| Welcome to NonMAME ! |
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NonMAME is the definitive source for all known arcade emulators that either support games that are not in MAME, or provide better emulation of games that are in MAME. This site represents many years of work, collaboration with many people in the emulation community, and countless hours of research. It exists primarily to assist emulator authors in gathering more accurate information on what's currently out there; and secondarily, to help emulation enthusiasts gather a "definitive" set of all supported arcade games (provided that they have the boards of course!). I believe that the efficacy and accuracy of this site depends strongly on its readers, so by all means if you have information to offer, please contact me. I can be reached via email here. A few rules to keep in mind before emailing me:
If you find this site useful, you may want to try out NonMESS - a site with the same goals as NonMAME that concentrates on the incredible Multiple Emulator Super System (MESS) and its rapidly developing support for computer, console and handheld systems. One more thing, thanks go out to ALL emulator authors out there, whether or not your emulators are listed below. You are all pretty damn brilliant and my hat goes off to you.
Enjoy! Baseline reference system specs
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| Daphne |
| http://www.daphne-emu.com |
This is a great laserdisc game emulator. Of course, you still need both the chipsets and the laserdiscs (not to mention a supported laserdisc player) to play these games. Alternatively, ROMs and MPEG2 files may be used. |
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Astron Belt (Hitachi) |
| Demul |
| http://demul.emulation64.com/ |
Unlike other NAOMI-class emulators, Demul supports the venerable Sammy Atomiswave game system (which is really a variant of Sega's NAOMI system, but let's not be technical) and more recently, NAOMI 2. This emulator has been improving steadily though slowly, and is sadly closed-source and Windows only. |
Atomiswave Games: NAOMI GD-ROM-Based Games: NAOMI 2 Cartridge-Based Games: |
| DICE |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/dice/ |
As is the case with most standalone emulators, this one popped out of nowhere with little fanfare. The Discrete Integrated Circuit Emulator (DICE) has proven to the world that accurate and fast emulation of discrete circuity - a very difficult and noteworthy feat to accomplish - is possible. DICE supports Pong and Space Race which, for you history buffs, have the distinction of being Atari's first two video games; as well as Breakout, famously co-designed by Steve Wozniak, who would go on to co-found Apple Computer. Speaking of which - Pong may be removed from this section soon, assuming the MAME driver improves a bit. Now, for anyone curious about emulation history, Pong's addition to MAME was actually a "second coming" after having been initially dropped; this was because the original driver represented a highly inaccurate simulation of the game. Here is a more detailed explanation of the initial decision to drop it from MAME, courtesy of "Who Wants to Know?":
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Anti-Aircraft |
| Dolphin |
| http://dolphin-emu.org/ |
MAME offers only preliminary support for these games. |
Virtua Striker 2002 (GDT-0001) |
| Dolphin (Triforce Branch) |
| http://dolphin-emu.org/ |
MAME does not support this game. |
Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 |
| Final Burn-FF |
| http://www.oocities.org/finalburnff/ |
This emulator provides force feedback support for Out Run, a feature sorely needed in MAME for arcade games such as this that originally supported it. |
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Out Run |
| Laser |
| http://sourceforge.net/projects/laser/ |
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MAME does not support this game since it uses discrete circuitry exclusively (see my comments about this in the "MiSFiTMAME" section). |
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Hockey TV |
| MiSFiTMAME |
| http://misfitmame.mameworld.info/ |
This classic is not supported in MAME due to the fact that it relies heavily upon analog circuitry rather than ROMs, as do nearly all games written after 1976. I wouldn't bet on seeing it in MAME anytime soon. |
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Monaco G.P. |
| Radikal Bikers Emulator |
| http://aarongiles.com/radikal.html |
MAME supports this game, but it's far too slow to be playable. While not as accurate as MAME, this emulator runs at blazing speeds, even on a 2ghz P4 - a testament to the powers of static recompilation. |
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Radikal Bikers |
| SEGA Model 2 Emulator |
| http://nebula.emulatronia.com/ |
MAME supports these games, barely - the drivers are in such preliminary stages that, in most cases, the games aren't actually playable. Unfortunately for fans of this project, ElSemi has ceased its development and it doesn't look like he will be sharing the source code. For those of you interested in trying out UDP/IP-based netplay - there is a (highly experiemental, yet working) UDP compression tool made by Byblo, which has been taken offline (though you might be able to find it through a decent search engine of course). |
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Behind... Enemy Lines |
| Supermodel |
| http://www.supermodel3.com/ |
This emulator had been moribund for over five years before bursting onto the scene in 2011. Anyone who loved the Model 3 age of Sega needs to check this out. |
Daytona USA 2: Battle On The Edge |
| VivaNonno |
| http://vivanonno.vg-network.com/ |
MAME supports these games; however, the driver is far too slow to render them playable. |
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Rave Racer (Japan) (Version A) |
| WinArcadia |
| http://amigan.1emu.net/ |
WinArcadia currently supports these games better than MAME, primarily due to more accurate colors. This emulator's non-standard interface may deter some: to launch a game you need to select from a pane on the right side rather than the "File" menu where non-arcade games are loaded. Another issue is that the game ROMs are embedded in the emulator itself. I don't personally condone this practice, but that's the author's decision.
Several years ago, WinArcadia author James Jacobs indicated he'd submit a patch to the MAME team for these drivers once he's finished with his, though given the amount of time that has passed, at this point I rather doubt it. However, recent MESS advances to the Signetics 2650 CPU (on which these game are based) may render such support irrelevant. |
Cat And Mouse |