diff --git a/community/mame/PKGBUILD b/community/mame/PKGBUILD
index 86a05bb32..0b5f39f7f 100644
--- a/community/mame/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/mame/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,18 +10,18 @@
 highmem=1
 
 pkgname=mame
-pkgver=0.197
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=0.198
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A port of the popular Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator using SDL with OpenGL support."
 url="http://mamedev.org/"
 license=(GPL2)
 arch=(x86_64)
 depends=(sdl2_ttf alsa-lib qt5-base)
-makedepends=(nasm mesa python2 libxinerama)
+makedepends=(nasm mesa python libxinerama)
 conflicts=(sdlmame)
 replaces=(sdlmame)
 source=("https://github.com/mamedev/mame/archive/mame${pkgver/./}.tar.gz" mame.sh)
-sha256sums=('2ce7d6f79cdad2c904924db0eba90368026b6bc38ab7b0d1cc5792560b2dcedd'
+sha256sums=('0c354a5c3d82d46acf2183d6be291364c4454ce6ffdd79cf3397174779cff8fa'
             '050e7238aa504992e604fa0458d7c5b75183d435e6f8123ad320731731323f61')
 
 build() {
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ build() {
   make \
     NOWERROR=1 \
     OPTIMIZE=2 \
-    PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python2 \
     TOOLS=1 \
     ARCHOPTS=-flifetime-dse=1
 }