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There are several ways to support or contribute to an emulation project (or similar projects such as [[compatibility layers]], [[game engine recreations/Source Ports|game engine recreations]], [[game engine recreations/Source Ports|source ports]] or simulators). Explained here are different ways you can get involved, even if you have low technical skill and/or no money.

Many emulators not only need games tested in the emulator, but also on real hardware, because games aren't perfect. If you've been involved with the speedrunning community, you ''know'' bugs exist, and can be taken advantage of to get a faster time.

Ideally, you should have a capture card for recording footage from hardware.

== Archival & hardware donations ==

Optical discs like CD and DVDs have a limited lifespan. They degrade over time and will eventually be unreadable to a disc reader.

Each known cart/disc is stored with information which makes it possible for users to verify the correctness of their cart/disc.

Contributing to these databases (by dumping your cart/disc and contributing metadata) helps to build a full-set for testing emulators.

* [https://caps0ff.blogspot.com/ CAPS0ff] - [https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4805718 Has a Patreon].

The libretro Team has

* A [https://www.libretro.com/index.php/contributions/ contribute page] with wish lists for hardware and other info.  

* [https://www.patreon.com/libretro A Patreon.]

=== [[ScummVM]] ===

'''Patreon''' is a service that allows fans to contribute to creators' projects on a recurring basis (where they're known as patrons). A ton of emulator developers are already using it so if you wish to support any project with money, we've listed the accounts below. We also have a page on other ways to [[support emulation projects]].

===Emulators===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%"

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|System(s)

! scope="col"|Early access

! scope="col"|Other rewards

|-

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[BigPEmu]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/richwhitehouse Patreon]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{✓}}

|Discord, credits/homages in author's all solo work

|-

|[[Delta]]

|{{Green}} {{License|AGPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✓}}

|-

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[POS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#x86_CPUs|x86 CPUs]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|-

|-

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{✗}}

|-

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[melonDS]]

|[[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|-

|[[Mesen]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/Mesen Patreon]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|[[Nintendo 3DS emulators|Nintendo 3DS]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/mikage Patreon]

|{{✗}}

|Exclusive news, technical support

|[[NooDS]]

|[[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|{{✓}}

|Exclusive news, name in emulator

|-

|Planet Virtual Boy emulator

|[https://www.patreon.com/GuyPerfect Patreon]

|{{Green}} {{License|zlib}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|-

|[[Play!]]

|{{Green}} {{License|BSD2}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|{{✗}}

|Discord

|-

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|-

|[[Project64]]

|Remove prompts for support

|-

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{✓}}

|Exclusive news, name in emulator

|-

|[[RPCS3]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|Discord, exclusive news, technical support, development polls, name in emulator

|-

|{{Green}} {{License|MIT}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|-

|-

|[[TeknoParrot]]

|{{✓}}

|Exclusive emulator features, Discord, exclusive news

|-

|[[Vita3K]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|Discord, name in readme, higher priority on reported issues

|-

|[[xemu]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/mborgerson Patreon]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|-

|[[Xenia]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/xenia_project Patreon (xenia_project)]<br/>[https://www.patreon.com/gibbed Patreon (gibbed)]<br/>[https://github.com/sponsors/gibbed GitHub Sponsor (gibbed)]<br/>[https://github.com/sponsors/JoelLinn GitHub Sponsor (JoelLinn)]<br/>[https://github.com/sponsors/Razzile GitHub Sponsor (Razzile)]

|{{Green}} {{License|BSD3}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|Discord

|-

|[[Sega Saturn emulators|Sega Saturn]]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" width="100%"

! scope="col"|Name

! scope="col"|Sponsorship links

! scope="col"|Rewards

|-

|[https://caps0ff.blogspot.com/ CAPS0ff]

|[https://www.patreon.com/zophar zophar]

|Ad-free, your own post, link to your emulation project.

|-

|[https://twitter.com/Tuxality Tuxality]

|{{✗}}

|-

|}

|-

|[https://romhacking.net/ ROMhacking.net]

|[https://www.patreon.com/Romhackingnet Romhackingnet]

|Site themes, site development forum, ad-free, sticky article, new site feature or improvement of your choosing.

|-

|[https://www.preservegames.org/ The Video Game Preservation Collective (VGPC)]

|[https://www.patreon.com/vgpc vgpc]

|Name on website

;External links

* [https://graphtreon.com/ Graphtreon] - View a project's Patreon earnings, statistics, graphs and rankings.

==Notable projects and people==

This section is for relevant/notable emulation projects and people who are part of them.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

| CEO & Founder of Arntzen Software AS

|-

|-

|[[Recommended_N64_plugins#ParaLLEl-RDP|paraLLEl-RDP]]

|-

|-

|-

|-

|-

!rowspan="3"|Luke Usher

|[[Xbox_network|Revived private server project]] for OG Xbox.

|-

|-

|-

|-

!rowspan="1"|Henrik Rydgård

|Contributed to fan translations and SNES [[Preservation_projects|preservation efforts]].

|-

|-

|-

|[https://github.com/AdrianCassar/xenia-canary/graphs/contributors Contributions for the Xenia Canary Netplay project].

|-

|[https://github.com/pcsx2/pcsx2/graphs/contributors Contributions for the PCSX2 project]

|-

|[https://community.amd.com/t5/opengl-vulkan/vulkan-poor-performance-due-to-barrier-region-bit-being-ignored/td-p/501962 "VK_DEPENDENCY_BY_REGION_BIT" situation]

|-

|[https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/graphs/contributors Contributions for the RPCS3 project]

|-

!rowspan="1"|Matt Borgerson

|One of the developers of the [[RPCS3]] project.

|-

|-

!rowspan="2"|Rich Whitehouse

|-

!rowspan="1"|Sarah Walker

|-

!rowspan="1"|Ryphecha

|Contributions for the [[mednafen]] project.

|-

|[https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE/graphs/contributors Contributions for the touchHLE project]

|-

|-

!rowspan="1"|Michael Pavone (Mask of Destiny)

|-

!rowspan="1"|Mireille (fleroviux)

|-

|Contributions for the [[ShadPS4]] project.

|}

*[https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Emulators list of NES emulators and authors]

*[[List of recommended emulators]]

*{{Special:Statistics}}

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