A retro game database

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Świrus Windows 9x ZuluWar! Windows 9x ZPC Windows 9x Zombie Wars Windows 9x Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands Windows 9x Zero Divide Windows 9x Zeek the Geek: Part One and Two Windows 9x Zeitgeist Windows 9x Zapitalism! Windows 9x You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 Windows 9x You Don't Know Jack: Movies Windows 9x You Don't Know Jack Windows 9x

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The database

Open metadata

The whole catalog is public. Provenance is tracked field by field and shown on every record. Live coverage is public on the stats page; the whole dataset ships as weekly downloadable dumps. No account is needed to read the data.

For developers & frontends

Identify a ROM by its fingerprint

For tools that identify ROMs and disc images: CRC / MD5 / SHA-1 lookup, anonymous access, documented rate limits, batch endpoint for library scans. Need a key? Self-service, under a minute.

# No API key required
curl "https://retrobase-collection.com/api/public/v1/lookup?crc=50ABC90A"

# 100 fingerprints in one request
curl -X POST "https://retrobase-collection.com/api/public/v1/lookup/batch" \
     -d '{"lookups":[{"crc":"50ABC90A"},{"md5":"..."}]}'

The community

Improve a record

Spot a wrong year, a missing wheel, a bad genre? Propose a fix — three matching proposals apply automatically, trusted contributors apply instantly, and every change is audited and reversible. The rules are public: contributor charter.

The app

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