retro-gaming
Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64. PlayStation 1, aka. PSX Emulator.
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. "Hack" options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues.
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Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console.
Open Gaming Platform.
Lutris is a video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come. Over the years, video games have gone through many different hardware and software platforms. By offering the best software available to run your games, Lutris makes it easy to run all your games, old and new.
This site tries to gather open-source remakes of great old games in one place. If you think that something is missing from the list - please go to our GitHub repository and create an issue or even a pull request!
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React component library for vintage icons from classic games, software and operating systems.
A comprehensive React component library featuring over 2,300 classic icons from vintage operating systems and software. Includes iconic designs from Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, classic games, and retro applications. Perfect for retro-themed applications, nostalgic UIs, and preserving digital history.
In the 1990s Nintendo made a deal with Philips to develop 3 Zelda titles. The first 2 were side scrolling platformers, similar to Zelda II, and the third was a traditional top-down action adventure game.
Zelda’s Adventure looked interesting and I thought it would be fun to play on a portable system. I chose the Game Boy because of the existing Zelda games on the system.
The game sticks to the aesthetics of Link’s Awakening, but also incorporates some features from Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.
This is a complete port of the CDi original and was developed in GB Studio, with a few modifications. Thanks to Beatscribe for composing the music. I hope you enjoy playing the game as much as enjoyed making it.
The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown retrogaming console.
Zork III: The Dungeon Master is a 1982 interactive fiction game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels, and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom.
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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
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Your beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager.
Scan, enrich, and browse your game collection with a clean and responsive interface.
With support for multiple platforms, various naming schemes and custom tags, RomM is a must-have for anyone who plays on emulators.
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Zork I (Microcomputer Version) by Infocom.
Zork I is a 1980 interactive fiction game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom.
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RetroDECK brings you an all-in-one sandboxed application to play your retro games (and even not-so-retro games) on Linux/SteamOS.
RetroDECK is committed to preserving retro and vintage games for all. However, even new games are at risk when online components are shut down. If you are an EU citizen you can help us in our mission by signing the Stop Killing Games EU initiative!
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Looking at the evolution of video game consoles is fascinating. While conventional PCs tend to evolve ‘incrementally’, new generations of consoles introduce completely new ways of working. What you see here is a series of articles that will hopefully uncover the rationale behind the latest trends in technology. They will also demonstrate why each system can’t be summarised by its ‘bits’, megahertz, amount of RAM and whatnot.
This is a re-implementation of the 1995 PSX game wipEout.
WipeOut-Rewrite Enhanced Fantômas Edition is an French enhanced PC source port of the original WipeOut and direct competitor of the English WipeOut Phantom Edition Enhanced.
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Sierra AGI games on the web! AGILE is an AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) engine, written in Java & JS, using the libGDX cross-platform development framework, targeting HTML5, Desktop and Android.
Open-source PCB designs to add composite AV output to the Nintendo Famicom. Includes through-hole and SMD versions, based on the HVC-CPU-07 board. Provides cleaner video/audio than RF, following Miko’s original AV-mod guide. Gerber files included.
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This is a HTML5 remake of Lode Runner, building the program with CREATEJS Javascript framework.
Use a Raspberry Pi, old computer or VM as network storage for different retro computers and consoles. RetroNAS is a tool that installs other tools, and is a rolling release. Each time the command line "retronas" tool is run, the core project is updated to its latest stable release. Third party tools that RetroNAS installs are done so via a mix of Debian APT repositories (which can be managed via standard package manager and system update tools), and for specialised tools via upstream project pages (these can be updated by re-running the tool installer).
Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi.
RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.
Bugfix DLL for SimCity 2000 Special Edition (1996) .
This is a DLL that patches the Special Edition (and 1995 CD Collection) release of SimCity 2000 for Windows 95 to work properly on modern Windows systems (Windows 7-11 and Wine/Proton). While the game itself is capable of running at high resolutions, oversights in the game's programming and techniques designed for use with 256-colour SVGA cards common in the mid 1990s cause problems with animations on truecolour displays. It also resolves the crashes that can occasionally happen with the load/save dialog boxes using a similar technique to Aleksander Krimsky's SC2000X patcher, but sc2kfix does so on in memory instead of creating a patched copy of your original EXE files.
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The turn-based strategy game of Conquer (v4), by Adam Bryant and Ed Barlow.
Conquer is the classic multi-player strategy game originally created by Edward M. Barlow and Adam Bryant in the late 1980s. This repository preserves both the historical distribution and provides a modern GPL-licensed version for continued development.
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Nintendo DS.
ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS and 3DS, written by Patrik Rak. It accurately emulates Spectrum 48k, 128k, +2/+2A/+3, and Pentagon, and supports SNA/Z80/SZX snapshots, TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL/DSK disk files and RZX replay files. It has some other noteworthy features, like the ability to download all these files online over WiFi, peer-to-peer WiFi multiplayer, or Kempston mouse emulation. It is available entirely for free, however donations are a nice way of saying "Thank You!".
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Project for activing FastROM on SNES games.
Project FastROM aims into optimizing the SNES games originally designed to run under SlowROM (2.68 MHz) to FastROM (3.58 MHz). FastROM allows the SNES CPU read data and opcodes from the ROM 33.58% faster compared to SlowROM.
A Remake / Celebration of the original 'Super Mario Bros.' games. Features new levels, custom modes, new characters, alongside a full level editor / custom level system!
Requires an original SMB1 NES ROM to play! None of the original assets are contained in the source code, unless it was originally made by us!
This is the Descent 3 open source engine, licensed under GPL-3.0. It includes the '1.5' patch written by Kevin Bentley and Jeff Slutter several years ago and brought to a stable condition by the Descent community.
