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MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming  history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The  aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated  arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect" . The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
The emulator now supports 4432 unique games and 8733 actual ROM  image sets and is growing all the time. However, not all of the  games in MAME are currently playable.

Game data (ROM  image)

In most arcade machines, the data (consisting of the game program,  graphics, sounds, etc.) is stored in read-only memory chips (hence the  name "ROM"), although other devices such as cassettes,floppy disks, hard disks, laserdiscs, and compact discs are also used. Most of these devices can be copied to computer files, in a process called "dumping". The resulting files are often generically called ROM images or ROMs  regardless of the kind of storage they came from.

To play a particular game, MAME requires a set of files called a ROM  set. They contain all the data from the original machine; for legal  reasons, however, MAME itself does not include any of these files

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