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Optiroc/SuperFamiconv

Flexible and composable tile graphics converter supporting Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Mega Drive, Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine and WonderSwan formats.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#console-development #graphics #tool

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-13
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

190

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 184 commits
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ArnoAnsems/CatacombGL

CatacombGL is a source port with OpenGL graphics for Catacomb 3D (1991), The Catacomb Abyss (1992), The Catacomb Armageddon (1992) and The Catacomb Apocalypse (1993).

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#first-person-shooter #opengl #retrogaming #sdl2 #source-port

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-10
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 19 open

189

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Forks: 17
Commits: 629 commits
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iamsopotatoe-coder/TinyLoad

Open source Windows x64 PE packer and crypter. Compresses and encrypts executables with a custom virtual machine into a self extracting stub.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#anti-analysis #av-edr-bypass #compression #crypter #executable-packing #obfuscation

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-16
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

189

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Forks: 19
Commits: 127 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ApexLegendsUC/anti-cheat-emulator

No description.

Stack

C++

Updated: 2019-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-04
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

186

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Forks: 66
Commits: 2 commits
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BelledonneCommunications/flexisip

Linphone.org mirror for flexisip (git://git.linphone.org/flexisip.git)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#flexisip #linphone #proxy #server #sip #sip-bridge

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-16
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 31 open

186

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Forks: 83
Commits: 4,711 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Dillonb/n64

experimental low-level n64 emulator

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #n64

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-06
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

185

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Forks: 9
Commits: 2,292 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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emu-russia/pureikyubu

Nintendo GameCube Emulator (WIP)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulator #flipper #gamecube #gekko

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 13 open

185

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Forks: 10
Commits: 1,481 commits
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skmp/nullDC-v1

nullDC, a sega dreamcast emulator

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Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-05-09
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 297 open

185

stars

Forks: 48
Commits: 148 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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willtobyte/carimbo

A 2D game engine developed in modern C++ using SDL, an Entity-Component-System (ECS) architecture, miniaudio, and Box2D. It features Lua scripting and is designed for web portability via WebAssembly

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-10-27
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

184

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Forks: 8
Commits: 3,929 commits
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IChooseYou/Reclass

No description.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-01
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

183

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Forks: 26
Commits: 534 commits
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danielkrupinski/x86RetSpoof

Invoke functions with a spoofed return address. For 32-bit Windows binaries. Supports __fastcall, __thiscall, __stdcall and __cdecl calling conventions. Written in C++17.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#anticheat-bypass #assembly-language #assembly-x86 #cpp17 #game-hacking #reverse-engineering

Updated: 2023-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-07
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

179

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 61 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cs1ime/KernelDwm

Kernel dwm render

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2023-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-10-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

177

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 3 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mgerhardy/simpleai

SimpleAI is a small C++ AI behaviour tree based library with a QT5 based remote debugger (and with optional LUA bindings) released under MIT.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#behaviour-tree #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp-library #game-development #header-only

Updated: 2019-11-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-23
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

177

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 1,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Rblp/Rblpapi

R package interfacing the Bloomberg API from https://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#bloomberg #bloomberg-api #cran #r #r-package #rcpp

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-03-15
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 39 open

176

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 762 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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0xeb/libghidra

SDK for automating Ghidra from Python, Rust, and C++. Decompile, rename, annotate, inspect symbols/types/xrefs, and manage project lifecycle programmatically - treat Ghidra like infrastructure, not just a GUI.

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-04-21
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

172

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 15 commits
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Astronaut00/DoubleDataPointer

Allows you to communicate with the kernel mode to manipulate memory in a stealthy way to avoid kernel anticheats.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-05
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

171

stars

Forks: 43
Commits: 7 commits
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drhelius/arduinogameboy

Arduino based Game Boy cartridge reader and writer. It can dump ROM and RAM to SD card.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#arduino #cartridge #game-boy #gameboy #sd-card

Updated: 2023-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-31
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

171

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 18 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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EvelynSchwab/ComponentFuseMechanic

A component constraining system inspided by Zelda: TOTK

Stack

C++

Updated: 2024-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-09
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

170

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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badApple001/Il2cppEncrtypt

【开源】Unity 商业级引擎源码加密混淆过马甲包 Il2cpp global-metadata加密方案 Android加固&IOS加固

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-01-03
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

169

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 11 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hafenkran/duckdb-bigquery

Integrates DuckDB with Google BigQuery, allowing direct querying and management of BigQuery datasets

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#bigquery #duckdb #duckdb-extension

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-03
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

169

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 833 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Ido-Moshe-Github/CiDllDemo

Use ci.dll API for validating Authenticode signature of files

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-03-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-22
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

169

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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avTranscoder/avTranscoder

C++ API for LibAV / FFMpeg

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ffmpeg #java #libav #python

Updated: 2023-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

167

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 2,743 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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DQLin/VolumetricReSTIRRelease

Source code for SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 paper "Fast Volume Rendering with Spatiotemporal Reservoir Resampling"

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK npm

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-04
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1 open

166

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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binsnake/KUBERA

A x86_64 software emulator

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2025-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-05-31
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

165

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 66 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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akawashiro/sloader

sloader is an ELF loader which aims to replace ld-linux.so of glibc.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#elf #elf-binaries #elf-loader #glibc #linux

Updated: 2023-11-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-24
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

164

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Deputation/instrumentation_callbacks

A proof of concept demonstrating instrumentation callbacks on Windows 10 21h1 with a TLS variable to ensure all syscalls are caught.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2021-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-21
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

164

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ChilliWorks/ChilliSource

An open source, cross-platform game engine designed for indie developers.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #3d-game-engine #android #chillisource-game-engine #cpp11 #ios

Updated: 2024-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

162

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 2,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pdet/Scrooge-McDuck

No description.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-01
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

162

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 179 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pontos2024/PCSX2_ARM64

pcsx2 android

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2025-11-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-22
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

159

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 48 commits
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ctxis/DLLHSC

DLLHSC - DLL Hijack SCanner a tool to assist with the discovery of suitable candidates for DLL Hijacking

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2020-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-30
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

158

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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