guac AlternativesGame Emulators and other similar apps like guac

guac is described as 'Guac is an Emulator written in golang for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance handheld consoles' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to guac for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best guac alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like guac are Lemuroid, VisualBoyAdvance, Delta Emulator and mGBA.

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  1. RetroArch icon
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    A fast, modular emulator frontend offering portability and extensive support for systems from arcade consoles to mobile platforms, featuring game engines like Doom and Quake, and capabilities for real-time rewinding and shader support on a variety of devices.

    159 RetroArch alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • F-Droid
    • Steam
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
    • Haiku
     
  2. Lemuroid icon
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    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.

    35 Lemuroid alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. VisualBoyAdvance icon
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    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.

    42 VisualBoyAdvance alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • MorphOS
     
  4. mGBA icon
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    mGBA is an open source emulator of the Game Boy Advance. The goals are speed and accuracy.

    40 mGBA alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. OpenEmu icon
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    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.

    57 OpenEmu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Ludo icon
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    Ludo 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. VisualBoyAdvance (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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  8. WinDS PRO icon
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    WinDS PRO contains the latest versions of the emulators for the Nintendo, Sega and Playstation consoles for PC including:

    34 WinDS PRO alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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
     
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