

To get around this, open System Preferences and go to Keyboard. You may have an issue when pressing Left Control and arrow keys together, as these are OS X shortcuts for switching desktop spaces and showing mission control / application windows. That goes double for the controls -theres so many nuts and bolts when it comes. – 1, 2, 3, 4 – Start (players 1, 2, 3, 4) Ah, MAME, theres no end to the complex fun one can have with this emulator. Google is your friend when it comes to finding ROM sources, and if you need to have a look at MAME OS X manual, you can find it here. To “install” a game ROM, all you need to do then is to copy it into ROMs folder that you’ve created. $Home/MAME/ROMs, $Home/MAME/Disk Images, $Home/MAME/Samples and $Home/MAME/Artwork), and then change configuration to use these directories. Do you want to create a setup where you can play Pinball Dreams with a gamepad You can map game pad buttons to the Amiga keyboard F1, F2, F3, F4, cursor down.
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Download the X-Arcade Test Utility Program If you mess up some controls (or a screen like volume or similar is coming on when you press a button), delete the 'default.cfg' file that is in the 'cfg' folder in MAME. You should create folders in your home directory for ROMs, disk images, samples and artwork (e.g. TEST YOUR X-ARCADE: If your controller doesnt work in the X-Arcade Test Utility Program, then it will NOT work in MAME. You can configure this under application’s Preferences -> General.


These ROMs need to be put in a place where MAME OS X can find them. To play games in MAME OS X, you’ll need to have game ROMs. It is a native OS X port of the popular MAME emulator. MAME OS X allows you to play arcade machine games on your Mac.
