v1.0 · Android · iOS · Windows · macOS · Linux
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A tiny, pixel-flavoured home for your retro games. 15 systems, 18 built-in games and simulations, a sound studio, a game maker and a pixel editor. No account, no ads, no cloud: everything stays on your device.
◀▶ switch sim · A colour · B reset · click the screen
Drop in your ROMs and Nostalgia sorts the rest: box art, systems, play time, the lot. It feels like a shelf you actually want to browse.
Covers next to your ROMs, or matched against the libretro thumbnail library.
Genre, developer, publisher, year and player count, matched by the ROM’s checksum.
Add a ROM folder once; new games appear on their own.
Tap a ROM in your file manager or share sheet, or pass it on the command line: it imports and plays.
Group games your way. Mark them Playing, Up next, Finished, 100% or Dropped.
Games you build in the Game Maker sit on the shelf next to the classics, with a cover drawn from your level.
Totals, the last 14 days, per system and per game, plus every screenshot and GIF in one gallery.
Fast, offline emulation for every bundled system, with the conveniences the originals never had. Try the controls below.
Drag the buttons. Portrait and landscape keep separate layouts.
Numbered slots with a snapshot of the moment. Battery saves are flushed whenever you leave.
Leave mid-level, come back days later: your exact spot is waiting.
Hold ▶▶ to zip through grinding; rewind a mistake.
Capture a clip of your best moment straight from the game menu, saved as a GIF.
Thousands of GameShark, Game Genie, Action Replay and Code Breaker codes, searchable per game.
Shaders, Game Boy palettes, LCD ghosting and colour correction, tuned per system.
Keyboard shortcuts and Select + button combos on a gamepad: save, load, snap, record, swap slots.
Remap keys and gamepads, swap A/B to a Nintendo layout, and rearrange the touch pad.
Import and export battery saves, so a save from another emulator carries straight on.
No ROMs needed. Twelve simulations to poke at and six arcade classics, written from scratch and running natively. These are the real rules, right in your browser.
+ Wireworld, Reaction–diffusion, Physarum, Gravity, Double pendulum, Brian's Brain
Cells live, die and are born from four simple rules. Draw patterns, try other rule sets, launch a glider gun.
Falling-block puzzle. Speeds up every 10 lines.
HI 004110Smash every brick. Angle shots off the paddle edge.
HI 005480Slide tiles, merge equals, reach 2048 and keep going.
HI 006850Eat, grow, never bite yourself. Walls or wrap.
HI 008220Table tennis against the CPU. First to 7.
HI 009590Clear the field. Numbers count the neighbours.
HI 010960A chiptune tracker and sound-effect designer, a tile-based game maker, and a pixel editor with layers and frames. Everything you make can be exported or saved with your backup.
Lead · Harmony · Bass · Drums, with pulse, square, triangle, saw, sine and noise waves. Exports to WAV and MP3.
Browse legal homebrew, Doom mods, Master System and Atari games from community archives, with editor's picks across all of them. Star games for later, watch every download in one queue, and play the moment it lands in your library.
Pokédex, team builder, type calculator and quiz, plus a save reader that shows the team inside your own Game Boy and GBA saves.
Move to a new phone without losing a single save.
accounts, trackers, ads or cloud uploads. Your games and saves never leave your device unless you share them.
Slap stickers on any skin, from the built-in set, your camera, or your own pixel art. Then share the skin as one small file, custom stickers included.
Six accents or your own hex, two interface styles, 28 controller skins and a startup screen that looks, sounds and says whatever you like. Go on, try it: this whole page follows along.
Three looks, four chimes made with the app's own synth, three backgrounds and a tagline of your own. Plays every launch, skippable with a tap.
Every skin restyles the on-screen controller and the handheld frame around the game: colours, button faces, stripes, even a neon glow. Cover it in stickers, then share the skin as a single file so a friend gets the exact same look.
◀ ▶ on the pad flips skins · A or START puts it on this page
Nostalgia 1.0 runs on your phone, tablet and computer. Free, offline, yours.
All builds are on the GitHub releases page · source code. Bring your own games: Nostalgia doesn't include commercial ROMs.
It ships with 18 built-in games and simulations, the free Freedoom episode for the Doom engine, and a Store full of free, legal homebrew. Commercial ROMs are not included: bring the cartridges you own, dumped to files.
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, NES, SNES, Genesis / Mega Drive, Master System, Game Gear, Atari 2600 and 7800, plus Doom WADs, all with cores bundled in the app. Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, Virtual Boy and PC Engine are supported too.
No. Your library, saves, stats and creations live on your device. The network is only used when you ask for it: fetching box art, browsing the Store, or looking up cheats.
Yes. Backup zips your library, settings, stats, battery saves, save states, cheats, covers, sound projects, stickers and every game stored in the app. Restore it anywhere.
Yes. Remap any keyboard key or gamepad button, swap A/B for a Nintendo-style layout, and set hotkeys (or Select + button combos on a gamepad) to save, load, fast forward, snap or record a GIF. On touch screens you can drag, resize and fade every on-screen button, separately for portrait and landscape.
Import files, add a folder that Nostalgia keeps watching, download from the Store, or just open a ROM from your file manager or share sheet with Nostalgia. Box art and game info are filled in automatically.
Switch the interface style to Modern in Settings for a clean system font, rounded corners and soft shadows. Accent colour, 28 controller skins and the startup screen (look, chime, background and tagline) are all yours to change too.