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An emulator. An emulator is a computer program that duplicates the function of another system. For example, MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software.

Other than the emulator a ROM image, or simply ROM, of the game is required. The ROM is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board.

Owning and distributing MAME itself is legal in the US, as it is merely an emulator. The situation regarding ROM images of games is less clear-cut as most arcade games are still covered by copyright.

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