If you're one of those who long for the old days in arcade halls and miss playing those cult classics, we have good news: you can now take the fun with you anywhere. All thanks to MAME4droid, a MAME emulator for Android that lets you relive the nostalgia whenever and wherever you want.
There are some games on the Google Play store that Android users can enjoy, either free or paid. Games mostly designed for short sessions to pass the time while traveling or waiting at the dentist's office. But if you're into the old classics you enjoyed as a kid playing arcade machines, nothing beats MAME4droid, a MAME emulator for Android.
MAME Emulator for Android
This emulator gives you access to almost all MAME games and works with almost any Android device, even the less powerful ones. Once you've downloaded and installed MAME4droid on your device, the next step is to add the ROMs. To do that, connect your device—smartphone or tablet—to your computer, go to the ROMs folder, then the MAME4all folder, and finally place the games in the roms folder.
You can find and download ROMs from several specialized websites (such as Emuparadise). This version of MAME4droid is one of the most stable emulators for Android devices, letting you configure the controls just like on arcade machines and emulate more than 2,000 different ROMs (those that don't work are mostly due to compatibility issues). All you have to do now is get a good internal or external memory to install many games and take the fun with you. Remember there are many other emulators for Android. For example, the PS2 emulator.
