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The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, has been around for a while and is readily available from the MAME website for Windows users. Is an emulator that allows you to run the ROMs (games) of the old Arcade Hall machines, like, etc.
Installation on MacOS X is unfortunately not very obvious. There are some precompiled MAME versions out there and in this article I’ll show you how to install and use under MacOS X Mavericks (will probably work for older and newer Intel based MacOS X versions as well). Running MAME under MacOS X Before we can enjoy one or the other Arcade Game we will need to install MAME and unfortunately this is not as easy as you’d normally expect from a MacOS X application. Windows users have a much easier start when it comes to MAME. Download the full MAME for MacOS X package from Tweaking 4All if you’d like – the instructions are mostly based on this package.
Just for convenience I packed all needed files to run MAME into one archive (Zip). I do, as usual, strongly recommend to get the latest version from the developers websites (see also the details with each step). (framework for cross-platform low level hardware control). El Capitan (10.11) – Or how to use Terminal to install SDL I’ve been using El Capitan (Mac OS X 10.11) beta for a few days now and noticed that installing the SDL framework does not work with simple drag and drop, however, through Terminal (“ Applications” “ Terminal“) it does work. First mount the DMG (double click) and then open Terminal and type: sudo cp -r /Volumes /SDL /SDL.framework /Library /Frameworks / It will ask you password (admin) and it will then install the SDL framework correctly. Step 2 – Download and Install the SDL version of MAME Download SDLMAME – SDLMAME is a cross-platform version of MAME and a precompiled Mac version can be found on the “” page where you will find precompiled 32- and 64-bit versions. I believe there is even een PowerPC version to be found there (older version though).
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SDLMAME Version 0.152 (64 bit Intel) is included in the 64 bitTweaking 4All package. Version 0.163 is included in the 32 bit package. SDLMAME does not come with an install script, and the files most certainly cannot be dropped in your “Applications” folder as seen with normal Mac applications. First, you’ll need to find a good location to work from, which can be for example the Desktop (which is what I will assume from this point forward – if you choose a different location, then please substitute occurrences of the Desktop path with the path you choose). If you downloaded the package, then simply drag the “MAME” folder to your desired location ( not to the “Applications”).
If you downloaded MAME manually, then you’ll need to unzip the downloaded file (I used mame0152-64bit.zip, your version might have a different filename) into a directory, so the files do not get scattered all over the place. I believe the build-in unzipper of MacOS X will create a directory with the files in it automatically when double clicking the file, which results in a directory named the same as the zip file, just without the zip extension.
Rename this directory to for example “MAME” if needed. MAME can be started by double clicking the “ mame64” file in the folder. You can also start MAME in the terminal by using. /mame64 (for the 64-bit version). You will see a screen like this, which indicates that everything went well (press ENTER once or twice to exit this screen) – MAME just couldn’t find any ROMs.
Copyright Warning! Please note that ROMs (the game software) of Arcade Machines are subject to Copyright! Not all ROMs that you might find are legal, as permission from the original author is needed to use them. Some of these developers have graciously made their ROMs available to the public, and some of those can be found on the. Some ROMs are also considered “” which does not mean that Copyright may be ignored, but it’s less likely to get into trouble when using these ROMs.
Some good and some “interesting” sources for ROMs ( is your friend):. – ROMs released by their CopyRight owners. – Has an enormous (43 Gb!) archive of MAME Roms. – Offers not just MAME ROMs, but also Commodore 64 etc. – As with CoolRom: nice selection, not limited to just for MAME. – Also a great selection of ROMs, for MAME and other emulators, and much cleaner when it comes to advertisements. – Nice selection, you’ll also find non-MAME ROMs here.
– Good selection of MAME ROMs. These are just a few examples of what I found through. CAUTION The first two ( MAMEDev and Archive.org) can be considered very reliable. The other pages however, are typically filled with advertisements and some of these advertisements are not suitable for children! Be aware of this when visiting these pages!
Try one or the other ROM from MAMEDev or any of the other sources (which ever you’re more comfortable with). I’ve already included a few ROMs in the Tweaking 4All package, so you will not need to go hunt for ROMs for the first few tests. After downloading individual ROMs, you’ll find that these are typically zipped. Leave them zipped! MAME by default looks for a directory called “ roms” (all lowercase) in the directory where MAME is started. If needed, create the folder “roms” in the MAME directory. Next step is to drag the zip files of the ROMs you’ve downloaded, or the ones your found in the package, into the “roms” folder.
As mentioned before DO NOT UNZIP the ROM FILES! Step 4 – Playing your first ROM game with MAME There are two ways to start MAME, as we said before. Starting from the Command Line – Not exactly practical for daily use If you start MAME from the command line, then you’re golden, type. /mame64 -skipgameinfo in the MAME directory and you’re good to go. The latter option is so the copyright warning and the technical info won’t hold you up Double Click Script – More user friendly If you however start MAME by double clicking the “ mame64” file, then you’ll get an error message like the one we have just seen when we started MAME for the first time.
