SDL Supported Platforms

Here are downloads for MAME/MESS on non-Windows platforms including Mac OS X, Linux, and BSD family operating systems.

Technical support for MAME on non-Windows platforms and for MESS on all platforms is available on the bannister.org forums.

Source code download

The following links are for source code, either pre-packaged by MAMEDev or you can simply clone/fork us on Github to follow the team's progress in real-time. Download these if you'd like to learn to develop for MAME/MESS, or if you know how to build the emulator and just want to follow along quickly.

MAME/MESS releases	http://mamedev.org/release.html
Live MAME/MESS WIP on Github	https://github.com/mamedev/mame

A guide to building MAME/MESS on Mac OS X is available here. An equivalent guide for Linux is available here.

Regularly Updated binaries and packages (usually within a few versions of baseline)

These links are for binaries and/or distribution packages for Mac OS X, the BSD family, and a variety of popular Linux distributions. Download these if you can't or don't wish to build MAME and don't mind waiting for the next release date to see progress. Please Note: In all source release versions starting with 0.162, MAME is a binary which consists the entirety of source (including the former MESS project). As a result, MESS links here will likely only be available up to 0.161 with anything beyond expected to be obtained at the MAME link. For the time being, old MESS can be compiled using "SUBTARGET=mess" while older MAME (arcade only) can be made with "SUBTARGET=mamearcade". Support for these older styles of binaries will be discontinued in the near future.

Target OS/Platform	Build Target	URL
Apple Macintosh OS X Intel	MAME/MESS	http://sdlmame.lngn.net
Apple Macintosh OS X PowerPC	MAME/MESS	http://mirrors.xmission.com/mame/mac/sdlmame
Apple Macintosh OS X PowerPC (10.5)	MAME	https://www.mediafire.com/folder/07r0cvcq1i39g/OSX_PPC_10.5_%28SDL2%29
Arch Linux	MAME	https://www.archlinux.de/?page=Packages;search=mame
Debian	MAME	http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mame
Debian	MESS	http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mess
Fedora	MAME/MESS	http://www.rpmfusion.org/ - Follow directions at "Enable RPM Fusion" then choose desired package
FreeBSD	MAME/MESS	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/mame
General Linux Package Search	MAME	http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=mame
General Linux Package Search	MESS	http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=sdlmess
Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10)	MAME/MESS	http://mamedev.org/release.html
NetBSD	MAME/MESS	http://pkgsrc.se/emulators/mame
OpenBSD	MAME	http://openports.se/emulators/sdlmame
OpenBSD	MESS	http://openports.se/emulators/sdlmess
OpenSUSE	MAME	http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rreucher:/mame/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ and http://packman.links2linux.org/package/mame
OS/2 Warp	MAME	http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=sdlmame
Slackware	MAME/MESS	http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameforslack
Ubuntu	MAME	http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/repository/
Void Linux	MAME	https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/mame

Discontinued/Irregularly Updated

Target OS/Platform	Build Target	URL
Gentoo/Funtoo Linux	MAME	http://gpo.zugaina.org/games-emulation/sdlmame
Gentoo/Funtoo Linux	MESS	http://gpo.zugaina.org/games-emulation/sdlmess
Google Native Client	MAME	http://tiny.cc/MAMENaCL , http://tiny.cc/MAMENaCLCaseStudy
YellowDogLinux 6.2 / Playstation 3	MAME	http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/ps3linux/ps3bodega62/ppc/repoview/mame.html
YellowDogLinux 6.2 / Playstation 3	MESS	http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/ps3linux/ps3bodega62/ppc/repoview/mess.html
YellowDogLinux 6.2 / Playstation 3	Configuration	http://pleasantfiction.ipower.com/bodega/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=555&start=0

Targets for which MAME/MESS have been known to exist, but have custom OSDs/Interfaces

Target OS/Platform
Android (ARM)
Apple iOS
Nintendo Wii (PowerPC)
XBOX