MAME on Modern Macs - A Knowledgebase - MAME® is a registered trademark of Nicola Salmoria.

Arcade Emulation on Modern Macs - Tips & Tricks (strictly non-profit)

14 May 2025

Emulator Frontend Deluxe: AttractMode+ 3.1.0 and Smart Themes Project

›
With the new release 3.1.0 of Attract Mode Plus, the incredible work provided by the Smart Themes Project was also published. As it is hard ...
26 March 2025

Super Mario 64 Hacks on Apple Silicon (Native)

›
Update 26.03.2025: another update of CoopDX with the latest and greatest version of the app and the Render96 Dynos resources, including actu...
06 February 2025

MAME 0.274 for Silicon Macs received a Dynamic Recompiler

›
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...
06 January 2025

Mac MAME Advanced: Intel Build besides Silicon Build

›
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...
10 December 2024

Featured Post: Retrogaming Emulation on Apple Silicon

›
This featured post is in steady update.  6 February 2025 - MAME updated again due to the big news of a Dynarec for Silicon builds  6 January...
12 comments:
16 July 2024

This July - Hot Emulation News

›
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...
07 June 2024

Exciting RetroArch Updates - Official Apple AppStore Availability

›
The RetroArch community remains very busy and provides for another big thing - RetroArch is now downloadable for iOS/iPadOS/tvOS from the of...
28 April 2024

Welcome back, QMC2!

›
Update 6 May 2024 - GitHub Fork with MacOS Binaries For easier deployment, I created a fork of the QMC2 Github Repository here: https://gith...
17 comments:
08 February 2024

RetroArch Tutorial Part III - Usage 101 / Best Practices

›
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...
06 February 2024

RetroArch 1.17 release & RetroArch Setup Tutorial - Part II

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

Arcade Emulation on Macs - Status Report December 2023

›
Update 13 January 2024:  Further great news for all Aracade fans. 1942 has RetroAchievements!  One of my all-time arcade favorites finally r...
27 December 2023

Christmas Retrogaming with koko-aio shaders

›
A brief note: This forum thread contains two Christmas add-ons for the koko-aio shader of RetroArch. As a regular reader, you will know tha...
03 October 2023

Special Feature: Guitar Hero in PCSX2 (WIP)

›
This entry is about one of my all-time favs, Guitar Hero. It was the single reason for me to buy a PS2. So when I found out that recent vers...
17 September 2023

Update: AttractMode Plus 3.0.6 for Apple Silicon and ArcadeFlow Theme

›
Update December 2023: Please be sure to head for version 3.0.7 on the official GitHub site (see my December 2023 post), as these here have c...
4 comments:
14 August 2023

MAME (current) for RetroArch shows improvements

›
Update 14 August 2023 - MAME (current) was also updated to version 0.257 and is on par with official MAME as of this blog update Recently th...
21 April 2023

Mac RetroArch Setup Tutorial for Arcade Games - Part I

›
Update June 2024: Some small, but great RetroArch news considered here. First,  HDR screenshots work now! And the new function "Add To ...
6 comments:
06 April 2023

Presenting: RetroArch Arcade Presets for the koko-aio shader

›
Update 6 April 2023: I released v 0.3 of my Arcade koko-aio shader https://github.com/estefan3112/koko-aio-slang/releases/tag/0.3 Important ...
3 comments:
13 January 2023

Sneak Peek: Massive RetroArch/FinalBurn Neo Update (WIP)

›
Update 13 January 2023, several amendments and Preemptive Frames as third big thing 2023 starts with some big news for Mac Retrogaming: Retr...
8 comments:
28 December 2022

Google Search Milestone 🥁🎉😎 - staying strictly non-commercial

›
So I learned these days that Google Search sees this Blog, and here‘s a milestone for clicks. It is very nice to see that this bears some re...
26 December 2022

Off-Topic: Mupen64plus on Mac Silicon - finally here

›
Update Christmas 2022: I created a script for a fully fledged compile of mupen64plus.  Please download the zip file under this link: https:...
5 comments:
›
Home
View web version

Retrogaming rules

estefan
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.