A curated list of awesome open source emulators.
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- stella - A multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator which allows you to play all of your favourite Atari 2600 games on your PC.
- atari800 - Atari 8-bit computer and 5200 console emulator.
- 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.
- xenia-project - An open source research project for emulating Xbox 360 games on modern PCs.
- BizHack - A multi-system emulator written in C#. As well as quality-of-life features for casual players, it also has recording/playback and debugging tools, making it the first choice for TASers.
- DGen - Portable Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator.
- 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.
- Xe - A emulator for many system such as Nintendo, SEGA, SNK, NEC, etc.
- mGBA - Aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance 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.
- VisualBoyAdvance - An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems.
- VisualBoyAdvance M - Game Boy Advance emulator integrating the best features from the various builds floating around.
- dolphin - A GameCube and Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
- 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.
- mupen64plus - A cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.
- 1964js - Nintendo64 emulator in JavaScript.
- Citra - An experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++.
- DeSmuME - It sports tools designed for hackers, speedrunners, youtubers, and casual gamers.
- 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).
- 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#.
- puNES - Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSFe Music Player (Linux, OpenBSD and Windows).
- bsnes - A subset project of higan, and focuses on performance, features, and ease of use.
- Mesen-S - A cross-platform (Windows & Linux) SNES emulator built in C++ and C#.
- snes9x - A portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.
- ZSNES - A free software Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator written mostly in x86 assembly.
- Ryujinx - Experimental Switch emulator written in C#.
- Yuzu - Experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
- lxdream - An emulator for the Sega Dreamcast system, running on Linux and macOS.
- reicast - A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator.
- blastem - Higly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware.
- Genesis-Plus-GX - An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator.
- Gearsystem - Sega Master System / Game Gear emulator for iOS, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Windows, Linux and RetroArch.
- supermodel - Aim of the Supermodel project is to develop an emulator that is both accurate and playable.
- Yaba Sanshiro - Fork of the original Yabause Sega Saturn emulator.
- Avocado - A Modern Playstation 1 emulator.
- hpsx64 - Highly-Experimental Playstation Simulator x64.
- pcsxr - A forked version of the dead PCSX emulator, with a nicer interface and several improvements to stability and functionality.
- ProjectPSX - Experimental C# Playstation Emulator.
- 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.
- RPCS3 - The world's first free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator/debugger, written in C++ for Windows and Linux.
- ppsspp - A fast and portable PSP emulator.
- Vita3K - An experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS.