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Project Summary

MESS is a MAME-based project which documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators through software emulation, as MAME does for arcade games. As a nice side effect to this documentation, MESS allows software and games for these hardware platforms to be run on modern PCs.

The goal of MESS is total accuracy to the original hardware behaviour, which is achieved through low-level emulation of all hardware components (video chips, CPUs, etc.), the implementations of which are shared across all emulated systems using the generic MAME architecture.

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amiga atari commodore cross-platform debugger dynarec emulation emulator framework linux lle mac macintosh mame mess nintendo osx portable preservation retro sdl sega unix windows

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In a Nutshell, MESS - Multi Emulator Super System...

MAME™ Distribution License
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it

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Languages

C++
35%
C
38%
XML
25%
16 Other
2%

30 Day Summary

Dec 29 2025 — Jan 28 2026

12 Month Summary

Jan 28 2025 — Jan 28 2026
  • 4486 Commits
    Up + 759 (20%) from previous 12 months
  • 146 Contributors
    Down -3 (2%) from previous 12 months

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for mamedev/mame )

Repository URL: https://github.com/mamedev/mame

Version: mame0284-335-g57c9caa10a4

2026-01-25
Last Analyzed
8,814,717
Lines of Code Analyze
1.87
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

38,302
Total defects
14,623
Outstanding
23,636
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') 12
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 325
676 Use of Potentially Dangerous Function 6