MAME compatibility list

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This is a VERY incomplete list of compatibility issues that MAME has with different systems.

Contents

Atari

Atari 2600

Rivals Stella in most cases, and is even better in some cases.

Atari 5200

Doesn't boot for some reason.

Atari 7800

Pretty much the most accurate emulator for this system.

Atari 8-bit

Relatively inaccurate. INC WSYNC, for instance, waits for 3 scanlines instead of just waiting for 1 scanline like it's supposed to.

Atari ST

No inputs anywhere, so you can't really use it.

Atari Jaguar

This one has lots of weird bugs. One being Tempest 2000 overwriting the cart ROM region. Stay away from it.

Atari arcades

Atari Discrete Logic

Several games like Pong (1972), Breakout and other Pong derivatives work well in MAME. Many more games don't seem to be covered.

Atari 6800 Based

Some or all games may work in MAME. Destroyer, Drag Race.

Atari 68000 Based

Some or many games that ran on this system are supported in their own namesake drivers and work well in MAME. Many games are supported in own drivers: Bad Lands, Batman, Blasteroids, Food Fight, Klax, Off the Wall, Rampart, Relief Pitcher, Shuuz, Skull & Crossbones, Toobin', Vindicators and Xybots.

Atari Dual 68000 Based

Only 2 games were officially released on this board but two more prototypes are also covered in the driver for one of the games. They all work well in MAME.

Apple

Apple I

Pretty much perfect.

Apple II

Also pretty much perfect, and it's got good emulation of a bunch of peripherals too! The later versions do have some problems with inverted text it seems.

Apple III

The first and only working emulator for this system, due to RBelmont reverse-engineering the weird banking system this one uses.

Commodore

Vic-20

Really slow, and also kinda inaccurate.

Commodore 64

Kinda slow, and also kinda inaccurate.

Commodore Plus/4

The Plus/4 computer and the budget-priced C16 and C116 variants work well in MAME. 3 prototype models work well, although 1 has imperfect GFX.

Commodore 65

Commodore 128

Never even made it past the WIP stage. Don't even bother.

Amiga

Decent for OCS. Kinda iffy on everything else.

IBM

PC 5150

It works fine for anything that doesn't require the cassette port or timing. Don't expect to run 8088 MPH on it.

PC/XT 5160

It works fine for anything that doesn't require timing.

PC/AT 5170

It works fine.

AT clones up to 486

It works just fine, barring some rare CPU core bugs.

AT clones with Pentium

Don't even bother. It pretty badly needs a rewrite to actually work. It also doesn't emulate any Super I/O chips, either.

Irem

Irem M10/11/15

MAME.

Irem M14

MAME.

Irem M27

Found in driver named after 1 of 4 games released on this system. MAME.

Irem M52

MAME.

Irem M57

MAME.

Irem M58

MAME.

Irem M62

MAME.

Irem M63

MAME.

Irem M72

MAME.

Irem M90

MAME.

Irem M92

MAME.

Irem M107

MAME.

Microsoft

MSX

Works pretty well.

MSX2

Works pretty well too.

MSX2+

Works okay.

Xbox

It doesn't work nearly as well as XQEMU, let's just put it that way. It's also ungodly amounts of slow thanks to no i386 dynarec.

NEC

PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16

It's only got one major problem. The game Air Zonk hangs due to imprecise timings. Other than that, it's fine.

PC Engine CD

Again, it's mostly fine, but you're gonna want to use the new video cores and also pray you have a good dump.

PC Engine SuperGrafx

Works fine.

PC-FX

This doesn't even boot, due to issues with the CPU core that it shares with the Virtual Boy.

Namco

Namco System 86

All games work well in MAME.

Namco System 1

All games work well in MAME.

Namco System 2

Many games work well, many others have imperfect GFX, sound & networking (?) in MAME.

Namco System 21

Only a few of the 10 games released on this system work with imperfect GFX in MAME.

Namco NA-1

- Also NA-2

All but 1 games work well in MAME, however they lack cocktail (tabletop) mode. X-Day 2 has imperfect GFX.

Namco NB-1

All games work well in MAME.

Namco System FL

Only two games were released on this system; they both work fairly well in MAME. Speed Racer has imperfect GFX, and it & Final Lap R lack networking (?).

Namco System 22

- Also Namco Super System 22.

Almost all games work with imperfect GFX; many have non-working networking (?) in MAME. Notable games on this system include Air Combat (Start of the Ace Combat series), Ridge Racer 1-2 and Time Crisis. Alpine Surfer does not work yet.

Namco System 11

Works well in MAME.

Namco ND-1

Just 2 Namco game collections and 2 game were released on this board; they all have imperfect GFX in MAME.

Namco System 12

Works well in MAME.

Namco System 23

- Also Namco Super System 23 & other variants.

Namco System 10

Preliminary support in MAME, probably nothing works in MAME yet. Dumps of System 10 games are actually useless. Due to the extreme level of encryption and protection, sadly all these System 10 games will not be working in MAME anytime soon or maybe never.

No games work yet in MAME.

Nintendo

NES

The PPU for this core is per-scanline, so mid-frame effects generally don't work too well. The only reason it can even handle MMC5 games because of hacks! It really needs a video system rewrite and BAD.

SNES

Many timing issues here. It's probably not even as accurate as Snes9x. It really needs to be reworked.

Nintendo 64

See arcade hardware variant Seta Aleck64 under Seta's list.

This whole system has tons of timing issues. Tread lightly.

Game Boy/Game Boy Color

Lots of slight timing bugs, but other than that, it's fine.

Virtual Boy

Sorta works, but some games just completely crap out. It's also really slow.

