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+# ferretro: FrontEnd in Rust for libRETRO
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+Development status:
+- Supports loading many libretro shared library cores, including some requiring GL.
+- Includes batteries for using SDL2, ffmpeg, and/or libGL to render the emulated system and read inputs.
+- Code documentation is sparse-to-nonexistent as we're still experimenting with some of the details of what the most flexible & usable public interface should be.