At Arcade Systems we maintain our own emulation code, so we prefer to use only a handful of the best emulators, rather than every possible emulator imaginable.

The emulators used in our arcade cabinet software are tried and tested by the global community, and also (most crucially) they are able to be used without a keyboard and mouse, and are more focussed on representing the game accurately rather than “just getting the game to work”.

A ridiculous amount of hours has gone into optimizing our emulation software suite for use in Arcade Systems’s specific cabinets.

Most of the games on the arcade are evaluated using MAME… but this isn’t your vanilla variety MAME, this is a custom configured monster with so much hand-written code I can’t even begin.