MAME cannot find the ROMs, since it’s not in the “current” directory. (To exit the error message press ENTER once or twice.) To fix this I created a little script, which for example purpose will be called “mame64.command”. The idea is to double click that script to start MAME. If you downloaded the Tweaking 4All package, then you’ll find the script “mame64.command” in the “MAME” directory. To create this script yourself, you will need to enter the following and save it as a plain file (in “TextEdit” save it with the “.txt” extension), and after that rename the filename by adding the extension “.command”, for example “mame64.command”. #!/bin/sh cd ' $(dirname '$0')'. /mame64 -skipgameinfo What this does: change to current directory to the directory where you’ve saved the script, and execute mame64.
You’ll notice that I’ve added “-skipgameinfo” as a parameter for the “./mame64” statement, which will hide a copyright notifications and the technical specs of the ROM you’re about to start. After saving the file, you will need to make the script executable from the command line by using chmod +x mame64.command – this might not be necessary for the script included in the Tweaking 4All package (double click to try it out). Nice Icon for your Script?
If you’d like to give your “mame64.command” a nice icon (included in the Tweaking 4All package as well), and here is how:. Open your own icon image (PNG), or the included “ MAME Icon.png“, with “ Applications” “ Preview“. Press the keys COMMAND+ A (select All) and after that COMMAND+ C (Copy). Close “ Preview“, right click the “ mam64.command” file and select “ Get info“.
Click the icon in the upper left corner with the left mouse button and press the keys COMMAND+ V (paste) – you’ll see the icon change. Close the info window when done. SKIPGAMEINFO For each game you start, MAME will ask for confirmation that you are not doing anything illegal here (Copyright notice), for which you must type “OK” to be able to continue. Right after that some basic technical info will be displayed which you can close by pressing ENTER. Annoying right? As you might have seen in earlier command-line and script examples: adding the “- skipgameinfo” parameter to the MAME statement disables this. Select the game you’d like to play with the arrow keys and press ENTER to start the selected game.
MAME Controls MAME has a pretty extensive support for keyboards, mice, joysticks and what-not (read up on the options in the “docs” directory). For some games that used to use analog controllers, the mouse can be used (or trackball). The basic keyboard controls are: MAME Standard Controls Key Purpose/Action 1 Set to ONE PLAYER or START 2 Set to TWO PLAYERS 5 Insert COIN Arrow Keys Move Left, Right, Up, Down CTRL Action button 1 Alt Action button 2 Space Action button 3 P Pause game Esc Quit TAB MAME Options F12 Screenshot Some example screenshots – during game play press F12 for a screenshot, which will be saved as a PNG file, found in the “snap” directory in your MAME directory. Seems some config and/or ROM files are missing. I’ve never tested Metal Slug, but I have seen this with incomplete ROMs. If I recall correctly, some need special config files, and/or emulator ROMs. I did see that this is not an uncommon problem (Examples:, ) I hope this is helpful – not sure where to find the neogeo.zip file, I found one at.
From the MAME FAQ (Q5): All Neo-Geo games need the bios file, neogeo.zip. Neo-Geo b10$ is a small program element common to all Neo-Geo MVS hardware that is nevertheless essential in order for the games to boot up. No b10$ = no games!
You only need one copy of neogeo.zip, though. Leave it zipped and put it in the MAME roms folder and all of your Neo-Geo games should be able to work. However, as with roms, (see Q2 – b) the bios needs to be compatible with the MAME version you’re using. If you get missing files on a bios audit then you know it’s incompatible. Hi Fabrice, it looks like the SDL framework is not installed or failing I just installed MAME with SDL Framework on two machines, just to make sure newer Mac OS X versions wouldn’t be the problem. For this I downloaded the file found above, which includes the “SDL-1.2.15.dmg” for the SDL Framework.
Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): – Installation of SDL works as descibed above. – mame64.command works as it should. Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan – beta 3): – Installation of SDL did not work with drag and drop (thanks Apple!). Instead I had to open the DMG and then in Terminal: sudo cp -r /Volumes/SDL/SDL.framework /Library/Frameworks/ It will ask you password (admin) and it will then install the SDL framework correctly.
– After that mame64.command worked as it should. Thank you very much for your reply. I am currently on Mac 10.8.5 The SDL library shows in the Frameworks window. (SDL.framework and SDL2.framework) It launches Terminal, at some point Terminal says “Process complete” On my menu bar it runs “mame 64” for a second then, it crashes. I just looked at those new version — Caution: you will need a newer SDL version. This newer version can be found on the. After mounting the DMG, copy the SDL2 framework to /Libraries/Frameworks/: sudo cp -r /Volumes/SDL2/SDL2.framework /Library/Frameworks/ Note: On my system (El Capitan), the 64 bit version failed (black screen, press “Esc” to exit).
