Project Summary
mGBA is a new generation of Game Boy Advance emulator. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally played without problems. mGBA has only gotten better since then, and now boasts being the most accurate GBA emulator around.
Further along in development mGBA gained Game Boy support and eventually is planned to have DS support too. Other goals include accurate enough emulation to provide a development environment for homebrew software, a good workflow for tool-assist runners, and a modern feature set for emulators that older emulators may not support.
In a Nutshell, mGBA...
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 188 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2013
ending with its most recent commit 3 days ago
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Project Security
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30 Day SummaryJul 23 2026 — Aug 22 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for mgba-emu/mgba )
Repository URL: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba
Version: r9126
- 2026-08-21
- Last Analyzed
- 458,259
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.49
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 620
- Total defects
- 86
- Outstanding
- 255
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
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| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 15 |