MAME is not intended to be a platform that competes with arcade games that are still being actively sold. * Do not add games which are more recent than 3 years old, or which are still being sold new by the company that produced them. However, you are discouraged from providing specific functionality that goes against the philosophy of the MAME team. Therefore, it is strongly against the authors' wishes to sell, advertise, or link to resources that provide illegal copies of ROM, CD, or hard disk images.ĭerivative works are permitted under the MAME license. MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright infringement. They are not "abandonware", nor have any of the games supported by MAME passed out of copyright. They cannot be distributed without the explicit permission of the copyright owner. ROM, CD, and hard disk images are all copyrighted material.
No portions of the original game code are included in the executable.
To operate, the emulator requires images of the original ROMs, CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines, which must be provided by the user. All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely available. It is not our intention to infringe on any copyrights or patents on the original games. This is considered a nice side effect, and is not MAME's primary focus. Of course, in order to preserve the games and demonstrate that the emulated behavior matches the original, you must also be able to actually play the games. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines.
MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
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