MAME on iPhone 3GS via iMAME4all (v1.4)

This video shows arcade games running on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS via the iMAME4all emulator. This emulator is much better than thealternative 'MAME4iPhone' emulator with better stability, full automatic screen rotation, support for up to 4 Wiimotes, game-specific performance settings and graphics effects (scaling, scanlines etc.). This latest version (1.4) also supports native TV-out support via a compatible TV-out cable, though I've not yet tested this. Should be great for multi-player MAME action on the move!

ROM support is for the 0.37b5 rom set only, though there have been some tweaks to support games from later releases, and I found some games that were supposed to be supported by their 0.37b5 version ROM had to be modified or only worked with a ROM from a later build. Most games run fine with little or no slowdown or frameskip so overall it's a great emulator from the choice available on iPhone, and the best of the two MAME emulators currently available.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• mame
• iphone
• 3gs
• arcade
• imame4all
• mame4iphone

[edjisil]

the MAME ROMs error in the application iMAME4all iphone 3G S

[Turnarcades]

@edjisil

If the application is launching OK but you're getting errors when trying to launch certain games, it's more than likely you're either using a zipped rom containing the wrong files that this port of MAME needs, or if it is definitely a 0.37b5 rom, that your rom is corrupt. You must use roms intended for this exact version of MAME.

[edjisil]

both in the rom as in mame4iphone iMame4all of error and fails to do?

OBS. rom the ta zip format

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@edjisil

Sorry is this a ms-type or a bad translation - I don't understand this post?

[Turnarcades]

@Hisiru

Buttons on screen can be moved round, and in portrait mode are at the bottom not covering the game. Not a problem anyway for how I use it; hooked up to a TV with Wiimotes and inevitably into the mains, so no biggie. All phones have crap battery life. Before you say "if you're at home just use a PC", your phone is always with you and when I go on trips I always pack my combined TV-out/power lead (and a Wiimote if I'm spending a fair amount of time in a hotel room).

[Hisiru]

@Turnarcades

Buttons in front of the action so you can't see some elements on the screen? Check. No physical buttons? Check. Low battery? Check.

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@NastyMaster

If you're successfully managing to get the roms onto your iphone and they are in the correct folder, yet not showing when you load MAME, then your roms are no good. All mobile device versions of MAME are based on the first 'MAME4all' port, so you must use zipped roms from MAME version 0.37b5. Roms change over time as better dumps are created, so roms intended for newer versions of MAME like those hosted on many sites will not work on iMAME4all. Try getting a set via bittorrent.

[NastyMaster]

Could someone explain or show how to ssh the rom to get it to work? Ive downloaded several roms from several dif websites and drag and dropped the folder into the ROMs section, and even compressed the folder before drag and dropping it into the ROMs section but I can't get it to work. I have a Mac os X 10.6.6 and Ipod touch 4g 4.2.1 I was using Cyberduck If anyone knows how to get roms to work please show us how or explain how step by step

I had to post twice because there wasn't enough space.

[daveclark1961]

@heihachi73:

1) Native TV-Out support. That means the display is not "postage stamp-sized", it is as big as your TV screen.

2) Why do you call this emulator buggy? Have you tried it? I have, and I haven't found a bug yet. Why do you call it old?  It's being constantly updated.