ABOUT US

01 · What Free Play Mode is

Free Play Mode is a website for playing classic console and arcade games directly in your web browser. There is nothing to install and no account to create: you pick a game, press Start and the emulation runs inside the page, with gamepad support, quick saves and a keyboard map for every console.

The catalogue covers eleven classic systems — from the NES, Game Boy and Sega Genesis to the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and arcade cabinets — plus a Casual section of modern browser games. The site is published in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

02 · How the catalogue works

Free Play Mode does not host the commercial games in its catalogue. Those titles are embedded from external providers that operate their own emulation services; when you press Start, the game runs from the provider’s servers inside an embedded frame, and Free Play Mode stores no ROMs or disc images. A small number of homebrew and freely licensed titles are served directly, under licences that allow it. The Casual section is supplied by a licensed HTML5 games distributor.

For every game we write our own page: a description, the controls for that console, a technical sheet with year, developer and genre, and a list of related titles. That editorial layer, in five languages, is what Free Play Mode adds on top of the emulation itself.

03 · Who is behind it

Free Play Mode is an independent project run by a software developer based in Argentina who grew up with these consoles. It is not a company and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any console manufacturer or game publisher. Console names, game titles, logos and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used for descriptive purposes only.

04 · How the site is funded

The site is free to use and is financed exclusively by advertising, served through Google AdSense. There are no paid tiers, no accounts and no paywalls. How advertising and analytics handle your data is explained in our privacy policy.

05 · Content and copyright

We respect the rights of game publishers and developers. If you hold rights over a title that appears in the catalogue and want it removed, the procedure is described on our DMCA page and requests are handled promptly.

06 · Get in touch

Suggestions, broken games, corrections to a description or anything else: see the contact page.