The Best 13 Mame Alternatives

  • RetroArch icon

    RetroArch

    What is RetroArch? RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable. It has features few other emulators frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad Web Blackberry

    Modular System Interface Feature Multi System Emulator
  • OpenEmu icon

    OpenEmu

    Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

    Multi System Emulator Access the AppStore
  • Kawaks icon

    Kawaks

    Kawaks is a streamlined Neo-Geo/Capcom (CPS1/2) emulator that works well even in low-end computers and is compatible with Kaillera Netplay. You can assign macros to specific keys to perform otherwise complicated supermoves!

    Free Windows

  • FB Alpha icon

    FB Alpha

    FB Alpha or FBA as it is commonly known is an emulator of arcade games, that is, it takes the program code, graphics data, etc., from an original arcade game and emulates the hardware to make the game run in it's original form.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Shmupmame icon

    Shmupmame

    Shmupmame is a variant of the MAME emulator optimized for Shoot-em-up games (Shmups). Based on Mameplus! '99, it includes improved drivers, audio and audio volumes...

    Free Windows

  • RetroX icon

    RetroX

    RetroX is an Android application that will help you organize and play your own Retro Games with the less possible effort. Put your collection in your device and RetroX...

    Freemium Android

  • Nebula icon

    Nebula

    Nebula is an arcade emulator. Specifically it emulates the CPS 1 & 2, Neo-Geo, PGM (PolyGameMaster) and Konami systems. Features include multiplayer, netplay and...

    Free Windows

  • SDLMAME / MESS icon

    SDLMAME / MESS

    SDLMame is a variant of M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). SDLMame should work with both Mac, Linux and any other SDL framework supported OS.

    Free Personal Mac OS X Linux

  • BeMAME icon

    BeMAME

    BeMAME is a BeOS native version of MAME which is one of the most popular emulators ever. It supports a few thousand classic arcade games, including the famous Neo Geo...

    Free Open Source Haiku