#What can mame emulate verification
#What can mame emulate software
#What can mame emulate code

That's an oversimplification of the process, but that is happening for devices all over the MAME codebase, with each new system emulated providing evidence that our emulation of a specific component is either correct, or, in some cases incorrect and in need of fixing.

#What can mame emulate code

That allows the test code to run in MAME, that allows these improvements (which are of potential benefit to anything else using a 68000 processor) to be verified.ĭuring this process we also found cases where cheeky Korean manufacturers had entirely ripped off the Genesis architecture to put out games like 'Puckman Pockimon' on what at surface level appears to be a completely unrelated board but despite this emulating it was relatively simple because we already had flexible cores for all the components involved.

That was then merged back into MAME (initially via MESS) allowing MAME to emulate the Genesis.

#What can mame emulate software

I wanted to improve the emulation of those chips, so I went on to emulate the actual Genesis (and released that software initially as HazeMD) Sega Genesis emulation is in MAME because originally I emulated some hardware using the same VDP and processor as the Genesis (that platform was known as System C2)

#What can mame emulate verification

The verification of it was done by running a Sega Genesis program that is known to pass on real hardware, and making sure it also passed in emulators including MAME. This fixes some edge-cases in the 68000 processor emulation which is used by thousands of systems it's possible nothing in the real world relies on such behavior, but there's so much software using it you really can't say for sure. r/pinball - Pinball specific discussion.Īnd because chips are shared you get a nice little feedback loop where one thing results in improvements to another. r/arcade - Original CoinOP Arcade specific discussion. r/RetroGamingNetwork - a multireddit for retro gaming! r/HyperSpin - HyperSpin specific discussion. R/MAME RULES/REGULATIONS REDDIT'S ARCADE COMMUNITY Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important 'vintage' software from being lost and forgotten. MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework. Questions? Please check out OUR MAME/BYOAC Wiki!