Free Classic Games:

The best way to find out about great new free games to play with your X-Arcade™ gear is to sign up for "The Ultimate Arcade Newsletter". Every month new hit gaming sites will be featured, and free games will be showcased that are perfect for X-Arcade™ gaming. You can browse the archives now to see what you've been missing.

We have also compiled the best free online playable and downloadable games with pages dedicated to each control type. The X-Arcade Tankstick™ can play all of them!

X-Arcade™ Joystick Controller Games

X-Arcade™ Trackball Games

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What Is MAME™ Classic Gaming?

With MAME™ you can use your X-Arcade™ to relive thousands of arcade classics on your PC or Mac in their original arcade form! These games are not remakes, but the original, authentic arcade games you played in the 70's, 80's and 90's. See the history of MAME™ Here

M.A.M.E.™ stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. An emulator is simply a software program that makes your computer pretend it is another game system, like an arcade machine. As the name suggests, MAME™ can pretend to be a multitiude of different arcade machines, thousands in fact! Nearly any game you played from the first arcade game to recent hits can played with this one program. Combine MAME™ with an X-Arcade™ and you now have thousands of arcade machines in one!

So now you've been schooled on what MAME is, but still have no idea how to use it? You need MAME™ For Dummies! MAME™ for Dummies was designed to help new users to find the files they need and learn how to use them.

MAME™ ROM Files:

Please read legal implications on MAME™ ROM usage from Northwestern University Law School before downloading any ROMs to ensure legal compliance.

ROM files are the arcade games that were sucked out of the real arcade machines. The MAME™ software pretends to be the real arcade machine to run these ROM games on your PC. No ROM files are included with the MAME™ software, nor do we host any of these files. You can find more information on MAME™ ROM files by searching Google™.

How To Play Arcade Classics on Your Home PC or Mac With The X-Arcade™

1. Download Arcade Software For PC (MAME™)
(Mac users: MAME™ OS X Here)

2. Install MAME™ (if it is a .zip file unzip it to a folder like C:\MAME). .

3. Switch to Mode1: Move the switch on the back of the X-Arcade™ to the position closest to the serial port, then push the button on the back of the X-Arcade™ twice (the light on the X-Arcade™ should go out on the first push, and back on with the second).

4. Start MAME™, open Options (at the top), then Default Game Options, select the Game Controllers tab, then set your "Default input layout" to X-Arcade™ from the drop-down list. (if you do not see X-Arcade™ here, download this file (right-click and save as, IE users will need to rename the .htm to .cfg) and put it in the "ctrlr" folder of MAME)

5.Be sure your Num Lock on your keyboard is ON. You may need to check your manual for doing this on a laptop.

6. After you start a game, use the left pinball flipper button on the left side of the X-Arcade™ to insert coins within the game, press the white start button to play.

7. Enjoy classic arcade gaming!

MAME™ Operation:

• You can skip the screens which ask you to type "OK" by moving the joystick left then right (left for "O" and right for "K").
• You can exit a game by holding the player 2 start button and pressing the right pinball button simultaneously.
• You can change the controls for any game by simply pushing the "Tab" key while a game is already running to access the controls menu. The Input (general) option allows controller settings to be applied to all games. Input (this game) overrides the general input settings and adds custom controller settings for just the game being used.

Click here for more MAME™ help and tips.