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MAME is a free download available from the developer's website. As many arcade machines featured different control setups, many different controllers can be used with MAME, such as joysticks, mice and gamepads. MAME is a command-line program and doesn't function unless all of the necessary files, such as CHD files, are located in the proper.
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To load a MAME arcade game, you typically need to place the CHD file in a directory has the same name as the ROM's filename prefix (some emulators use a single generic directory for all CHD files). For example, for a ROM with the filename mygame.zip, a CHD file named mygame.chd, and a ROM directory Roms, emulators commonly use the following convention:. /Roms/mygame.zip. /Roms/mygame/mygame.chdSome CHD files are large in size due to the original size of the arcade hard disk. Therefore, even though CHD files are compressed, they may still require large amounts of disk space.
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MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important 'vintage' software 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 software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.Here are the rules for this subreddit. Read them Now.
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