Are you an arcade enthusiast wasting time tracking down ROM dependencies, technical details about your favourite games, or figuring out what a dipswitch does on your PCB? We have just what you need.

A database built for Recalbox

We are pleased to make Recalbox MAME DB available to you, an online tool centralising all the useful information on MAME and FBNeo games playable on Recalbox. The covered sets are MAME 0.278, FBNeo 1.0.0.03, as well as MAME 0.287 available for testing purposes.

What you can do with it

In practice, the tool lets you find the exact dependencies of a game before copying it to your Recalbox — no more pulling down a full set just to try out a single title. You will also find all the technical information associated with each game: resolution, parent ROMs, required BIOS, clones, audio, dependencies. Everything is made easy to navigate through advanced filter-based search.

Screenshots and longplays are also available to see what a game looks like before launching it. A DAT file generator is available as well. Finally, PCB dipswitches are fully documented, so you know exactly what each option does.

A community database

The tool draws inspiration from arcade-italia — well known in the retrogaming community — while refocusing it on the specific needs of Recalbox users. If MAME and FBNeo hold almost no secrets for you, you should feel right at home. As we write these lines, over 60,000 games are documented. Enjoy.

Head over to recalbox-mame-db.recalbox.com.

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