![]() change the emulated controllers (Zapper, NES Four Score Adapter, Bandai Power Pad and Family Trainer, Famicom Keyboard Component, Arkanoid Vaus Paddle and Mahjong Controller) via the Slot Device menu of the UI interface and not anymore from the System Configurations menu. Also, changing controller now requires to reset the system, so please take some time *before* starting the game if you want to play a game that uses particular controllers. [Fabio Priuli] (MESS) nes: added emulation of the Konami Hyper Shot controllers, which are necessary to play Hyper Olympics and Hyper Sports for Famicom. [Fabio Priuli] (MESS) nes: added emulation of the Yonezawa Party Tap controllers, which are necessary to play in more than two players some quiz games for Famicom. [Fabio Priuli] (MESS) nes: added emulation of the Pachinko controller used by a few pachinko games for Famicom. [Fabio Priuli] (MESS) nes: added emulation of the Epoch Barcode Battler unit (even if only as Famicom controller, and not as a standalone unit) which is necessary to play Barcode World for Famicom. [Fabio Priuli] |
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README.md |
What is MAME?
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of video-game history. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the games are playable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?).
What is MESS?
MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) is the sister project of MAME. MESS documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators, as MAME does for arcade games.
The MESS and MAME projects live in the same source repository and share much of the same code, but are different build targets.
How to compile?
If you're on a *nix system, it could be as easy as typing
make
for a MAME build, or
make TARGET=mess
for a MESS build (provided you have all the prerequisites).
For Windows users, we provide a ready-made build environment based on MinGW-w64. Visual Studio builds are also possible.
Where can I find out more?
- Official MAME Development Team Site (includes binary downloads for MAME and MESS, wiki, forums, and more)
- Official MESS Wiki
- MAME Testers (official bug tracker for MAME and MESS)