diff --git a/srcpkgs/mame/template b/srcpkgs/mame/template
index bd11dbcfc02..455f48043ef 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/mame/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/mame/template
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Template file for 'mame'
 pkgname=mame
-version=0226
+version=0227
 revision=1
 wrksrc="mame-mame${version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config python3 qt5-host-tools tar xz which"
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ maintainer="Jürgen Buchmüller <pullmoll@t-online.de>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://mamedev.org"
 distfiles="https://github.com/mamedev/mame/archive/mame${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=7c4c9ec232ba988e65fd29665c9b8e40b5ac3aa9f561eeb107cebbf08ba94baf
+checksum=95dbce00a4f05a35f66ef966fe9efad1e4e78ce62e0eba3f7031dfa6737829a5
 nodebug=yes
 replaces="sdlmame>=0 sdlmess>=0"
 
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ do_configure() {
 }
 
 do_build() {
-	make OVERRIDE_CC="$CC" OVERRIDE_CXX="$CXX" OVERRIDE_LD="$CXX" \
-		${makejobs} ${_options}
+	# The build sometimes fails due to parallelism but the 2nd try then passes.
+	make OVERRIDE_CC="$CC" OVERRIDE_CXX="$CXX" OVERRIDE_LD="$CXX" ${makejobs} ${_options} || \
+	make OVERRIDE_CC="$CC" OVERRIDE_CXX="$CXX" OVERRIDE_LD="$CXX" ${makejobs} ${_options}
 }
 
 do_install() {