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awesome-emulators

A curated list of awesome open source emulators.
https://github.com/alnacle/awesome-emulators

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  • Atari

    • Atari 2600

      • stella - A multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator which allows you to play all of your favourite Atari 2600 games on your PC.

    • Atari 5200

      • kat5200 - An emulator for the Atari 5200 and 8-bit computers

    • Atari 7800

      • ProSystem - ProSystem Emulator Version 1.3 by Greg Stanton

    • Atari 800

      • Altirra - Very accurate Atari 8-bit computer (All models) and 5200 console emulator.
      • atari800 - Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 console emulator.
      • Altirra - Very accurate Atari 8-bit computer (All models) and 5200 console emulator.

    • Atari Jaguar

      • Virtual Jaguar - Virtual Jaguar is an open-source Atari Jaguar emulator.
      • Virtual Jaguar - Virtual Jaguar is an open-source Atari Jaguar emulator.

    • Atari Lynx

      • Handy - "Handy" is an Atari Lynx Emulator

  • Mattel

    • Mattel Intellivision

      • jzIntv - Mattel Intellivision emulator and development environment.
      • jzIntv - Mattel Intellivision emulator and development environment.

  • Microsoft

    • Xbox

      • XQemu - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
      • CXBX-Reloaded - An emulator for running Microsoft Xbox (and eventually, Chihiro) games on Microsoft Windows.

    • Xbox 360

      • Xenia - An open source research project for emulating Xbox 360 games on modern PCs.

  • Multiemulators

    • Xbox 360

      • Xe - A emulator for many system such as Nintendo, SEGA, SNK, NEC, etc.
      • FinalBurn Neo - An emulator for arcade games & select consoles.
      • Higan - Emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.
      • MAME - A multi-purpose emulation framework.
      • Genesis-Plus-GX - An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator. Emulates the all SEGA 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.

  • Nintendo

    • Gameboy Advance

      • mGBA - Aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators.

    • Gameboy / Gameboy Color

      • TGBDual - A Japanese Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator. It was the first to support link cable emulation (through TCP/IP), later followed by VBA Link and then modern emulators.
      • Gambatte - Is a work-in-progress and portable Game Boy Color emulator.
      • GearBoy - Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator for iOS, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.
      • SameBoy - Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C.
      • TGBDual - A Japanese Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulator. It was the first to support link cable emulation (through TCP/IP), later followed by VBA Link and then modern emulators.
      • TGBDual-L - A rebase of changes in libertyernie/tgbdual on top of tgbdual_kai

    • GameCube / Wii

      • Dolphin - A GameCube and Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

    • NES

      • fakeNES - A highly portable NES and Famicom emulator.
      • FCEUX - A Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy emulator.
      • Nestopia - An emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible.
      • Nintaco - A cycle-accurate NES/Famicom emulator and NES Sound Format (NSF) player written in Java, ostensibly making it cross-platform.
      • Nitendulator - A Win32 NES emulator written in C++.
      • Mesen - A cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#.
      • SimpleNES - An NES emulator written in C++ for nothing but fun.
      • FCEUX - A Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy emulator.
      • puNES - Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player (Linux, OpenBSD and Windows).

    • Nintendo 3DS

      • 3dmoo - 3DS Emulator Prototype.
      • Citra - An experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++.
      • Corgi3DS - Corgi3DS is a dog-themed LLE 3DS emulator.

    • Nintendo 64

      • mupen64plus - A cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.
      • 1964js - Nintendo64 emulator in JavaScript.
      • daedalus - Nintendo 64 emulator for Linux and PSP, with plans to port to Windows, Mac, PS Vita among other platforms.
      • project64 - Can play games reading ROM images, either dumped from the read-only memory of a N64 ROM cartridge or created directly on the computer as homebrew.
      • ryu64 - This emulator aims to emulate the Nintendo 64, don't expect much right now, no commercial games work.

