Editing Multi Emulator Super System (section)

{{short description|Multi-system emulator}}
{{redir|MESS||Mess (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = MESS
| title                  = 
| logo                   = MESS-Logo.png<!-- Image name is enough -->
| logo caption           = 
| logo size              = 180px
| logo alt               = MESS icon
| screenshot             = <!-- Image name is enough -->
| caption                = 
| screenshot size        = 
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| developer = Originally MESS [[Virtual team|Team]], now MAME Team
| released = {{Start date and age|1998}}
| discontinued = yes
| latest release version = 0.161
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2015|04|29|df=yes}}
| latest_preview_version = 
| latest_preview_date = 
| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform = 
| genre = [[Emulator]]
| license = Since 2016: [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mess.redump.net/license|title=MESS License [MESS]|website=mess.redump.net}}</ref><br />Until 2016: Custom<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mess.org/license|title=MESS License: Custom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324182136/http://www.mess.org/license|archive-date=2016-03-24}}</ref>
| website = {{plainlist|
* {{url|www.mamedev.org}}
* {{url|mess.redump.net}}
}}
}}

'''Multi Emulator Super System''' ('''MESS''') was an [[emulator]] for various [[video game consoles|consoles]] and computer systems, based on the [[MAME]] core. It used to be a standalone program (which has since been discontinued), but is now integrated into MAME (which is actively developed).
MESS emulated [[Portable computer|portable]] and [[Video game consoles|console gaming systems]], [[Personal computers|computer platforms]], and [[calculators]]. The project strived for accuracy and portability and therefore was not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system. Its accuracy made it also useful for [[homebrew (video games)|homebrew]] game development.<ref>{{cite book | title = Game Console Hacking: Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, Atari, & Gamepark 32 | last = Grand | first = Joe |author2=Frank Thornton |author3=Albert Yarusso | isbn = 1-931836-31-0 | publisher = Syngress | year = 2004 | page = 506 }}</ref>

As of April 2015 MESS supported 994 unique systems with 2,106 total system variations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mess.redump.net/|title=Welcome to the MESS Wiki! [MESS]|website=mess.redump.net}}</ref> MESS was first released in 1998 and was under development up until 2015.

MAME and MESS were once separate applications, but were later developed and released together from a single source repository.<ref>{{cite web|title=Let the games begin|url=http://mamedev.org/?p=373|publisher=MAME development team|access-date=26 December 2012}}</ref> MAMEDEV member David Haywood maintained and distributed UME (Universal Machine Emulator) which combined much of the functionality of MAME and MESS in a single application.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/01/11/ume-0-148/ |title= UME 0.148 (Universal Machine Emulator) |publisher= David Haywood |access-date= 11 January 2013}}</ref> On May 27, 2015, MESS was formally integrated with MAME and became a part of MAME.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mamedev.org/?p=406|title=MAMEdev.org &#124; Home of The MAME Project|website=www.mamedev.org}}</ref>