What a Dreamport is
dreamports.net is a home for enhanced fan ports of classic games, made by a fan, for fans.
A Dreamport is the port fans always dreamed of: the game you remember, with the extras you wished it had.
Bring your own game
Dreamports never hosts game files: no ROMs, no game data and nothing taken from a game. It only lists projects that ask you to use your own legal copy, and before every play or download link it asks you to confirm that you are.
- You own the game, on a cartridge, a disc or from a store.
- You copy it to your computer. That copy is called a ROM, or a game dump.
- The port reads your copy on your device, and never uploads it.
Not affiliated
Dreamports is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Sega, Nintendo or any other publisher. Game names and trademarks belong to their owners, and appear here only to say which game a project works with.
The site’s own design never uses publishers’ logos, box art or characters. Pictures of games are only short, silent captures of them being played.
For rights holders
If you hold the rights to a game and want something on Dreamports taken down, write to hello@dreamports.net, with “Rights notice” in the subject. Say which game and what you’d like removed, who you are or whom you act for, and how to reach you. You can also send a notice through GitHub, where the source code lives.
Every game here lives in a folder of its own, so the Dreamports team can take it off dreamports.net and out of the source code in one change, usually within one business day. The team answers every notice, and never makes the sender’s details public. How a notice is handled has the details.
Clips that show the original game next to a Dreamport, to prove it plays the same, appear only in the source code’s pull requests on GitHub, never on dreamports.net. To have one removed, say so on it or write to the address above.
Your privacy
There are no ads and nothing follows you around the web. The site keeps a few small notes in your own browser: whether you switched on menu sounds, which look and motion you picked, and, until you close the tab, which games you’ve confirmed you own. Those notes never leave your device, and “Forget my choices” in Settings clears your menu choices at any time.
Sonic Advance Dreamport, played here on dreamports.net, keeps its own notes in your browser: your settings, the emeralds and achievements you’ve collected and, unless you untick “Remember on this device”, your game files, so you don’t have to add them on every visit. They never leave your device, except your achievements while you’re signed in to a profile, and clearing this site’s data removes them.
A profile is up to you, for players aged 13 or older. It keeps the name you pick, your achievements with the day you earned each one, and, for each account you sign in with (Google, Discord, Steam or GitHub), only the id that service gives it. Dreamports never gets that account’s email address, password, name or friends, and keeps no password of its own. While you’re signed in, one cookie keeps you signed in, and your browser notes your player name so the games know to send your achievements, and what you’ve earned so it shows at once. Your profile is private unless you make it public; then anyone can see your name, the day you joined and your achievements, and nothing else. From your profile you can download everything it keeps, or delete it for good.
To see which pages people read, the site counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It notes the page you opened, the site that sent you there, your browser, your country and how fast the page loaded. It stores nothing in your browser, doesn’t keep your IP address and doesn’t follow you to other sites.
