Article: MAME Emulator Makes its Way Into the App Store

[Phillip Swanson]

Arcades are a dying childhood pastime, but emulators have kept the quarter eating, and allowance sucking games of our youth alive. Even better, the good people at TouchArcade spotted a free Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) available for free in the App Store.

The emulator ships with nine “less than stellar” ROMs including: Circus, Crash, Hard Hat, Fire One, Robot Bowl, Side Track, Spectar, Star Fire and Targ. Thankfully iMAME operates like its non-iOS emulator counterparts and allows users to play a nearly limitless amount of games granted they have a working ROM. The app loads ROMS using a third-party utility like iExplorer without jailbreaking.

“Yep, add a .zip rom to the Docs folder through PhoneView and it works perfect! Just tried Crime Fighters! “ — @mattlukens.

While this is an awesome emulator and appears to function rather well, Apple’s has a mixed history with emulators. A number of individual emulators litter the App Store, but as MacRumors points out Apple has been much more restrictive with open emulators like the DOS/Windows 3.0 emulator they removed.

Grab iMAME quick before Apple breaks some Arcade dreams. It’s a universal app available in the App Store for free.

Source: MacRumors

[mindblown]

just downloaded it, gonna try out other roms.
i wonder how long this is gonna be up on the appstore lol

[rocketApe]

So what kinda ROMs work? SNES, Genesis, etc? Anybody know?

[Phillip Swanson]

It uses MAME compatible roms

[dgmdgm]

Arcades are a dying childhood past time

I had to read this three times before I realised you meant "pastime".

[drjailbreakMD]

Can someone explain how to install roms and the best source to find them. Thanks for any help!!

[Nickaroni22]

Works pretty well, I've uploaded a few roms. I was hoping I could get wwf superstars to work but no luck yet. This will not be avaliable long in the App Store, I can't believe this made it this far.

[Megaorange]

Can someone explain how to install roms and the best source to find them. Thanks for any help!!

Google otherwise I doubt you'll get much help with finding them.

[Zokunei]

I just beat the Simpsons game

[bongholio]

What are some good roms that work with it?

[Cer0]

This app does mirroring too I heard. So use appletv to do display and control on idevice.

[spice_weasel]

It's kind of funny this is posted here, considering unless you actually own the arcade machine, possession of the roms would be piracy.

[Striknine]

possession of the roms would be piracy.

So what!

[Atari800]

It's kind of funny this is posted here, considering unless you actually own the arcade machine, possession of the roms would be piracy.

I am sure a big lawsuit will begin over playing a rom with a 1980 copyright.

[spice_weasel]

Sarcasm aside, let's see. Can't add Siri to non 4s devices due to piracy. Can't run the original acidrain due to piracy. Can't even mention ********** due to piracy. And if you don't think anyone will bother you about the roms, why not put up a cydia repo hosting a bunch of them? Make sure you post the end result.

[steeda763]

What's the word on the games that need add-ons, like SNK's Metal Slug? I think the NeoGeo BIOS needs to be downloaded into a different folder. I forget exactly how I set mine up...I haven't added any new ROMs in a few years.

[duromega]

I don't know any of the games included

[celeron]

I don't know any of the games included

+1

[sino84]

Isn't there a list for working roms?

[thecartuner77]

Not gonna last long judging apple. But get it while you can its great.