Discover the games in your MAME collection with this compact MAME attract mode cab.
Do you have many ROMs? Have you only played a few of them? What gems have you never seen?
Ghostcade works through your collection. It picks a game, launches it using your MAME emulator, and lets the machine run its own attract mode. The demo runs for a few minutes, then moves on to the next one. The actual game, actually running, showing you what it is.
Discovery is the point: A big ROM set isn't a library you work through, it's a haystack, and the good stuff in there is mostly things you'd never
think to go looking for by name. Ghostcade puts it in front of you a few minutes at a time, in the background, while you get on with something else.
Ghostcade works through your collection. It picks a game, launches it using your MAME emulator, and lets the machine run its own attract mode. The demo runs for a few minutes, then moves on to the next one. The actual game, actually running, showing you what it is.
Discovery is the point: A big ROM set isn't a library you work through, it's a haystack, and the good stuff in there is mostly things you'd never
think to go looking for by name. Ghostcade puts it in front of you a few minutes at a time, in the background, while you get on with something else.
Ghostcade in wide mode
Ghostcade in narrow mode
Features
- Games Filters: Decades, manufacturers and/or genres you care about. Show me fighting games from the 80s!
- Shuffle with no repeats: Until your whole collection has had a turn and it remembers where it's up to across restarts.
- Cool cabinet art: Embeds the real MAME window inside a neon arcade cabinet, with the game's marquee art up top.
- Game Trivia: A side panel showing the title, year, manufacturer and the game's story.
- "I want a go!": One press of 'Play this game' hands you the current game for real: a fresh, focused MAME session. Quit MAME and the rotation carries on where it left off.
- Games Filters: Decades, manufacturers and/or genres you care about. Show me fighting games from the 80s!
- Shuffle with no repeats: Until your whole collection has had a turn and it remembers where it's up to across restarts.
- Cool cabinet art: Embeds the real MAME window inside a neon arcade cabinet, with the game's marquee art up top.
- Game Trivia: A side panel showing the title, year, manufacturer and the game's story.
- "I want a go!": One press of 'Play this game' hands you the current game for real: a fresh, focused MAME session. Quit MAME and the rotation carries on where it left off.
Download Ghostcade Installer
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Windows might ask if you trust Ghostcade. Ghostcade is new, so when you run the installer Windows may show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box. That's normal for new apps. Windows builds trust as more people download them. To continue, click More info and check the publisher says Open Source Developer Steven Hunt (that's me; the certificate uses my legal name). Then click Run anyway. If it says "Unknown publisher" or any other name, don't run it. Download it again from this page. |
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Open Source Project on GitHub
Ghostcade is written by Steve Hunt - [email protected] - https://coldbeamgames.com - and is MIT licensed.
MAME® is a registered trademark of Gregory Ember. Ghostcade is an independent companion utility that drives your own copy of MAME, it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from the MAME project, and includes no MAME code, ROMs, or game artwork.
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