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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. GR-lida icon
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    GR-lida is a graphical interface for managing the most used emulators like DOSBox abandonware VDMSound and ScummVM . This way you can easily run any game prepared for each emulator in today's computers.

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    Best alternatives are LaunchBox iconLaunchBoxandDBGL iconDBGL7 alternatives
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    3DS Emulator Prototype.

    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandCitra iconCitra11 alternatives
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    GameBase is an Open Source "Emulator Frontend", released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is a program that attempts to make running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings.

    GameBase screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are jGameBase iconjGameBase1 alternatives
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    The CD-i emulator program (cdiemu) provides a fairly complete emulation of the hardware of an actual physical CD-i player.

    CD-i Emulator screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArch15 alternatives
  5. Citra MMJ icon
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    Citra is an experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. It is written with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows, Linux and macOS.

    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandCitra iconCitra12 alternatives
  6. Metropolis Launcher is a game launcher, emulation front-end and an extensive offline database of video game metadata thanks to MobyGames.

    Metropolis Launcher is based on the .NET 4.0 Framework and runs on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10

    Metropolis Launcher screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Playnite iconPlayniteandRetrom iconRetrom8 alternatives
  7. Shmupmame icon
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    Shmupmame is a variant of the MAME emulator optimized for Shoot-em-up games (Shmups). Based on Mameplus! '99, it includes improved drivers, audio and audio volumes to enhance these types of games.

    Shmupmame screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Mame iconMameandFB Alpha iconFB Alpha4 alternatives
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    When forking uoYabause, at the start of Kronos, I noticed some issues, mainly on x86 and image loading. I fixed it in my fork and proposed to uoYabause and yabause to reuse my patches. Developers of other yabause fork did not decide to backport the fix.

    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandMednafen iconMednafen6 alternatives
  9. Gens/GS icon
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    Gens/GS is a version of Gens maintained by GerbilSoft. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens, as well as improving portability to other platforms.

    Discontinued
    Gens/GS screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandLudo iconLudo33 alternatives
  10. DroidEmu icon
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    DroidEmu is a game system to play SNES, NES, GameBoy Advanced, GameBoy/Color, SEGA GameGear, SEGA Genesis games on your Android phone. It runs thousands of games at full speed.

    Discontinued
    DroidEmu screenshot 1
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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandLemuroid iconLemuroid64 alternatives
  11. SSF icon
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    SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0c or higher. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Saturn hardware, and can also emulate the Saturn-based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware.

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    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandMednafen iconMednafen13 alternatives
  12. DolphiniOS icon
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    DolphiniOS is a port of the popular Dolphin emulator to iOS. Dolphin lets you play your favourite GameCube and Wii software with enhancements like higher resolutions, save states, and more.

    Best alternatives are Dolphin Emulator iconDolphin Emulator4 alternatives
  13. Matsu icon
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    Matsu is a free and ad-supported emulator for Android supporting multiple videogame systems from SNES to PSX and featuring save states, fast forward and rewind.

    Matsu screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are RetroArch iconRetroArchandNostlan iconNostlan2 alternatives
  14. N64oid icon
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    N64oid is the very famous N64 emulator optimized for Android. It is a port of Mupen64plus, along with Ari64's ARM dynarec (and gles2N64 as an option).

    N64oid screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Project64 iconProject64andMupen64Plus iconMupen64Plus8 alternatives
  15. BGB icon
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    BGB is a GameBoy and Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for Windows and Wine.

    BGB running with a background
    Best alternatives are SameBoy iconSameBoyandzBoy iconzBoy4 alternatives