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neo-pi

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

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

neo-pi is a console and retro computer emulator.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “neo-pi is a free, bare-metal NEO·GEO emulator for Raspberry Pi: no operating system, boots straight into the game, USB pads polled every 1 ms, beam racing, integer scaling.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of neo-pi is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub alessioscand/neo-pi (GPL-3.0-only)

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