DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any MS-DOS …

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PCSX ReARMed is yet another PCSX fork based on the PCSX-Reloaded project, which itself contains code from PCSX, PCSX-df and PCSX-Revolution. This version is ARM architecture oriented and features MIPS->ARM recompiler by Ari64, NEON GTE code and more performance improvements. It was created for Pandora handheld, but should be usable on other devices after some …

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Atari800 is the emulator of Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console for Unix, Linux, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon, MS-Windows, MS WinCE, Sega Dreamcast, Android and other systems supported by the SDL library. Our main objective is to create a freely distributable portable emulator (i.e. with source code available). It can be configured to …

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Nestopia is the current king of the NES emulation hill. It uses highly optimized cycle exact emulation, allowing it to run titles that rely on precise timing, many of which break under inferior emulators. This accurate emulation does come at a cost; Nestopia requires a minimum of a 600MHz machine for full speed; but if …

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DeSmuME (formerly named YopYop DS) is a free and open-source Nintendo DS emulator for Linux, OS X, Wii, AmigaOS 4, and Windows. Its name is derived from emu (which is short for emulator), DS and ME. DeSmuME places responsibility on the developers of each port to expose emulation features in a way that is tuned …

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DS emulator, sorta The goal is to do things right and fast, akin to blargSNES (but hopefully better). But also to, you know, have a fun challenge 🙂 The source code is provided under the GPLv3 license.

SameBoy is a user friendly GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator for macOS. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of powerful debugging features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers. In addition to accuracy and developer capabilities, SameBoy has all the features one would expect from an emulator – from save …

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FCEUmm is a Nintendo Entertainment System video game system emulator that can be used as a libretro core. FCEUmm requires a real BIOS for Famicom Disk System emulation to work. FCEUmm is able to emulate the Nintendo Zapper accessory in one of two ways. For standard Famicom/NES ROMs: Load a standard Famicom or NES ROM …

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A libretro core for Game & Watch simulators. It runs simulators converted from source code for the games available at MADrigal. Each simulator is converted with pas2lua, which was written specifically for this purpose, and uses bstree, which was also specifically written to obfuscate the generated Lua source code as per MADrigal’s request.

Genesis Plus GX is a Sega multi-system emulator originally for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii, developed by eke-eke. The author claims the emulator has accurate emulation and 100% compatibility with Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Master System, Game Gear, and SG-1000 games. It also has preliminary Pico emulation. The emulator was originally based off Charles …

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NEC PC Core (NP2kai), which is a nice computer with many great games! AZO234 added a number of improvements to this core, including support for more disk formats (floppy and SCSI HDD), sound fixes and new soundcards and better savestate support. BIOS files locate in “np2” directory at BIOS directory (configured by RetroArch). Configure file …

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blueMSX is a portable open source MSX emulator that uses an emulation model to achieve the highest level of accuracy possible. It is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system and is ported to multiple other systems. It has been translated into 14 different languages. blueMSX includes a powerful debugger with support for several assembly …

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Mr.Boom is a Bomberman clone for the RetroArch platform and was converted from DOS assembly using asm2c. It runs on all RetroArch platforms: Android, Linux, Mac Os X, Nintendo Gamecube (NGC), Nintendo Wii, Raspberry Pi, Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Sony Playstation Portable (PSP), Windows, Xbox, Xbox360… It can also be compiled as a stand-alone version …

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VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka …

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Final Burn Alpha is a Multiple Arcade Emulator most popular for emulating Neo-Geo, Capcom, Konami, and Cave games. It is developed by the final burn team and originated from FinalBurn

Final Burn Alpha is a Multiple Arcade Emulator most popular for emulating Neo-Geo, Capcom, Konami, and Cave games. It is developed by the final burn team and originated from FinalBurn. There are a variety of arcade emulators available in RetroPie. There are significant differences in performance, compatibility, and configuration between them. If you’re getting started …

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MAME as it was in 2003, and using the libretro API. Accepts romset MAME 0.78. Any file-not-found issues will be because your romset is wrong, or incomplete (e.g. you’re trying to run a clone .zip, without the parent .zip present). Suitable for lower-end devices that would struggle to run current versions of MAME (later versions …

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gamez-fan has been backporting dozens of patches and drivers from later versions of MAME to make more games work (or work better) with this core. markwkidd also fixed up a lot of the core’s reporting to correctly distinguish between working and nonworking games.

