Retronian GameDB
A retro game database for English titles and native-script Japanese titles.
21414 games across 20 platforms.
Coverage by language
5910 / 8870 retail releases have Japanese (ja) titles · 66.6%
Japanese coverage uses retail releases for Japan as the denominator and entries carrying a Japanese title as the numerator.
๐ฏ๐ต Japanese speakers โ we need you
If you can read ๆฅๆฌ่ช, one minute on any game page fixes an entry forever. Every native-script title and Japanese description makes the DB more useful than the romaji-only alternatives.
- Every other retro game DB (ScreenScraper, TheGamesDB, IGDB) still serves romaji even for Japan-, Korea-, or China-released titles. This one doesn't have to.
- Contributions are CC BY-SA 4.0 โ ROM managers, emulators, and scrapers can reuse them the moment they land.
- No account friction: every game page has a pre-filled issue form for titles, descriptions, and box art. Attach or type, submit, done.
- Fan transliterations are welcome too: leave the "verified" box unchecked if it's your own reading, not from the official package.
๐Read the contributor guide ๐ฎPick any game with empty CTAs and click
Browse by platform
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Famicom / NES
2049 games ·
fc1063 / 1125 · 94.5% -
Super Famicom / SNES
2542 games ·
sfc1449 / 1534 · 94.5% -
Game Boy
1421 games ·
gb776 / 820 · 94.6% -
Game Boy Color
1202 games ·
gbc481 / 492 · 97.8% -
Game Boy Advance
2225 games ·
gba367 / 832 · 44.1% -
Mega Drive / Genesis
1412 games ·
md422 / 455 · 92.7% -
PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16
819 games ·
pce356 / 376 · 94.7% -
WonderSwan
97 games ·
ws97 / 97 · 100.0% -
WonderSwan Color
92 games ·
wsc91 / 91 · 100.0% -
Arcade
20 games ·
arcade -
CP System III
6 games ·
cps3 -
Neo Geo
146 games ·
neogeo -
Sega Saturn
4 games ·
saturn4 / 4 · 100.0% -
Nintendo 64
591 games ·
n64198 / 244 · 81.1% -
Nintendo DS
5767 games ·
nds279 / 1981 · 14.1% -
PlayStation
3012 games ·
ps1318 / 810 · 39.3% -
PlayStation 2
1 games ·
ps21 / 1 · 100.0% -
PlayStation Portable
6 games ·
psp6 / 6 · 100.0% -
PICO-8
0 games ·
pico8 -
PC-FX
2 games ·
pcfx2 / 2 · 100.0%
Description coverage by language
ja |
12840 / 21414 · 60.0%
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en |
12123 / 21414 · 56.6%
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API
Every page on this site has a JSON counterpart under /api/v1/. See the schema specification for details.
/api/v1/platforms.json/api/v1/stats.json/api/v1/{platform}.json/api/v1/games/{platform}/{id}.json/api/v1/rom-index/{platform}.json/search-index/all.json
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