It was a serious project for Google’s Robert Muth, but now Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME), an emulator for a large number of classic arcade games, is ported to the Native Client of Google Chrome. So all of you who feel nostalgic about their favorite classic games like this pictured Robby Roto, then Pac-Man, Galaga, and whatnot, might want to go to Chrome App Store and get some of old joy (Robby Roto is a single sample working on this MAME emulator as per now, but more will follow soon).

Of course, there are many other classic games of the past that work on Google’s Chrome, but if you are after that classic arcade feel and look you’ve got hooked too long ago, there’s no comparison. Pac-Man lives!  There’s also that mobile MAME imame4all app which will give you the same MAME games on both Android and iOS.

The post Arcade Game Emulator MAME Now Out For Google Chrome appeared first on Mobile Magazine.

What he has managed to do is reproduce the look and feel of a real arcade cabinet, completly decked out in Street Fighter artwork and giving you that “put the quarter on the ledge to call next” kind of nostalgia. You get a real arcade stick and real arcade buttons.

The kicker is that this whole thing is simply powered by a Lenovo Y560 notebook PC. When you flip up the arcade controls, you reveal the full laptop, which is being docked on a notebook cooler. The cooler blows cool air to the underside of the lappy, keeping it at a reasonable operating temperature. The notebook cooler also happens to have a USB hub.

Nothing too crazy, but that USB hub then connects to the aforementioned arcade controls, as well as an external USB keyboard that is hidden away in a slide-out tray toward the bottom of the cabinet. This way, you can access keyboard functionality without having to access the physical notebook.

Not everyone can put together a dedicated computer for a dedicated MAME arcade cabinet. Liou’s creation, as he describes it, allows users to mix work and play. Do your work on the Y560 as you normally would, then dock it in the arcade cabinet for some crazy hadouken and sonic boom action.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that this is really just a one-off(functional) concept, so there’s no saying whether Lenovo would actually build one of these things for retail.  We’d love to have one setup in the office here for those creative “lunch meetings.”

The post Hands On: Lenovo’s laptop arcade dock money cant buy appeared first on Mobile Magazine.

Are you ready for one crazy triumvirate? In the video below, you can watch as the Apple iPhone is used to run the MAME emulator to play some classic games. To make matters even more interesting, the controls for the MAME are coming by way of a Nintendo Wii Remote.

Even though it may seem like proprietary technology, the Wii Remote is really working off a Bluetooth connection. That’s why people have been able to make hacks that allow the Wii Remote to control a Roomba vacuum, for example.

This MAME-gaming Wii Remote-wielding is a part of the BTStack project and this latest development comes by way of ZodTTD. At this point, it’s just a proof of concept, but here’s hoping that mame4iPhone (along with the Wii Remote compatibility) get released soon.

Source: MobileCrunch

The post Holy Trinity: MAME on iPhone with a Wii Remote (Video) appeared first on Mobile Magazine.