Today I stumbled across an old CD I have full of MAME ROMs. I thought I’d see if you could play them in OS X, and sure enough it’s actually quite straight forward. This brief tutorial will guide you in playing MAME games in OS X.
- To get started, download and install MAME OS X. Once installed, launch it from your Applications folder.
- The first time you run MAME OS X, it will ‘audit’ several hundred (thousand?) ROMs (games). This can take upwards of half an hour to complete. If you don’t want to import/audit all of these games (and the audit does download any ROMs, it just creates a huge list of them)..
- …select File -> Abort Audit.
- Otherwise, once the audit has completed, you’ll be presented with a huge list of games.
- To actually play a game, drag the ROM (as a zip file) to the Your Username -> Library -> Application Support -> MAME OS X -> ROMs folder. PS. you can find lots of ROMs here.
- Then start the game by double-clicking it from the massive list of games in MAME OS X. NOTE: if you have trouble getting games to launch, please see this comment by Joshua Pierce. Thanks Josh!
- Something you may want to take a look at is MAME Library, a free program that makes organizing, finding and launching games even easier. If you’ve ever used iPhoto, you’ll be very familiar with the interface. When you launch MAME Library for the first time, it will import the database from MAME OS X. This only takes a minute or two.
- MAME Library organizes your games/ROMs via screenshots (which you can take by hitting F12 while playing a game).
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ok guys i’ve been trying to get STREET FIGHTER 3rd stike to run….however….i seem to have all of the files…the LOG just tells me that it cannot find the 33s000.chd file BUT ITS CLEARLY inside the HARD DISK IMAGES folder where i put it. I tried re-directing in the PREFERENCES but nothing seems to work…..wtf!?? i have downloaded 2 versions of the CHD file and put it twice in the folder….i even ZIPPED it….but nothing…. any ideas as to why the log wont find my file even though its where its supposed to be??
HEY GUYS!! I DID IT!!! thought i’d report it. it turns out that for STREET FIGHTER 3rd strike…the .CHD file is supposed to be ZIPPED or COMPRESSED with the ROM… i thought i’d try it out since i was running out of options and it WORKED!!!!!!!!!! so …..i took the .zip file of the rom, unzipped it, then zipped it back but with the CHD file . when i opened MAME OS X it suddenly read it no problems… hope this helps some of you guys in here. bye!
Eu queria saber como fazer para instalar no meu computador o jogo mame no os x.Se tiver que pagar.AI NÃO
Hey I got it working too.Does anyone know how to play online in MAME OS X?If so please email me.
I would like to know how can i install the neo geo bios files in mame osx! Thanks in advance!
Nuno wrote: “I would like to know how can i install the neo geo bios files in mame osx! Thanks in advance!”
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just like any other rom: move the bios zip file into the roms directory.
Tommy wrote: “Hey I got it working too.Does anyone know how to play online in MAME OS X?If so please email me.”
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You can’t.
Need some help: I can’t play any games. I’ve downloaded them, moved them to the ROMs file, then activated MAME and tried auditing those titles. The game’s are not found. What do I do?
I downloaded mame0sx and all my downloaded roms work but killer instinct doesn’t work and that really hurt me because it was the main reason why I downloaded mameosx.
PLEASE I NEED HELP. I NEED KILLER INSTINCT FOR MAMEOSX.
Okay so I did what joshua Pierce said and tried to redirect the direction and it wont let me choose the TMNT zip (the game i currently want to play) any help as to why this is?
I am having a lot of problems with this. I can never understand these things.
I didn’t bother to audit the games, instead, I audited the games I want. After that, I click on the game from the list & it reads it cannot read the file. Also, there is no folder in my username library that has “ROMs”.
So what do I do?? I really want the experience to play MAME.
tengo una duda…. no se como salvar una partida…. para no tener que comenzar el juego desde el principio…..o no se si el programa tenga la función de salvar partidas…. agradezco su atención
mucha suerte