2 layers171.2 × 72.9 mm
Amiga gfxcard old
mntmn/amiga2000-gfxcard
MNT VA2000, an Open Source Amiga 2/3/4000 Graphics Card (Zorro II/III), written in Verilog
34 parts1k
Retro computing and games
2,701 boards2,701 open-source retro computing and games boards from 1,253 GitHub repositories, each designed in KiCad and read from its files: its size, layers, parts, README and project.
They have a median size of 95 × 58 mm and most often 2 copper layers (86 %). The parts their repositories use most are the 74LS32SC, 74HC00D, 74LS00SC, 74LS245SC and 74LS04PC.
Parts they use most
- 2 layers196.3 × 118.7 mm
Motherboard
Redherring32/OpenTendo
An Open-Source HardWare (OSHW) recreation of the original 1985 front-loading NES Motherboard
100 parts860 - 4 layers62.1 × 83.8 mm
Ss main board
loopj/short-stack
World's Smallest Nintendo Wii, using a trimmed motherboard and custom stacked PCBs
69 parts804 - 2 layers101.5 × 83 mm
- 2 layers103.8 × 50 mm
Galagino pcb set
harbaum/galagino
A Galaga, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong arcade emulator for the ESP32
26 parts558 - 2 layers35.1 × 92.1 mm
MicroSD Express Sniffer
NVNTLabs/switch2-SDEX2M2
Micro SD Express to M.2 NVME Adapter for Nintendo Switch 2
6 parts542GPL-3.0 - 2 layers130.4 × 76.6 mm
Gb stream cart
Staacks/gbinterceptor
Capture or stream Game Boy gameplay footage via USB without modifying the Game Boy.
80 parts542 - 4 layers56.1 × 57.1 mm
MCL86jr
MicroCoreLabs/Projects
Ted Fried's MicroCore Labs Projects - FPGA CPU cores and emulators for the 8088, 8086, 8051, 6502, 68000, Z80, Risc-V, and also Typewriter and EPROM Emulator projects.
66 parts534 - 4 layers50 × 50 mm
Fpgaboy
Wren6991/RISCBoy
Portable games console, designed from scratch: CPU, graphics, PCB, and the kitchen sink
93 parts513 - 4 layers38 × 49 mm
NDS TV OUT V1I2
LNH-team/Lost-NDS-TV
The Lost Nintendo DS Television Output, brought back to life
48 parts488GPL-3.0 - 4 layers99.6 × 76.2 mm
- 2 layers50 × 50 mm
- 2 layers327.9 × 139 mm
Coco2
baldengineer/bit-preserve
Project for capturing vintage, classic, aka old computer schematics in KiCad.
147 parts446 - 2 layers10.3 × 23.3 mm
Mini receiver
loopj/wavephoenix
Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird receiver using Silicon Labs Wireless Gecko SoCs
11 parts430 - 4 layers51.4 × 61 mm
- 2 layers49.6 × 78.3 mm
Odyssey
jotego/jtcores
FPGA cores compatible with multiple arcade game machines and KiCAD schematics of arcade games. Working on MiSTer FPGA/Analogue Pocket
24 parts346GPL-3.0 - 2 layers245.1 × 160 mm
8-Bit CPU 32k
slu4coder/Minimal-64x4-Home-Computer
My DIY TTL home computer with VGA and PS/2 and 4x the processing power of a Commodore C64 or Apple II.
139 parts326 - 2 layers297.2 × 180.3 mm
- 2 layers365.8 × 254 mm
Raemixx500
SukkoPera/Raemixx500
Open Hardware Remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ Mainboard
372 parts316 - 2 layers229.9 × 111.8 mm
- 2 layers98 × 128 mm
- 2 layers96.1 × 45.2 mm
PicoFightingBoard
FeralAI/PicoFightingBoard
Open source PCB for arcade sticks using Raspberry Pi Pico.
25 parts283 - 2 layers51.4 × 61 mm
- 2 layers57 × 62 mm
Picocart
cknave/c64-pico-ram-interface
Let your Raspberry Pi Pico pretend to be a Commodore 64 ROM cartridge
14 parts236BSD-3-Clause
Questions
Where can I find open-source retro computing and games boards?
This page lists 2,701, from 1,253 repositories on GitHub, each read from its KiCad files with links to the original repository; PCBKit opens any of them in the browser.
What parts are most common on retro computing and games boards?
The 74LS32SC, 74HC00D, 74LS00SC, 74LS245SC and 74LS04PC appear in the most repositories here; each links to its symbol, footprint and the boards that use it.
How big is a typical retro computing and games board?
The median is 95 × 58 mm, most often with 2 copper layers (86 %).