# flyinghead/flycast

> A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2, and Atomiswave emulator derived from reicast. It lets you run games for these console and arcade systems on PC, Android, macOS, and Xbox.

- Magnitude: 1.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 2,589 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-12, 11:44–13:37 UTC, ≈ 4 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C++ · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2018-04-27 · Last push: 2026-10-12
- GitHub: https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/flyinghead/flycast

## Useful for

- Play Sega Dreamcast games on PC without the original console
- Build the emulator from source on Linux with Vulkan or OpenGL
- Install Flycast on Android via Google Play or on macOS via Homebrew

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 11:44–13:37: 2587 → 2589 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +4 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #7, +3 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 366
- Issues and pull requests: 2,391
- Watchers: 72
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v2.7 (2026-08-19)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-13 … 2026-10-12: 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 4, 2, 3, 0, 3, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 0, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #7, +3 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-12 13:42 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.