Ares, which apparently replaced higan, was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator.
KRetro Alternatives
KRetro is described as 'Libretro frontend written in Qt/Kirigami, designed for Plasma Desktop, Mobile, and Bigscreen' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 50 alternatives to KRetro for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best KRetro alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like KRetro are Lemuroid, DuckStation, Snes9x and VisualBoyAdvance.
Alternatives list

- 64 Antstream Arcade alternatives
Discover a lifetime of gaming, the ultimate retro gaming experience with Antstream Arcade. Dive into a vast collection of over 1300 classic games, with new titles added every week.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Epic Games Store
- Playstation
- Xbox


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- 37 Kega Fusion alternatives
Kega Fusion is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32x, SegaCD/MegaCD, SVP, Pico, SG-1000, SC-3000, and SF-7000 emulator for Win9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

- 154 Kosmi alternatives
Kosmi is a free real time application and communication platform that offers voice, text and video calls along with games and applications such as SNES Party, NES Party, OpenArena, Poker, Virtual Cardtables, Synced YouTube and Cowatch Video.


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- 11 Daijisho alternatives
Daijisho is a retro launcher that let you manage your retro games libraries. Daijisho cares about integrated experience, expansibility, aesthetic and pragmatical usabilities let you focus on games itself.


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- 17 FB Alpha alternatives
FB Alpha or FBA as it is commonly known is an emulator of arcade games, that is, it takes the program code, graphics data, etc., from an original arcade game and emulates the hardware to make the game run in it's original form.


- 25 Snes9x EX+ alternatives
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.



ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendent of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation.


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- 38 Mednafen alternatives
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)...






















