Free mame software for linux

ckmame is a program to check ROM sets for MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

ckmame project tells you which ROM files are missing or have a wrong checksum, and can delete unknown and unused files from the ROM sets, and rename or move ROM files.

Xmame is the X11/Unix port of MAME. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, an arcade (coin-op) video game emulator.
The latest stable release is capable of playing over 2000 arcade games.
Enhancements:
- Everything from MAME 0.106 (changes-mame.html) and MESS 0.106 (changes-mess.html).
- Reverted a change that was intended to work around some Metacity focus misbehavior but was causing all window managers to have focus problems in fullscreen mode.
- Fixed a link error for messtest. (Arnaud G. Gibert)
- The clean68k target now removes libcpu.a, which fixes link errors for successive builds made without a full clean. (Arnaud G. Gibert)
- Fixed an alignment bug in the OpenGL driver which caused Defender, and possibly other 16bpp games, to be skewed.
- The mouse is no longer automatically grabbed in fullscreen mode. Bugzilla bug 877.
- Replaced fuzzy game name comparison with the method used by MAME for Windows, which lists approximate matches when an exact match isnt found.
- A BadMatch error should no longer occur for the OpenGL target in some cases, such as when 16bpp mode is used with recent releases of the binary NVIDIA driver.
- Fixed the tiny build target. (Mike Frysinger)
- Added CFLAGS for the Blackfin CPU. (Mike Frysinger)
- BUILD_ZLIB and BUILD_EXPAT can now be disabled without having to edit the makefile. (Mike Frysinger)

Python GTK MAME frontend.

A simple frontend that can filter games for category/year/manufacturer and has the new functionality of search dialog.

AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS are unofficial MAME and MESS versions with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors.
They run in GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows and in all the other platforms supported by the SDL library.
The main difference compared with the official emulators is that the Advance versions are able to program directly the video board to always get a video mode with the correct size and frequency.
Generally the Advance emulators are able to use a video mode which doesnt require any stretching or other unneeded effects to match the original arcade display.
The direct video board programming is fully supported in Linux and DOS. Its partially supported in Windows. AdvanceMAME isnt supported in Mac OS X and other platforms.
Main features:
- Automatic creation of perfect video modes with the correct size and clock.
- A lot of video boards supported. See the GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows card list.
- Support for 8, 15, 16 and 32 bits video modes.
- Real hardware scanlines.
- Software video image stretching by fractional factors, for example to play vertical games like "Pac-Man" with horizontal Arcade Monitors or TVs.
- Special scale, lq and hq effects to improve the aspect with modern PC Monitors. See Scale2x and hq3x pages for examples.
- Special blit effects to improve the image quality in stretching. See Blit Effetcs for examples.
- Special rgb effects to simulate the aspect of a real Arcade Monitor See Rgb Effetcs for examples.
- Change of the video mode and other video options at runtime. See the Snapshots.
- Support of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) with a multiple threads architecture in Linux.
- Sound and Video recording in WAV, PNG and .MNG files.
- Multiple mice support in Linux, DOS, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
- Automatic exit after some time of inactivity.
- Scripts capabilities to drive external hardware devices like LCDs and lights.
- Textual configuration files.
- Help screen describing the user input keys.
Enhancements:
- This release updates the emulator sources to the latest MAME version.

KnoppiXMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image with hardware automatic probing and configuration for playing MAME games.

No games are included, but they can be added to the ISO image, as well as new versions of X-MAME, gxmame, and the Linux kernel.

CabFE project is a frontend for xmame and daphne on arcade cabinets.
CabFE is a multi-emulator frontend for MAME, Daphne, and other arcade games.
It is designed specifically for arcade cabinets that have a minimal set of controls, typically only a joystick and a few buttons.
Main features:
- Mostly themeable. One sample theme is included.
- Filtering by Categories
- Tracks play time and creates an automatic Favourites list
- Configurable key bindings.
- No Mouse necessary. Just joystick and arcade buttons
Enhancements:
- Added proper Credits to Robert Fleming (PyReCADE)
- (re-) creating MAME game lists works again

The Romalizer project is a Tcl script to analyze your MAME roms and report errors.
The ROMalizer is a Tcl script that examines your .zip files for MAME ROMs and lets you know if you have any extra data in them. It can also report incorrect filenames, CRCs, etc.
Enhancements:
- romalizer will no longer move the zipfiles it has fixed into your roms directory unless you specify the -M option. This will allow you to run romalizer as a normal user on a roms filesystem that is only writable by root or some other games administrator. If you use the -M option, romalzier will back up your old roms into the working directory as usual, if the -M option is not used, the new (fixed) roms will be located in the working directory.
- romalizer now fully supports two new styles of merging your roms. You may now use the -g or -G options to tell romalizer to use one of these new merging formats. When -g is used, romalizer will merge all clones into a single zip file. When -G is used, romalizer will create clone zip files that are capable of being run independantly of the parent romset. I have tested these new merging features on my pacman romset and it works beautifully, however more testing probably needs to be done on a complete romset for these options.
- neogeo games are now supported, romalizer will just ignore any CRC that matches 354029fc (ng-sfix.rom), 9036d879 (neo-geo.rom), and 97cf998b (ng-sm1.rom). Thus neogeo roms are now fully supported except for these 3 which should be placed in a file called neogeo.zip.
- romalizer requires usage of UnZip version 5.41 or higher due to a Y2K bug in UnZip. This patch will now check your unzip version and abort if you do not have a recent version of UnZip.

Game Launcher project is a universal front end for emulators.
The main goal is to provide a user interface that is easy to use and attractive, yet does not look like a traditional user interface with windows and such.
Game Launcher should work with any emulator, but it has been known to work with MAME, Nesticle, RockNES, zSNES, snes9x, Callus, Stella, z26, and Versions are available for Unix, DOS, and Windows.
Main features:
- Very flexible. It should run with any command line emulator.
- Simple and easy to use interface.
- Plays music in the background (MP3s or an audio CD).
- Displays screenshots (PNG, PCX, BMP, and JPEG).
- Customizable font.
- Customizable screen resolution.
- Support for vertical (rotated) monitors.
- Slight menu animations.
- Support for PC joysticks.