Mednafen Alternatives

Mednafen is described as '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)' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Mednafen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and iPhone apps. The best Mednafen alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mednafen are VisualBoyAdvance, Delta Emulator, ePSXe and mGBA.

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  1. Spectral icon
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    Spectral is an experimental Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator from the 80s, which has been randomly assembled since the pandemic days. Accuracy and performance are long-term goals, but the primary focus is just having fun with this thing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    When forking uoYabause, at the start of Kronos, I noticed some issues, mainly on x86 and image loading. I fixed it in my fork and proposed to uoYabause and yabause to reuse my patches. Developers of other yabause fork did not decide to backport the fix.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • RetroArch
     
  3. DroidEmu icon
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    DroidEmu is a game system to play SNES, NES, GameBoy Advanced, GameBoy/Color, SEGA GameGear, SEGA Genesis games on your Android phone. It runs thousands of games at full speed.

    55 DroidEmu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  4. PicoNES icon
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    PicoNES is an easy to use NES emulator for your Android device. It allows you to play backups of your favorite classic games, or explore new indie games developed for the console.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
  5. Yabause icon
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    Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator under the GNU GPL. It currently runs on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Dreamcast, PSP and Wii.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. BizHawk icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. AppleWin icon
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    AppleWin (also known as Apple //e Emulator for Windows) is an open source software emulator for running Apple II programs in Microsoft Windows. AppleWin was originally written by Mike O'Brien in 1994; O'Brien himself announced an early version of the emulator in April...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. My Boy! icon
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    My Boy! is an emulator to run GameBoy Advance games on the broadest range of Android devices, from very low-end phones to modern tablets. It emulates nearly all aspects of the real hardware correctly.

    32 My Boy! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Windows Phone
     
  9. uoYabause icon
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    uoYabause aka Yaba Sanshiro, is a unofficial port of Yabause SEGA Saturn Emulator. This project is focused on the Android version of yabause using OpenGL ES 3.x. Versions are also available for iOS and Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  10. FPse icon
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    PSX emulator on Windows Mobile or Windows Phone Device and Android. The name means First PlayStation Emulator.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
     
  11. KiGB icon
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    KiGB is the most accurate and free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy for Windows, Linux and MS-DOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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