Homebrew Collection
Homebrew made by fans for old consoles, and given away. Every game here is free to download, play and share: download it for your flash cart or emulator, or press Play to run it in the Arcade. Below that, homebrew for consoles the Arcade can't play yet, linked from its makers.
- Games
- 27
- Consoles
- 6
- Linked
- 26
- Price
- Free
Double Action Blaster Guys
An arcade platformer in the Bubble Bobble mould: 52 levels, more than 25 kinds of enemy, alone or with a friend. Comes with a level editor.
Big City Sliding Blaster
An overhead shooter over ten stages, playable in co-op, with a level editor of its own.
NESert Golfing
Golf across a desert that never ends, one hole after another. Up to four players take turns.
RHDE: Furniture Fight
Real-time strategy for two: furnish your house for points, break into your rival’s, then rebuild your walls before the next round. Player 2 needs a second gamepad.
Concept by NovaSquirrel and Sean Sells; graphics by Damian Yerrick and NovaSquirrel; music by The Eighth Bit and an anonymous contributor.
Thwaite
Missiles are falling on a small town: aim the cursor and shoot them down with fireworks. A second player needs a second gamepad.
Extra music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Concentration Room
Card matching with a story: play alone, against the NES, or against a friend.
Snek
Snake, steered with the d-pad: eat, grow, and don’t bite yourself.
Beyond the Arcade
Homebrew for consoles our Arcade can’t play yet. We don’t host these: each one links to its maker’s page, where you can download it for a flash cart, a modded console or an emulator.
N64
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Wizard of the Board
A first-person action game built on chess. Climb a tower of enemy chess pieces, one floor at a time.
Won the N64brew Game Jam 2021.
NTSC and PAL builds, about 8 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MPL-2.0, assets CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Plug ’N’ Repair
Keep four laptops charged by plugging and unplugging one controller across the four ports.
Made for a real N64: it asks you to plug controllers in and out, so it plays best on hardware.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MIT, assets CC BY -
Uncharted Terra 2264
A first-person puzzle adventure in an abandoned colony, with video cutscenes packed into an 8 MB ROM.
5th place, N64brew Game Jam 2025.
Runs without an Expansion Pak but is better with one. Saves may not work on older flash carts.
Get it from the maker github.com · Unlicense (public domain) -
Summer’s Story
A first-person walk around an abandoned island, told as interactive fiction.
Won the N64brew Game Jam 2023.
About 19 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Alien Sun
A puzzle platformer on a tidally locked planet. Swim, slide and collect crystals to power a ship.
3rd place, N64brew Game Jam 2023.
Short: a few minutes a run.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code Unlicense -
Styx: Work Hard, Have Fun, Get Buried In Your Work
A Halloween warehouse game: fill orders before the work piles up.
Won the N64brew Game Jam 2022.
Some emulators draw it in black and white. A flash cart or ares is safer.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Source MIT -
BotBoy!64
A 3D platformer about a robot putting itself back together across six levels, with split screen and a jukebox.
4th place, N64brew Game Jam 2025.
The maker says it can crash on real hardware. ares is the recommended emulator. 16 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Source MIT
Dreamcast
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Sky Pirates of Etalmar
Arcade dogfights over floating islands. The demo has two campaign missions and two to four player versus with bots.
Won DreamDisc ’24.
Works in Flycast and on real hardware from a burned disc or a drive emulator.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Defuseball
A puzzle game: hop onto the bomb fields in the right order before time runs out.
2nd place, DreamDisc ’24.
The maker doesn’t promise it works in every emulator.
Get it from the maker itch.io · LGPL 2.1 -
The Eternal Sleep
A short puzzle adventure through pre-rendered towers. Keep a pen and paper handy.
3rd place, DreamDisc ’24.
There is a small image for emulators and a larger padded one for burning.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Starship Madness
A 3D arcade shooter in which you defend a cyberplanet across four levels, with one life.
5th place, DreamDisc ’24.
Get it from the maker itch.io · GPL 2 -
Trick Truck
Skateboard-style combos, played with a box truck.
6th place, DreamDisc ’24.
Works in Flycast and on real hardware.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
DREAM RIDE
One to four player driving in an arena: eight cars and four modes.
This is the free jam build. The maker says later versions will be paid.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Mute Crimson DC
A ninja precision platformer, ported to Dreamcast by its own makers and given away free.
A 707 MB disc image. Needs a memory card with 4 free blocks. This port has no rumble or rewind.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
Mega Drive
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Abyssal Infants
A side-scrolling shoot-em-up made for the 4MB Game Jam, also released for Neo Geo and PS1.
