Project Summary
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework. MAME’s purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally standing for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to arcades.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 3,794 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2007
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for mamedev/mame )
Repository URL: https://github.com/mamedev/mame
Version: mame0285-426-g7e974b41ece
- 2026-02-21
- Last Analyzed
- 8,833,369
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 1.87
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 38,363
- Total defects
- 14,651
- Outstanding
- 23,669
- Fixed