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New in Recalbox 11 Patron 1

Play your retro games again with your friends,
or with the whole world!

Invite a friend on a game from your library, or join the players already online: your Recalbox takes care of everything, the connection as well as launching the game. No port to open, nothing to configure!

Become a patronHow it works

Already a patron? Recalbox 11 Patron 1 is in your patron downloads: our patrons are already testing it with us, ahead of the release for everyone.

Just played

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Street Fighter Alpha 3

Recalbox Online in numbers

66
Players online
36
Rooms open
0
Cups on
265
Players on the challenge
2,848
Runs on the challenge

Who it is for

Whether you play for fun or to win, there is a place for you.

Two friends waving at each other from their homes, their screens linked

For everyone

Invite a friend from your game list, the match starts as soon as they accept. Or walk into a room and play with whoever is there, nice and easy! And every challenge comes with missions to fill, on your own or with the whole community, that earn you recoins to spend in the shop: avatars, frames, titles, mixtapes…

See who is playing →Two players, each at their own cabinet, the cabinets linked to each other

For arcade fans

Remember the cabinets linked together in the arcades? They are back, online! Each player on their own Recalbox, up to eight on Daytona USA or Scud Race, and Sega Rally, Initial D, Club Kart, Spikeout, Ridge Racer 2 too… on Model 1, 2 and 3, Naomi, Naomi 2, System 22 and Hyper Neo Geo 64.

How it works →Three players on a podium under their rank badges

For competitors

Love competition? The official rooms have their ladder, from Bronze to Diamond. Enter the cups, from 2 to 64 players, and aim for the top of the challenge board: one credit, and only your best score counts!

See the cups →

Challenge of the fortnight

In the Hunt Challenge

How far will you go on a single credit?

Every two weeks, a new game, the same for everybody. Your Recalbox watches the credit counter: put another coin in and the run does not count. Play as much as you like, only your best score is ranked!

Ends
31 Oct
On the board
265
  1. 1VGRDaftpunkStill climbing · 26 min950 200
  2. 2LeBigDaddyStill climbing · 22 min685 100
  3. 3xDavexxxStill climbing · 17 min474 800
Full leaderboard →

The challenge's missions

No need to be a champion!

Every challenge comes with its missions. Yours, you fill at your own pace. The community missions add up everybody's runs, even those with a continue: when the bar is full, everyone earns recoins for their share, to spend in the shop on avatars, frames, backgrounds, banners, titles and mixtapes!

A crowd of players pushing a giant recoin up a hill

Six thousand dives

30

Play 6,000 runs between all of us. The Granvia goes out again, and again.

2 848 · 283 players6 000

Salvage operation

30

Collect 30,000 starred orbs between all of us. They are scattered across the whole drowned world.

11 685 · 162 players30 000

Open every channel

30

Clear 10,000 stages between all of us, counted across every run of the challenge.

2 560 · 283 players10 000

Lost at sea

30

Lose 20,000 submarines between all of us. The sea takes its due, and it is not shy about it.

6 956 · 280 players20 000

Official rooms

Fancy measuring yourself against the others?

Our featured games each have an official room, open day and night. Walk in from your Recalbox, pick ranked or training, and take on whoever is there! For any other game in your library, open your own room and invite whoever you like.

An arcade hall at night, two players on their stools and one watching
Every open room →

Cups

Fancy a cup?

All cups →
An empty cup stage waiting for its players

No cup is on right now. The next ones are announced here and on your Recalbox.

Early access

Come and test it with us.

Our patrons play on Recalbox Online every evening, and the bugs they report on Discord are fixed in the following versions. Your support keeps Recalbox free and open.

Become a patronSee the patron perks
Friends testing a game together around a TV, one pointing at a bug
  1. 1Become a patronOn Patreon, from the Patron 1 tier.
  2. 2Link your Recalbox, then move to Recalbox 11 Patron 1Scan the code your Recalbox shows to link your account: it then knows you are a patron and offers the update by itself. You can also download it from your patron downloads.
  3. 3Invite a friend, or walk into a roomFrom your game list, invite a friend: the match starts the moment they accept. Or walk into a room and press ready: your Recalbox finds the opponent, sets up the connection and launches the game.