← Velocity
Retro Gaming

Every era.
One library.

19 systems. 6 emulators. GameCube through Atari 2600. All in the same library as your Windows games, with Velocity's full performance intelligence running every session.

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Mac mini + Velocity = the ultimate arcade cabinet

Drop a Mac mini inside a cabinet, connect a monitor, wire up your joysticks and buttons through USB, and you have an arcade cabinet that plays more games than any physical cabinet ever built — 40,000 MAME arcade titles, every major home console from the 1970s through PS2 and GameCube, Windows PC games via GPTK 4, and cloud streaming. No single arcade cabinet in history has covered this much ground. Velocity's controller bridge maps any USB HID joystick to the right input format automatically. Everything runs at full speed on the base Mac mini.

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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

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.

"Elf needs food badly" — MAME

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 Tahoe 26 or later · Apple Silicon only