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# Awesome Open Source Emulators [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



A curated list of awesome open source emulators.



### How To Contribute



Please read [CONTRIBUTING](/CONTRIBUTING.md). 



### Content



- [Atari](#atari)

  - [Atari 2600](#atari2600)

  - [Atari 5200](#atari5200)

  - [Atari 800](#atari800)

  - [Atari 7800](#atari7800)

  - [Atari Lynx](#atarilynx)

  - [Atari Jaguar](#atarijaguar)

- [Mattel](#mattel)

  - [Mattel Intellivision](#mattelintellivision)

- [Microsoft](#microsoft)

  - [Xbox](#xbox)

  - [Xbox 360](#xbox360)

- [Multiemulators](#multiemulators)

- [Nintendo](#nintendo)

  - [Gameboy / Gameboy Color](#gameboy)

  - [Gameboy Advance](#gba)

  - [GameCube / Wii](#gamecube)

  - [Nintendo 64](#nintendo64)

  - [Nintendo DS](#nintendoDS)

  - [Nintendo 3DS](#nintendo3DS)

  - [NES](#nes)

  - [SNES](#snes)

  - [Switch](#switch)

  - [Wii U](#wiiu)

- [SEGA](#sega)

  - [Dreamcast](#dreamcast)

  - [Genesis / Megadrive](#genesis)

  - [MasterSystem/GameGear](#mastersystem)

  - [Model3](#model3)

  - [Saturn](#saturn)

- [Sony](#sony)

  - [PSX](#psx)

  - [PS2](#ps2)

  - [PS3](#ps3)

  - [PS4](#ps4)

  - [PSP](#psp)

  - [PSVita](#psvita)

- [ZX Spectrum](#zx-spectrum)



## Atari



### Atari 2600



- [stella](https://github.com/stella-emu/stella) - A multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator which allows you to play all of your favourite Atari 2600 games on your PC.



### Atari 800



- [atari800](https://github.com/atari800/atari800) - Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 console emulator.

- [Altirra](http://virtualdub.org/altirra.html) - Very accurate Atari 8-bit computer (All models) and 5200 console emulator.



### Atari 5200



- [kat5200](https://kat5200.jillybunch.com/downloads.html) - An emulator for the Atari 5200 and 8-bit computers



### Atari 7800



- [ProSystem](https://github.com/gstanton/ProSystem1_3) - ProSystem Emulator Version 1.3 by Greg Stanton



### Atari Lynx



- [Handy](https://sourceforge.net/projects/handy/files/) - "Handy" is an Atari Lynx Emulator



### Atari Jaguar



- [Virtual Jaguar](http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/) - Virtual Jaguar is an open-source Atari Jaguar emulator.



## Mattel



### Mattel Intellivision



- [jzIntv](http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/intv/) - Mattel Intellivision emulator and development environment.



## Microsoft



### Xbox



- [XQemu](https://github.com/xqemu/xqemu) - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

- [CXBX-Reloaded](https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded) - An emulator for running Microsoft Xbox (and eventually, Chihiro) games on Microsoft Windows.



### Xbox 360



- [Xenia](https://github.com/xenia-project) - An open source research project for emulating Xbox 360 games on modern PCs.



## Multiemulators



- [FinalBurn Neo](https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo) - An emulator for arcade games & select consoles.

- [Higan](https://gitlab.com/higan/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](https://github.com/mamedev/mame) - A multi-purpose emulation framework.

- [Mednafen](https://mednafen.github.io) - portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator.

- [Genesis-Plus-GX](https://github.com/ekeeke/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.

- [Xe](https://github.com/PhoenixInteractiveNL/emuDownloadCenter/wiki/Emulator-xe) - A emulator for many system such as Nintendo, SEGA, SNK, NEC, etc.



## Nintendo



### Gameboy / Gameboy Color



- [Gambatte](https://github.com/sinamas/gambatte) - Is a work-in-progress and portable Game Boy Color emulator.

- [GearBoy](https://github.com/drhelius/Gearboy) - Game Boy / Gameboy Color emulator for iOS, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.

- [SameBoy](https://github.com/LIJI32/SameBoy) - Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C.

- [TGBDual](http://shinh.skr.jp/tgbdualsdl/) - 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](https://github.com/libertyernie/tgbdual_L) - A rebase of changes in libertyernie/tgbdual on top of tgbdual_kai



### Gameboy Advance



- [mGBA](https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/) - Aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators.



### GameCube / Wii



- [Dolphin](https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin) - A GameCube and Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.



### Nintendo 64



- [1964js](https://github.com/schibo/1964js) - Nintendo64 emulator in JavaScript.

- [daedalus](https://github.com/DaedalusX64/daedalus) - Nintendo 64 emulator for Linux and PSP, with plans to port to Windows, Mac, PS Vita among other platforms.

- [mupen64plus](https://github.com/mupen64plus) - A cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.

- [project64](https://github.com/project64/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](https://github.com/Ryu64Emulator/Ryu64) - This emulator aims to emulate the Nintendo 64, don't expect much right now, no commercial games work.



### Nintendo DS



- [DeSmuME](https://github.com/TASVideos/desmume) - It sports tools designed for hackers, speedrunners, youtubers, and casual gamers.

