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OpenEmu is an open source multi-system game emulator designed for OS X. It provides a plugin interface to emulate numerous consoles' hardware, such as the Ni. Adding games only needs to select 'Add games', navigate into your ROMs folder and select '. Still, I've had some issues with some vertical games on FinalBurn Neo's Arcade games and also still need DS4Windows for DualShock 4 controller compatibility, but this last one is more a Windows' thing than a problem of the emulator. OpenEmu is modular, and thanks to the work of other great open source projects, it can emulate a wide variety of video game systems (we call them 'cores'). OpenEmu emulates the following systems: Atari 2600 Stella Atari 5200 Atari800. Adding games only needs to select 'Add games', navigate into your ROMs folder and select '. Still, I've had some issues with some vertical games on FinalBurn Neo's Arcade games and also still need DS4Windows for DualShock 4 controller compatibility, but this last one is more a Windows' thing than a problem of the emulator. Jan 16, 2016 - 16 Comments. The Mac has long been a great platform for emulating older gaming consoles, and now the best emulator for OS X has gotten even better, as OpenEmu includes support for two other retro gaming greats; the Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1. PS1 and N64 support is in addition to the vast console compatibility already included.

Updated 4/21/20

I've written in the past about emulation and OpenEmu, a multi-console emulator front end that uses multiple emulation cores to provide a unified experience to macOS (OS X) emulation.

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OpenEmu also sports MAME Arcade emulation support, but its a bit tucked away.

Step 1: Download OpenEmu Experimental

Go to openemu.org and click the swatch and download OpenEmu Experimental, and install it.

This scfeenshot of the OpenEMU site is old. The design on the OpenEMU website has slightly modified to make the experimental version easier to find

Step 2: Install the MAME core

Once installed, launch OpenEmu, open preferences, and select cores. Click the install button next to MAME.

Step 3: Install games

Games can be nabbed from the usual suspects like emuparadise (defunct), the legality of this is fairly grey. OpenEmu only supports zipped ROMs, so if the ROM comes in a .gz or .rar, be sure to decompress its contents and rezip it. Name it the exact name as before (but with the new extension of zip). OpenEmu's MAME core is version 0.149.1, so its significantly behind the windows version (from 2013 to be exact). Some sites will list the earliest known support needed for the rom in question.

Notably, you'll want access to the dipswitches, hitting F2 repeatedly while the game is launching will take you to most ROM bios screens that enable modes like free play. Note, I had issues resuming games and had to force quit MAME resuming so you may want to hold off resuming games.

Optional: NeoGeo Emulation

Emulating NeoGeo games requires one extra step, you'll need to get the NeoGeo ROM, the one I used is from emuparadise which is now defunct, try a popular search engine and search 'Neo Geo BIOS'. Drag the Neo Geo zip into OpenEmu. You'll see the NeoGeo ROM in your game list, but ignore it and double-click the games as you normally would.

Good luck with OpenEmu. I suggest checking out the Dolphin Emulator as it has a great macOS port for GameCube and Wii, and PCSX2 for Windows for Playstation 2 emulation. Both are able to play old games in HD and UHD depending on your CPU/GPU.

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Other recommendations from this blog:

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  • Running up MAME Arcade emulation with MAME/MESS - How to set up the most current version of MAME on MacOS. OpenEMU's MAME core is 7+ years old, and there are quite a bit of newer arcade games supported in more recent versions.
  • Installing Provenance on iOS 11 with a Jailbreak - Provenance is an iOS multi-console emulator based off of OpenEMU, supporting consoles from the 8 bit and 16-bit eras. The step process hasn't changed for iOS 13.

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Updates: 4/21/20 - copy editing, note about layout change on OpenEMU's website, striking out emuparadise as its now defunct.