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What are MAME ROMS?

April 26, 2017MAME ROMs

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What are MAME ROMS?

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Arcade games for MAME are commonly called ROMS. ROMS actually contain the data downloaded from the original arcade. Because of this they play just like the original arcade games.

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A. The two words are seperate descriptions which have, over time, merged by their association. MAME refers to the emulation engine – the program which recreates the arcade games. ROM refers to the portion of memory which typically resides on the chips of the printed circuit boards inside the arcade machine. Such is the extent of the mis-use of the phrase MAME ROM and term ROM with regards to emulation that you may frequantly find them being used to represent floppy disc images, hard drive images, audio tape images and various forms of RAM also. For a strict guide on the true meaning, see ROM. For a more in-depth look at the relationship between MAME and ROMs used for MAME, see the MAME Controversy section.