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[[File:1676971-ms_pac_man_arcade_machine.jpg|thumb|156px|Example of a Ms. Pac-Man arcade cabinet.]]Arcades were venues in which many games were played at, often containing thousands of games. Arcades often got their revenue from players who paid to play games. Most arcade emulators focus on emulating many systems in one program, the scope of which varies between projects.

Machines often varied by their design and, unlike consoles, were often tailored to just one game. Games were designed to eat as many quarters as possible, which is emulated with the "Coin" key. Some games have a service mode (mapped to F2 in MAME) with menus meant for the arcade owner to set dipswitches for difficulty, censorship, language, and most importantly a "Free Play" mode that allows players to continue as many as they want without requesting more coins. Sometimes, similar menus meant for developers (labeled debug or test usually, sometimes requiring a developer BIOS like with some Neo Geo games) are left in the game too.

Hardware made specifically for the arcade to provide for graphics and performance unseen on home consoles. Extremely common in the golden age of arcades but became much less frequent as companies used modified existing hardware instead to save on R&D costs and easier cross-platform development, or tried to differentiate between the home and arcade experience with control scheme gimmicks instead.

MAME's purpose is to cover most of these. Older arcades as well as select popular arcade machines, the Neo Geo and Capcom's CPS series, in particular, received their own standalone emulators. Sometimes, they received their own console versions but those are mostly ports, not emulation, with very few exceptions.

Those arcade boards share most of the hardware specifications with existing home consoles, with the addition of a coin slot and occasionally DRM and some changes. While MAME supports most of those, standalone emulators for the base home console are more mature and often (but not always) support the arcade variants.

{{Main|http://www.system16.com/base.php System16's arcade museum}} ''(See more examples here)''

* '''[[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]:''' Nintendo Super System

* '''[[Nintendo 64 emulators|N64]]:''' Aleck-64 ([[Project64]] + modded images)

* '''[[Sega Dreamcast emulators|Dreamcast]]:''' Atomiswave ([[DEmul]]), Naomi 1/2 ([[DEmul]])

{{Main|http://www.system16.com/base.php#11 System16's arcade museum}} (See more examples here)

* '''Windows XP Embedded:''' [[wikipedia:Taito_Type_X#Taito_Type_X.2FX.2B|Taito Type X/X+]], [[wikipedia:Taito_Type_X#Taito_Type_X7|Taito Type X7]], [[wikipedia:Taito_Type_X#Taito_Type_X.C2.B2|Taito Type X²]]

* '''Windows 7 Embedded:''' [[wikipedia:Taito_Type_X#Taito_Type_X_Zero|Taito Type X Zero]], Namco System ES2 PLUS, Namco System ES3

The games first need to run on an operating system equivalent to that of the machine, which may imply [[Wine]] use on Linux or having to upgrade to 64-bit editions. Some GPUs or wrappers may be required. Additionally, the following need to be installed:

* '''Microsoft Visual C++ Runtimes:''' A one-in-all link for all editions from 2005 to 2015 may be found [https://www.sereby.org/site/All%20in%20One%20Runtimes here].

* '''Microsoft DirectX 9.0:''' Offline installer [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 here].

* '''PC Video Codecs:''' Grabbing the standard K Lite Codec pack from [https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm here] is recommended.

* '''iDmacDrv32.dll:''' Needed in Nesica games. If present, do not delete it, copy Jconfig.exe and the replacement iDmacDrv32.dll from the Jconfig package, then double-click NesicaXlive.reg to import keys to your registry, and use the game executable to run the game. If not present, copy Jconfig.exe, JVSemu.dll, and jvs_loader.exe from the Jconfig package, and use jvs_loader.exe to run the game.

* '''Save Fixes:''' Some games can't save scores and data at all. For a bunch of machines, there are fixes (called "loaders pack") that enable that, but some machines (nesica) handle saving purely using official servers in which case there's not much (yet) to do about it.

* '''Extra Fixes:''' Varies per game. Check the readme with the game scene release.

Some games can have DirectX related problems. For some, deleting the existing d3d9.dll or opengl.dll files can help. For others, they expect the older D3D8 codec and have bugs (crashes, uneven speed) that can be fixed with Reshade's d3d8to9 plugin.

