Please note that, as far asI can tell, RetroArch is free/libre software,
just like QEMU, DOSBox, mupen64plus, Higan, ScummVM, DeSmuME,
Wine. However, you are right in the fact that the games played on those
are *mostly* non-free (except for a few known games like Flight of the
Amazon Queen, Escape from Pong, Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back, all
of which can be installed through Trisquel's default repositories).

The reason for these emulators/simulators/virtualizer to be kept is that
one can develop free/libre software to be run on the system/environment
being simulated (for virtualizers such as QEMU, which accepts any image
of system distribution, it's almost infinite the number of systems that
can be tested).

You are also right in the fact that we won't recommend any
non-(free/libre) software (or game) to be played in these
emulators/simulators/virtualizars, and we won't foster any of those
non-free (this also includes not helping with anything specific to that
non-free software).

Personally speaking, I don't use any of the
emulators/simulators/virtualizers to run non-free software, because I
don't feel the need to, and because I don't want to. I could use those
to run free/libre software, but I also rarely do so. :)

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