Alternatives to GroovyMAME
A fork of MAME tuned for CRT monitors and low-latency arcade emulation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
GroovyMAME
A fork of MAME tuned for CRT monitors and low-latency arcade emulation.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as GroovyMAME.
MAME
Documents and recreates thousands of arcade machines, consoles and old computers, with accuracy as the point.
MAME is the upstream project GroovyMAME follows, adding macOS and ARM64 Windows binaries, but it lacks the native resolution and refresh output tuned for CRT monitors.
FinalBurn Neo
Arcade emulator focused on Neo Geo, CPS and fighting games.
FinalBurn Neo is an open-source arcade emulator focused on Neo Geo, CPS and fighting games, with low latency and netplay, but it covers less hardware than MAME and has no CRT timing focus.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Attract-Mode Plus
A customizable graphical frontend for browsing and launching command-line emulators and arcade games.
Fightcade
A matchmaking application for playing retro arcade and console games online with rollback netplay.
TeknoParrot
A compatibility layer for running modern PC-based arcade games on a Windows PC.
PinMAME
An emulator for the electronics of solid-state pinball machines from the mid 1970s to 2014.
Hypseus Singe
A laserdisc arcade game emulator based on Daphne, with Singe support for fan-made games.
