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Retro Gentlemen Agreement (0.9.1)

What is the intention of this?

The Retro Gentlemen Agreement (RGA from hereon) is a sign of goodwill from retro gamer to companies who might own the copyright to a certain game.

We think the emulation scene is divided into people who love retro games and want to enjoy them as pure and authentic as possible, but also people who simply want to pirate even modern games for free and use unavailability of retro games as an excuse to do so.

Even though Remake/Remaster/Re-Releases often can be simply bought in stores, the real thing, the authentic experience of the original console is usually unavailable and sometimes, it isn't even known which company is holding the rights to this IP and/or simply has no interest to care about it.

But we respect that companies want to protect the rights to these games and hence limit ourself as a sign of goodwill to show our respect for the gaming industry.

Out intend is not to cause financial damage, we want the authentic experience that often is simply impossible outside of emulating ROM.

What is the actual agreement

We, the Retro Gaming Gentlemen, agree to promise the following things

  1. We are only emulating systems up until the 6. Generation. This includes, for example
    1. SEGA Dreamcast
    2. SONY PlayStation 2
    3. Nintendo Gamecube
    4. NEC PC-FX
    5. PC Platforms from that era
      1. DOS
      2. Windows 3.x
      3. Windows 9x
      4. PC-8800
      5. PC-9800
      6. X68000
  2. We only play/archive/host official published ROM that have been released for these consoles
    1. No Remakes/Remasters/Re-Releases, only the real thing
  3. If an re-release can be bought, we buy/support it to show our respect
  4. We do not try to make the process of emulation too easy
    1. We do not develop/support Hardware that comes with emulators/ROM pre-installed
    2. We do not develop/support Software that comes with emulators/ROM pre-installed
    3. We do not make money with retro games
      1. No reselling of Emulator/ROM
      2. No payed services for installing/setting up emulator/ROM
      3. Developed Software must be GNU GPL-compatible
  5. We play the games in their original form with highest accuracy
    1. No Upscaling of internal resolution
    2. No Texture Replacement or such patches
    3. No Adding Quality of Life features like automappers, rewind and such
  6. We commit to maintain open dialogue and strict adherence to the RGA

Contact

E-Mail: vamp898-rga 'at' ikaros.space

RGA Share Overview

This is the List of all Data you can currently find on the RGA Share

PC

Platform Status
DOS Complete
Windows 3.x Complete
Windows 9x 1994~1996
Touhou Complete
Motelsoft Atari ST+DOS

SEGA

Platform Status
SC-1000 Complete
SC-3000 Complete
Mark III / MasterSystem Complete
MegaDrive / Genesis Complete
MegaCD / SEGA CD Complete
Saturn Japanese Only
Dreamcast Japanese Only
GameGear Complete

NEC

Platform Status
PC-Engine Complete
PC-FX Complete

Nintendo

Platform Status
Famicom / NES Complete
Super Famicom / SNES Complete
N64(DD) Complete
GameCube Japanese Only
GameBoy Complete
GameBoy Color Complete
GameBoy Advance Complete

Bandai

Platform Status
WonderSwan Complete
WonderSwan Color Complete

Sharp

Platform Status
X68000 Complete

Sony

Platform Status
PlayStation 1 Japanese Only
PlayStation 2 Japanese Only

Atari

Platform Status
2600 Complete
5200 Complete
7800 Complete
Jaguar (CD) Complete
Lynx Complete
ST Complete

Commodore

Amiga (CD) Complete
C64 Complete
VIC-20 Complete

Best Emulator for every System

General means, the best in general. Nothing gets better than this. The other rows shows alternatives for RetroArch and/or Android.

For Android, it is always highly recommended to either get the App from F-Droid or the Github of the Project, _not_ Google Play Store. You don't cut a steak with a plastic spoon

PC

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
DOS DOSBOX-staging DOSBox Pure RetroArch Yes
Windows 3.x DOSBOX-staging - - Yes
Windows 9x 86Box - - Yes

SEGA

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
SG-1000 RetroArch Genesis Plus GX RetroArch Yes
Mark3/MasterSystem RetroArch Genesis Plus GX RetroArch Yes
MegaDrive RetroArch Genesis Plus GX RetroArch Yes
GameGear RetroArch Genesis Plus GX RetroArch Yes
MegaCD RetroArch Genesis Plus GX RetroArch Yes
32X PicoDrive PicoDrive RetroArch Yes
Saturn Mednafen Beetle Saturn RetroArch Yes
Dreamcast Flycast Flycast RetroArch Yes

Bandai

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
WonderSwan Mednafen Beetle Cygne RetroArch Yes
WonderSwan Color Mednafen Beetle Cygne RetroArch Yes

Nintendo

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
FC Mesen1 Mesen1 RetroArch Yes
SFC Ares bsnes-jg RetroArch Yes
N64 Ares Mupen64Plus-Next (LLE Angrylion) RetroArch Yes
GameCube Dolphin Dolphin Dolphin Yes
GameBoy SameBoy SameBoy RetroArch Yes
GameBoy Color SameBoy SameBoy RetroArch Yes
GameBoy Advance mGBA mGBA RetroArch Yes

NEC

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
PC Engine Mednafen Beetle PCE RetroArch Yes
PC-FX Mednafen Beetle PCFX RetroArch Yes

Sony

System General RetroArch Core Android RGA Compliant
PS1 Mednafen Beetle PSX RetroArch Yes
PS2 PCSX2 - NetherSX2-patch Yes
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