The ultimate emulator list [2026]

Recalbox is a light embedded system created to run on the raspberryPi ,raspberryPI 2 and others!

Batocera.linux is an operating system specialized in retrogaming available for your pc and different nano computers like the Raspberry and the Odroids.

Retro 90s style gaming operating system.

A portable, fast, and lightweight emulator frontend supporting classic and modern gaming systems with features like real-time rewinding and shader support.

Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.

Lemuroid 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.

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer.

Automates emulation setup and optimization on multiple platforms, enabling file compression, Steam Library integration, cloud saves, BIOS checks, and enhanced performance.

The multi-emulator that can never be revoked.

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files.

The webgame preservation project.

Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating systems as a standalone application, and on all modern browsers through the use of WebAssembly. Leveraging the safety of the modern browser sandbox and the memory safety guarantees of...

Mesen is a multi-system emulator (NES, SNES, Game Boy, PC Engine, Master System/Game Gear) for Windows, Linux and macOS built in C++ and C#.

It also includes an extensive set of debugging tools for homebrew development and romhacking.

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.

NostalgiaNes is a high quality emulator based on the most up-to-date revision of the famous FCEUX.

Snes9x is a portable, Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC.

bsnes is a multi-platform Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) emulator, originally developed by Near, which focuses on performance, features, and ease of use.

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.

GPU-powered SNES emulator with enhanced accuracy, high-res Mode 7, advanced game-specific enhancements, HD classic UI, fast forward, rewind, and save options.

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.

gopher64 is an N64 emulator written in Rust.

N64 Emulator for Android.

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and...

PrimeHack is a modified version of Dolphin-Emu solely for playing Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii with keyboard and mouse on a PC.

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...

Gameboy Emulator.

Jailbreak-free Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator for iPhone and iPad. Game Play COLOR is an open-source, browser-based emulator that lets you run games from Google Drive for a jailbreak-free way of running GBA games on iOS.

Looking for the best 8bit handheld emulator for Android? An ad FREE emulator, and the most precise 8bit handheld emulator is here! Smooth, light, fast and battery friendly. Enjoy your favorite retro games and never have problems with enjoying your 8bit handheld roms!

mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

Pro version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.GbaEmu

GBA emulator for android powered devices.

A Nintendo DS emulator with support for commercial games.

A Nintendo DS and DSi emulator for Android, built on top of melonDS and the melonDS Android port by rafaelvcaetano.

An open-source 3DS emulator project based on Citra.

Panda3DS is an HLE, red-panda-themed Nintendo 3DS emulator written in C++ which started out as a fun project out of curiosity, but evolved into something that can sort of play games!

Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC.