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 894 different releases of emulators, all related to Mame.
Informations are updated to version 0.278 released on june 30 2025.
The emulated machines are 48,574 and including previously removed come to 54,259.

The total games processed to date is about 9.8 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 741 software lists with a total of 138,968 emulated programs and including those removed until version 1013 come to 829 and 169,567 programs.

The total programs processed to date is about 17 millions.

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