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The present article is a list of known platforms to which Doom has been confirmed to be ported.. Doom is one of the most widely ported video games. [1] Since the original MS-DOS version, it has been released officially for a number of operating systems, video game consoles, handheld game consoles, and other devices.
[1] [2] Since the majority of Doom players were DOS users the first step for a fan project was to port the Linux source code to DOS. [3] A source port typically only includes the engine portion of the game and requires that the data files of the game in question already be present on users' systems.
Announced in a Nintendo Direct on February 8, 2023, Game Boy and Game Boy Color games were added to the service worldwide with 10 games the same day. [62] The Game Boy emulator includes multiple display settings that recreate the visual appearance and color palettes of the original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket , or Game Boy Color. [ 63 ]
Ryujinx, written in C#, was the first Switch emulator to boot commercial games. [6] [7] In April 2018, it was reported that it was initially able to play part of Cave Story. [6] According to the creator, gdkchan, Ryujinx has a focus on correctness, rather than adding game-specific hacks as is done by some console emulators. [8]
RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
Ryujinx is a discontinued free and open-source emulator of the Nintendo Switch.It was first released on February 5, 2018 and supported more than 3,000 games by 2024. On October 1, 2024, Ryujinx pulled its source code from GitHub, and the project was shut down after a request from Nintendo.
Doom was one of the first major commercial games to be released for Linux.. The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game Doom to Linux, as well as many other systems, during his spare time.
Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a Doom modification that uses the Doom Legacy source port to completely change the game from a first-person shooter to a third-person platformer based on Sonic the Hedgehog. [29] In 2018, Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, a kart racing game based on the game, was released as a standalone modification. [30]