[[File:Mess sysinfo.png|thumb|260px|MESS shows a very MAME-like system info box on launch. ''(And yes, for some reason the reported resolution is one pixel off in this particular version of MESS.)'']]
'''''MESS''''' (Multi Emulator Super System) is an emulator for vintage computers, gaming consoles, chess computers, and calculators. It is a descendant of the MAME arcade emulation project and just like MAME, the most important goal of MESS is highly accurate emulation, not speed. MESS and MAME are mainly preservation projects that aim to reproduce the behavior of the real hardware perfectly.