Who knows about M.A.M.E.?

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#1

When i finish my platform game I really want to be able to run it on my friends arcade cabinet, which is a MAME.

Does anyone know if a java game can be ported to mame or can be run through mame?

Are there alternatives? Like running the game on the machine, via the PC but accessing it through the mame front end?

Ideally it should be able to show up in the games list and run without having to close the emulator and open something else.

Feel free to spitball any ideas too.

Thanks.

#2

I don’t know anything about MAME, but there was another game intending to do the same thing, which may or may not help you, but I’ll post it anyway.

Thread: http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/new-old-style-arcade-game-alien-swarm/30062/view.html

#3

MAME is an emulator, emulating specific hardware and running binary files created for such hardware.
As far as I know, they don’t have a “Java” emulator included, since it’s not specific hardware…

You can see if there is an opensource MAME front-end, which you can modify to start JAR files… has nothing to do with MAME tho.

#4

So i should get a custom front end that loads games for any system?

I think there are several mame front ends and one would probably do that.

I’ll ask on Mame forums sometimes.

I’ll have a better look at the Alien Swarm game later.

Thanks guys.

#5

Your friend’s arcade cabinet might just be a PC box with the MAME emulator installed, so running your game might simply require installing Java and running it like on any other PC.

Maybe throwing some JoyToKey (or similar) to parse the controller input though.