Download MAME 0.175

Version 0.175 of MAME and MESS has been released. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator and is a program with which it is possible to classic arcade games to play. MESS stands for Multi Emulator Super System and emulates a large number of old computers, such as the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Gameboy and ZX Spectrum. As of version 0.162, MAME and MESS are no longer offered separately, but have been merged. The software is now also available as open source offered. The comprehensive list of changes is herethe release notes can be found below.

MAME 0.175

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We’re proud to say MAME now supports a number of previously unemulated prototypes, alternate versions of games, and unusual systems. Prototypes include the super-rare Konami Kyuukoukabakugekitai, Home Data’s Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres Give Up 5 Byou Mae, and an early Japanese version of EDF: Earth Defense Force. Atari Moto Frenzy, previously lacking protection emulation, is now fully playable. We’ve also added a number of gambling games, including some Flaming 7’s variants.

Many more Game Boy peripherals are now supported, including real-time clocks, light sensors and tilt sensors. This makes several previously unsupported games fully playable.

This release includes improvements to the Sega Master System and SG-1000 emulation, including better SG-1000 expansion slot support, and drivers with correct clock speeds for South American Master System variants.

There’s some big news in Sun emulation: all sun3 models will now POST, MAME has a SPARCv7 CPU core, and there has been substantial progress towards emulating the SPARCstation 1 (sun4c). Using unidasm (built with TOOLS=1) you can disassemble SPARCv7 SPARCv7 or SPARCv9 code, incuding all VIS variants up to VIS-3B.

As usual, there are many emulation improvements, including fixes for keyboard controls in some TRS-80 games, and better Seibu COP emulation in Legionnaire, Heated Barrel and Godzilla.

In less visible changes, MAME’s memory system got a nice cleanup exposing a number of existing issues which are now fixed, and the netlist-based discrete circuit simulation code has had a major overhaul with lots of performance improvements. There are a number of improvements to MAME’s debugger modules in this release, particularly the imgui-based debugger.