Project to port MAME to iPhone

Posted by dennis on August 20th, 2007 at 05:18pm Comments

While NES emulators (1, 2) are nice, a port of MAME for the iPhone would’ve been even better. According to Wikipedia, Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator now supports 3598 unique games and 6728 actual ROM image sets and is growing all the time.

And although no downloadable version is available at the moment, MAME on iPhone is apparently already playable, with some issues. Wrote the project’s coder, kaisersoze:

As expected, performance is an issue. For example, Pacman and Q*bert run quite well, but Galaga and Gyruss are marginal even with frame skipping and lowered sound quality. The SDL port was the quickest way to get everything up and running without having to delve into the guts of MAME. I’ll take a stab at slapping together something based on a really old, simpler version of MAME to see if it runs any better.

For more information see the MAME for iPhone project page.

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