



OpenEmu is described as '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' and is a popular Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 50 alternatives to OpenEmu for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best OpenEmu alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenEmu are Dolphin Emulator, DuckStation, Delta Emulator and Mame.




CoolROM is a database and download site for emulators and ROMs of classic videogame systems such as Nintendo 64, SNES, Game Boy and more.





A front-end or user interface (UI) is the presentation and interaction layer of an app or website. Most modern emulator apps have basic game list UIs that you can interact with using a mouse/keyboard but not a game controller.
![Dolphin (Wii, Gamecube, Virtual Console) [Linux, macOS, & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_980398_full.png)
![Cemu (Wii U) [Windows & Linux* using Wine]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_762210_full.png)
![Yuzu (Switch) [Linux & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_785449_full.png)
![Citra (3DS) [Linux, macOS, & Windows]](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/309x197/jpeg/bottlenose_509961_full.png)
RetriX is an emulator front end for UWP, on all the hardware platforms it supports: it serves the same purpose as RetroArch but is built from the ground up to integrate as well as possible with Windows.

Supermodel emulates Sega's Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC. It uses OpenGL and the SDL library, and can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.




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.



aPS3e is an Android-based PS3 emulator built from the RPCS3 source code, adhering to the GPLv2 license.




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.



PCSX-Reloaded is a PlayStation Emulator based on PCSX-df 1.9, with support for Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X as well as many bugfixes and improvements.




