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Daphne emulates Laserdisc arcade games.

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Detail Value
Type standalone + libretro
Classification Community fork
Source https://github.com/libretro/daphne
Upstream https://github.com/mirror/daphne-emu
Version 1.0.7, stated in daphne/daphne-1.0-src/daphne.cpp
Revision libretro/daphne@6f1695dd1f37
Profiled 2026-03-23
Profile YAML, JSON
Cores daphne
Systems Laserdisc arcade games
Technical notes

LaserDisc arcade game emulator. Port of Daphne 1.0 (Matt Ownby) to libretro. Each game loads its own arcade ROM set from a ZIP file named after the game (e.g. lair.zip). ROMs are loaded from a content-relative directory structure (homedir/roms/) with CRC32 verification (daphne/daphne-1.0-src/game/game.cpp:767-781). The core never accesses the RetroArch system directory. Additional per-game data (framefiles, sound samples, overlay BMPs) is also loaded relative to the content directory.

No BIOS or firmware files required.

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