Consoles, homebrew & emulation — page 3173 resources

Super Mario Galaxy on the PlayStation 5: Nebula's static recompilation on a Win32 compatibility layer, Direct3D 12 on vkd3d and RADV.

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A fast DOS and Windows 9x Emulator with VR support, comprehensive sound (SB16, GUS, MT32 etc), graphics (Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA/S3/Voodoo etc.) and networking support, written in Rust.

🥄 scoop 🪣 bucket for 🎮 console emulators and 🕹 arcade games.

Static recompilation of James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod (Amiga) to C++ with SDL3: widescreen, smooth motion, Amiga 500 sound, pause menu. Bring your own disk image.

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Bare-metal Neo Geo emulator for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4: no OS, boots straight into the game, low input lag. MVS and AES.

New C++ PS2Build Edition: The OPL that gets better instead of just getting redecorated. RiptOPL - The Definitive Frankenstein PS2 Loader Built Entirely From The Community's Allocation of Work.

Disruptor (PlayStation, 1996) recompiled for Windows and Linux: widescreen, 60 FPS, up to 8x resolution, mouse and gamepad, RetroAchievements.

Macintosh and Apple Lisa emulator in the browser: From Lisa 2 to PowerMac G3, booting unmodified ROMs into Mac OS, A/UX, MkLinux, Lisa OS, and Xenix.

PasRISCV is a RV64GCV/RVA23 RISC-V emulator, which is implemented in Object Pascal.

Dusklight for PlayStation 5: a homebrew port on RADV (Aurora, Dawn WebGPU, SDL3). Bring your own disc image.

Game Boy & Game Boy Color emulator in Rust for desktop, Android, retro handhelds, and browser (WASM).

Native port of Moto Racer (1997) for Mac, Windows, Linux, Steam Deck and PSP. Widescreen up to 4K, gamepads, high frame rates. Static recompilation built from your own GOG copy.

Super Mario Sunshine on the PS5: a homebrew port of chasem-dev's sms-pc-port, as a builder kit (4K, 60 fps, your own disc image).

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A complete, free frontend for retro handhelds (ROCKNIX devices and the TrimUI Brick): every game in its real box, one pause menu from Game Boy to GameCube, instant resume and its own libretro player.

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Curated catalog of native PC and Android ports of classic games — decompilations, recompilations and reimplementations. Official sources only, never download links.

Burnout 3: Takedown on PlayStation 5: a port of Takedawn, the static recompilation of the original Xbox game. Bring your own USA disc.

Super Mario 64 for PlayStation 5 homebrew: Ghostship (libultraship) on the PS5 Vulkan stack. No game data included.

Browser-based AArch64 assembly emulator and visual debugger for CPSC 355, with lessons, auto-checked exercises, and an instruction reference. Rust compiled to WebAssembly, no install.

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NeoGeo (Neo Geo) emulator for Nintendo 3DS: converts MAME romsets to installable CIAs, full speed on Old 3DS.

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Next-level PC gaming on Android. Full Nothing OS design overhaul with custom glass UI, high refresh rate support, and built-in mod support.

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[RustyNES] Cycle-accurate Nintendo Entertainment System NES emulator built in pure Rust — 208+ mappers, WebAssembly-ready, GGPO netplay, TAS tools, and RetroAchievements integration for game preservation. "Precise.

A store for open-source PS5 homebrew: installs and updates the apps of the open Solanum catalog from their own GitHub releases. A Nightshade app.

Catalog of games and software for the Soviet home computer Elektronika BK-0010[-01] and BK-0011[M].

Free little xtensa emulator — a fast, dependency-free esp32 (xtensa lx6) emulator in c with a tracing jit. emulates an esp32 at 2-10x the speed of the real chip.

API-level AmigaOS runtime in Rust: run classic Amiga m68k CLI binaries directly on macOS, Linux and Windows, no Kickstart ROM required.

Luigi's Mansion (GameCube) as native PS5 homebrew, at 4K/60: Luigi's Mansion Recompiled built for the console, with Windows and Linux builder apps that make the title from your own disc.

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Run 32-bit ARMv7 Android apps and games on a 64-bit-only device: no root, no 32-bit ABI. A32 to ARM64 JIT (Dynarmic), real bionic userland, own ELF32 loader, syscall layer and platform HLE.

RomMate - Your ROM companion for converting, compressing, and organizing disc images. Supports CHD conversion and M3U playlist creation for PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, and more.

Radio and visuals for PS5: 222 free internet radio stations, your own USB music, and 56 beat-synced scenes. Native homebrew app.

Build native macOS apps from your own PlayStation discs. Apple silicon preview with Metal graphics, controller support and a graphical launcher. iOS planned.

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GBBox / GameBase Box: frontend for GameBase retro game databases. A Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) modern frontend.

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NeoGeo BIOS / Neo Geo MVS BIOS: PrivaBIOS, a free, open-source UniBIOS alternative for the SNK MVS. In-game menu, cheats, autofire, soft-DIPs, free play, AES mode.

DAAD text adventure interpreter for ZX Spectrum Next.

Like Wine, but for classic Android games.

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A Void Linux based Distro for multimedia purposes on TVs and Home Theatres.

Amiga Stunt Car Racer Performance. 50 Hz physics, 50 FPS & 8.33 Hz timers patch, in game track editor.

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MCP for MiniStack, the best AWS emulator.

Game launcher for the ZX Spectrum Next emulator CSpect - Windows, Linux and macOS (experimental).

Accurate NES / Famicom emulation, derived from FCEUX. Experimental Game Boy Advance (Beta) support.

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A highly accurate, fully featured, and fast Game Boy Advance emulator built to run in the browser.

Low-latency viewer and recorder for capture cards, screens and windows on Windows.

GNOME-native terminal emulator (Rust/GTK4) with recursive split tiling and synchronized input — a from-scratch Tilix rewrite.

CURATOR is an open-source Windows PowerShell tool for building authoritative, reproducible, LaunchBox-ready retro game collections using preservation DATs.

Octane's Emulator: Cross-platform CHIP-8/SUPER-CHIP Emulator. Runs on computers, browsers and microcontrollers (Raspberry Pi Pico).

Cross-platform desktop viewer for PlayStation game files — PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5 PKG, ISO, exFAT and PFS images with titles, covers, trophies and file listings, all read-only and without extraction. Portable. C++17 / Qt 6.

NES emulator firmware for the Waveshare ESP32-C6-LCD-1.47: nofrendo core, 60 fps landscape ST7789 output, BLE gamepads, single-button UI, live status bars.

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A calm, light frontend (launcher) for Android retro handhelds. Names your games offline, picks the emulators, updates itself, and shows battery use on a second screen. Open source under GPL-3.0.

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Flexible and easy to use Commodore 8-bit emulation with builtin games.