The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator is a software that allows users to play classic arcade games on their modern devices. It can emulate a wide range of arcade system hardware and is constantly updated to support new games.
MAME, or Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, is a non-profit project primarily intended as a reference to the inner workings of emulated arcade machines. It serves both educational and preservation purposes by preventing historical games from disappearing once the hardware they run on stops working. While being able to actually play the games is a nice side effect, it is not MAME's primary focus.
It is important to note that MAME does not infringe on any copyrights or patents of original games. All of the emulator's source code is either its own or freely available. The emulator requires images of the original ROMs, CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines provided by the user to operate, and no portions of the original game code are included in the executable.
Since MAME is a non-profit project, it is free to use, and its source code is also free. Selling either one is not allowed. ROM, CD, and hard disk images, which are copyrighted material, cannot be distributed without explicit permission from the copyright owner. MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright infringement, and the authors strongly discourage selling, advertising, or linking to resources that provide illegal copies of image files.
Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license; however, specific functionality that goes against the MAME team's philosophy should be avoided. This includes not adding games that are more recent than three years old or still being sold by the company that produced them, not providing a means of generating lists of games that require illegal ROM, CD, or hard disk images, and not removing the startup screen that contains information about working and non-working games.
Trademark rules must be followed when using "MAME" as part of a derivative work's name, and permission must be requested to use the trademark. The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version number of the MAME release it was derived from.
It is important to note that MAME does not infringe on any copyrights or patents of original games. All of the emulator's source code is either its own or freely available. The emulator requires images of the original ROMs, CDs, or hard disks from the arcade machines provided by the user to operate, and no portions of the original game code are included in the executable.
Since MAME is a non-profit project, it is free to use, and its source code is also free. Selling either one is not allowed. ROM, CD, and hard disk images, which are copyrighted material, cannot be distributed without explicit permission from the copyright owner. MAME is not intended to be used as a tool for mass copyright infringement, and the authors strongly discourage selling, advertising, or linking to resources that provide illegal copies of image files.
Derivative works are allowed under the MAME license; however, specific functionality that goes against the MAME team's philosophy should be avoided. This includes not adding games that are more recent than three years old or still being sold by the company that produced them, not providing a means of generating lists of games that require illegal ROM, CD, or hard disk images, and not removing the startup screen that contains information about working and non-working games.
Trademark rules must be followed when using "MAME" as part of a derivative work's name, and permission must be requested to use the trademark. The version number of any derivative work should reflect the version number of the MAME release it was derived from.
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