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Retroarch Web Player

Emulate videogames system and play videogames through your web browser

Game Engines & Frameworks ★ 14.3k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0-or-later

Emulate videogames system and play videogames through your web browser.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license
  • Mature project with 14.3k GitHub stars
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 50 MB RAM

Is Retroarch Web Player secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Retroarch Web Player's latest release (v1.22.2). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-9136, published 2025-08-19 (421 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 90 · excellent

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