The Advance Projects allow you to play Arcade games with video hardware like TVs, Arcade monitors, PC monitors and LCD screens. They run in GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, DOS and Windows.

AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME 0.106 and MESS 0.106 emulators for Arcade Monitors and TVs but also for LCDs and PC monitors.
AdvanceMENU is an emulator frontend with sound and animated previews of your games.
AdvanceSCAN is a command line rom manager for AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS.
AdvanceCOMP is a collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.

News!

10-02-2024 AdvanceMAME v3.10. Various bugfixes and improvments.
10-10-2023 AdvanceCOMP v2.6. Minor improvements.
22-01-2023 AdvanceCOMP v2.5. Minor bugfix.
20-11-2022 AdvanceCOMP v2.4. Minor bugfix.
10-04-2022 AdvanceCOMP v2.3. Fix compatibility with modern C++ compilers.
20-03-2019 AdvanceCOMP v2.2. Minor bugfix.
08-09-2018 AdvanceMAME v3.9. Various bugfixes and minor improvments.
30-06-2018 AdvanceMAME v3.8. Improvments for game consoles.
12-02-2018 AdvanceCOMP v2.1. Minor bugfix.
05-02-2018 AdvanceMAME v3.7. Added save state menu and other minor fixes.
10-12-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.6. ALSA audio fix. Minor improvements.
04-06-2017 AdvanceCOMP v2.0. Improved MNG reading support for low bit depths.
04-06-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.5. Minor improvements.
05-03-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.4. Add support for 8 players and other bugfixes.
18-02-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.3. Bug fix release.
04-02-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.2. With improved Raspberry Pi support and many other bugfixes.
07-01-2017 AdvanceMAME v3.1. With SDL2 support.
04-12-2016 AdvanceMAME v3.0. With official Raspberry Pi support.
The AdvanceMAME package from now on also contains AdvanceMESS and AdvanceMENU.
22-11-2016 AdvanceSNAP pack 7 and 8 . New MNG/MP3 packs for AdvanceMENU in the download.
21-11-2016 AdvanceCOMP v1.23. Fixed build issue from source code.
13-11-2016 AdvanceCOMP v1.22. Enabled again wilcard expansion for Windows builds.
06-11-2016 AdvanceCOMP v1.21. Added libdeflate support and updated zopfli.
01-11-2016 AdvanceMAME v1.5. Bug fix release, some new games: 'sfiii', 'jojo' and 'warzard', and sample support for games: 'batsugun', 'dogyuun', 'ghox', 'samesame', 'tekipaki', 'vfive' and 'vimana'.
The new samples can be downloaded from mediafire.
The new roms can be downloaded with this torrent but you'll need a rom tool like AdvanceSCAN to adjust the rom names.
AdvanceMESS v1.5.
AdvanceMENU v2.9.
11-08-2015 AdvanceSCAN v1.18.
AdvanceCOMP v1.20.
09-08-2015 AdvanceMAME v1.4. Bug fix release and three new games: 'ket', 'ddp3' and 'espgal'.
You can download a full rom set working with AdvanceMAME with this torrent.
AdvanceMESS v1.4. Bug fix release.
21-06-2015 AdvanceMAME v1.3. Still based on MAME 0.106. With Haiku OS support.
AdvanceMESS v1.3. Based on MESS 0.106.
AdvanceMENU v2.8.

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