It’s time to salute MAME’s 11th birthday with a nice new release.

That’s right, not only has MAME been around for 11 years, there’s also a new release:

MAME version 0.123 which supports over 6,960+ ROM sets and 3,705+ unique games.

This is great news for classic arcade gamers like myself. Be sure to grab the latest releases from my MAME download page. Enjoy!

Heads up vintage game players and collectors, today MAME32 becomes MAMEUI.

With this exciting news, the 64bit version with a GUI for 64bit Windows OSes (XP64, Vista64) and 32bit version with a GUI for 32bit Windows OSes (Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista) of MAME version 120.4 was released.

MameUI (previously Mame32) is the GUI version of the M.ultiple A.rcade M.achine E.mulator, a program which seeks to document the internal hardware and code of all arcade games.

All current versions of MAME are available in my download section. Enjoy.

Heads up arcade gamers, version 0.119 of MAME32 and the Windows command line version of MAME were both released today and are now available for download in my MAME section.

In the coming days MAME OS X (Mac), MacMAME (Macintosh) and XMAME (Unix) should be updated too. Enjoy!

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator allows you to play almost any old-school arcade/console game right on your computer.

MAME has been around for quite some time and is used by thousands of gaming geeks on their Personal Computers.

Some people, including myself have gone all out and built custom MAME cabinets so we can have the full arcade look and feel right in our home.

I love MAME and that’s why I was really happy to find out MAME has been ported for the Xbox.

If you haven’t noticed, I have a page dedicated to the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

It’s geektastic when someone comes up with a cool hack like this.

Just imagine every single old-school game you own accessible via a slick, simple interface and playable right from your Xbox. Sounds pretty cool, right?

Here’s what you will need:

• A modded Xbox
• MAMEoX (v0.84.3b)

Don’t have a modden Xbox? You can learn more about modding your own Xbox at Xbox-Scene.

The MAMEoX project offers the entire source code you will need to compile a working copy of MAME.

If you’re unfamiliar with compiling applications on your XBOX, you’ll need to find the pre-compiled binaries. You can download it here.

Keep in mind that the Xbox version I’m offering for download is an older version (v0.84.3b) but it will get you started.

Install and have fun!

Be sure to let me know how your Xbox hack works out.

Just a small heads up to my gaming, arcade and MAME friends that I’m now offering up a version of MAME that supports Mac OS X on my MAME page.

As most of us in the gaming community know, the MacMAME project has been dormant for over a year, so this is a nice bit of news for people who want to run the latest version MAME under OS X and yes, this version does support Intel based chip sets.

For the Apple geeks in the room, this latest release is designed to take advantage of all the latest OS X technologies, like Core Video, Core Image and OpenGL. This not only ensures the best performance but allows real-time Core Image filtering on the emulation output.

The other versions of MAME will be updating in the coming days, so be sure to check back for more information.

Raphael of raphnet.net decided to take NES Super Mario Bros practice to a new level by dedicating a NES console to run the arcade version full time.

This is more than merely a MAME ROM loading exercise, there are several differences between the NES and it’s dedicated arcade sibling, the Unisys VS.

Memory was upgrade, several IO pins are tapped and brought out for manual access via the newly added controls up front.

Check out his detailed specifications and project notes of this geektastic hack.