The maker calls it very hard. The ROM is under 1 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Break An Egg
A chicken bounces falling eggs into a basket. A tiny arcade game in a 256 kB ROM.
Free but still copyrighted: the maker asks that anyone sharing it links back.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Freeware, copyrighted -
VARG
A speedrun-minded action platformer with eight stages and no HUD.
The Summer 2026 demo. NTSC-J and PAL builds.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
Saturn
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Micro Motor Mayhem
A toy-car racer with power-ups and two player split screen.
Won original games in the Saturn 30th Anniversary Competition.
Still in development. The maker lists some known physics glitches.
Get it from the maker segaxtreme.net · No licence stated
PS2
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SuperTux (PS2 port)
A port of the open source SuperTux Milestone 1 platformer to the PS2.
Port by headshot2017. SuperTux is by the SuperTux Team.
Needs a modified console. An early release (v0.1.1a).
Get it from the maker github.com · GPL-2.0
PSP
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Mine, Robot!
A mine-disarming robot with a faulty scanner races a clock.
A jam game. About 54 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Source on the maker’s page; assets CC BY and OpenGameArt -
Medieval Tactics
Isometric turn-based strategy in the style of Into the Breach, with rounds generated as you play.
About 2 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Blockamok Remix
Fly a ship through fields of blocks at rising speed, with 3D drawn entirely by the CPU.
Based on Blockamok by carltheperson.
Builds for GameCube, Wii, 3DS, PSP and Vita, among others. Each is under 10 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MIT -
Terri-Fried
Drag an egg across falling platforms and keep it out of the lava. Made for Ludum Dare 46.
Builds for DS, GameCube, Wii, PSP and Vita are listed on the maker’s page.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
Running homebrew on a PSP or Vita needs a modified console, or an emulator such as PPSSPP.
PS Vita
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PURIFIED
A neo-retro third-person shooter with melee and dashing.
Won FuHEN 2023.
Still in development. An 84 MB download.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
ABYSS
A third-person duel shooter roguelike with procedurally generated weapons.
A 162 MB download.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated -
Dream Punk
An exploration platformer in a candy-coloured dream: bounce, hookshot, glide and grind.
Best Original Game, FuHEN 2023.
The Vita download is on VitaDB. There is also a PC version on itch.io.
Get it from the maker rinnegatamante.eu · No licence stated -
Blockamok Remix
Fly a ship through fields of blocks at rising speed, with 3D drawn entirely by the CPU.
Based on Blockamok by carltheperson.
Builds for GameCube, Wii, 3DS, PSP and Vita, among others. Each is under 10 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MIT -
Terri-Fried
Drag an egg across falling platforms and keep it out of the lava. Made for Ludum Dare 46.
Builds for DS, GameCube, Wii, PSP and Vita are listed on the maker’s page.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
Running homebrew on a PSP or Vita needs a modified console, or an emulator such as PPSSPP.
GameCube & Wii
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Blockamok Remix
Fly a ship through fields of blocks at rising speed, with 3D drawn entirely by the CPU.
Based on Blockamok by carltheperson.
Builds for GameCube, Wii, 3DS, PSP and Vita, among others. Each is under 10 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MIT -
Terri-Fried
Drag an egg across falling platforms and keep it out of the lava. Made for Ludum Dare 46.
Builds for DS, GameCube, Wii, PSP and Vita are listed on the maker’s page.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
DS & 3DS
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Blockamok Remix
Fly a ship through fields of blocks at rising speed, with 3D drawn entirely by the CPU.
Based on Blockamok by carltheperson.
Builds for GameCube, Wii, 3DS, PSP and Vita, among others. Each is under 10 MB.
Get it from the maker itch.io · Code MIT -
Terri-Fried
Drag an egg across falling platforms and keep it out of the lava. Made for Ludum Dare 46.
Builds for DS, GameCube, Wii, PSP and Vita are listed on the maker’s page.
Get it from the maker itch.io · No licence stated
What goes in
Games whose makers released them under an open source licence or into the public domain, so anyone may copy and share them. Each one links to its licence and its source. These rules are for what we host; the games under Beyond the Arcade stay with their makers.
Copyleft
11 games are copyleft (GPL or MPL): free to play and share, but changed versions must keep the same licence. We host the source for the exact ROM next to each one.
What never goes in
Commercial games, "abandonware", freeware without a licence, and anything with non-commercial terms. Please don't post or ask for those ROMs on the forum either.
Made a game?
If you've made a game for any console, whether it's an NES cartridge or a Dreamcast disc, and you give it away free, say hello on the Homebrew & Dev line. An open licence gets it hosted here; otherwise we can link to your page.