[[File:Mess sysinfo.png|thumb|upright=1.29|The MAME system info box for the CPC6128]]
[[File:Mess gx4000 pang.png|thumb|upright=1.2|MAME also has (still somewhat glitchy) support for the GX4000 and CPC+ series. Note the strange blue bar at the bottom in ''[[Pang (cartridge)|Pang]]''.]]
'''MAME''' (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a multi-platform emulator for arcade games, vintage home computers, gaming consoles, chess computers, calculators, etc. MAME 0.162 (released on May 27, 2015) merged the previously separate MAME and MESS (Multi Emulator Super System) codebases projects into one, so that a single executable now combines the emulation capabilities of pre-0.162 MAME/MESS.
The most important goal of MAME is highly accurate emulation, not speed. MAME is mainly a preservation project that aims to reproduce the behaviour of the real hardware perfectly, so performance may be slightly worse than many dedicated CPC emulators.
To use a German keyboard in emulated keyboard mode, start MAME e.g. with (key map path on Linux):
mame cpc6128 -keymap -keymap_file /usr/share/sdlmesssdlmame/keymaps/km-de.txt
In emulated mode, keys can also be remapped in the emulator menu. First press ''Scroll Lock'' to enable the MAME control keys, then ''Tab'' to open the menu, and finally select ''Input (this system)''. ''Return, Esc'' clears an assigned key.
==ROMs and extension hardware==
[[Media:CPC_ROMs_for_MESS.zip|CPC ROMs for MAME]]. Just unzip the file and move the ZIPs inside into the MESS MAME ROM folder.
;General notes about MAME and ROMs
==JSMESS, a JavaScript port==
There is an experimental port of MAME/MESS to JavaScript, see the [[JSMESS]] article for details.
==Links==