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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.

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  1. FCEUX icon
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    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.

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    Best alternatives are Nestopia iconNestopiaandMesen iconMesen12 alternatives
  2. gopher64 icon
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    gopher64 is an N64 emulator written in Rust.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandProject64 iconProject6421 alternatives
  3. WinDS PRO icon
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    WinDS PRO contains the latest versions of the emulators for the Nintendo, Sega and Playstation consoles for PC including:

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArch29 alternatives
  4. ROMhacking icon
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    ROMhacking.net is home to classic video game modifications, fan translations, console homebrew, utilities, and learning resources.

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    Best alternatives are CDRomance iconCDRomanceandVimm’s Lair iconVimm’s Lair14 alternatives
  5. RetroDECK icon
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    RetroDECK is an all-in-one retro gaming platform with built-in emulators, game engines, and systems. For Steam Deck or Linux Desktop.

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    Best alternatives are Lutris iconLutrisandGameHub iconGameHub10 alternatives
  6. Mandarine icon
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    This 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 /...

    Best alternatives are Citra iconCitraandAzahar iconAzahar10 alternatives
  7. Nestopia icon
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    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...

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    Best alternatives are FCEUX iconFCEUXandMesen iconMesen13 alternatives
  8. FB Alpha icon
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    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.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandMame iconMame14 alternatives
  9. RomStation icon
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    Simple and all in one emulation with RomStation!

    Features

    • 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.

    • Fast access to games The entire RomSt.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandLaunchBox iconLaunchBox23 alternatives
  10. Citron icon
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    Citron is a cutting-edge Nintendo Homebrew emulator designed for performance and ease of use.

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    Best alternatives are Ryujinx iconRyujinx11 alternatives
  11. simple64 icon
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    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!

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    Best alternatives are Project64 iconProject64andMupen64Plus iconMupen64Plus10 alternatives
  12. Mednafen icon
     21 likes

    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)...

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArch32 alternatives
  13. idTech4A++ icon
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    idTech engine games For Android. An idTech games runtime libraries collection on Android.

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    Best alternatives are GZDoom iconGZDoomandChocolate Doom iconChocolate Doom3 alternatives
  14. Snes9x EX icon
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    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.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandSnes9x iconSnes9x35 alternatives
  15. No$GBA icon
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    NO$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.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArch29 alternatives