MAME Frontends

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Name Description
3D Arcade This is probably the most uniquely customizable frontend for MAME. For example, you can choose what game you want to play in a virtual arcade room.
AdvanceMENU This is a DOS/Windows/Linux frontend for the MAME, MESS and Raine emulators with a lot of unique features.
Arcade.exe Written in Delphi 5/6 format, with no configuration needed -- just put in your MAME folder and run!
ArcadEPIC This is a relatively new MAME frontend on the scene. Nothing particularly impressive yet, it can use skins from MameWAH as its own.
Big Blue Big Blue is a frontend for any command line program (MAME or any game) that works on any setup. You can use it with an arcade cabinet with a 15khz arcade monitor or a desktop computer with a 3840x2160 monitor.
EasyMame EasyMame is a full featured frontend that has become pretty popular for both beginners and advanced users. Give it a try!
Emu Loader Very well designed frontend for MAME developed by Ciro Consentino. Many features - Get it now! Note that to build from source, you need to have Borland's Delphi application development environment. There used to be a "lite" version, but the last version of that is very outdated.
GuiMame A very simple, easy to use frontend for MAME. Lack of options are it's only drawback currently.
GXMame Very nice frontend with the ambitious goal of creating a MAME32 clone for Unix.
KKME This is a frontend for MAMED on dreamcast. You will need a keyboard to use this but you can launch other klf files (including mamedc) by typing in their names.
KMameleon This is a KDE frontend for the excellent XMAME arcade emulator. It is in active development, and supports the latest versions of KDE.
LightningMame This frontend was created to be easy to use, easy to install, very fast and stable. It is build to integrate the essential features necessary to quickly search and launch a rom.
M+GUI A GUI interface for MAME.
MAME Classic MAME frontend for the Windows platform. Works with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 & 8.x.
MAME FE This is a MAME frontend with full images support and easy to use. The new thing of this frontend is that you can visually choose the game you want to play! Because you can see a lot of images of every kind at the same time, like a thumbnails program. This is an update patch for use ONLY if you are seeing an "ERROR Loading MAME Version" issue.
MAMEd This frontend allows you to use the DOS port of MAME with ease.
MAMED! This frontend allows you to put all 15 MAMED packs on one disc and choose which one you wish to use without having to use a keyboard.
MAMELOAD TNG This MAME frontend is chock full of features, and relies mostly on the commandline for changing options, so a knowledge of MAME's command line switches is required.
Mamemix Mamemix features MAME Win32 support, user friendly interface, fast search engine, one-time refreshing, multi-filtering system, versatile screenshot viewer, file handling utils (snapshots, roms, hi scores).
MAMEWAH MAMEWAH is an ArcadeOS inspired frontend for the DOS / Windows commandline M.A.M.E. (NOT MAME32) under Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. MAMEWAH is designed to hide the Windows environment and also to be controlled purely by arcade controllers (joysticks and buttons).
MAVER This is a good frontend for M.A.M.E. now with source code!
MER Another good frontend for the DOS port of MAME.
MyMAMEm3d This frontend is designed to create an easy interface to play the games and manage the OS. You can set up screen shots of games as the interface.
QMamecat QMamecat is a frequently-updated frontend for XMAME. Quite easy to use. give it a try.
QMC2 QMC2 – M.A.M.E./M.E.S.S. Catalog / Launcher II is the successor of one of the first UNIX M.A.M.E. GUI front ends available on this planet called QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMamecat was based upon Qt 2; its development was frozen in 2003.
Qtmame Qtmame is a frontend for xmame. The documentation is in Spanish so not much is known about this frontend. However, its apps.kde.com entry indicates that it features such things as configuration of xmame and multiple video modes, it can displays snapshots, cabinets, and flyers, prior history, and the mameinfo.
QuickMAME Launcher Dread's QuickMAME Launcher 6.14 Front-End (32-bit Windows) BETA Emulator launcher/front-end/cataloger utility to keep track of ROM's with proper names, switches, etc. 100% Downwardly compatible with previous QuickMAME versions. (Designed for MAME, but works with virtually ALL other emulators as well.)
Romeo A feature-rich frontend for MAME by Stefan Bolli. It is currently under heavy development, but packs a lot. It is skinnable, compatible with XMAME and the Windows command line, can automatically download ROMs, screenshots, flyers, and other media. It can also have a different configuration file for each game.
S.M.F.E. This is a Simple M.A.M.E. Front End for Windows.
Stingray This is a frontend for CPSMAME.
TurboMAME TurboMAME is a free Windows application that provides an extremely easy-to-use graphical user interface for MAME and MAME32. Now has screenshot support and a whole slew of extra options. It's also extremely fast and small.
U.M.U. U.M.U. supports Mame, CPSMame and SFMame for Windows.
UltraMAME This is a semi-knockoff of Ultracade using all of the great artwork in the community.
UltraStyle UltraStyle is a frontend for both MAME and MAME32. It supports a variety of options and is fairly easy to set up. Give it a try!
VertiWAH VertiWAH is pretty much like MAMEWAH, but for users who wish to use a vertical monitor.