However, to my surprise, the 32 bit version worked just fine. After extracting the 32 bit version, copy the “ roms” directory and “ mame64.command” from the archive you got from Tweaking4All into the newly extract MAME directory.
Edit “ mame64.command” with a plain text editor like TextWrangler (free: or ) or nano (commandline) and make it look like this (remove “64” in the 3rd line): #!/bin/sh cd '$(dirname '$0')'./mame -skipgameinfo Save the changes and start mame64.command. Hope this helps hans. Thanks for your help!
So “mame0163-32bit” did launch, and then I got the purple error message that said “no machines found – please chech the rompath described in mame.ini” But I do not have a “mame.ini” and the roms folder is in the MAME folder, so I can’t really understand why he won’t find them. Also, in your article you give a link to M+GUI (mame + giu), and you say it works on Mac OS X. I downloaded it to try out and it’s a.EXE file (so, rather for windows unless someone is on a mac and has parallels or bootcamp installed). MAME OS X would have been ideal for that ( ) but it just keeps crashing and seems no longer being maintained (last version is from 2009). You could also consider trying – which seems to offer a lot, but I have not tested this one yet (as far as I recall). One could add a mame.ini file and see if this version of MAME actually looks at that file.
Some more tips that might help:. I’m really sorry that I’m not providing much helpful info I’m not using any of these features, and never have, not even in my Windows days.
Hi Damian, I have no experience with a PS4 controller. But if it’s a Bluetooth device, then I would say that you’d need to pair it first with your Mac. But I assume you already had done that. I found online that you can use either a Micro-USB cable, or through Bluetooth : Setting up a PS4 controller to a Mac via Bluetooth takes a bit more effort, but it’s still not difficult.
Follow these steps to set up your PS4 gamepad with a Mac wirelessly. 1) Open System Preferences (Apple menu System Preferences). 2) Click Bluetooth.
3) Put the PS4 controller in Discovery Mode by holding down the PlayStation button and Share button at the same time. 4) The light on the front of the controller will flash quickly, and Wireless Controller will appear in the Bluetooth window. The device will now say connected, and you’ll see how. You can now use the PlayStation controller with the Mac. Now that you’ve connected your PS4 controller to a Mac you can use it to play games. Bear in mind that it won’t work with every game, just those that have support for wireless controllers.
Hi Fred, sorry to hear you’re running into issues. Below I’ll list all keyboard functions I could find, but I would not see why it would not work with a French keyboard This list will not help, but maybe if you check the configuration settings? All keys are configurable in the user interface from the Configuration Menu.
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This list shows the default keyboard configuration: Main Keys 5, 6, 7, 8 — Insert coin (players 1, 2, 3, 4) 1, 2, 3, 4 — Start (players 1, 2, 3, 4) Arrow keys — Move Joystick Left Control — Button 1 Left Option — Button 2 Space — Button 3 ESC (Escape) — Quits the game Button 1 usually represents a game’s primary action, like “Fire” or “Jump.” Button 2 is the secondary action, like “Thrust” in Asteroids. Button 3 is used for “Hyperspace” in Asteroids. Some games won’t use any buttons, while others (such as Defender or Street Fighter) will use many buttons.
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Games which use two joysticks simultaneously, such as Karate Champ, Robotron, Crazy Climber, or Battle Zone, default to using the E/S/D/F keys for the left joystick and the I/J/K/L keys for the right joystick. Other Keys Tab — Toggles the Configuration Menu (Tilde) — Toggles the On Screen Display. Use the up and down arrow keys to select which parameter to modify (global volume, mixing level, gamma correction etc.) Use the left and right to arrow keys to change modify the value. Some parameters adjust with finer or coarser control if you hold down the CTRL or SHIFT keys while pressing the left/right arrows.
Use the ENTER key to reset a value to its default. P — Pauses the game SHIFT+P — While paused, advances to next frame F1 — Toggle crosshairs for games that use them F2 — Service Mode F3 — Resets the game F4 — Shows the game palette, decoded GFX, and any tilemaps. Use the ENTER key to switch between the three modes (palette, graphics, and tilemaps). Press F4 again to turn off the display. F7 — Load a save state. You will be requested to press a key to determine which save state you wish to load. Note that the save state feature is not supported for a large number of drivers.
If support is not enabled for a given driver, you will receive a warning when attempting to save or load. SHIFT+F7 — Create a save state. Requires an additional keypress to identify the state, similar to the load option above. F8 — Decrease frame skip on the fly F9 — Increase frame skip on the fly F10 — Toggle speed throttling F11 — Toggles speed display SHIFT+F11 — Toggles profiler display (debug builds only) F12 — Saves a screen snapshot hans. Link QR Code. Donate Donations are highly appreciated.
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