Legend and Attributes

September 18, 2014

Status

Value	Description
New	Comprehensive testing/validiation has not been done yet.
Direction Needed	Requires official position of Dev Team to be handled.
Acknowledged	Has been processed and some testing has been done, but there has been no final determination made as to it's status.
Confirmed	Another tester or moderator has determined the bug to be valid.
Assigned	Has been assigned to a Developer who is willing to research/correct the bug.
Resolved	A Bug which has been either Fixed, Won't be fixed or is a BTANB.
Closed	An invalid post. In general, it is "not a MAME bug", "a duplication of other reports", "unable to be reproduced" etc.

Note: Some of them have different meaning in MAME Testers from the original Mantis system.

Value	Description
Cheat System	Any bug related to the cheat system.
Color/Palette	Bug related to color and/or palette.
Compiling	Bug occurs when compiling MAME.
Core	Bug related to the emulation core.
Crash/Freeze	Bug causes crash or freeze.
DIP/Input	Bug related to DIP switches and/or input.
Documentation	Bug or issue related to source documentation.
Gameplay	Bug related to general gameplay.
Graphics	General graphic bug.
Interface	Bug related to MAME's interface (File I/O, UI, cfg, menu etc.)
Known Issues/To-Do's	Issues/To-Do's mentioned in a source file.
Misc.	Miscellaneous bug.
Multisession	Bug related to Multisession.
Original Reference	Reference to the original material (PCB, spec, datasheet etc.)
Save/Restore	Save/restore related bug.
Side-by-side	Side-by-side test result (only for old reports)
Sound	General sound bug.
Speed	Problem of speed and performance.

Note: "Bugs That Aren't Bugs" is no more a Category. It has been moved to Resolution. (Aug 9, 2008)

Value	Description
Feature	Feature extension. This is only for some special occasions and don't use this usually. If you have something to suggest, please send it Devs directly.
Trivial	Issue which doesn't affect work of emulation directly. Wrong Input definition (duplicated, missing) DIP switch info In-game ROM/RAM check error MAME's in-game message etc.
Typo	Typographical error in source code or other texts. Typo in source code Wrong ROM name etc.
Minor	General cosmetic issue or minor malfunction. Default value.
Major	Problem which disturbs the gameplay in a significant manner. Corrupt graphics Sound not working Totally broken input Widespread malfunction etc.
Critical (emulation)	Bug causes the game or program to crash or freeze (stop working) but MAME/MESS still runs.
Critical (emulator)	Bug crashes MAME/MESS (either hang or outright crash)

* If you don't find good one, please leave this field "Minor".

Name	Description
Platform	Describes what platform the MAME binary was used for testing. MAMEUI (or any UI build) is not recommended for testing but we do offer a field for it so we can allow then to be logged and easily filter them from the results.
OS	Describes what kind of OS was used for testing.
Build	Describes what kind of MAME build was used for testing.
Driver	Game driver name. If the bug is not for a specific game, please leave this field blank.
Affected Sets / Systems	Game ZIP names with the problem in MAME, hardware systems in MESS. This will appear in the head of the summary text. Examples: pacman If pacman and clones share the same issue, just write down the master set name. mappy and clones You can write like this. rtype, rtypej, rtypejp, rtypeu The set family is not so big, this is ok. All games in bublbobl.c You can write in this form but you should remember this will not appear in the result of the search by a set name. The King of Fighters 2018 (Asia) Please lookup the set name in ProgettoEMMA.
Summary	Brief description of the bug. This text will be used in various places to refer to the bug.

Name	Description
64-bit specific	Bug elicited only in a 64-bit build.
Debug build specific	Bug elicited in a debug build.
Possible	Suspected phenomenon to be a bug. Needs confirmation with the original.
Verified with Original	Bug validated with PCB, technical note, schematics and other original reference.
Noted in Source	Bug/issue is known by the driver author and noted in the source file.
Verified with Code	If you confirmed the bug against the original game code (NOT MAME CODE!), check this.