Collection:Game ROM images

Team Captain: David Hedlund

Participants: Jacobk

These complimentary games for RetroArch's Content Downloader (Main Menu -> Online Updater -> Content Downloader) are sometimes distributed by developers on ROM cartridges, enabling their use on original home video consoles. Additionally, they can be downloaded for use with emulators. Notably, the game SuperTux has been adapted for over ten different video game consoles (and emulators).

ROMs, an acronym for read-only memory, serve as a general term in the emulator and ROM community for cartridge dumps, ISO disc backups, and similar formats. These ROMs can be played on hardware if one has the capability to flash a cartridge, circumvent verification processes, or utilize a "flash cart," which varies depending on the system. In the context of video games, "homebrew" refers to games created by enthusiasts for proprietary video game consoles that are not designed to be user-programmable.

Reverse engineered games

Video console games

Nintendo

Home consoles

Nintendo 64

• https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp

By OS

Replicant

Games that can be played using remote administration software in GNU/Linux like scrcpy.

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=game

Windows

These games can be played using Wine.

Windows-only games

• Evidyon: No Man's Land
  • GPLv3
• OpenSpades
  • GPLv3
• SCP: Containment Breach
  • CC BY-SA 3.01

Retro

MS-DOS

DOSBox can be used to play these games. DOSBox is installable in RetroArch.

• Eradicate

By architecture

These games can be played using emulators. Most emulators can be installed from RetroArch.

Computer system games

Commodore 64

• The Uni Games

Video console games

Atari

Atari 2600

Atari Jaguar

Nintendo

Home consoles

Nintendo Entertainment System

• Super Tilt Bro
  • https://github.com/sgadrat/super-tilt-bro
• Thwaite
  • https://github.com/pinobatch/thwaite-nes
• Falling
  • https://github.com/xram64/falling-nes
• Big City Sliding Blaster
  • https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/SlidingBlaster
• NESert Golfing
  • https://github.com/bbbradsmith/NESertGolfing

Super NES

• Doom/FX
  • https://github.com/RandalLinden/DOOM-FX
• The Last Super
  • Web page: https://drludos.itch.io/the-last-super
• Keeping SNES alive
  • Web page: https://drludos.itch.io/keeping-snes-alive

Nintendo 64

• A note about N64 ROM images: currently any ROM that works on a real N64 depends on some nonfree Nintendo bootloader code, known as IPL3. This software was included on every N64 cartridge release. See https://n64brew.dev/wiki/Libdragon#Licensing and https://n64brew.dev/wiki/Pseultra#A_Note_About_Bootloaders for more details. It may be the case that some N64 emulators do not actually read that part of the ROM, in which case modified ROM images that only work on emulators may be easier to get as fully free software.
  • This appears to no longer be the case; see: https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon/issues/158#issuecomment-1845585199 and https://n64brew.dev/wiki/Libdragon?diff=5301&oldid=4658
• Portal 64
  • Note about nonfree code: https://github.com/mwpenny/portal64-still-alive/blob/master/documentation/n64_library_usage.md
• ClassiCube
  • repository: https://github.com/ClassiCube/ClassiCube
• gb64
  • repository: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/gb64

GameCube/Wii

• SuperTux: http://code.google.com/p/supertux-wii/

Wii U

• SuperTux: https://codeberg.org/BiberGames/supertux-wiiu

Handhelds

Game Boy

Game Boy Advance

• Inheritors of the Oubliette
  • Repository: https://github.com/DrLancer-X/inheritors-of-the-oubliette
  • Download: https://github.com/DrLancer-X/inheritors-of-the-oubliette/releases/
  • Very good reception: https://itch.io/jam/gbajam21/rate/1120414
  • Demo: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=txmvpEtFxZU&t=6083
  • Depends on devkitPro
    • "devkitPro is the organisation that provides the tools. We are not a software package, we don't have version numbers and the only way to have us compile your code is to pay us (or maybe if you ask nicely when you need help figuring out an issue)" - https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started
    • Dependencies: "have devkitpro installed with all the GBA dev stuff" - https://github.com/DrLancer-X/inheritors-of-the-oubliette. But where is the source?
    • https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Trademarks - "I don't think the devkitpro's trademark policy would make it unsuitable for the FSD." -- Craig
    • "devkitPro provided tools and libraries are managed by the rather wonderful Arch Linux pacman" - https://devkitpro.org/wiki/devkitPro_pacman
• SuperTux: https://github.com/Jorenar/SuperTux-Advance

Nintendo DS

• SuperTux: https://github.com/headshot2017/supertux-nds
• Diamond Trust of London

Nintendo DSi

• Passage

Nintendo 3DS

• 2048
• SuperTux: https://github.com/nop90/Supertux-Milestone1-3ds

Hybrid

Nintendo Switch

To run homebrew games on Nintendo Switch emulators, you do not need the firmware, prod.keys, or title.keys files. Homebrew games are typically developed by hobbyists and can be executed without these official Nintendo files, which are usually required for commercial games. While Atmosphère is a popular custom firmware used to run homebrew on actual consoles, it is not necessary for running homebrew on emulators. This is beneficial because the firmware is nonfree, meaning it is proprietary and not freely available for modification or distribution. By not needing the firmware, users avoid ethical issues associated with using nonfree software, as well as potential legal issues.

• A Dark Room
• SuperTux: https://github.com/headshot2017/supertux-switch
• SuperTuxKart

Sega

Home consoles

Sega Dreamcast

• Biniax
• SuperTux: https://github.com/headshot2017/supertux-dc

Sega Genesis

Handhelds

Game Gear

SNK

Neo Geo CD

Sony

PlayStation

• Warzone 2100
• https://github.com/ChenThread/fromage
• https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/doukutsupsx

Homebrew: "Making games on the PlayStation is possible with any model of the system through the use of a modchip or the double 'Swap Trick'. There is also a softmod/save game exploit called "tonyhax" Requirements consist of a PC, SDK, and a 'Comms Link' device to upload and download files to and from the console." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)#PlayStation

• https://archive.org/details/psx-homebrew-library
• https://github.com/Lameguy64/PSn00bSDK: "PSn00bSDK is a 100% free and open source SDK project for the original Sony PlayStation for developing homebrew applications and games for the console."

PlayStation 2

• SuperTux: https://github.com/headshot2017/supertux-ps2
• Game managers
  • Lutris

PlayStation 3

• SuperTux: https://sites.google.com/site/kunaldeo/supertux2forps3

PlayStation Portable

• Chromium B.S.U.
• GNU FreeDink
• No Gravity
• SuperTux: https://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/threads/16086-SuperTux-PSP-port-(Super-Mario-like-platformer), https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/SuperTux_PSP_by_riviera71, https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/SuperTux_PSP_by_Jomar

PlayStation 4

Uzebox

• Arkanoid_(Uzebox)
• DrMario_(Uzebox)
• The Uzebox Games and Demos Uzebox wiki page also list potential fully-free games. Note that beside the license we also need to make sure they don't have any nonfree build dependencies (like windows tools to convert graphic files for instance, dependencies on avr-studio, etc). We probably need a way to review that as well somewhere. For Arkanoid I reviewed it in the DistroExecutionEnvironments#Other_execution_environment Libreplanet wiki page. The same info is also on the Parabola Emulator_licensing_issues wiki page.

Todo

• Create pages for each game
• Add to the games: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Runs-on/SNES

External links

Super Tux (reference game)

• https://github.com/headshot2017?tab=repositories&q=supertux&type=&language=&sort=
• https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux/wiki/Download-Portable
• https://www.gamebrew.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=supertux&searchToken=a0520w4zsx31j6gydgdaaob1b