What is The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers?

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The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers (randomizers.debigare.com) is an index of known video game randomizers. It catalogs randomizer projects by game and notes when the list's information about each entry was last updated. It is a reference list, not a download host or a randomizer itself.

What the site actually is

The site describes itself as an "exhaustive list of all known video game randomizers." Its purpose is discovery: you look up a game and find out whether a randomizer exists for it, who made it, and where the project lives.

A few things follow from that positioning:

  • It is an index, not a repository. The list points you toward randomizers; it does not host the tools or ROMs.
  • It tracks list updates, not tool updates. The site states plainly that it does not track when randomizers are updated — only when its own information about them is updated. So a recent date next to a game means the entry was touched, not that the randomizer shipped a new version.
  • Coverage is broad and cross-platform. Entries span console generations and platforms, from NES-era games to modern titles.

How the list is organized

Entries are grouped by game, and each entry carries a short description and a date. The description usually tells you what the randomizer does and any notable constraints.

Field What it tells you
Game name The title the randomizer targets
Author / project name Who maintains the randomizer
Description What gets randomized and any platform or region requirements
Update date When the list's info for that entry was last revised

Some entries also note a multiworld framework, such as Archipelago, which lets multiple players' games interact in a shared session.

Examples of what entries look like

The descriptions are where the useful detail lives. A few representative entries:

  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (SMB3-RS) — Browser-based, so it runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, or mobile with nothing to install, and the ROM never leaves your machine. It rebuilds each world map rather than only shuffling levels, and also randomizes powerups, enemies, chest items, and palettes. Sharing a seed and flag key gives everyone the identical game, for races or playing alongside friends.
  • Crossgame Randomizer (ColPanic's) — A randomizer for the Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World combined ROM that uses the SMB3 map as a hub. Levels can come from any of the five source games (SMB1, Lost Levels, SMB2U, SMB3, SMW).
  • Deltarune (Chapter 4), Skywatcher's Chaos Randomizer — Supports all chapters (1–4).
  • Mega Man X4 (MottZilla) — For use with the NTSC North American PlayStation version.
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (MottZilla's SotN Integrated Rando) — An integrated randomizer for the PlayStation version.

These show the kind of constraints you should expect to check before downloading anything: region, platform, base ROM, and whether the tool runs in a browser or needs a local install.

Open source, Discord, and GitHub

The site is now open source. Contributors can post game requests and list updates to the GitHub repository, and there is a Discord for discussion. If you want to suggest a randomizer that is missing or correct an entry, those are the channels the site points to.

What it does not do

  • It does not host randomizer downloads.
  • It does not host game ROMs.
  • It does not track randomizer version history.
  • It does not guarantee that a listed project is still maintained.

Treat it as a starting point: find the game, read the entry, then follow the project's own link for downloads, setup instructions, and current status.