Intel Note:The new Intel builds require macOS 14. If your Mac is stuck on an older OS, my suggestion to you is to try out OpenCore Legacy Patcher to update your Mac to a compatible OS. Not every Mac is supported, so luck may vary. But going forward, older MacOS releases will not work with these builds. Thank you Wyatt, Stefan, and all others who have mailed me about bringing back Intel builds, we can't support everything, but this is the best we can do!
Please keep in mind MAME still supports running on MacOS 11 and above if your hardware cannot be updated to macOS 14, consider looking into MacPorts or homebrew.
Please make sure you have installed the SDL runtime library first!
Please also note MAME is a console application, use Terminal.app or a frontend!
ARM64 builds will not work on Intel Macs, but Intel builds will work on ARM Macs.
| Name | Date | Size | md5sum |
| SDLMAME v0.278 Apple Silicon (arm64) | 2025-06-30 | 115 MB | 0dafc250f4294033116c35fc642e3689 |
| SDLMAME v0.278 Intel (x86_64) | 2025-07-01 | 120 MB | 9f34cd2ef5e4458924340d352b078be6 |
| SDLMAME v0.261 Intel (x86_64) (my final Intel build) |
2023-11-28 | 112 MB | 8b7200aef57f54bac896cb0cc551fae6 |
ChangeLog: whatsnew_0278.txt
Recent old releases can be found here.
Really old releases can be found here.
Intel builds from 0.262 forward are contributed by Wyatt Wong with MacOS 14 and various XCode releases (14.2 to 16.2),
please keep that in mind as they will not work on older releases of macOS.
0.261 and prior were built on macOS 10.14 (or earlier) and should run on any Intel Mac.
Apple Silicon build compiled on macOS 12.7.5 with SDL 2.32.2 using XCode 14.2. If this does not work for you, and you've met the requirements, let me know!.
Links:
MAME for macOS GitHub -
MAMEdev -
MESS Wiki -
SDLMAME Homepage -
SDLMAME Forum -
MAMEWorld Forums -
MAME Testers (Bug Reporting) -
QMC2 (Frontend)
Emulation News Links:
Zophar's Domain -
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