RetroArch Alternatives

RetroArch is described as 'A portable, fast, and lightweight emulator frontend supporting classic and modern gaming systems with features like real-time rewinding and shader support' and is a very popular Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are more than 100 alternatives to RetroArch for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best RetroArch alternative is DuckStation, which is free. Other great apps like RetroArch are PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac, Lemuroid, OpenEmu and Lakka.

filter to find the best alternatives

RetroArch alternatives are mainly Game Emulators, but if you're looking for Game Library Managers or Compatibility Layer Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Windows, Linux and iPhone. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to RetroArch.
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
RetroArch alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. BigPEmu icon
     3 likes

    Welcome to the home of BigPEmu! BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPad
    • iPhone
     
  2. DroidEmu icon
     6 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. An open source launcher for the ParallelN64 emulator featuring very easy controller configuration, automatic loading of ROMs from given folders, and automatic setup of optimal settings.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    • Flathub
     
  4. SuperRetro16 icon
     6 likes

    SuperRetro16 allows users to play SNES Games on Android Phones. This Super Nintendo emulator that delivers the full console experience.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  5. 🔥 A Nintendo Game Boy Advance Emulator.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
     
  6. Kawaks icon
     14 likes

    Kawaks is a streamlined Neo-Geo/Capcom (CPS1/2) emulator that works well even in low-end computers and is compatible with Kaillera Netplay. You can assign macros to specific keys to perform otherwise complicated supermoves!

    14 Kawaks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7.  1 like

    A WIP PlayStation 1 emulator written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  1 like

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • RetroArch
     
  9. My Boy! icon
     4 likes

    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.

    35 My Boy! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Windows Phone
     
  10. Manic Emu icon
     1 like

    Manic EMU is an all-in-one retro game emulator for iOS. It packs powerful features while keeping a clean, sleek UI and delivering buttery-smooth gameplay.

    16 Manic Emu alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. This is a fork of Project64 3.0.1 that I made to have a Linux compatible alternative to 2.4 (Yes, it works on Windows too). It is not focused on accuracy or compatibility, but rather on functionality that improves the general gameplay experience on a select set of games.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
You are at page 7 of RetroArch alternatives