Purpose of the Project
recomp.wiki is a non-commercial, educational index created to organize and track community efforts to preserve and modernize console video games. Over past decades, enthusiast developers have applied static analysis, decompilation, and porting technologies to allow classic console software to run natively on modern personal computers.
This site aims to provide enthusiasts, researchers, and developers with a centralized reference point for identifying existing research, tracking cross-platform support across Windows, Linux, and macOS, and understanding the requisite asset extraction requirements for each title.
Data Caveats & Testing Realities
The vast majority of entries cataloged in this database represent community-submitted listings and automated metadata aggregation. Nobody running this site has tested these projects. Evidence levels summarize what's publicly known.
Community software projects vary dramatically in maturity and reliability. Some entries represent complete, highly polished releases with comprehensive installers and graphical configuration utilities; others represent incomplete experiments, early research branches, or archival proofs-of-concept that may not be playable from start to finish.
Always review project documentation and community discussion before attempting to build or run any software listed in this catalog.
Evidence Levels
- Players report it runs: People in the community say they have played it with this project.
- Build released: The project has published a build you can install. That doesn't guarantee it's complete.
- Source code only: The code is public but no ready-made build has been confirmed. You may need to compile it.
- Not yet confirmed: The project is listed but nothing about its state has been confirmed yet.
- Project removed: The project is no longer available at its original location.
Notice & Legal Disclaimer
recomp.wiki does not host, provide, link to, or distribute any game files, ROMs, ISOs, disc images, BIOS dumps, firmware files, or cryptographic decryption keys.
Every project referenced in this catalog operates strictly as an independent software implementation or binary translation tool. To utilize any recompilation or source port, the end user is solely responsible for dumping or extracting requisite assets from their own legally obtained, compatible physical media or authorized digital retail copy.
The contents of this site and its guides are provided purely for informational, historical, and archival purposes and do not constitute legal advice.
All game names, character trademarks, console platform brands, and company names referenced throughout this site are the intellectual property of their respective trademark and copyright holders. Their mention here constitutes nominative fair use strictly to identify the historical titles targeted by community software preservation efforts.