As lunar new year draws near and we approach a quarter of a century
since Nicola Salmoria released MAME to the public, it’s time for
MAME 0.240 – the first release of the 2022 calendar year. Wait,
what was that? A quarter of a century? Yes, on 5 February, it will
be twenty-five years since MAME 0.1 was released, supporting just
five Z80-based games. MAME is coming up to its silver jubilee! And
what a long way we’ve come…
This month, we’ve added support for dozens more versions of the
Igrosoft five-reel slot machines. But buried in there are the
remaining versions of Nintendo Game & Watch series games (rare
versions of Helmet, Judge and Mario’s Cement Factory), two more
Elektronika games based on Nintendo programs, a German version of
Exidy’s Mouse Trap, and the incredibly rare Mahjong Block Jongbou
2 from SNK.
In the software lists, there are a whole pile of recently dumped
prototypes of console games, and some homebrew titles for the Bandai
RX-78. That’s on top of the steady stream of Apple II floppies,
Commodore 64 cassettes, FM Towns CDs, and newly supported NES and
Famicom cartridges. Building on the work last month, the CD-i has
received a few more fixes that improve performance and add support
for more discs.
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