Snowflake Alternatives
Snowflake is described as 'Gaming emulator, zero-config (custom config, optional)' and is an app. There are five alternatives to Snowflake for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Xbox and Android. The best alternative is RetroArch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Snowflake are OpenEmu, Nostlan, RetriX and RetroX.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- iPad
- OpenPandora
- Steam
- Raspberry Pi
- Playstation
- Xbox
RetroArch is a graphical frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players.
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.
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.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Windows Mobile
- Windows Phone
- Xbox
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.
RetroX is an Android application that will help you organize and play your own Retro Games with the less possible effort. Put your collection in your device and RetroX will take care of the rest.