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|[[MAME]]

|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]

|Thousands of electronics<ref>http://mamedb.com/history</ref>

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[FinalBurn Neo]]

|[https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo GitHub]

|Hundreds

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|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[DICE]]

|20

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[DAPHNE]]

|[http://www.daphne-emu.com/ 1.0.12]

|1 <br /><small>([[Arcade LaserDisc emulators|LaserDisc]])</small>

|{{✓}}<ref group=N name=OpenDaphne>[https://github.com/DavidGriffith/daphne Open-Source DAPHNE] - new fork with an open-source frontend for 64-bit Linux.</ref>

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[TeknoParrot]]

|{{TeknoVer}}

|{{✓}}<ref group=N name=OpenParrot>[https://github.com/teknogods/OpenParrot OpenParrot] - new open-source core distinct from TeknoParrot.</ref>

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[ZiNc]]

|3 <br /><small>(ZN-1, ZN-2, Namco System 11)</small>

|{{✗}}

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|[http://calice.emuunlim.com/ Calice]

|[http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/arcade/calice.html 0.6.4]

|6 <br /><small>(Capcom, Sega, SNK, Gaelco)</small>

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[RAINE]]

|1063

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

|{{✗}}

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|[[Kawaks]]

|3 <br /><small>([[Neo Geo emulators|Neo Geo]], CPS1, CPS2)</small>

|{{✗}}

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|CPS3 Emulator

|[http://nebula.emulatronia.com/descargas.php 1.0a]

|1 <br /><small>(CPS3)</small>

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|[https://mamemaniaforever.forumfree.it/?t=64082339 VivaNonno]

|[https://vivanonno.vg-network.com/ 22.0.3]

|1 <br /><small>(Namco System 22)</small>

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|{{✗}}

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|[[Model 2 Emulator]]

|[http://nebula.emulatronia.com/descargas.php 1.1a]

|1 <br /><small>([[Sega Model 2]])</small>

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|[[Supermodel]]

|[http://supermodel3.com/Download.html 0.2a]<br />[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/Supermodel SVN]

|1 <br /><small>([[Sega Model 3]])</small>

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[DEmul]]

|[http://forum.emu-russia.net/viewtopic.php?p=26178&sid=9d186ca9c444883bceeed6f185ed3fa9#p26178 0.7 Build 180428]

|6 <br /><small>([[Sega NAOMI and variants]])</small>

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|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|[[Yabause|Kronos]]

|[http://www.emutalk.net/forums/56-Sega-Saturn-Emulation {{KronosVer}}]

|1 <br /><small>(STV)</small>

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|[[Nova]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/nova_emu/posts {{NovaVer}}]

|1 <br /><small>(STV)</small>

|{{✗}}

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|[[Virtual Console]]

|?

|Various<ref group=N>Includes games from publishers such as Namco, Sega, Tecmo and Capcom, also Neo Geo</ref>

|?

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|NJEMU

|[https://github.com/phoe-nix/NJEMU 2.3.5]

|4 <br /><small>(CPS1, CPS2, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD)</small>

|MAME 0.152

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|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|Unofficial Mod

|[http://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?t=27733 2.3.1]<ref group=N name=cache>Generate cache with included <code>romcnv</code> utility.</ref>

|4 <br /><small>(CPS1, CPS2, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD)</small>

|MAME 0.120

|{{✗}}

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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|FBA4PSP

|[[sourceforge:projects/fba4psp/files/FBA4PSP_Formal/|v12.4.0]]

|1 <br /><small>(CPS1)</small>

|MAME 0.141

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

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;[[MAME]]:Very extensive in scope, with the majority of arcade system boards from the 1970's, 1980's and early 1990's supported. Do not expect support for more recent boards, such as Atomiswave. MAME focuses on [[Emulation Accuracy|accuracy]] and preservation, meaning usability comes second for the end user. Only the most up to date ROM dumps will work in the latest MAME.

;[[Supermodel]]:Emulates [[Sega Model 3|Sega's Model 3]] arcade platform focusing on accuracy. Presently, Supermodel is in a very early "alpha" stage of development, meaning it lacks many planned features. It does not yet have a user-friendly graphical interface, and all CPUs are emulated using straightforward (and slow) interpretation rather than fast just-in-time translation. Game compatibility is quite good. It has an experimental multi-player network build.

;[[Model 2 Emulator]]:Emulates, as per its name, [[Sega Model 2|Sega's Model 2]] arcade platform with a focus on speed over accuracy. Despite this, however, it still manages to play games for that hardware with far higher accuracy than MAME currently can.

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