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Originally Posted by redlemon
MAME is "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator", software that allows you to run arcade games on a home computer. The ROM is the read-only memory from the arcade game, which you need a copy of as well. The MAME is legal (IANAL), but you can only legally use a ROM from an arcade game that you personally own. To tell more would get into warez-type issues, but Google can answer more for you.
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No need for more. Thanks for the explanation. Now that you elaborated on MAME I recall reading about it a while ago.
To me I would want the actual game console rather than just the opportunity to play it. Not that there weren't some great games I'd love to play again but playing them using new joysticks and the like just doesn't seem right. You need to contend with the quirks of the original IMO. Of course, I have nowhere to fit the full sized games but that's another issue entirely.