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Old dedicated video game platforms from childhood can often be disproportionately expensive for what is oftentimes just a desire for a nostalgic escape from the moment. That’s where emulation comes into play. From multi-system emulation systems such as RetroArch to specialized and high performance emulators such as higan, there are many modern methods to play the games of your childhood without having to break the bank in order to get old hardware.
An experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. At this time, it only emulates a very small subset of 3DS hardware, and therefore is only useful for booting/debugging very simple homebrew demos. Citra is licensed under the GPLv2. Refer to the license.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Flathub
Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
+4ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- Symbian S60
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
+2Batocera.linux is an operating system specialized in retrogaming available for your pc and different nano computers like the Raspberry and the Odroids.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
- Odroid
RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Mac and Linux. RPCS3 began development in May of 2011 by its founders, DH and Hykem.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AppImageHub
- Flathub
- FreeBSD
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
DeSmuME is a freeware emulator for the NDS roms & Nintendo DS Lite games created by YopYop156. DeSmuME is also known as YopYop DS is written in C++ for Microsoft Windows and can play Nintendo DS homebrew and commercial nds roms.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
An open-source Nintendo Switch emulator, Ryujinx was originally created by gdkchan in C# for accuracy and performance before being forked by GreemDev.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Ludo is an Emulator Frontend able to run retro video games. Ludo does not emulate the consoles itself, but does it through emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (like Snes9x or Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) stripped from their user interface.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+2Lakka is the official Linux distribution of RetroArch and the libretro ecosystem. Each game system is implemented as a libretro core, while the frontend RetroArch takes care of inputs and display.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Cubieboard
- HummingBoard
- Raspberry Pi
- Nintendo Switch
- Odroid
+4Download Free Game ROMs. ISOs for your emulators to play on any platform, Windows/PC, MAC, Linux, Android. We focus on CD/DVD based Systems like Sony PlayStation (PSX), PS2, PSP, Gamecube.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
+1Vita3K is the world's first functional experimental open-source PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
+3Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
Discover a lifetime of gaming, the ultimate retro gaming experience with Antstream Arcade. Dive into a vast collection of over 1300 classic games, with new titles added every week.
- Game Emulator
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Epic Games Store
- Playstation
- Xbox
+7Dedicated to nostalgia for many of the greatest game consoles ever made. Thousands of games, full-color manual scans, ratings and reviews, and much more. Whether you’re looking for some videogame nostalgia or just curious, you’re sure to find everything you need.
Legal Warning- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Online