MESS

Multi Emulator Super System

Developer(s)	MESS Team
Last version	0.161
Fate	Merged with MAME in 2015 starting with 0.162
Platform(s)	Multi-platform
Emulates	Thousands of electronics
Website	MESS.org
Source code	GitHub

MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) was a multi-platform, open-source multi-system emulator. The philosophy behind the project was to recreate the workings of machines like cash registers through emulation. MESS started as a fork of MAME, keeping its philosophy but expanding the amount of target machines widely. Though the teams are separate from each other, the codebase for MESS merged with MAME in 2015.

See NonMAME (2015 Mirror) for a regularly updated list of systems MESS emulates best and a list of emulators that emulate some systems.

Downloads

• Latest release
• SVN Builds
• BIOS ROMs
• MESS Resources Emulation overlays, boot screens, cabinet photos, controller photos, original advertisements, icons, manuals, pcb photos, and more.
• Software Lists For distributions of MESS that did not include them. See MESS Software Lists for how to use them.
• Frontend extra files.

Resources

• MESS user manual
• mess.ini Documentation for manually editing the MESS configuration file.
• Official MESS forum