Game Preservation

The ongoing battle against corporate ignorance and corporate greed causes a lot of older video games to become lost media. These are resources that work to archive games and make them freely available.

• My Abandonware
  • PC, Mac
• The Shareware CD Collection
  • PC, Mac
• The Macintosh Repository
  • Mac

List of Top Rated Reproduction Software (2024)

Software to reproduce a facsimilie of games using legally obtained ROM images

• NES: Mesen
• SNES: Snes9x
• N64: RMG
• GC/Wii: Dolphin
• Wii U: Cemu
• Switch: Yuzu/Ryo
• GBC: SameBoy
• GBA: mGBA
• NDS: DeSmuME
• 3DS: Citra
• PS1: DuckStation
• PS2: PCSX2
• PS3: RPCS3
• PSP: PPSSPP
• Arcade: RetroArch
• Xbox: Xemu
• Dreamcast: Redream