Technically MAME has been on sale, there was a MAME32 sold with the Hanaho Hotrod I purchased for $14.95 ($9.99 + $5.00 s/h) and it had some games on it, maybe 8. There was the 2 Taito Legends that were 'derivatives' of MAME and they had around 20 games each, the 2nd version (in the US) has Starforce DRM, so you either get a crack or it won't play on 64 bit OSES.
As far as a "full" MAME, that would NEVER happen as Nintendo and other companies don't want MAME existing period, let alone being sold, and several games were removed out of MAME, like Death smiles, because companies didn't want them emulated.
There's no way to even get permission for certain games to be supported commercially as several games companies are long gone and only God knows who has the gaming IP to several games.
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