    • Nintendo DS

      • Dualis - A plugin-based DS emulator for x86/Win32 computers. It is written in x86 assembly and C++.
      • Dualis - A plugin-based DS emulator for x86/Win32 computers. It is written in x86 assembly and C++.
      • melonDS - Aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation (still work in progress).
      • DeSmuME - It sports tools designed for hackers, speedrunners, youtubers, and casual gamers.

    • SNES

      • ZSNES - A free software Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator written mostly in x86 assembly. Most ROM Hacks require this emulator due to its poor inaccuracies.
      • Mesen-S - A cross-platform (Windows & Linux) SNES emulator built in C++ and C#.
      • Snes9x - A portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.

    • Switch

      • Ryujinx - Experimental Switch emulator written in C#.
      • Yuzu - Experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.

    • Wii U

      • Decaf - Researching Wii U emulation.

  • SEGA

    • Dreamcast

      • flycast - Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator
      • lxdream - An emulator for the Sega Dreamcast system, running on Linux and macOS.
      • nullDC - nullDC is an open source Dreamcast emulator
      • reicast - A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator.

    • Genesis / Megadrive

      • blastem - Higly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware.
      • DGen - Portable Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator.

    • MasterSystem / GameGear

      • Gearsystem - Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator for iOS, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.

    • Model3

      • Supermodel - Aim of the Supermodel project is to develop an emulator that is both accurate and playable.

    • Saturn

      • Yabause - Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It currently runs on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Dreamcast.
      • Kronos - Supercharged fork of Yabause that supports upscaling and tons more
      • Yaba Sanshiro - Fork of the original Yabause Sega Saturn emulator.

  • Sony

    • PS2

      • pcsx2 - Emulate the PS2's hardware, using a combination of MIPS CPU Interpreters, Recompilers and a Virtual Machine which manages hardware states and PS2 system memory.
      • Play! - An attempt to create a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android & iOS platforms.
      • DobieStation - A young PS2 emulator with plans for an optimized Android port, as well as a fast, accurate, and easy-to-use PC port.

    • PS3

      • RPCS3 - The world's first free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator/debugger, written in C++ for Windows and Linux.

    • PS4

      • orbital - Virtualization-based PlayStation 4 emulator.
      • ps4delta - PS4Delta is a very early high level PlayStation 4 emulator, written in c++.
      • GPCS4 - A Playstation 4 emulator which was just started.

    • PSP

      • ppsspp - A fast and portable PSP emulator.

    • PSVita

      • Vita3K - An experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS.

    • PSX

      • hpsx64 - Highly-Experimental Playstation Simulator x64.
      • Avocado - A Modern Playstation 1 emulator.
      • pcsxr - A forked version of the dead PCSX emulator, with a nicer interface and several improvements to stability and functionality.
      • pcsx-redux - Yet another fork of the Playstation Emulator, PCSX.
      • ProjectPSX - Experimental C# Playstation Emulator.
      • hpsx64 - Highly-Experimental Playstation Simulator x64.
      • Rustation-ng - PlayStation emulator in the Rust programing language.

    • ZX Spectrum

      • ZX-Poly - Free cross-platfom ZX-Spectrum 128 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in Java. ZX-Poly, ZX-Spectrum 128 and Spec256 configurations have been supported.
Programming Languages
C++ 23 C 6 C# 2 Java 1
Categories
Nintendo 35 Sony 17 SEGA 11 Atari 9 Multiemulators 5 Microsoft 3 Mattel 2
Sub Categories
NES 9 PSX 7 Gameboy / Gameboy Color 6 Xbox 360 6 Nintendo 64 5 Dreamcast 4 Nintendo DS 4 PS2 3 PS4 3 Saturn 3 Atari 800 3 Nintendo 3DS 3 SNES 3 Switch 2 Genesis / Megadrive 2 Mattel Intellivision 2 Xbox 2 Atari Jaguar 2 Model3 1 MasterSystem / GameGear 1 Atari 2600 1 PSP 1 Atari 7800 1 Gameboy Advance 1 GameCube / Wii 1 ZX Spectrum 1 Atari 5200 1 PSVita 1 PS3 1 Atari Lynx 1 Wii U 1
Keywords
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