MAME for Symbian Mobile Phones

MAME (the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an arcade game emulator for PCs that has been ported to many platforms. E2MAME is a port of MAME for mobile phones running the Symbian operating system. E2MAME is free software and currently runs on:

* Series 60 phones: Nokia N-Gage, Siemens SX-1, Nokia 6600, and probably most other models. The very first Series 60 models, the Nokia 7650 and Nokia 3650, can only run the miniature version of E2MAME, called "Micro-E2MAME", due to very limitied memory.
* Series 60 Feature pack 2 phones, e.g., Nokia 6630 and Nokia 6680. These models, surprisingly, have a bit less free memory than earlier Series 60 phones; therefore only Mini-E2MAME runs on these.
* UIQ phones: Motorola A920/A925/A1000, and maybe more?
* The Nokia 9500 and 9300 Communicators.
* The Nokia 7710 are supported by Mini-E2MAME.

The phones I have access to are the Nokia N-Gage, the Nokia 6680, the Motorola A925, and the Nokia 9500. They are what I use for testing, and I have very limited possibilities to fix bugs that only occur on specific hardware that I do not possess.

E2MAME is based on EMame, a Symbian port of MAME for Psion and SonyEricsson devices by Peter van Sebille. See Peter's Place for more information about MAME on these devices and Peter's other Symbian projects. Peter van Sebille also wrote "ECompXL," a utility that creates self-extracting executables on the Symbian platform. ECompXL is essential for building E2MAME (and EMame). Thanks Peter for the great work with both EMame and ECompXL!

1.11 (16 april 2005)
* EEMame now runs on Series 60 Feature Pack 2 models, including
the Nokia 6630 and Nokia 6680. The full version does not work on
these models due to memory limitations.

1.11 (26 March 2005)

* EEMame was ported to the Nokia 7710 (unstable, but works).
Vector games do not work at all.

1.11 (8 December 2004)

* The Motorola version of EEMAME now has a virtual keyboard.

1.1 (18 November 2004)

* The name was changed from "EMame" to "EEMame", to avoid mixups
with other versions of EMame (Peter van Sebille's original port for
UIQ, Hannu Viitala's port for the Nokia 9210, and Steve's port for
the Motorola A920).

* EEMame was ported to the Nokia 9500.

* A new option was added to stretch the display to fit the screen
exactly (that is, the original aspect ratio is changed).

* Options can be set on a per-game basis.

* The driver list was updated to include around 25 new games.

* Micro-EEMame (for Series 60 devices with limited memory) has a
completely revised driver list.

1.0 (31 October 2004)

* EMame for Series 60 was ported to the Motorola A925.

* The user interface was changed, so that the list of installed
games is now the main view.

* Screen rotation added (very useful on the Motorola).

* Enabled samples.

* Rom file directories were changed.

* Vector games are always run in "Normal size" mode, since the
vector display is scaled to the screen size anyway, and running
the scaling algorithm only slows things down.

* A significant speed-up of the scaling algorithm (used pacman
with no frameskip and audio on as benchmark; was 27, now 31.5
fps).

* New scaling algorithm that makes a nicer scaling. Speed of this
algorithm is the same as the old one had in 0.98. There is now an
option to select between the two algorithms.

* Made all the input settings available, so that games that use,
for example, analog joysticks run.

* Made the scroll key in non-scaled mode configurable (through the
in-game menu). Also, frame skipping and speed throttling can now
be configured from within the game.

* Auto frame skipping is now enabled by default, with a maximum
frame skip of 9.

0.98 (31 March 2004)

* Fixed lots of games that used to crash because of unsupported
audio. Most of these now have working sound, and the rest run
without sound.

* Fixed crash bug when pressing "select" in the games list (bug
introduced in 0.97).

* After a game crashes, it is now possible to start a new game
without exiting EMame. Sometimes, however, this still leads to a
new crash.

0.97 (30 March 2004)

* There's a find box in the list of games for faster access to
games.

0.96 (28 March 2004)

* Resuming a running game works after pausing it by pressing the
menu button or answering a phone call.

* Sound works on the Nokia 6600 (with some quirks).

0.95 (28 December 2003)

* Frame skipping is implemented.

* Again, a tiny speed-up.

* Some new supported games.

* First release of micro-Emame60.

0.94 (8 December 2003)

* Image scaling slightly improved.

* Scrolling the screen in "Normal" mode now uses the exact screen
area used by the game.

0.93 (5 December 2003):

* Configuring keys in a game works.

* Support for non-volatile ram.

* Support for saving hiscores using hiscore.dat. Update (7 dec):
Make sure you have a compatible hiscore.dat file!

* Some new game drivers that use the M6809 processor were
added. (The williams.c driver file -- defender, for example.)

0.92 (4 December 2003):

* The "Fit Screen" game mode has been improved. The games fill up
the entire screen (in one dimension), and the scaled game screen
looks better. Also, scaling is a little bit faster.

* Sound works in some more games. (This makes these games slower;
disable sound if this is a problem.)

* Pressing the menu button pauses the running game. (But resuming
still does not work.)

0.91 (28 November 2003):

* Games that use a modifyable palette work (they displayed a black
screen before).

* A memory bug was fixed that caused some games to crash.

0.90 (26 November 2003):

* First release of EMame for Series 60.