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MAME Emulator For iPhone Released

Submitted by Edward Kirk on September 29, 2008 - 12:42pm.
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ZodTTD has just released mame4iphone v0.5.0, a MAME arcade emulator for the iPhone available to jailbroken iPhones through Cydia. The emulator is a port of the mame4all emulator from ZodTTD user Franxis. The emulator allows users to play ROMs of some of the most popular classic arcade games from the early days.

Details:

  • Based on MAME v0.37 Beta 5
  • Although MAME v0.37 Beta 5 is quite old, and I'm not quite sure why it was chosen as the basis for many ports to ARM handhelds yet, it still supports over 2000 ROMs!
  • These arcade game's date range from the 1970's all the way to 2000!
  • Sound is supported but disabled by default. To enable it,goto Now Playing and slide the slider for volume up from the off position then start a game.
  • Once a game is started it will ask you to press OK. Use RIGHT then LEFT then RIGHT then LEFT to press OK.
  • Save states are only just being introduced in MAME v0.37, so mame4iphone does not currently support save states.
  • Upon installing a folder /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/MAME/ is already made for you. Place your MAME-titled zipped ROMs in the /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/MAME/roms/ folder.

Screenshots:

Mame4iphone v0.5.0 can be found on Cydia under his public ZodTTD.com repo/source. He's accepting donations.

Submitted by bboyredcel on September 29, 2008 - 2:55pm.
now all we need are for people to port the Naomi and Konami boards that ran the CVS2, MVC2, and Street Fighter 3 series and we're set.

If someone ported the Naomi board that ran sf3, i'd jailbreak my phone immediately.

Submitted by deise boy on September 29, 2008 - 4:04pm.
yeahhhhh mame.. loads of long happy toilet breaks in work are in order for this....