Super Mario 64 port with extra features. This repo does not include all assets necessary for compiling the game. A prior copy of the game is required to extract the assets.
A static recompiler for original GameBoy ROMs that translates Z80 assembly directly into portable, modern C code.
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GameCube/Wii games on PC.
Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!
Emulator of retro x86-based machines.
86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
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A faithful recreation of the classic Pokemon Red/Blue games built with React and TypeScript. This project aims to recreate the original Pokemon experience in the browser, maintaining the authentic feel while leveraging modern web technologies.
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The turn-based strategy game of Conquer V5, by Adam Bryant and Ed Barlow - GPL v3 licensed
Conquer is the classic multi-player strategy game originally created by Edward M. Barlow and Adam Bryant in the late 1980s.
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PVSnesLib (Programmer Valuable Snes Library) is an open and free library to develop programs for the Nintendo SNES using the C programming language.
Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1 or Serf City in some countries. The game is as close to the original game as possible but also includes some useful extensions like higher resolutions and network games.
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A Simple web server to manage and run DOS based games on your browser.
wDOSg (web DOS games) is a centralized DOS game library that allows you to fetch metadata from IGDB and run your games on the browser through js-dos, using a minimalistic configuration.
The XWA Upgrade is a massive mod made from fans for fans. We started more than 23 years ago planning to only upgrade the ship models to add some much needed details into them. Over the many years we have discovered many things that we can do to upgrade not only the ship models however but the actual game engine as well. These days there is barely any part of the game untouched. There are higher texture resolutions, more ships with more options to choose from. More flightgroup colors, VR support, fully dynamic and interactive cockpits and so much more.
Pyxel is a retro game engine for Python.
With simple specifications inspired by retro gaming consoles, such as displaying only 16 colors and supporting 4 sound channels, you can easily enjoy making pixel-art-style games.
Zork II (Microcomputer Version) (Infocom).
Zork II is a 1981 interactive fiction game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom.
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OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform, mod-oriented, modernized remake of Civilization III by the fan community built with the Godot Engine and C#, with capabilities inspired by the best of the 4X genre and lessons learned from modding Civ3.
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Create your own gaming platform.
Hoarding video games is fun, but a chaotic list of files on a network share is not. Let GameVault organize everything for you and enjoy a Steam-like experience within the comfort of your own server.
This is a reverse engineered clone of Zelda 3 - A Link to the Past.
It's around 70-80kLOC of C code, and reimplements all parts of the original game. The game is playable from start to end.
NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It's easy to get started with, and has a useful set of libraries for making your first — or hundredth — NES game.
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The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC.
DOOM Retro is the classic, refined DOOM source port for Windows PC. It represents how I like my DOOM to be today, in all its dark and gritty, unapologetically pixelated glory. I have strived to craft a unique and cohesive set of compelling features, while continuing to uphold my respect for that classic, nostalgic DOOM experience many of us, after all this time, still hold dear.
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retro-gaming hand-held consoles and game cabinets.
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Join us on the mountain to ewperience thrilling 20- generated alpine ski tracks. Enjoy the ride or challenge your friends on some of the most demanding tracks!
RetroSki is a fun, open-source 2D skiing game that brings back the thrill of the slopes. Race on randomly generated alpine tracks, either locally or online with friends. The game features customizable race settings, track styles, and leaderboard functionality.
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Nostalgist.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to run emulators of retro consoles like NES and Sega Genesis, within web browsers.
A personal retro game collection cabinet in your browser.
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This is a re-implementation of the 1995 PSX game wipEout.
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Wolfenstein 3D in Rust
The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust.
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The DIY open source retrogaming emulation console. The open source game console.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown retrogaming console.
The TIE Fighter Total Conversion (TFTC) project is a free, fan-made port of the original classic 1994 LucasArts game TIE Fighter, into the 1999 X-Wing Alliance (XWA) engine. Based on the original TFTC from 2005 and built upon the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade (XWAU) project, this is a complete overhaul of the game from graphics to gameplay. All 13 original Tour of Duty campaigns and their training missions have been ported over, including all original voiceovers, cutscenes and even most of the original medals and Secret Order tattoo awards.
DRL (D**m, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular FPS game Doom by ID Software.
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Batocera.linux is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming distribution that can be copied to a USB stick or an SD card with the aim of turning any computer/nano computer into a gaming console during a game or permanently. Batocera.linux does not require any modification on your computer. Note that you must own the games you play in order to comply with the law.
Tool to statically recompile N64 games into native executables
N64: Recompiled is a tool to statically recompile N64 binaries into C code that can be compiled for any platform. This can be used for ports or tools as well as for simulating behaviors significantly faster than interpreters or dynamic recompilation can. More widely, it can be used in any context where you want to run some part of an N64 binary in a standalone environment.
Reads and writes Game Boy and Game Boy Advance cartridge data. Supported hardware: GBxCart RW, GBFlash, Joey Jr.
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Emulators on Steam Deck, SteamOS , Rog Ally and Windows.
Emulation made easy on steamOS. EmuDeck takes care of everything. Emulator installation & configuration, bezels, hotkeys, performance fixes and more.
Open source clone of Theme Hospital.
A reimplementation of the 1997 Bullfrog business sim Theme Hospital. As well as faithfully recreating the original, CorsixTH adds support for modern operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD), high resolutions and much more.
Source: CorsixTH - Un moteur open source pour Theme Hospital @ Korben :fr:.
The Future is Retro.
elive your childhood with Chromatic, the ultimate retro cartridge gaming console.
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