Game Boy Advance

Many atrocious timing bugs, though endrift and MoochMcGee have tried to help clean it up. 16-bit unaligned accesses also aren't emulated correctly, so most of endrift's hardware tests fail.

NMK

- Stands for Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu.

Argus

MAME.

NMK16

- 16-bit hardware.

MAME.

NMK Medal

Only 1 game, Trocana, was on this system. Basic MAME driver.

Game Park Holdings

GP32

Graphics/Sounds are glitches?, Runs very slow on Windows Systems (7/XP/Vista/10), Runs super slow on PSPDisp with Windows 7

Sega

Sega SG-1000

Nearly perfect.

Sega Master System/Game Gear

- And Sega System E arcade too.

Pretty damn accurate. MAME is quite a good emulator for this system. All System E arcade games work well in MAME.

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

- And Sega System C/C-2 arcades too.

Runs most games fine. Some don't work that well, but it's got about a 95% compatibility rate. Almost all of the C/C-2 arcade games work well in MAME - only the Print Club games don't work.

Sega/Mega CD

Not that good. The extra processors throw in more timing problems.

Sega 32X

Lots of timing issues. There are also suspected SH2 core bugs that come up more frequently on the 32X due to most games being programmed in assembly instead of C like most other SH2 platforms.

Sega/Mega CD and 32X

This probably won't work that well.

Sega Saturn

- Also covers the Sega Titan Video arcade hardware.

It's a little better than Yabause, but with much nicer code.

Sega Dreamcast

Nowhere close to even nullDC. It's also very slow and only started booting games thanks to what amounts to a miracle.

Sega Pico

Not very good. Sega Pico

Advanced Pico Beena

Pretty Slow. Sega Pico

Sega Arcade hardware

Sega System 1

- Also Sega System 2 (Upgrade) works too.

Both systems work well in MAME.

Sega Appoooh

Just 2 games were released on this system, both work well in MAME.

Sega System 16

Caution: MAME's driver for this system name mainly covers the heavily bootlegged games from both System 16 / 18; however they roughly reflect the original hardware. Most games don't work, some others have imperfect GFX.

Sega System 24

All games work, but some have imperfect GFX in MAME.

Sega System 18

All games work well in MAME.

Sega System 32

All System 32 games' ROMS decrypted. Virtually all games have imperfect GFX in MAME.

Kyugo

All games work well in MAME. Only 1 bootlegged variant has imperfect GFX.

Sega Model 1 Arcade

Reverse engineering isn't quite finished on the geometry DSP, so don't expect every game to work. Regardless, Virtua Fighter works fine.

Sega Model 2 Arcade

Again, reverse engineering hasn't been finished on the first model's DSP, but there are plenty of other problems that also need to be worked out. Last I checked, Virtua Cop 2's textures just display black. Virtua Fighter 2 just freezes after a bit due to bugs in the DSP comms.

Sega Model 3 Arcade

It's in better shape than Sega Model 2, but it's slow and has lots of bugs. Virtua Fighter 3 either hangs or crashes a bit into gameplay, depending on what set you use.

Sega Naomi Arcade

It's okay, there are just too many bugs. It's also quite slow, as you can expect from most 3D games in MAME.

Chihiro Arcade

Basically an arcade Xbox. It boots OutRun 2, and not much else.

Seibu Kaihatsu

Legionnaire

MAME driver's name refers to one game Legionnaire (By TAD Corp, which probably made this hardware first). As of 2019, this driver/system is not even covered in System 16's database. Seibu's 2 games on hardware need emulated protection; 5 games from other firms work fine.

Seibu SPI System

System is almost good; but graphics need to be fixed. 2 puzzlers among 8 unique games work perfectly. Notable games: Raiden Fighters series & Viper Phase 1.

Seta

Seta 1st-gen

Almost all games work well in MAME, but some have imperfect sound and some others imperfect GFX. Crazy Fight is not unencrypted yet.

Seta 2nd-gen

All games work well in MAME, but most have imperfect GFX & they all lack a cocktail (tabletop) mode.

Seta Aleck64

- Based on the N64 console hardware.

All but one games work well in MAME with imperfect GFX. The sole exception is Magical Tetris Challenge

SNK Corporation

- Stands for Shin Nihon Kikaku

Neo Geo MVS

Perfect driver support in MAME.

Sony

PlayStation

It's got lots of bugs. Many games have SPU-related hangs, for instance. It's not even as good as pSX, and that emulator's ancient! It can run some games that PCSX-R can't though, like Parappa the Rapper.

PlayStation 2

- Namco System 246/256 arcades (PS2 hardware ISN'T emulated in MAME. Just these two PS2-based Namco System or at least dumps of their games are designed for MAME. Nothing works yet.). Dump list.

PocketStation

It works pretty well, actually. I daresay the emulation is perfect.

Taito

Taito Top Speed Hardware

Operation Thunderbolt and Top Speed / Full Throttle, released on this system, work in MAME.

Taito Z System

Chase H.Q., released on this system, should work in MAME now (Perhaps with imperfect GFX).

Taito G-Net

All games should work in MAME with imperfect sound.

Tatsumi

Tatsumi TX-1

Also known as 'Buggy Boy hardware'. 3 games supported in MAME - both Buggy Boy versions work, but 'TX-1' has imperfect audio. Ports of Buggy Boy titled as Speed Buggy were released on 1980's computer systems by Elite Systems.

Tatsumi Lock-On

Sole game, which uses superb sprite-scaling technology, works in MAME.

Tatsumi (Machine name)

Tatsumi arcade machines were obscure compared to their more famous peers from bigger companies, but were renowned for strong use of scalable and rotatable sprites. Four games mostly not working in MAME. Notable games: Cycle Warriors, Apache 3.