UME (Universal Machine Emulator) combines the features of MAME and MESS into a single multi-purpose emulator. The project represents a natural course of development for the emulators which already share large amounts of code and is part of an ongoing effort to unify development efforts and provide a single emulation platform for users and developers alike.
As an end user this means that the software provided here is not only capable of emulating arcade machines like the baseline versions of MAME, but in addition can emulate a large number of home computers and consoles from across the world using the very same code, developed by the very same team of developers.
0.148u1 Windows binaries (32-bit and 64-bit) (Self Extracting 7-zip) (all MAME / MESS tools included, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions in tool32/tools64)
The source is identical to that found on mamedev.org (SVN revision SVN 20927 / 0.148u1)
General Note
In addition to providing the UME binaries I’ve also included a package with the individual MAME/MESS executables here, personally I prefer the everything under one exe UME solution but I’ve noticed it’s not always easy to find binaries of the regular u builds with them not being offered from the official site so this is my attempt to address that.
What’s New
You can read the various whatsnew files on mamedev.org
From MAME, From MESS
Points of Interest
I’ll probably cover most of this in a new article shortly, some decent changes in here, especially from the MESS side
Thanks for the Binaries. I’ll update my configuration right now :)
This has been out for over a week, and still no sulky drama about how MAME is “contaminated” with games Joe Schmuck isn’t interested in? I’m impressed!
Yeah, it is surprising, no negative reception to this or the 2012 article where I mix MAME/MESS in equal part either, actually only overwhelmingly positive comments for both that and the one above covering u1.
I am a user of MAME, and have kept up with the news of UME and ‘other types of games’ being added in MAME.
I don’t use UME/MESS as an emulator probably becuase I am too lazy to work out how too and stick with other emulators. However I am happy to see MESS/MAME unite becasue as you have siad, ‘it uses the same codebase’.
Regarding the ‘fruit machines’ – if anyone from the USA went to Brighton Pier (even now) to the amusement arcade, you will see a SEGA machine about 6 foot away from a Bellfruit.
I know you have said it before, but amusement arcades across the world hold many different types of games, and as MAME/MESS are world wide, then it makes sense for the projects to reflect this.
I am probably going to get shot down in flames for this, but I am actually looking forward to see how MAME runs a fruit machine from the UK!!!