Video game emulators aren’t always seen in the best light, but they really do play an important role when it comes to preserving video games and resurrecting classics across the globe. modern hardware.
With this in mind, MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) just turned 25 years old, after first launching on February 5, 1997. In short, if you’re not already familiar with it – it can play many game titles. different arcade, on many different platforms.
This is a brief summary, from MAME official website:
“MAME is a multi-purpose simulation framework. The aim of MAME is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to advance, MAME prevents this important “classic” software from being lost and This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it works. The source code of the MAME serves as this documentation. The software’s usability is mainly for verifying the correctness. authenticity of the documentation (how else can you prove that you faithfully recreated the hardware?). Over time, MAME (originally short for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the project. sister MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now records a wide range of computers, video game consoles and computers (mainly classic), in addition to the arcade video games that are the focus Its original. “
It also goes beyond this – and is already legalized. For example, in recent times, it has discovered Capcom was using code from MAME in Capcom Arcade Stadium. MAME’s influence extends to other emulators as well.
This is not the only emulator that works – Nintendo 64 Emulator Project 64 turn 20 years old in 2021.
