Folium Alternatives

Folium is described as 'Beautifully designed, high performing multi-system emulator that allows you to play video games from retro consoles and handhelds, currently including cores for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Folium for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Folium alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folium are Lemuroid, OpenEmu, VisualBoyAdvance and Delta Emulator.

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  1. Panda3DS icon
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    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!

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. CLK icon
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    A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Mikage icon
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    Mikage is a Nintendo 3DS emulator made to replicate an authentic console experience on PC and Android. Mikage is an early stage of development, but it fully emulates the HOME Menu and can play many commercial games already.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Android
     
  4. No$GBA icon
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    NO$GBA is a Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows. It is capable of running commercial and homebrew Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS games, such as Pokémon Diamond which the latest version is able to run at full speed with no graphical glitches.

    39 No$GBA alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. Mandarine Neo icon
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    A Citra fork with new features and hacks which are experimental and may not be present in Azahar. Continuation of Mandarine 3DS emulator.

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    • Mac
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    • Android
     
  6. SkyEmu icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  7.  1 like

    3Beans emulates the 3DS at a low level, which means that it runs the entire OS as if it were on real hardware. It can boot the home menu and launch some games, but it's still young and has plenty of issues.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. The CD-i emulator program (cdiemu) provides a fairly complete emulation of the hardware of an actual physical CD-i player.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Manic Emu icon
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    Manic EMU is an all-in-one retro game emulator for iOS. It packs powerful features while keeping a clean, sleek UI and delivering buttery-smooth gameplay.

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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