diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/mess/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/mess/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index fc63bf705f4e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/mess/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, pkgconfig, SDL, gtk2, GConf, libGLU_combined
-, expat, zlib }:
-
-let
-
-  version = "139";
-
-  mameSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0139/mame0${version}s.zip";
-    sha256 = "1mpkwxfz38cgxzvlni2y3fxas3b8qmnzj2ik2zzbd8mr622jdp79";
-  };
-
-  messSrc = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.progettosnaps.net/MESS/src/mess0${version}s.zip";
-    name = "mess0139s.zip";
-    sha256 = "1v892cg6wn8cdwc8pf1gcqqdb1v1v295r6jw2hf58svwx3h27xyy";
-  };
-
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "mess-0.${version}";
-
-  unpackPhase =
-    ''
-      unzip ${mameSrc}
-      # Yes, the MAME distribution is a zip file containing a zip file...
-      unzip mame.zip
-      unzip -o ${messSrc}
-    '';
-
-  makeFlags = "TARGET=mess BUILD_EXPAT= BUILD_ZLIB= NOWERROR=1";
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ unzip pkgconfig SDL gtk2 GConf libGLU_combined expat zlib ];
-
-  installPhase =
-    ''
-      mkdir -p $out/bin
-      cp mess* $out/bin/mess
-    '';
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = https://www.mess.org/;
-    license = "non-commercial";
-    description = "Multi Emulator Super System, an emulator of many game consoles and computer systems";
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d443f81d44bd..0b7ccb55873c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   man_db = man-db; # added 2016-05
   manpages = man-pages; # added 2015-12-06
   mariadb-client = hiPrio mariadb.client; #added 2019.07.28
+  mess = mame; # added 2019-10-30
   mysql-client = hiPrio mariadb.client;
   memtest86 = memtest86plus; # added 2019-05-08
   mesa_noglu = mesa; # added 2019-05-28
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b5f9cc462ff7..3e3457589e47 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -24315,10 +24315,6 @@ in
 
   martyr = callPackage ../development/libraries/martyr { };
 
-  mess = callPackage ../misc/emulators/mess {
-    inherit (pkgs.gnome2) GConf;
-  };
-
   moltengamepad = callPackage ../misc/drivers/moltengamepad { };
 
   openzwave = callPackage ../development/libraries/openzwave { };