It’s an unfortunate regression in MAME 0.286. I expect OG will fix it in time for MAME 0.287, but all you can really do in the mean time is keep using MAME 0.285.

MAME 0.286 It’s time for MAME 0.286, bringing you more adventures in emulation. This month, we’ve added support for SDL3, which will be used by default when building on macOS (the default is still SDL2 on other UNIX-like platforms). You can choose SDL2 or SDL3 by adding OSD=sdl or OSD=sdl3 to your ...

Honestly, it seems that the r/MAME discussion channel on Reddit seems to be the more popular place. Reddit ? Really ? Wow, I was under the impression that place was avoided like the plague these days. I must have been misinformed then. Thanks for the reply. Reddit is fine if you only visit communit...

Keep in mind that some people (namely me) barely read what is posted on reddit, have no intention to create an account there and actually go to bannister instead. Conversely, any time I look at the bannister forum, there’s someone (or multiple someones) who should know better mouthing off about stu...

MAME 0.285 Are you ready for the first MAME release of 2026? MAME 0.285 is out now! We’ve added support for an early, unreleased version of Atari’s Relief Pitcher running on their System 1 platform. Moon Raker, a Nichibutsu shooter from the late ’70s, has also been found and emulated. Sega’s Waku W...

MAME 0.284 MAME 0.284 is ready just in time for the end of the year! Two interesting arcade prototypes have turned up this month. One is Saurian Front, an early version of what became Strike Force, developed at Williams before they acquired the Midway name. The other is a completely unreleased Atar...

MAME 0.283 With the end of the year barely more than a month away, it’s time for MAME 0.283! As you may be anticipating, there are even more Sega Model 2 fixes this month. Trilinear luma filtering should be working now, and some glitches in tilemap layers are fixed. Microtexturing, used to good eff...

MAME 0.282 Today, we have a very spooky surprise… Oh wait, no we don’t. But what we do have is MAME 0.282! If you want to get into a haunted mood, you might want to try playing Beast Busters: Second Nightmare, because Hyper Neo Geo 64 sound is way better than it was a month ago. Just a friendly rem...

MAME 0.281 After what felt like a few short weeks, it’s time for MAME 0.281! First of all, with the proliferation of ARM-based notebook computers, we’re going to try offering binary packages for people running 64-bit ARM versions of Windows 10 or later. Please be aware that most MAME developers are...

MAME 0.280 It’s been a month, so it must be time for MAME 0.280 to be released! One interesting addition this month is the very rare 1986 arcade game 119 from Coreland and Sega (the game is named after the ambulance/fire emergency telephone number used in Japan). If you’ve been following along with...