diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3fa5f9f563..31e32f84ea 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 	shallow = true
 	path = External/vixl
 	url = https://github.com/FEX-Emu/vixl.git
-[submodule "External/cpp-optparse"]
-	path = Source/Common/cpp-optparse
-	url = https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/cpp-optparse
 [submodule "External/imgui"]
 	path = External/imgui
 	url = https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/imgui.git
diff --git a/Source/Common/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Common/CMakeLists.txt
index ceeb799f77..6ec763ba09 100644
--- a/Source/Common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-add_subdirectory(cpp-optparse/)
-
 set(NAME Common)
 set(SRCS
   Config.cpp
diff --git a/Source/Common/cpp-optparse b/Source/Common/cpp-optparse
deleted file mode 160000
index eab4212ae8..0000000000
--- a/Source/Common/cpp-optparse
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit eab4212ae864ba64306f0fe87f102e66cb5a3617