MAME

is one of the most complete arcade emulator available: it allows to play thousands of titles that would otherwise be lost forever.
In this website it plays a key role and will be updated as new versions come out.

Some links for further information:

• download latest release
• download previous releases
• Wikipedia
• source code

Statistics

There are 901 different releases of emulators, all related to Mame.
Informations are updated to version 0.285 released on january 30 2026.
The emulated machines are 49,616 and including previously removed come to 55,443.

The total games processed to date is about 10.2 millions.
From these numbers are excluding unofficial versions of other Mame.

Software lists

A lot of Mame machines supports more programs/games and they are grouped into software lists, i.e. console software, computer games, embedded systems and a lot more.
There are 776 software lists with a total of 140,124 emulated programs and including those removed until version 1027 come to 864 and 171,113 programs.

The total programs processed to date is about 18 millions.

NOTE: Before release 0.162, the program with support for software lists was named MESS.