As a long time Arcade enthusiast, running MAME on Linux is full of fond past memories and experiences. MAME is the de-facto emulator for the enormous and rich history of Arcade games.

Sadly sdlmame, the Linux version of MAME, has been not maintained over the years for Gentoo like distributions. The officially supported ebuild as listed on MAMEdev official Linux downloads page (they mention Funtoo!), is from the old Zugaina Gentoo Portage overlay site

The goal of this issue to to modernize sdlmame for Funtoo Linux and evolve the package into the metatools world for the latest version 0.242 and beyond so that all Funtoo users can instantly and easily enjoy arcade game emulation and have fun while doing so.

This is first part of a larger effort to ensure game emulation software is up to date on Funtoo Linux.