Is It Ported? is an independent guide to browser ports, recompilations, decompilations and fan PC ports of classic games. This page explains how our pages are made.

Independence

We are not affiliated with game publishers, platform holders or the people who make ports. Port authors can tell us about mistakes, but they cannot change our test results. Advertising and affiliate links never affect what we test or what we write.

How a page is made

  1. Research: we collect facts from the project’s own page, its release notes and its source repository, and we note each source with its date.
  2. Testing: a tester plays the port on real devices and records the results (see How we test).
  3. Writing: a writer turns the facts and test notes into the page. The first lines always answer the question people ask, such as whether a port works and where.
  4. Review: before the page goes live, every fact and source link is checked again, and the reviewer, who didn’t draft the page, signs it off against the sources and the test records.
  5. Updates: pages are re-tested regularly, and every change of status is dated.

Each page names who wrote it, who tested it and who reviewed it.

Original work

Everything we publish is our own: our text, our tables, our screenshots and our gameplay clips. We quote other sources only briefly, in quotation marks, with a link.

Use of AI tools

We use an AI assistant (Claude, made by Anthropic) for research and first drafts. It reads the project’s own pages, release notes and news reports, collects the facts with their sources, and drafts the parts of a page that don’t depend on testing, such as what a project is, what it needs and how it was made.

A person then does everything the assistant can’t:

  • Tests every port on real devices and records the results.
  • Signs off on every page after its facts and source links have been checked.
  • Adds the first-hand parts: what worked, what broke, how long it took.
  • Reviews the finished page and is named on it.

The assistant never writes test results, player reports, quotes or ratings, and our quality checks block any page whose test data is missing.

How we choose what to cover

We cover the ports people are looking for. We check what people search for and which questions they ask, then write pages that answer those questions directly. Popularity decides the order, never payment.

We never host game files and never link to game files, ROMs, ISOs or BIOS files. How we link depends on the project:

  • Projects that need your own game files, open-source games and official releases: we link to the project’s own page.
  • Projects that stream a commercial game’s files: we link only to the project’s own page, and we remove the link immediately if we receive a valid notice.
  • Re-uploads by third parties, unsafe sites and removed projects: we don’t link at all. The page explains what happened and lists legal alternatives.

Player reports

Player reports are checked by a person within 24 hours. We publish first-hand device results and remove spam, links, personal data, requests for game files and abusive text. We never change a player’s result.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it within 24 hours of confirming the mistake, add a dated note at the bottom of the page for important corrections, and list it on our corrections page. To report a mistake, email hello@isitported.com.

Takedown requests

Rights holders can email hello@isitported.com with “DMCA” in the subject line. We respond within 24 hours. See our DMCA policy.