> > This sounds very familiar... a quick google search found this link which talks > about > > mame in the browser (powered by Java) back in 2005. > > > > http://digg.com/news/story/Play_22_MAME_emulated_Arcade_Games_in_your_Browser > > That's not MAME, that's a bunch of small Java emulators that Digg incorrectly claimed > to be MAME. This is real current MAME built from official mamedev.org source running > thousands of games.
Not to mention, the Java emulators tend to host ROMs, which is (depending on copyright in your area) a copyright violation.
This thing allows you to use the ROMs you have properly dumped from your arcade PCBs and/or downloaded legally from mamedev.org