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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.
MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.
- Game Emulator
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
PSX is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware. It is Windows and Linux compatible. The original game CDs can be used to play the games. ISO files are also supported. Graphics quality may be dependent on the power of the hardware.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
D-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox . DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- DOSBox
+4Nestopia is a portable NES/Famicom emulator written in C++. Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Gens is a Win9x based emulator for the SEGA Genesis/Mega-Drive/Sega-CD/ Mega-CD/32X systems, it allows you to play games developed for these classic SEGA 16bit game consoles on your x86 compatible PC.
Gens is developed by St?phane Dallongeville and has been coded 35% in C/C++ an.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Boxer plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
+6Over 500,000 ROMs for NES, SNES, DS, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Advanced arcade games, Sega, Commodore from the world’s largest retro gaming site.
- Game Emulator
- Paid • Proprietary
- Online
Gens Plus! is a Sega Genesis / 32X / SegaCD / Master System / Game Gear emulator based on the Gens emulator that has added features.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
The ProSystem Emulator is an Atari 7800 emulator for the PC and Windows OS. The emulator was written in C++ using the Windows API and DirectX. It emulates the Atari 7800 NTSC and PAL TV standards.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
RMG (Rosalie's Mupen GUI) is an open-source, plugin-based Mupen64Plus Nintendo 64 emulator front-end maintained by Rosalie241 which focused on simplistic sleek GUI design and paid homage to the look and feel of Project64.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- +2
Advanced open-source Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sega CD, and Master System/Mark III emulator based on portions of Genesis Plus/Gens/Picodrive/Mednafen, designed and tested on the original Droid/Milestone, Xoom, Galaxy S2, Nexus 4, Nexus 7, NVidia Shield, Xperia Tablet Z, and...
- Game Emulator
- Paid • Proprietary
- Android
+2Z26 is one of the best emulators for the Atari 2600. The author reports that the graphics part of the emulator is nearing perfection to a point that there's little more to fix.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- +5
Award-winning Amiga emulator software, games, demoscene, history, services and support for Amiga users and enthusiasts.
- Game Emulator
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows