RetroReady
Free retro game identifier
Photograph a cartridge, disc or box and see which release it is: title, platform, region and edition, with the clues behind the answer.
There's more in the app
- Play it tonight: what you need for your console and TV
- Eight deep dives: versions, history, buying, known issues and more
- Ask anything about this copy, in plain words
- Your shelf: every scan saved on your phone
How the free scan works
Take a photo of the front of your game: the label of a cartridge, the front of a box, or a disc. Add the back if you have it: product codes, rating badges and language lines are often printed there. Your browser shrinks the photos and removes their location and camera data before anything is sent.
The scan reads what is printed on the item and answers with the most likely release: title, platform, region and edition, the clues behind it, and anything in the photos that deserves a closer look. Answers are written by AI and can be wrong; check anything that matters before you buy or sell.
The free scan and the app
| Free scan | RetroReady app | |
|---|---|---|
| Exact release, region, edition | ✓ | ✓ |
| How we know, what to check | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photos | front + back | front, back and inside the box |
| Play it tonight, deep dives, questions | ✓ | |
| Your shelf of saved scans | ✓ | |
| Scans | 3 a day on this page | 3 free, then a plan |
Your photos
Photos are screened by an automated moderation service and read by AI models (through OpenRouter) to answer you, and are not kept on our servers. This page sets no cookies and runs no analytics. More in the privacy policy.
Read the codes yourself
Product codes like NUS-NBKP-EUR or SLES- numbers say a lot about a release on their own: see how to read a product code and region locking, console by console.