MAME is an arcade system emulator that can be used as a libretro core. This core corresponds to MAME 0.174 of the standalone MAME emulator and requires MAME 0.174 ROM sets. See also: MAME 2000, MAME 2003, MAME 2010, MAME 2014, and MAME. Oggom backported support for the awesome sidescrolling Cave shmup Akai Katana, support …

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MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME can emulate thousands of games that otherwise would have been lost in the ash-heaps of history. r-type continued his fantastic stewardship of the up-to-date MAME core, keeping it in lockstep with upstream releases.

PC Engine SuperGrafx is a NEC PC Engine SuperGrafx video game system emulator that can be used as a libretro core. PC Engine SuperGrafx is a libretro port of the SGX module of Mednafen PCE Fast. These are libretro features, not frontend or standalone emulator features. retro-wertz aded support for cheevos/RetroAchievements.

Beetle PSX is a port/fork of Mednafen’s PSX module to the libretro API. It can be compiled in C++98 mode, excluding the Vulkan renderer, which is written in C++11 for the time being. Beetle PSX currently runs on Linux, OSX and Windows. Notable additions in this fork are: PBP and CHD file format support, developed …

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Beetle Saturn libretro This is fork of Mednafen Saturn. It has been ported to the libretro API. It currently runs on Linux, OSX and possibly Windows. Running To run this core, the “system directory” must be defined if running in RetroArch. The Saturn BIOS must be placed there, $sysdir/{sega_101,mpr-17933}.bin for Japanese, NA and EU regions …

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Massive amount of work from mudlord, AIO, bparker and Twinaphex to get the threaded angrylion RDP integrated. It started as a port of the angrylion-plus-rdp plugin, but the libretro version is now quite different, including being a true software renderer (that is, compatible with all video driver backends, including d3d). This plugin is very fast …

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Upstream Snes9x dev OV2 provided a patch to check for invalid VRAM access, which makes Hook work without massive artifacting.

Snes9x is an SNES emulator written in C++ with official ports for Linux, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS 4, Mac OS X, MorphOS, iOS, PSP, and Android. Both Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 have an unofficial port named Snes8x. hunterk backported qwertymodo’s MSU1 fixes, which should alleviate the crackling that some users reported, especially on Android …

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mGBA is a new generation of Game Boy Advance emulator. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally played without problems. mGBA has only gotten better since then, …

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PicoDrive is an open-source Genesis/Sega (Mega) CD/32X/Pico emulator. It was originally developed for the UIQ2, before moving onto the GP2X, PSP, and other handheld devices. VersionsEdit The most actively developed version was for the GP2X, as well as being the best port due to higher levels of optimization. PicoDrive is also available as a libretro …

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higan is an emulator for multiple video game consoles, including the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Themaister came out of retirement to collaborate with byuu on an upstream-friendly libretro-ization of higan. Currently, only the SNES emulator is available, but we hope to extend this to include all of his suite of emulators. Only the mainline ‘accuracy’ …

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The following is a list of all the software XBMC Foundation offers. If you have downloaded software not on this list or from a site not specified on this list, then that software has not been offered by Team Kodi or the XBMC Foundation, and we can provide no official support for the use of …

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Happy Chick Game Emulator – Just Play Happy Chick Emulator is a totally free emulator, which supports PSP/ NDS/ N64/ PS1/ WS/ Arcade (CPS1, CPS2, CPS3, IGS)/ GBA/ GBC/ MD/ SFC(SNES), and PS game consoles. With this emulator installed, you have the very access to a library of thousands of console games in wide genres.

MAME is a source-available project which documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) arcade machines, computers, video game consoles, and calculators through software emulation. As a nice side effect to this documentation, MAME allows software and games for these hardware platforms to be run on modern PCs. Prior to version 0.162 (May …

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PPSSPP can run your PSP games on your PC in full HD resolution, and play them on Android too. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP. Even on modern Android phones and tablets, you can often run at double …

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PCSX2 is a Playstation 2 ’emulator’, a free program that tries to replicate the Playstation 2 console to enable you to play PS2 games on your PC.

