List of emulatable games (freeware)

This article is a repository of links to homebrew and freeware games that are or will be playable on the FunKey S via emulation. Each supported system has its own section that contains a chart with that console's homebrew software. Currently, the systems supported by the FunKey S are, from oldest to newest: the NES, Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Game Gear, SNES, PS1, Game Boy Color, Neo Geo Pocket, and Game Boy Advance. While WonderSwan emulation is also possible on the FunKey, no completed homebrew or freeware games were found for the system. In addition to lists for the currently supported systems, lists for Arcade and TurboGrafx-16 games are present as well due to the confirmation of their eventual emulation on the FunKey S. While these lists have been compiled to include as many games as possible, they are not intended to be comprehensive lists of all unlicensed software available for the aforementioned systems, due to a number of inclusion criteria that are listed in the first section of this article. As more systems are made emulatable on the FunKey S, this article will grow to include homebrew game lists for those systems as well.

Inclusion criteria
For inclusion on a list in this article, a game must be:
 * Emulatable directly on a system supported by or with support announced for the FunKey S. Games only playable by emulating a system within a system (such as DOS emulation on the GBA) will not be listed until the respective system is emulatable on the FunKey S directly. If future support for a system has been announced for the FunKey S, a list of homebrew and freeware games may be created for that system on this page before FunKey S support for that system begins.
 * Publicly available for free with the permission of its developer. This excludes any and all commercial software, unreleased software, and pirated software, whether licensed or unlicensed in origin.
 * Original in its codebase. While ports and recreations of games on other platforms are allowed, ROM hacks of commercial software on that platform are not.
 * Sufficiently appropriate for a general audience. Just as all major consoles prohibit the publication of adults-only games on their platforms, these lists will not include any games that, if rated based on the standards of a rating board such as the ESRB, would be rated as adults-only.
 * In English, or if in another language, fully-playable without needing to understand that language. If a translated version of this page exists in the language that a non-English game is in, then that game may be put on the list of that page instead.
 * Fully-playable with one controller. If a game is multiplayer-only, it can only be included if it allows all players to share the same controller.
 * Complete or mostly complete, significant in scope, and fully-playable. While there is certainly room to interpret how "finished" a game is, all games on this list should be playable to completion by the average player in a minimum of fifteen minutes, be the definitive version of that game (no demos of commercial games), and contain no glitches that prevent completion and/or crash the game. For inclusion on this list, a game should also have most of its intended levels and mechanics included, as described by the game's developer. In terms of the minimum playtime requirement, high-score based puzzle and arcade-style games are less limited in this regard due to their essentially infinite replayability, though should still include score counters, life meters, and preferably (though not a requirement) high-score counters where applicable to be considered complete or near-complete. Due to the varying ways in which a game's completeness can be interpreted, this criterion may be applied differently on a case-by-case basis.

As the games on these lists are more thoroughly tested, some games currently present may be removed if they are found to not meet the required criteria. If several iterations of a game exist on a platform, such as Pong or Tetris, the best few among them should be kept and the rest removed, assuming that the latter do not have additional mechanics that make them unique. Additionally, new games will be added to the lists as they are found and tested. Once a page for suggesting additions to or removals from these lists has been created, it will be linked to here.

Future lists
To limit this article's scope and therefore make improving it easier, it will remain limited to only include lists for systems supported by or with support announced for the FunKey S. As compatibility with additional systems is announced, new lists will be added to this article to reflect that. To give an idea of which lists could be added to this article in the future, below this paragraph is listed various systems that use 3MB or less of combined RAM. While this means that the PlayStation can be emulated, its contemporaries, the Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, and PC-FX, all use more than 3MB of RAM, making their emulation more challenging on the hardware of the FunKey S. This also means that aside from the GBA, all portable and home consoles released in 1999 or later are also too powerful to emulate accurately on the FunKey S hardware.

To ensure that this list isn't simply a list of all computers and consoles released prior to 1999, two requirements must be met for a system to be on the list: it must have its own library of software and must be emulatable on Linux, which the FunKey OS is based on. Note that the presence of a system on the following list does not guarantee that it can or will be emulated on the FunKey S, as this list is only here to speculate which lists may be added to this article in the future and is not indicative of any potential intents or plans of the FunKey Team.

 Atari 2600 Pokémon Mini Atari 7800 SG-1000 Game & Watch Vectrex Neo Geo Virtual Boy Philips CD-i VMU PocketStation Watara Supervision 

Systems that meet the specified requirements but have more buttons than FunKey S can natively support will be listed below, as emulators for such systems will need to be able to provide a method to input all required inputs using the buttons available on the FunKey S.

 Amiga ColecoVision Amstrad CPC Commodore 64 Apple ][ Intellivision Atari 5200 Magnavox Odyssey² Atari Jaguar MS-DOS BBC Micro ZX Spectrum 

If a system not yet announced for the FunKey S is missing from one of these lists, feel free to add it to the corresponding list or leave a message about it on the FunKey Discord server.

List contents
Each game on a list has the game's name in the first column and a link to where the game can be downloaded in the second column. For games that are ports of or heavily inspired by another game, the original game will be listed in the "archetype" column, with that game's Wikipedia article linked if available. The genre, file size, and box art (if available) will be written in the fourth, fifth, and sixth columns, respectively. As the lists are inspected more thoroughly more data will be added to columns two through six, which are largely empty as of present.

This article currently lists 845 games, divided into the following categories:

Arcade       20 Game Gear     11 NES        126 SNES         26 Master System 87 PlayStation      2 Turbografx-16 14 Game Boy Color 54 Genesis      79 Neo Geo Pocket 18 Game Boy   113 WonderSwan    0 Atari Lynx     61 GBA         234

Arcade (not yet compatible)
This list currently includes 20 games. All were actual arcade games that were later released as free ROM downloads by their developers on the MAME website.

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Nintendo Entertainment System
This list currently includes 126 games.

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Sega Master System
This list currently includes 87 games.

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TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine (not yet compatible)
This list currently includes 14 games.

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Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive
This list currently includes 79 games.

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Game Boy
This list currently includes 113 games.

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Atari Lynx
This list currently includes 61 games.

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Sega Game Gear
This list currently includes 11 games.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System
This list currently includes 26 games.

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PlayStation 1
This list currently includes 2 games.

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Game Boy Color
This list currently includes 54 games.

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Neo Geo Pocket
This list currently includes 18 games.

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WonderSwan
No homebrew or freeware games matching the specified criteria have been found for the Bandai WonderSwan or WonderSwan Color.

Game Boy Advance
This list currently includes 234 games.

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