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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.
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.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
The CD-i emulator program (cdiemu) provides a fairly complete emulation of the hardware of an actual physical CD-i player.
- Game Emulator
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
+7Citra 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.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Android
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
- Game Library Manager
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- RetroArch
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- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
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- Game Emulator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
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.
Discontinued- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- iPhone
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.
- Game Emulator
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
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).
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Android
+1BGB is a GameBoy and Gameboy Color emulator and debugger for Windows and Wine.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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