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Top 23 Nintendo Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
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Provenance
iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
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awesome-gbdev
A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.
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Project mention: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-11
Cool idea, would be a fun POC or weekend project. The team behind EmulatorJS (https://emulatorjs.org/) has made it stupid easy to inject the player into a static website (or multiple players with iframes), with a preloaded game and custom settings.
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Project mention: Renaming Bluetooth adapter to "Nintendo" fixes Switch ctrls issues | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-16
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road-to-yuzu-without-switch
This Repo explains how to install the Yuzu Switch Emulator without a Switch. Also works for Suyu
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nxdumptool
Generates XCI/NSP/HFS0/ExeFS/RomFS/Certificate/Ticket dumps from Nintendo Switch gamecards and installed SD/eMMC titles.
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Animal-Crossing-Amiibo
🎮 Step-by-step instructions on how to recreate Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For educational purposes only. Series 5 data uploaded.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Nintendo discussion
Nintendo related posts
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Windows NT for GameCube/Wii
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PowerPC Windows NT Made to Run on GameCube and Wii
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SummerCart64 – an open-source Nintendo 64 flashcart
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SummerCart64 – an open-source Nintendo 64 flashcart
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Decompilation of Paper Mario for N64
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Dragon Quest 9 (ROM hack?)
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Fbi/homebrew won’t let me install game
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Nintendo projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Cemu | 8,181 |
| 2 | Provenance | 6,100 |
| 3 | awesome-gbdev | 4,186 |
| 4 | Lemuroid | 3,179 |
| 5 | Goldleaf | 2,766 |
| 6 | strato | 2,303 |
| 7 | EmulatorJS | 2,223 |
| 8 | DeepSea | 1,891 |
| 9 | JKSV | 1,530 |
| 10 | BlueRetro | 1,519 |
| 11 | road-to-yuzu-without-switch | 1,485 |
| 12 | papermario | 1,453 |
| 13 | libnx | 1,332 |
| 14 | emuiibo | 1,222 |
| 15 | EdiZon | 1,214 |
| 16 | Rekado | 1,142 |
| 17 | nxdumptool | 1,101 |
| 18 | Universal-Updater | 1,011 |
| 19 | NX-Shell | 996 |
| 20 | Animal-Crossing-Amiibo | 838 |
| 21 | nestopia | 785 |
| 22 | retro-go | 731 |
| 23 | nostalgist | 711 |
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