KBMame may be a completely dead project. I have not been able to contact Deimos0 in months. This page will eventually be phased out, but I will continue to host this page for a while longer.

KBMAME is a keyboard-friendly recompilation of MAME v.35b10 which features :

• Programmable moves
• Additional button mappings for those hard-to-press combinations.
• Support for only the NeoGeo games (NeoMAME)
• User-selectable overclocking
• Dynamic driver loading
• Save states (preliminary)
• Fast rom loader (preliminary)
• Uses Eagle smoothing code by Dirk Stevens
• Autofire for buttons A-D
• Frame-by-frame snapshots

Not all keyboards recognize more than two or three simultaneous keypresses. As a result, some moves in NeoGeo games are quite difficult to pull off using the keyboard, notably the power bar charge in the KOF series (A+B+C). Neorage had the capability to map button combinations to single keys. Danji has the same capability, plus the ability to map joystick sequences AND button presses (macros).

MAME now has this capability (as of beta 10), but cheats have to be enabled and the buttons aren't customizable.

The great thing about MAME, though, is that the source is freely available, so it is easy to customize. So Deimos 0 took the source, added a few lines, recompiled, and KBMAME was born.

• Button 1 : A
• Button 2 : B
• Button 3 : C
• Button 4 : D
• Button 5 : A+B
• Button 6 : C+D
• Button 7 : A+B+C
• Button 8 : A+B+C+D

  Note that the settings for the extra buttons (5-8) are all changeable from the dip switch menu.

It depends on the game and your PC's speed. Generally, you'll need at least a P2-300 to run NeoGeo games in 16-bit mode at double the normal clock speed (24 instead of 12). If you have a slow PC, stick with a setting of 12, otherwise, experiment.

That's a documented bug. Hopefully, a future release will correct this.

Make sure that you saved the state with the same version of KBMAME you are loading it with. The C and ASM save states can not be used interchangeably. This might be fixed in the future.

Note : starting from KBMAME8, C and ASM save states should be interchangeable.

NO, NO, NO !!!

Do NOT bug the MAME team about anything related to KBMAME, PKBMAME, or AKBMAME. They have enough headaches to deal with.

KBMAME is created by Deimos0.

DO thank the MameDev for making such a kick-ass emulator!

AKBMame35 [Mirror 1] {Mirror #2}

PKBMame35 [Mirror 1] {Mirror #2}

Source Code:

I have unfortunately lost my only remaining copy of the source code. I will remove A/P KBMame at any request of the Mame team due to the copyright requests/restrictions. If Deimos0 will be so kind as to contact me at some point, I'd be happy to post the source and any newer exe's!