A portable, fast, and lightweight emulator frontend supporting classic and modern gaming systems with features like real-time rewinding and shader support.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- iPad
- F-Droid
- Steam
- Raspberry Pi
- Playstation
- Xbox
+6Lemuroid is an open-source emulation project based on Libretro. It's completely free, without ads and focused on ease of use and good user experience.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- F-Droid
VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
Delta is an iOS emulator that supports multiple game systems such as NES, SNES, N64, and DS, improving upon its predecessor, GBA4iOS.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- iPhone
- AltStore
- iPad
+1mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.
- Game Development Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+1Ludo is an Emulator Frontend able to run retro video games. Ludo does not emulate the consoles itself, but does it through emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (like Snes9x or Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) stripped from their user interface.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+2VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles as well as of Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
MobyGames is the oldest, largest and most accurate video game database for games of every platform since 1979.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
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
SkyEmu is a low level GameBoy, GameBoy Color and Game Boy Advance emulator. Its primary focus is to provide a good user experience through a good mixture of tradeoffs of accuracy, performance, features and usability.
- Game Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
SameBoy is a user friendly, powerful and open source Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator for macOS, Windows and Unix-like platforms. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of both powerful debugging features and user-facing features, making it...
- Game Emulator
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
Retro gaming on the Raspberry Pi and includes RetroArchievements.org support, HDMI-CEC and PS3/XBOX 360 control pad support.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
Over 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
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