Free · open source · more than 100 systems
The all-in-one retrogaming console.
Play again, easily, every console, arcade machine and computer of your childhood. Recalbox installs on a Raspberry Pi, a PC or a handheld console, and is driven with a controller.
New to it? Start with the 4-step guide or the FAQ.
Simplicity first
Everything is set with the controller.
Simple and accessible, Recalbox is designed to be easy to use, even for beginners. We go with you from buying the hardware to the first game: the Build your Recalbox guide helps you choose and assemble, the tutorials show you the menus, and the documentation ↗, written by the community, goes further still.
Features
What Recalbox does besides launching your games.
Save states
Save at any moment, and pick up exactly where you were.
Tutorials →Rewind
A missed jump? Go back a few seconds and try again.
Tutorials →Scraping
Box art, videos and descriptions fetched for your whole library.
FAQ →Overlays and shaders
The look of the screens of the day, bezels and filters included.
CRT hardware →Virtual keyboard
Everything is set with the controller, no keyboard plugged in.
Tutorials →Multi-system search
Find a game in a few letters, across every console.
Systems →
And online with Recalbox OnlinePlay with your friends or with the whole world, on the games you already have! New in Recalbox 11 Patron 1.Discover Online →More than 100 compatible systems
More than 100 systems.
From home consoles to handhelds and computers, find the games of thousands of arcade machines too. The full list is in Supported systems and games.
Hardware
Hardware designed by the Recalbox team.
Play your retro games again with your friends,
or with the whole world!
For fun or ranked, with friends or against the whole world: fill missions, find the linked arcade cabinets again, enter the cups… New in Recalbox 11 Patron 1, open to patrons first.
Just played
7–0TrainingNANandoSuper Street Fighter II X
Build your Recalbox
Your first game in 4 steps.
The community
Where to find us.
Follow the news on the blog, ask your questions on Discord, and support the project on Patreon: patrons play the Patron versions first.
