libretro/libretro-common
Reusable coding blocks useful for libretro core and frontend development, written primarily in C. Permissively licensed.
Is libretro/libretro-common beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to libretro/libretro-common to say how often they are merged. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 180
- Forks
- 99
- Open beginner issues
- 4
- Indexed issues
- 32
- Avg merge
- 7h 16m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
- Dominant language
- C
- License
- No license data
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 3, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 20, 2026
- Contributing guide
- No contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to libretro/libretro-common
- There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
- Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
libretro/libretro-common#233 ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#223 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
libretro/libretro-common#221 · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
libretro/libretro-common#220 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#213 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#197 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#184 · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#165 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100
libretro/libretro-common#124 · 4 comments ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#120 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100
libretro/libretro-common#118 · 4 comments ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#116 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#115 · 2 comments ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#109 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#108 · 5 comments ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100
libretro/libretro-common#102 ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#101 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#99 ·
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Libco alternatives.Open
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
libretro/libretro-common#97 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·
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DependanciesOpen
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#92 · 4 comments ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
libretro/libretro-common#86 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
libretro/libretro-common#82 ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#76 ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
libretro/libretro-common#75 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
libretro/libretro-common#59 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#55 · 1 comment · 4 reactions ·
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VFS discussionOpen
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#47 · 18 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
libretro/libretro-common#41 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
libretro/libretro-common#34 · 23 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
libretro/libretro-common#33 · 1 comment ·
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linked_list remove-matching functions crash on a NULL callbackPossibly taken @Awesome-00 claimed this 8 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100
libretro/libretro-common#232 · 1 comment ·
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RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_ clash in libretro.hPossibly taken @Clownacy claimed this 24 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
libretro/libretro-common#89 · 2 comments ·