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator. Mednafen has the ability to remap hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, a joystick, or both simultaneously. Save states are supported, as is real-time game rewinding. Screen snapshots may be taken, in the PNG file format, at the press of a …

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Nintencer is an NTSC and PAL NES and Famicom emulator for various platforms. It is based off the last publicly released version of FCE Ultra.

Dolphin is a Gamecube and Wii emulator Most games run perfectly or with minor bugs. Games are playable at HD quality, with 1080p and more. This is a remarkable feature the actual Gamecube and Wii consoles are not capable of. As an open source project everyone can commit improvements. The code is hosted on code.google.com. …

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PVRVFrame is a collection of emulation libraries that allow OpenGL ES applications to run on desktop development machines that do not natively support the OpenGL ES APIs. It enables developers to target all of the Khronos OpenGL ES APIs in their IDE of choice for rapid development and gives users the freedom to develop without …

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The SuperH (or SH) is a family of microprocessors, originally developed by Hitachi during the 1990s as the successor to the H8 family, and now supported by Renesas. They were notable for their time as being capable, yet relatively cheap units with low power consumption.

Highly experimental software to emulate Wii U applications on PC Currently only the DRC (GamePad), Pro Controller and Classic Controller is emulated. Keyboard input + USB controllers are supported partially. GamePad touch input can be controlled via left mouse click. Gyro functionality is emulated with limitations and can be controlled via right mouse button.

Atomiswave Sammy Corporation The Sammy Atomiswave is an arcade board created by Sammy, built around the Sega Dreamcast and NAOMI hardware architecture. The hardware is fairly similar to a retail Dreamcast, but has twice the VRAM and four times the audio RAM. Despite this upgrade, it still has less power and memory than the NAOMI. …

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nullDC is an open source Sega Dreamcast and NAOMI emulator for Windows, developed by drk||Raziel (currently under the nickname skmp) and ZeZu. It was released under the MIT license. nullDC requires DirectX 9.0c, Visual C++ runtime libraries and optionally WinPcap for modem emulation. BIOS files are also needed. It has a plugin architecture, with several …

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FS-UAE includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files. UAE is a computer emulator which emulates the hardware of the Commodore Amiga range of computers. Released under the GNU General Public License. UAE has been ported to many host operating systems, including Linux, macOS, …

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Demul is a Sega Dreamcast emulator able to play commercial games. Please check the official website for a compatibility list. DEmul, a Dreamcast emulator which also emulates the arcade boards of Naomi 1, Naomi 2, Hikaru, and Atomiswave.

The Sega Dreamcast (ドリームキャスト) is a home video game console manufactured by Sega as a successor to the Sega Saturn. It was originally released in November 1998, becoming the first machine to be released in what is now known as the sixth generation of video game consoles, sharing a platform with the PlayStation 2, Nintendo …

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Play your Dreamcast games on android. In HD. Available on the Play Store, OUYA, and OpenPandora Reicast Dreamcast Emulator is an emulator for the last SEGA gaming console, the legendary Dreamcast console, which is perfectly designed to work with Android operating system. So, you will be able to play some of the most emblematic games …

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Sega NAOMI 2 The Sega NAOMI 2 is an arcade board developed by Sega and is a successor to Sega NAOMI hardware. Since it uses similar NAOMI architecture (but significantly beefed up), it is also fully backwards compatible with its predecessor. The NAOMI 2 is significantly more powerful than the NAOMI, including a dual CPU …

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M.A.M.E. MAME is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. The intent of this emulator is preservation; the ability to play games is considered a “side-effect.” MAME supports thousands of classic arcade games, although not all of them are playable. For legal reasons, this site does not contain nor link to ROMs. But MAME is …

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Citra Emu Citra is an open-source emulator for the Nintendo 3DS capable of playing many of your favorite games. The nightly build of Citra contains already reviewed and tested features. If you require support with the installation or use of Citra, or you want to report bugs you should use this version. This version is still …

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Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It currently runs on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Dreamcast. Yabause is a cross-platform Sega Saturn emulator under GNU GPL. It can boot Saturn bios and a lot of games. 1. You can download Yabause here (or GitHub) 2. For help, see Documentations 3. …

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