Emulation / Demoscene / Retro Links

Retro Veteran
Console and Handheld homebrew news submissions!

Vintage is the New Old
Homebrew news for mostly retro computers.

Sentinel 65X
Cost-reduced 65816 hobbyist microcomputer.

dgVoodoo2
Reimplementation of Direct3D 1-9, Direct2D, and 3dfx Glide for DirectX 10, 11 and 12.

mGBA
The best Game Boy Advance emulator.

Emulation General Wiki
An emulation wiki sprung from /emugen/.

PK Hack
EarthBound / MOTHER hacking board.

GBAtemp
Long-standing independent gaming underground board.

gbadev
The old Game Boy Advance development homepage.

Pouët
THE demoscene prod resource!

SMS Power!
Homebrew community dedicated to SEGA 8-bit consoles, handhelds, and computers.

MAME
Generic electronics emulator that preserves thousands of arcade games, computers, consoles, and miscellaneous electronics.

devkitPro
Community for a GCC toolchain for GBA, NDS, 3DS, Wii, GCN, Wii U, PSP, and Switch.

PSX-Place
Community for PlayStation modding.

The Cutting Room Floor
Wiki dedicated to unused / cut content from video games.

Retro Reversing
Articles about reverse engineering retro games.

Rare Gaming Dump
Wiki dedicated to documentation of rare information regarding hardware and firmware, mostly for Nintendo systems.

OGXbox.com
Web forum for Microsoft Xbox (2001) hacking.

NESDev Forums
Dedicated forum for NES / Famicom development.

Dwedit
Dwedit's Website.

Handheld Underground
Taizou's website for dumping bootleg Game Boy / Color games.

Bootleg Games Central 5-in-1
Online nexus for discussing, dumping, and documenting pirate bootleg video games.

MSX Resource Center
Community dedicated to MSX homebrew, hacking, and more.

Lemon64
Community dedicated to the Commodore 64 scene.

VOGONS
Community dedicated to IBM PC emulation and hardware.

Team-Europe
Blog of a team dedicated to dumping and decapping Arcade MCUs and dumping elusive ROM boards.

Foxy's Softs
French website belonging to a homebrew programmer named Foxy.

MAME Machine Database on ArcadeItalia
Italian website that acts as a pretty comprehensive resource on MAME machines, sans the ROM downloads.

MAME Testers
Mantis Bugtracker page for MAME.

MAME progetto-SNAPS
Resource for MAME artwork, samples, manuals, etc.

Pin Eight
Personal website of Damian Yerrick.

console-dev.de
Website belonging to Peter Schraut, creator of the HAM Extension Library (HEL) for the GBA.

Jeff Frohwein's Software / Hardware Dev'rs
Jeff's site dedicated to homebrew software and electronics development.

Sean Riddle
Homepage for prolific ROM dumper and chip decapper Sean Riddle.

Gaming Alexandria
Group of game preservationists that scans and dumps oddball prototypes.

No-Intro DAT-o-MATIC
Community project dedicated to DATting every known cartridge and media for consoles, excluding optical media.

LGR / lazygamereviews
Clint Basinger's YouTube channel, dedicated to retrocomputing and the like.

MAMEWorld
Forum for MAME development and help.

David "MameHaze" Haywood's Blog
Blog about Haze's MAME development on plu & play devices and other oddball machines.

meichnpp's Homepage
Netizen who develops MSX games, Windows games, PICO-8 games, and electronic music.

Sebastian Mihai's Homepage
Website of a prolific homebrew coder and reverse engineer, Sebastian Mihai.

The Oric Site
Website and forum dedicated to the Tangering Oric family of computers.

The SAM Coupe Site
Quazar's website dedicated to SAM Coupé development and releases.

The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
Self-explanatory. Source code and documentation of the Hercules emulator for emulating various IBM mainframes.

Caps0ff
Blog for Caps0ff, a once-prolific arcade MCU decapper, closely related with MAME.

Leningrad Museum
Sergei Frolov's Soviet digital electronics museum.

ticalc.org
Hacking community and file hosting for legacy Texas Instruments calculators.

Gameboy Development Forum
Game Boy homebrew dev forum launched in 2008.

Atari 2600 land.
Website belonging to homebrew programmer Chris Read.

NovaSquirrel's Site
Website belonging to homebrew programmer and artist NovaSquirrel.

Telnet BBS Guide
List of active BBSes to connect to either via Telnet or via modem.

DCVG5K
Website dedicated to the Philips VG5000 emulator DCVG5K.

MTXWorld
Website dedicated to the Memotech MTX family of computers.

Lemon Amiga
Community dedicated to the Commodore Amiga.

Plug-n-Play Video Game Market Information Center
Database of known Plug & Play TV Games.

Free60 Wiki
Wiki dedicated to Xbox 360 hacking, homebrewing, and Linux.

Xenia
Homepage for Xenia, the Xbox 360 Research Emulator.

RPCS3
Homepage for RPCS3, the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator.

TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
File hosting for all sorts of programs and utilities for Tandy TRS-80 CoCo-family computers.

Sinclair ZX World
phpBB forum for all things Sinclair computers; ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, etc.