Next we’ll make choosing and running games a bit easier and customize your experience. Version 0.151 is the latest available at the time of this article. These releases will only run on specific models of PPC Apple Macintosh computers. The higher the version number the better - they don’t have to the match your version of MAME but you’ll have a chance of it not running. The version numbers correspond to the version of MAME. Because this is an arcade game you need to insert coins. Use the arrow keys and press enter to load a rom. This is the very featureless rom selection menu.

Double-click M64 app we downloaded above in step 3 and you should be able to run the games from the menu.

Make a roms folder if it doesn’t exist. MAME/MESS for MacOS - 64-bit Intel & M1 MAME and MESS are now combined as one distribution as of the 0.162 release and offered as a MAME binary (MESS is included in the build).

M64 is a small app that you can double-click to run SDL MAME without opening the Terminal. To make it easier, download M64 and unzip it into your MAME folder. Usually you would need to open a Terminal, navigate to your MAME folder and type.

One of the files extracted is named mame64.

Unzip it and you’ll see a bunch of folders and files.

(You will also see links to MESS which is a computer and console emulator). Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is available for older systems that are not. Mountain Lion was announced on Februand was released on Jthrough the Mac App Store. You will want to download the highest version that is 64-bit. OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth version of OS X, Apple's operating system for its desktops, laptops, and servers.

Copy the SDL2 from the DMG to this folder.

In the menubar click Go > Go to folder….

On your Mac, open the /Library/Frameworks folder:.

Open the DMG and you should see the SDL file.

Download the SDL 2 Runtime Library for Mac OS X (Direct Link).

No war stories here, but just the benchmarks R0ni compiles M1 MAME. This is a multimedia library that lets MAME display graphics, sounds and read keyboards and game controllers. I finally decided to move to a Mac mini M1 - and MAME just shines on it. They’re easy to use but they’re old, unsupported and abandoned. Also, avoid MAME ports named MacMAME and MAME for OS X. It’s actually a commandline program that you run by typing in commands via the Terminal. Note: SDL MAME is not user friendly it’s not a matter of double-clicking and expecting it to run. You can run MAME using OpenEmu’s Experimental version or use the “official” version which is called SDL MAME for OS X compiled by r0ni aka In part 1, we’ll go over how to run SDL MAME at the very barest bones. MAME is a program that “runs” or emulates a large library of arcade games.

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