They’re easy to use but they’re old, unsupported and abandoned. Also, avoid MAME ports named MacMAME and MAME for OS X. It’s actually a commandline program that you run by typing in commands via the Terminal. Note: SDL MAME is not user friendly it’s not a matter of double-clicking and expecting it to run. You can run MAME using OpenEmu’s Experimental version or use the “official” version which is called SDL MAME for OS X compiled by r0ni aka In part 1, we’ll go over how to run SDL MAME at the very barest bones.
MAME is a program that “runs” or emulates a large library of arcade games.