It also supports Acchi Muite Hoi and Tekken Card World

Apr 27, 2017 22:53 GMT  ·  By

The April release of the MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems on modern PCs is now available for download, versioned 0.185.

Believe it or not, it's been a month since MAME 0.184 landed with improvements to Agat-7 Apple II Clone emulation and support for new arcade games, and MAME 0.185 is yet another great release bringing a bunch of important bug fixes, as well as support for new hardware and the usual emulation improvements.

Among the changes, we can mention that MAME 0.185 now lets users assign multiple keys to buttons in NeoGeo games, as well as computers or consoles that have keyboard, mouse, or controller slots, revamped software loading, debugger improvements to allow more cheats in games with encrypted program ROMs.

Newly supported systems, emulation improvements

As mentioned before, MAME 0.185 comes with support for new systems, including the Galaxy Games StarPak 4 prototype, the HP 9845T computer, the Acchi Muite Hoi jan-ken-pon game, Pirate Ship, and Tekken Card World. It also attempts to restore support for Omori Popper, and adds support for new clones.

"This release also restores working support for Omori Popper, the driver rewrite having been completed just in time," the release notes read. "New clones includes the export release of Mach Breakers, an earlier world release of Rastan, the US release of Sonic Blast Man, and Up Maguila (a Spanish bootleg of Donkey Kong Jr.)."

Last but not least, MAME 0.185 improves emulation by adding an extra layer of performance optimizations to netlist, fixes the classic Mac keyboard input, fixes the Apple I cassette interface, addresses some regressions in Apollo SIO and Thomson floppy support, as well as fixes bugs in the Intel 8086 and MCS-51 family of CPUs.

PROM data support was added to the gradient generator simulation and sound sample playback support landed in the N-Sub driver. You can download the MAME 0.185 source tarball right now from our website if you fancy compiling it on your favorite GNU/Linux operating system.