MAME an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The quality of the games of the 80s and 90s is even below playstation 1 1995 level as average. Only making a fuzz about this is odd. AND the size of this pack is somewhat BIG - cant anyone upload 25 packs for beginning with each letter as one pack. I've downloaded the torrent for this file twice. Both to different physical hard drives and both times it shows me that firstly some of the files within the package are corrupt and then tells me that the file is unreadable. I've used standard ZIP, 7-Zip and even tried WinRAR all with the same effect. Either I'm missing something or this file is corrupt. Copier coller l'ensemble des liens dans un gestionnaire de telechargement mipony et voila plus besoin de chopper 42Go d'un coup, vous chopper les archives une par une Most of the games the average person cares about have been working in MAME for years, so while this collection is a few versions behind it shouldn't matter to most. Tell your torrent client to recheck it. Even if you downloaded the big file over straight HTTP the torrent will happily check the file and fix any broken chunks. If it still doesn't extract when the torrent says it's good, something's wrong with your computer. This HUGE file almost 43 Gigabytes does not have any parity files with it so there is no way to repair it if there are errors. I Downloaded the entire file and it won't even open due to some kind of error. I work with Rar and zip files all the time so I'm not a newbie. I only get so many DL bytes per month from my ISP and 43GB takes a huge chunk. Is there any way I can get some kind of repair files for this? In future, I would recommend making several smaller files instead of one huge file. Oh, and those who whine about copyrights on these old games, only 1 in several hundred is worth a quarter. It's clear these games were designed to give the average gamer about 1 minute or less of play time per quarter. Barely acceptable when free! Thank you for hosting this here; this is something worth archiving for prosperity and despite the aforementioned legal zeal in the comments, this certainly should fall under fare use as governed by my scrupples. We are all doggy locked vendor lock in and find ourselves buying the same old classics for each new system, where they rehash them using emulators. Multiple streams of income off the same game, X years later from the same damn consumer. My sympathies are not with content holders who have already made a packet off of their products and expect the gravy train to be never ending. This applies to the United States jurisdiction, and may not apply to you all. Details on the ruling and exemptions can be found here: and While I appreciate the noble intent of the uploader, 'historical value' fair use is probably not going to cut it here. Many of these games have trademarked characters that live on in modern incarnations; some of them are still being sold by their owners, wrapped in proprietary emulators; and many of these ROMs are 'bootlegs' and circumvent encryption and copy protection in direct violation of the DMCA. Further, many of these games are still in operation, in arcades, bus stations and amusement parks around the world. To be completely safe, YOU MUST OWN AN ORIGINAL ROMSET of a game in order to use the copy of it contained within this archive FOR ANY PURPOSE, including personal amusement. Of course, should IA release a formal statement clarifying legal advice they have received stating downloaders of this file are somehow exempt from copyright and trademark law, and in what capacity, the situation may change, but at this time, any downloader's legal position is questionable, and you have been warned. Sorry to be a party-pooper, but it would suck even worse if an innocent downloader were to face legal penalties because they had the wrong impression. The vast majority of these ROMs are NOT free, neither in speech nor in beer. No - copyright on these has not expired. Most video games will have been written in the USA, where the Copyright term is Life of the Author + 70 years, Japan, Life + 50 years or the UK, Life + 70 years. The earliest video arcade game Computer Space was released in 1971 - 42 years ago. So no video games are yet out of copyright. I was wondering if the copyright of this ROM expired since they are now stored on.