- [Dualis](http://dualis.1emu.net/files/index.html) - A plugin-based DS emulator for x86/Win32 computers. It is written in x86 assembly and C++. 

- [melonDS](https://github.com/Arisotura/melonDS) - Aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation (still work in progress).



### Nintendo 3DS



- [3dmoo](https://github.com/plutooo/3dmoo/) - 3DS Emulator Prototype.

- [Citra](https://github.com/citra-emu/citra) - An experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++.

- [Corgi3DS](https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/Corgi3DS/) - Corgi3DS is a dog-themed LLE 3DS emulator.



### NES



- [fakeNES](https://sourceforge.net/projects/fakenes/files/) - A highly portable NES and Famicom emulator.

- [FCEUX](http://sourceforge.net/p/fceultra/code/) - A Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy emulator.

- [Nestopia](https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestopia/files/Nestopia/) - An emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible.

- [Nintaco](https://nintaco.com/source.html) - A cycle-accurate NES/Famicom emulator and NES Sound Format (NSF) player written in Java, ostensibly making it cross-platform.

- [Nitendulator](https://github.com/quietust/nintendulator) - A Win32 NES emulator written in C++.

- [Mesen](https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen) - A cross-platform (Windows & Linux) NES/Famicom emulator built in C++ and C#.

- [puNES](https://github.com/punesemu/puNES/) - Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player (Linux, OpenBSD and Windows).

- [SimpleNES](https://github.com/amhndu/SimpleNES) - An NES emulator written in C++ for nothing but fun.



### SNES



- [Bsnes](https://gitlab.com/higan/higan) - A subset project of [higan](https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/), and focuses on performance, features, and ease of use.

- [Mesen-S](https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen-S) - A cross-platform (Windows & Linux) SNES emulator built in C++ and C#.

- [Snes9x](https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x) - A portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.

- [ZSNES](https://sourceforge.net/projects/zsnes/files/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.



### Switch



- [Ryujinx](https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx) - Experimental Switch emulator written in C#.

- [Yuzu](https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu) - Experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.



### Wii U



- [Decaf](https://github.com/decaf-emu/decaf-emu) - Researching Wii U emulation.



## SEGA



### Dreamcast



- [flycast](https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast) - Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator

- [lxdream](https://github.com/lxdream/lxdream) - An emulator for the Sega Dreamcast system, running on Linux and macOS.

- [nullDC](https://github.com/skmp/nulldc) - nullDC is an open source Dreamcast emulator

- [reicast](https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator) - A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator.



### Genesis / Megadrive



- [blastem](https://www.retrodev.com/repos/blastem) - Higly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware.

- [DGen](https://sourceforge.net/p/dgen/dgen/ci/master/tree/) -  Portable Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator.



### MasterSystem / GameGear



- [Gearsystem](https://github.com/drhelius/Gearsystem) - Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator for iOS, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.



### Model3



- [Supermodel](https://www.supermodel3.com/Download.html) - Aim of the Supermodel project is to develop an emulator that is both accurate and playable.



### Saturn



- [Kronos](https://github.com/FCare/Kronos) - Supercharged fork of Yabause that supports upscaling and tons more

- [Yabause](https://yabause.org/download) - Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It currently runs on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Dreamcast.

- [Yaba Sanshiro](https://github.com/devmiyax/yabause) - Fork of the original Yabause Sega Saturn emulator.



## Sony



### PSX



- [Avocado](https://github.com/JaCzekanski/Avocado) - A Modern Playstation 1 emulator.

- [hpsx64](https://sourceforge.net/projects/hpsx64/files) - Highly-Experimental Playstation Simulator x64.

- [pcsxr](https://github.com/iCatButler/pcsxr) - A forked version of the dead PCSX emulator, with a nicer interface and several improvements to stability and functionality.

- [pcsx-redux](https://github.com/grumpycoders/pcsx-redux) - Yet another fork of the Playstation Emulator, PCSX.

- [ProjectPSX](https://github.com/BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX) - Experimental C# Playstation Emulator.

- [Rustation-ng](https://gitlab.com/flio/rustation-ng/) - PlayStation emulator in the Rust programing language.



### PS2



- [DobieStation](https://github.com/PSI-Rockin/DobieStation/) - A young PS2 emulator with plans for an optimized Android port, as well as a fast, accurate, and easy-to-use PC port.

- [pcsx2](https://github.com/PCSX2/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!](https://github.com/jpd002/Play-) - An attempt to create a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android & iOS platforms.



### PS3



- [RPCS3](https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3) - The world's first free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator/debugger, written in C++ for Windows and Linux.



### PS4



- [orbital](https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital) - Virtualization-based PlayStation 4 emulator.

- [ps4delta](https://github.com/Force67/ps4delta) - PS4Delta is a very early high level PlayStation 4 emulator, written in c++.

- [GPCS4](https://github.com/Inori/GPCS4) - A Playstation 4 emulator which was just started.



### PSP



- [ppsspp](https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp) - A fast and portable PSP emulator.



### PSVita



- [Vita3K](https://github.com/Vita3K/Vita3K) - An experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS.



### ZX Spectrum



- [ZX-Poly](https://github.com/raydac/zxpoly) - 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.