files. Complete ROM sets, update packs and links to the best places to download games for solid retro arcade coin-op game fun. Follow the instructions for downloading all MAME ROMs then follow the additional links in this page to get even more games and software. This page is updated at least once per month with new game sites, news sites, emulator sites and download instruction changes. Come back often. Share this page with friends and keep it in your bookmarks.

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Download MAME arcade ROMs The latest version of MAME is 0.204. The latest MAME version number is always shown in the official, usually the first post in the page.

The minimum requirement to use MAME to play arcade games is the and a set of core MAME ROMs. Download sites where you can get ROMs are shown further down this page. The MAME version and ROM set version should be as closely matched as possible. To get the best MAME experience download MAME Extras.

To have the biggest list of playable games and apps you need to download the Software Lists and the CHDs. MAME Glossery Software and BIOS packs: what are they?

• The core MAME ROMs are the files needed to play arcade games and to use home computers and games consoles emulated by MAME. • Software List ROMs are the home computer games, console games, and applications software supplied in a way organised specifically for use with MAME e.g.

Atari 800 games. • CHD files, Compressed Hunks of Data, are the CD ROM and Laser Disk data clones needed for some of the arcade ROMs to be played. • CHD SL (CHD Software List) files are the home computer software and console software CD/DVD ROMs needed to play some MAME home computer games and apps.

• MAME Extras provides game icons, emulator overlay images, information about the emulated system in play (i.e. The ‘about this emulator’ text), cheats and other interesting things that enhance the MAME experience. Any file set that has SL added to the end of its name is a Software List set and contains software for emulated home computers and games consoles. The core MAME ROMs are provided in three package types: split sets, merged sets and non-merged ROM sets. Only one type of set is needed by MAME. If you download the split set of MAME ROMs then you do not need to download the merged and non-merged sets.

The number of arcade titles, console titles and other software titles shipped in split, merged and non-merged sets is the same. The sets differ in the way the files are stored. • In Non-merged sets every ZIP file contains every file needed to run the game stored in the zip file. Any game can be pulled out of the set and stored by itself and it will still work. Non-merged sets stamp the biggest storage footprint of the three types. • In Split sets the files are split into parent machine and software sets and clone machine and software sets. Parent sets contain the files common to their child clones.

The clones contain only the files that differ from the parent set. This saves storage space but both the parent and its clones are required for the games to work. If you want to share a game with a friend you need to share the game’s parent set and its clone (or clones) that you want to share. • in Merged sets the parents and clones are bundled together in the same ZIP file. Merged sets take a little less storage space than split sets but have the advantage of related files being packaged together which means they are easier to find and share with friends. Explained another way, with non-merged sets, even when games A, B and C share some of the same files required for them to run, each game is still packaged with its own copy of all the files required for it to run. Empire deluxe scenarios download free. If each game has 3 files in common + 1 unique file then each game still ships with 4 files as a self-contained unit (that would be 12 files total for the 4 games).

With split sets, when games A, B and C share some of the same files required for them to run, each game is treated as a clone of the other. The unique files required by a clone are packaged into 1 ZIP per clone and the files common to all 3 clones are packaged in a separate ‘parent’ ZIP. If each game has 3 files in common + 1 unique file then each game clone ships with its 1 unique file, and the 3 common files are supplied in their own parent set (6 files needed instead of 12).