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 900 different releases of emulators, all related to Mame.
Informations are updated to version 0.284 released on december 31 2025.
The emulated machines are 49,538 and including previously removed come to 55,345.

The total games processed to date is about 10.1 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 773 software lists with a total of 139,958 emulated programs and including those removed until version 1025 come to 861 and 170,864 programs.

The total programs processed to date is about 17.8 millions.

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