Alternatives to RetroArch for all platforms with any license

  • Lutris

    Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a...

    Free Open Source Linux Web

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  • Snes9x

    Snes9x is a portable, Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • ePSXe

    ePSXe (enhanced PSX emulator) is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware. ePSXe makes use of a plugin system to emulate GPU, SPU, and...

    Free Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

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  • ZSNES

    ZSNES is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Aside from emulation accuracy, many interface features first introduced in ZSNES have been adopted by other...

    • Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.51, released in January 2007, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • VisualBoyAdvance

    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...

    • Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.8.0 beta 3, released in October 2005, can be still downloaded from FileHippo
    • Retroarch is for ios VBA is for windows Guest • Sep 2015 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... AmigaOS MorphOS

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  • ScummVM

    ScummVM is a multi-platform interpreter that runs games using the SCUMM engine made by LucasArts which allows you to run classic graphical point-and-click adventure...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Windows Mobile Android ... iPhone S60 BSD Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS

    Gaming Jailbreak required Portable Add a feature

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  • PPSSPP

    PPSSPP is a PSP emulator written in C++, and translates PSP CPU instructions directly into optimized x86, x64 and ARM machine code, using JIT recompilers (dynarecs). ...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Blackberry

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  • DeSmuME

    DeSmuME is a freeware emulator for the NDS roms & Nintendo DS Lite games created by YopYop156. DeSmuME is also known as YopYop DS is written in C++ for Microsoft...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • Project64

    Project64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for the Windows platform. It employs a plugin system that allows 3rd party developers to implement their own software. It is an...

    Free Open Source Windows Android

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  • Mame

    MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS

    Integrated Android Emulator Portable Add a feature

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  • CrossOver

    CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux computer.

    Commercial $ $ $ Mac Linux Android Chrome OS

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  • EmulationStation

    A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!.

    • Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 2.0.1a, released in March 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
    • It is a great alternative to RetroArch but it is only a frontend and requires backends and requires a bit of computer knowledge to setup Guest • Jul 2019 Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

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  • higan

    higan was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator. higan is a Nintendo multi-system emulator that began development on...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • Lakka

    Lakka is the official Linux distribution of RetroArch and the libretro ecosystem. Each game system is implemented as a libretro core, while the frontend RetroArch takes...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Cubieboard Raspberry Pi ... Odroid

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