It worked very well but it was unwieldy, loud, overly wired, and frankly just old. I previously had the traditional M.A.M.E. As a result, if you want to run some older arcade games, the best recreation aside from having an authentic arcade CPU board, would be the M.A.M.E. The developers avoid using GPU acceleration for the emulation because actually running of the software is simply an aside to the purpose of their mission. The developers try their best to recreate the software systems that ran/run on arcade based computers and do so strictly via CPU emulation for that purpose. as an archive of the vintage software that ran arcade systems from yesteryear. You need to use up 2 port for the Tankstick with trackball.įor simplicity's sake, I'll define M.A.M.E. The LED cinema display simply plugged into the mini display port on the back of the Mac mini. The Mac mini was upgraded to macOS High Sierra. for short) and use the Mac mini as the engine. Rather than give my Mac mini away or recycle it, I decided to revamp and update my home built arcade cabinet running the multiple arcade machine emulator (M.A.M.E.

If you were lucky enough to upgrade your existing Mac line up this holiday season to a new iMac Pro, you may be wondering what to do with some of your older less powerful hardware.