Experience your favorite classic games with a native macOS launcher built for eXoDOS, eXoScummVM, RetroArch, and 60+ retro gaming platforms
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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RetroArch Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to RetroArch is PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are DuckStation, Lemuroid, OpenEmu and Lakka. You're spoiled for choice with Game Emulators like RetroArch: we list more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone.
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Most RetroArch alternatives are Game Emulators, but you can also narrow the list to Game Library Managers or Compatibility Layer Tools. Other popular filters are Android, Linux, iPhone and Windows.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Android
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18 D-Fend Reloaded alternativesD-Fend Reloaded is a graphical environment for DOSBox . DOSBox emulates a complete computer including the DOS commandline and allows to run nearly all old DOS based games on modern hardware with any of the newer Windows versions.
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- Windows
- DOSBox
Germany- EU
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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
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Windows
- Linux
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
United States
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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.
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- Free Personal
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Linux
- iPad
- iPhone
- United States
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Gens/GS is a version of Gens maintained by GerbilSoft. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens, as well as improving portability to other platforms.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
58 DroidEmu alternativesDroidEmu 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.
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- Android
A Nintendo DS and DSi emulator for Android, built on top of melonDS and the melonDS Android port by rafaelvcaetano.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Android
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Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
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- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
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SuperRetro16 allows users to play SNES Games on Android Phones. This Super Nintendo emulator that delivers the full console experience.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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