{"id":14147,"date":"2010-05-31T23:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2010\/05\/31\/how-to-play-with-mame-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:42:44","slug":"how-to-play-with-mame-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2010\/05\/31\/how-to-play-with-mame-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to play with MAME in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mamedev.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAME<\/a> (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software; naturally over the program that is free you need various games made by ROMs (generally they are copyright protected).<br \/>\nYou can download the source file (in C) and compiled binaries (32 eand 64 bit O.S. versions), you must choose the proper compiled version.<\/p>\n<p>The program is launched from DOS console with command MAME, naturally you must specify the ROM name once you have placed it in the right folder (directly the uncompressed zip file) inside the folder &#8220;roms&#8221; where you find the MAME, you type &#8220;MAME romgamename&#8221; and the ROM game will be loaded.<\/p>\n<p>To easily load ROMs there are some Frontend (graphic interfaces for MAME), most common in Windows are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mameui.info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MameUI<\/a> (both 32 and 64 bit) and <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/mameplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mame Plus!<\/a> (both 32 and 64 bit), with my preference for the first because very easy to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Needed software to play with MAME in Windows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3448],"tags":[3348],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-uncategorized","tag-windows"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/category\/tutorials\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">windows<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">windows<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 16 years ago","modified":"Updated 16 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 31, 2010","modified":"Updated on May 31, 2010"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 31, 2010 11:42 pm","modified":"Updated on May 31, 2010 11:42 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}