MESS

Current version:	0.264
Active:	Yes
OS:	Multi-platform
Authors:	MESS Team
Official website:	MESS.org
Source code:	GitHub

The Multi Emulator Super System, often referred to as MESS, is a multi-system emulator that aims to accurately emulate multiple systems and cash registers. Though they are still treated as separate projects by the development teams the two have been merged into MAME.

MESS is able to emulate hundreds of unique systems, as well as thousands of system variations.

It is a sister project to the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, MAME. Many of the contributors are the same, and releases take place at the same time.

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