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| 2013-11-17 (v1.0)
 
| 2013-11-17 (v1.0)
 
| 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1)
 
| 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| N/A
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! [http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk.html BizHawk]
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| 'Nach'
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| {{✓}}<ref name"Github repository">[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk Github - TASVideos/BizHawk]</ref>
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| style="background: #FFB" | "minefield"<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/blob/e60896c1b745ef573fde784155432bef44e78b18/LICENSE Repository License]</ref>
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| 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0)
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| 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1)
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| {{✓}}
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| N/A
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| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled
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| N/A
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! [https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Bottlenose]
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| Quinton Ashley
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (MIT)
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| 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12)
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| 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65)
 
| {{✓}}
 
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| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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| N/A
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! [http://coinops.ninja/ CoinOPS]
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181)
 
| 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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|-
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! [http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/ EmuCon]
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| N/A
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| {{✓}}<ref name"Download page">[http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/downloads.htm EmuCon Download page with sources]</ref>
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| {{✗}}
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| 2008-04-23 (v2.0)
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| 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7)
 
| {{✓}}
 
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| {{✗}}
 
| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6)
 
| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6)
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| 2018-08-31 (v8.6.6)
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| 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6)
 
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! [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games Games (Gnome)]
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| Various contributors
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-games/ Gitlab - GNOME-games]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0)
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| 2019-05-24 (v3.32.0)
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| {{✗}}
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| N/A
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| {{✓}}
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| N/A
 
|-
 
|-
 
! [https://hyperspin-fe.com/ HyperSpin]
 
! [https://hyperspin-fe.com/ HyperSpin]
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| 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b)
 
| 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b)
 
| 2011-03-27 (v1.74)
 
| 2011-03-27 (v1.74)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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|-
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! [https://www.maximus-arcade.com/ Maximus Arcade]
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| N/A
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher]
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| Jörg Sonntag
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0)
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| 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0)
 
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| 2007-02-05 (v1.0)
 
| 2007-02-05 (v1.0)
 
| 2019-04-?? (v7.5)
 
| 2019-04-?? (v7.5)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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|-
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! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus]
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| Mátyás Mustoha
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3)
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| style="background: #FFB" | 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| Android, Raspberry Pi
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! [https://playnite.link/ Playnite]
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| Josef Nemec
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite Github - JosefNemec/Playnite]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (MIT)
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| 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha)
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| 2019-02-25 (v4.74)
 
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! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey]
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| 'romjacket'
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/romjacket/skeletonKey Github - romjacket/skeletonKey]</ref>
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| {{✗}}
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| 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34)
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| 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
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! [https://snowflakepowe.red/ Snowflake]
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| Ronny Chan
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/snowflake Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (MPLv2.0)
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| 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0)
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| style="background: #FFB" | 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158)
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| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled
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| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled
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| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled
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| N/A
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! [https://frogthefrog.github.io/steam-rom-manager/ Steam Rom Manager]
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| Lukas Senionis
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0)
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| 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| N/A
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Revision as of 02:49, 2 June 2019

Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system front-ends for emulators. The table does not include single system front-ends (such as EmuCon, Mame Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2, etc.)

Name Creator Open Source Free (FOSS) First public release date Year of latest stable version Windows Macintosh GNU/Linux Other platforms
Atomic 'Youki' ✗ ✗ 2005-02-08 (v0.11) 2010-01-23 (v0.20) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Attract-Mode Andrew Mickelson ✓[1] ✓ (GPLv3) 2013-11-17 (v1.0) 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
BizHawk 'Nach' ✓[2] "minefield"[3] 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0) 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1) ✓ N/A To be compiled N/A
Bottlenose Quinton Ashley ✓[4] ✓ (MIT) 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
CabrioFE Steve Maddison ✓[5] ✓ (GPLv2) 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0) 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version) v0.8.1 ✓ ✗ N/A
CoinOPS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
EmuCenter 2 N/A ✗ ✗ N/A 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
EmuCon N/A ✓[6] ✗ 2008-04-23 (v2.0) 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Emulation Station Alec Lofquist, Eduard Strehlau ✓[7][8] ✓ (MIT) 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) 2014-06-12 (v1.0.2 - on original repo) ✓ ✗ ✓ Raspberry Pi[9]
EmuLoader N/A ✓[10] ✗ 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
FEEL 'Sincro' ✗ ✗ N/A 2017-06-13 (v1.9.8.1c) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GameEx Tom Speirs ✗ ✗ N/A 2019-05-09 (v1.05) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Games (Gnome) Various contributors ✓[11] ✓ (GPLv3) 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) 2019-05-24 (v3.32.0) ✗ N/A ✓ N/A
HyperSpin Jonathan Habers ✗ ✗ N/A 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) ✓ ✗ ✗ Android[12]
Ice Scott Rice ✓[13] ✓ (MIT) 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
Launch Box Jason Carr ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
LusSpace 'Space1' ✗ ✗ N/A 2016-11-08 (v1.23) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MaLa Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader ✗ ✗ 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b) 2011-03-27 (v1.74) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Maximus Arcade N/A ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Metropolis Launcher Jörg Sonntag ✓[14] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0) 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
mGalaxy N/A ✗ ✗ 2007-02-05 (v1.0) 2019-04-?? (v7.5) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Pegasus Mátyás Mustoha ✓[15] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11) ✓ ✓ ✓ Android, Raspberry Pi
Playnite Josef Nemec ✓[16] ✓ (MIT) 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) 2019-02-25 (v4.74) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
QuickPlay Tony 'butter100fly' Woode ✓[17] ✓ (BSD-3) 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6) ✓ N/A N/A N/A
RetroFe Don Honerbrink ✓[18] ✓ (GPLv3) 2016-07-26 (v0.7.2-beta-1) 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) ✓ To be compiled ✓ N/A
RoM-Jacket 'Jinx' ✓ (.bat files) ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
skeletonKey 'romjacket' ✓[19] ✗ 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Snowflake Ronny Chan ✓[20] ✓ (MPLv2.0) 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158) To be compiled To be compiled To be compiled N/A
Steam Rom Manager Lukas Senionis ✓[21] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
  1. ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
  2. ↑ Github - TASVideos/BizHawk
  3. ↑ Repository License
  4. ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose
  5. ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
  6. ↑ EmuCon Download page with sources
  7. ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
  8. ↑ Github - Herdinger/EmulationStation (fork)
  9. ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
  10. ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
  11. ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
  12. ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
  13. ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
  14. ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
  15. ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
  16. ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
  17. ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
  18. ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
  19. ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
  20. ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
  21. ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager
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