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Retro GamingCabinet Mode · Pro

Every era. One library.
One Mac mini.

19 systems. 6 emulators. 40,000 arcade titles. GameCube through Atari 2600 — all in the same library as your Windows games. Drop a Mac mini M4 in a cabinet and it becomes the most capable arcade machine ever built.

Any Apple Silicon MacMetal renderingYour ROMsNo ROMs included
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Mac mini + Velocity = the ultimate arcade cabinet

40,000 MAME titles, 19 systems, Cabinet Mode — complete build guide with hardware list and cost breakdown.

Build guide →
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Full speed on every Apple Silicon Mac

Retro emulation is computationally trivial. A base M1 Mac mini runs PS2 at 4× native resolution, GameCube at 8× at 120fps, and every system from NES through N64 without any load at all. The MacBook Neo is massively overpowered for anything in this catalog.

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Dragon's Lair

1983 · Don Bluth⛔ Streaming disabled

The most iconic LaserDisc arcade game ever made — directed by Don Bluth, the same animator behind The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time. Dragon's Lair cost $0.50 to play in 1983 when every other arcade game cost a quarter. The cabinet streamed full hand-drawn animation from a Sony LaserDisc player in real time. You can play it on your Mac through Velocity.

Emulator

Hypseus Singe

Quality

Excellent

Also included

Space Ace, Cliff Hanger

Streaming note: Velocity automatically disables streaming capture for Dragon's Lair. The rights holder actively enforces streaming rights. You can play locally — Velocity simply won't send the session to Twitch or Kick. We're exploring a streaming partnership with the rights holder that would allow licensed streaming through Velocity in a future update.

Dragon's Lair — Velocity
GPTK 4Metal 4
Dragon's Lair (1983)
© 1983 Don Bluth / Digital Leisure. Shown for product demonstration.
⚡ Velocity HUD
FPS60
FT16.6ms
Hypseus✓
LaserDisc✓
Visual representation of Dragon's Lair (1983) by Don Bluth

Nintendo

GameCube

Excellent

2001–2007 · Dolphin

8× native resolution on M2+

Wii

Excellent

2006–2013 · Dolphin

Full Wiimote + Nunchuk support

Nintendo 64

Very Good

1996–2002 · RetroArch

ParaLLEl-N64 core

SNES

Perfect

1990–2003 · RetroArch

Snes9x core

NES

Perfect

1983–2003 · RetroArch

Nestopia UE core

Game Boy Advance

Perfect

2001–2010 · mGBA

Cycle-accurate

Game Boy Color

Perfect

1998–2003 · mGBA

Game Boy

Perfect

1989–2003 · mGBA

Original DMG through Pocket

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

Very Good

2000–2013 · PCSX2

Full speed on M2 Pro+, most titles M1+

PlayStation

Excellent

1994–2006 · DuckStation

Up to 8× upscaling, near-instant loads

Sega

Dreamcast

Good

1998–2001 · RetroArch

Flycast core

Sega Saturn

Good

1994–1998 · RetroArch

M2 Pro+ recommended

Sega Genesis

Perfect

1988–1997 · RetroArch

Genesis Plus GX core

Arcade

Arcade (MAME)

Excellent

1970s–2000s · MAME

~40,000 titles — Pac-Man, Gauntlet, Donkey Kong, Street Fighter, and more

Arcade (FBNeo)

Excellent

1980s–2000s · RetroArch

CPS1/2/3, NeoGeo — best-supported common titles

Atari

Atari Jaguar

Good

1993–1996 · MAME

Last Atari console

Atari Lynx

Perfect

1989–1994 · MAME

First color handheld

Atari 7800

Perfect

1986–1992 · RetroArch

Backward compatible with 2600

Atari 5200

Very Good

1982–1984 · MAME

Pac-Man, Missile Command

Atari 2600

Perfect

1977–1992 · RetroArch

River Raid, Pitfall, Combat — Stella core

Atari ST

Good

1985–1993 · RetroArch

Hatari core — huge 16-bit library

PC

MS-DOS

Excellent

1981–1995 · DOSBox-X

Doom, Quake, Warcraft, Diablo 1 — the whole pre-Windows catalog

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Running in Velocity

The "Velocity HUD" overlay is Velocity's — it does not appear over the game during play unless you enable it.

Doom (1993) — Velocity
GPTK 4Metal 4
Doom (1993)
© id Software. Bundled free with Velocity.
⚡ Velocity HUD
FPS200
FT5ms
DOSBox-X✓
© 1993 id Software. Bundled free with Velocity.

Bundled free with Velocity

Pac-Man (1980) — Velocity
GPTK 4Metal 4
Pac-Man (1980)
© Namco. Shown for product demonstration.
⚡ Velocity HUD
FPS60
FT16.6ms
MAME✓
© 1980 Namco. Visual representation.

40,000+ MAME titles — Free

Gauntlet (1985) — Velocity
GPTK 4Metal 4
Gauntlet (1985)
© Atari Games. Shown for product demonstration.
⚡ Velocity HUD
FPS60
FT16.6ms
MAME✓
4 Player✓
© 1985 Atari Games. Visual representation.

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Getting started

1

Install emulators

Download Dolphin, DuckStation, PCSX2, mGBA, RetroArch, or DOSBox-X — whichever systems you want. Velocity tells you which ones you're missing.

2

Add ROM folders

Point Velocity to the folders that contain your ROMs. It scans automatically and adds every supported file to your library.

3

Play

Click any game. Velocity picks the right emulator, configures it, activates Game Mode and the HUD, and launches. Just like a Windows game.

Copyright notice

Velocity does not include, distribute, or link to ROM files. It plays files from your own collection. Most game ROMs remain under copyright — use only ROMs for games you own, or ROMs officially released as freeware. MAME's official freeware ROM list →

Requires macOS Golden Gate or later · Apple Silicon only