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 880 different releases of emulators, all related to Mame.
Informations are updated to version 0.264 released on march 26 2024.
The emulated machines are 46,695 and including previously removed come to 52,184.

The total games processed to date is about 9.1 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 730 software lists with a total of 136,726 emulated programs and including those removed until version 985 come to 795 and 165,002 programs.

The total programs processed to date is about 15.1 millions.

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