Relive your classics - 3darcade

[Safin]

i dunno how many of you like playing old arcade games but even if you haven't till now, i advice you still have a look. These are the games we used to play some 10 years back in those arcade parlours(umm did i hear someone say he plays them now also )
:bleh:

Anyway MAME i think many of you know already:

What is MAME?

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with an arcade game's data files (ROMs), MAME will more or less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME can currently emulate over 3000 unique (and over 5400 in total) classic arcade video games from the three decades of video games - '70s, '80s and '90s, and even some from the current millennium.

The ROM images that MAME utilizes are "dumped" from arcade games' original circuit-board ROM chips. MAME becomes the "hardware" for the games, taking the place of their original CPUs and support chips. Therefore, these games are NOT simulations, but the actual, original games that appeared in arcades.

MAME's purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions, thanks to the talent of programmers from the MAME team and from other contributors. Being able to play the games is just a nice side-effect, which doesn't happen all the time. MAME strives for emulating the games faithfully.

Check out mame here

For the games you may wanna see this link directory

Here is a basic PC system that will play (and hold) about half of the MAME-supported games:

* Intel Celeron / AMD Duron 700 MHz
* 64 - 128 MB RAM
* a varying amount of hard drive space (a full MAME ROM set would take over four gigabytes, but most individual ROM sets are quite small)
* DirectX (Windows version) or VESA 2.0+ (DOS version) compatible graphics card
* Any sound card that works in Windows (Windows version) or Sound Blaster compatible sound card (DOS version)
But now comes the good part of it.
i said relive the games.... this allows you to do just that..

3D-ARCADE

this is the tool to get you into the experience
you can choose your arcade environment like this:

walk up to it and play

or just skin like this:

It is completely free and quite easy to setup. It will work with MAME32(the version designed with a GUI)but it is primarily for use with the command line version of MAME.
you can check it out here

CLICK HERE
just explore the sites mentioned. Everything is there an for a change you don't need to spend on your graphics cards to play these.

 

[Talky]

i would go 4 GBA emulation than MAME , better games

 

[superczar]

i would go 4 GBA emulation than MAME , better games

It's like saying I'd rather listen to Britney spears than Louis Armstrong....
Ok, let me change Britney to Bruce Springsteen before I get flamed)

Buddy, it's not a question of better games, it's the nostalgia that games like Bomber Man or Donkey Kong we oldies love