Updated requirements for MAME I hope you enjoyed our April Fools’ Day announcement. With that out of the way, it’s time to discuss actual upcoming changes to MAME. We’re upgrading the development language standard from C++17 to C++20 and winding back support for obsolete configurations. We’ll also ...

MAME 0.287 It’s the end of another month, which means it’s time for another MAME release! As you’d expect, MAME 0.287 includes a wide-ranging array of emulation improvements to a multitude of systems. Interesting changes this month include better Namco System 23 graphics, improved lighting for Sega...

Yes, all the available peripherals work. You can use the “TI-Graph Link (grey, HLE)” (glinkhle) to transfer objects between emulated TI-82 and TI-85 calculators, or between an emulated calculator and a program running on the host system that can speak the byte-level TI-8x link protocol over a socked...

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...