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Mame Alternatives
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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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InfluxDB
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
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dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
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ppsspp
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues. For discussion use the forums at forums.ppsspp.org.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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mame2003-plus-libretro
Updated 2018 version of MAME (0.78) for libretro. with added game support plus many fixes and improvements
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websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
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BizHawk
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better mame alternative or higher similarity.
mame discussion
mame reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of mame.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-30.
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MAME 0.276
"Most of the digital functionality is emulated. Audio is not yet emulated."
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/13404/files#diff-f78737...
- MicroMac, a Macintosh for Under £5
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I Accidentally Deleted a Game from MAME
Yes, there are many challenges in reverse engineering these classic games. This is a good example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objL2hGAEgU
Living in L.A. in the 90's, I remember Pack Mann in Pasadena had this one.
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/games/3330/Gals+Panic+II.as...
The ROM dump's been done but people seem to be stuck on the RLE encoding. It's hard to say what kind of wizardry is needed in this case.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/5816
- MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework
- Non-PC compatible x86 computers (Deleted Wikipedia article I wrote in 2007)
- Those were the days.
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Synth Emulation in MAME (Arcade Machine Emulator). A New Trend?
There's a good start at it in the tree ( https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/yamaha/... ) but it's missing the sound generation which is kind of the important part :-)
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MAME 0.260
> As requested by users, you can finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and software items. This allows for major disk space savings in some cases when you have multiple versions of a system or software item.
FWIW, this is commit https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/d1172bf710f2a7b1777ed...
- SOURCE filter has been added!!! THANK YOU all dear devs!!!
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Compiling BGFX (dev question)
The GitHub Actions workflow bgfxshaders.yml will rebuild the shaders and then zip them up as an artefact. If you push your shader changes to GitHub and let the workflow run, you can grab the rebuilt shades from there.
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mamedev/mame is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mame is C++.
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