Update 3 March 2026: The Homebrew formula of MAME was updated to 286, which is the first MAME with SDL3 support in MacOS per default! It wor...

This featured post is in steady update.  2 February 2026  - updated the Arcade Games section by upgrading MAME to 'excellent' due to...

Update 16 February 2026: Attract Mode Plus 3.2.2 has been released. You can download fully notarized builds for ARM64/Silicon and Intel (for...

Update 30 January 2026: Negatron is back and fully working on ARM Macs - download the best MAME frontend for MacOS here. https://github.com/...

Quick Hints 2 February 2025 - Running QMC2 for the first time / older MAME installs Hint #1:  Prior to running QMC2 for the first time, plea...

I’m pleased to provide MacOS DarkPlaces builds, fully codesigned and notarized, for download and use on Silicon aka ARM64 as well as Intel M...

November 2025 — an excellent opportunity to present a broad overview of updates in macOS emulation. Since this will cover a diverse range of...

I will use this post as collector for any further improvements that we see in the MAME (current) RetroArch core. Update 4 August 2025 - just...

Besides Super Mario 64, the two Zelda games on my Nintendo 64 are high ranking in my forever games list. Even more than Super Mario 64, thes...

Update 26.7.2025: The very promising Launcher for Super Mario 64 received a nice update. See the new chapter at the bottom of this entry! Up...

Just a brief note on the latest version 0278 of MAME: As advertised in the Release Notes, it comes with a new sound infrastructure that prov...

Just a few days after my post on Intel64 builds, these thoughts became redundant because MAME 0.274 for Silicon Macs (along with other ARM64...

It seems that one of the major drawbacks of current MacOS MAME is the lack of a Dynamic Recompiler (dynarec), which is only available for In...

While during summer, computing tends to slow down a bit, this is certainly not true for the emulator scene. Let's just list the big news...

The RetroArch community remains very busy and provides for another big thing - RetroArch is now downloadable for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS from the of...

After two tutorials on a proper RetroArch setup ( Part I and Part II ), this might be the most difficult Part III on best practices in Retr...

Update June 2024: Besides minor tweaks all over the document, I included a dedicated RetroArch Cloud Sync section for FinalBurn Neo, as this...

Update 13 January 2024:  Further great news for all Aracade fans. 1942 has RetroAchievements!  One of my all-time arcade favorites finally r...