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BizHawk

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BizHawk is a multi-system emulator designed predominantly around the production of Tool Assisted Speedruns (TAS). BizHawk focuses on core accuracy and power user tools while still being an easy-to-use emulator for casual gaming.

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  Multi System Emulator
  2.  Hex Editor
  3.  Lua scripting

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  • Developed by

    US flagBizHawk Team

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  2,400 Stars
  •  414 Forks
  •  664 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 10, 2025 
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BizHawk was added to AlternativeTo by rickyfeuchter on Jan 23, 2017 and this page was last updated Aug 31, 2022.

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The best and most accurate alternative for most old systems, no reason to download emulators individually when bizhawk just offers a better experience given all the tools it also provides.

What is BizHawk?

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator designed predominantly around the production of Tool Assisted Speedruns (TAS). It is written in C# and requires .NET 4.0 to run. BizHawk focuses on core accuracy and power user tools while still being an easy-to-use emulator for casual gaming.

Like RetroArch, BizHawk uses cores to emulate consoles. Go to http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/BizHawk for a list of the consoles BizHawk supports and which emulators the cores are based on.

Features include:

Full screen support Controller and hotkey mapping Joypad support (for both controller and hotkeys) Auto/rapid fire controls Basic re-recording and rerecording "Bullet-proof" rerecording Frame/lag/re-recording counters Input display Auto-hold Alpha version of "TAStudio" RAM watching/poking tools RAM searching Lua scripting Rewind Libretro support (1.11.4 onwards)

For TAS purposes, this emulator is king. Since 1.11.4, It has support for Libretro cores, making it a good alternative for RetroArch, and adds TAS support for all compatible cores.

BizHawk is a very good alternative Multi-System Emulator to RetroArch. If you are not a fan of RetroArch's controller-usage GUI and prefer a mouse-usage GUI like what other standalone emulators use and if you enjoy making speedruns then give BizHawk a try.

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