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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.
FCEUX is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator. It supports both PAL (European) and NTSC (USA/JPN) modes. It supports both Windows and SDL versions for cross compatibility.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
WinDS PRO contains the latest versions of the emulators for the Nintendo, Sega and Playstation consoles for PC including:
- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
ROMhacking.net is home to classic video game modifications, fan translations, console homebrew, utilities, and learning resources.
Legal WarningDiscontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
RetroDECK is an all-in-one retro gaming platform with built-in emulators, game engines, and systems. For Steam Deck or Linux Desktop.
- Game Library Manager
- Free • Open Source
- SteamOS
- Flathub
- Linux
- Flatpak
+5This fork is just Citra with tweaks/additions which should result in better performance than the original Citra Feel free to download this build and test it, if you run into any bugs please open an issue on GitHub or contact me on the Discord /...
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
Nestopia is a NES emulator that was written in C++ and it is perfect for games requiring precise timing since it is very cycle-accurate. With support for an incredible amount of mappers. It also supports NSFs, the famicom disk system, save states, IPS patching, battery-saved...
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
FB Alpha or FBA as it is commonly known is an emulator of arcade games, that is, it takes the program code, graphics data, etc., from an original arcade game and emulates the hardware to make the game run in it's original form.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Simple and all in one emulation with RomStation!
Features
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All in one GB, GBC, GBA, NDS, NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Game Gear, Master System, MegaDrive, 32X, Mega-CD, Dreamcast, Neo-Geo, PS1, PS2 and Arcade together in one program.
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Fast access to games The entire RomSt.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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Citron is a cutting-edge Nintendo Homebrew emulator designed for performance and ease of use.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
simple64 is an emulator based on a heavily modified version of mupen64plus-core, and ParaLLEl RSP/RDP. It includes a GUI, netplay, automatic updater, controller configuration, and much more!
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. The Atari Lynx, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine (TurboGrafx 16), SuperGrafx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), PC-FX, and WonderSwan (Color)...
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
idTech engine games For Android. An idTech games runtime libraries collection on Android.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Advanced open-source SNES emulator based on Snes9x with a minimalist UI and a focus on low audio/video latency, supporting a wide variety of devices from the original Xperia Play to modern devices like the Nvidia Shield and Pixel phones.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- Android Tablet
NO$GBA is a Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows. It is capable of running commercial and homebrew Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS games, such as Pokémon Diamond which the latest version is able to run at full speed with no graphical glitches.
- Game Emulator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows