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Category: Emulators

Video-Emulators

Ryujinx is an open source Nintendo Switch emulator

May 23, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Ryujinx aims at providing excellent accuracy and performance, a user-friendly interface and consistent builds.

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Video-Emulators

gopher64 is an N64 emulator written in Rust

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

gopher64 is an N64 emulator, a home video game console which used ROM cartridges as its main storage medium.

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Video-Emulators

shadPS4 is a cross-platform PlayStation 4 emulator

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

shadPS4 can load some PlayStation 4 firmware files, these must be dumped from your legally owned PlayStation 4 console.

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Video-Emulators

Azahar is a Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Azahar is a Nintendo 3DS emulator based on Citra. This is free and open source software written in C++

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Video-Emulators

xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

xemu emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console. Play your original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.

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Video-Emulators

melonDS is an Nintendo DS and DSi emulator

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation .While it is still a work in progress, it has a good set of features.

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Video-Emulators

DuckStation is a PlayStation emulator

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

DuckStation is a simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation 1 console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.

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Bochs – IA-32 (x86) PC emulator

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Internet

Bochs is a highly portable IA-32 (x86) PC emulato, that runs on most popular platforms.

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Cemu – Wii U emulator

November 17, 2024 Steve Emms Emulators

Cemu is software to emulate Wii U games and applications on a PC.

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Retro

Emulate the Acorn Electron home computer with Linux

February 24, 2024 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

Launched in August 1983, the 8-bit Acorn Electron microcomputer sported a Synterek SY6502A CPU clocked at 2MHz.

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Retro

Emulate the Sinclair ZX80 home computer with Linux

February 13, 2024 John O'Donnell Emulators, Software

The Sinclair ZX80 was launched in January 1980. It was available in kit form for £79.95, and as a ready-built version priced at £99.95.

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Retro

uQLx – Sinclair QL emulator

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

uQLx is an emulator for the Sinclair QL, a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984. uQLx works by emulating the 68000 CPU and some hardware.

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Retro

OZvm – Cambridge Z88 portable computer emulator

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

OZvm is principally an open source hardware emulation of the Cambridge Z88 portable computer – a Z80 CPU system with 4Mb addressable memory.

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Retro

ep128emu – Enterprise 64/128, ZX Spectrum 48/128, and Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128 computer emulator

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ep128emu is a portable emulator of the Enterprise 64/128, ZX Spectrum 48/128, and Amstrad CPC 464/664/6128 computers.

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Retro

Oricutron – Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat and Pravetz 8D emulator

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Oricutron (formerly known as Oriculator) is an emulator for the Oric series of computers (Oric 1, Atmos and Telestrat), and the Pravetz 8D.

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Retro

xAce – emulator for the Jupiter Ace

November 13, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

xAce is an emulator for the Jupiter Ace that runs under most flavours of Unix. xAce has been tested most thoroughly on Linux.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

bsnes – standalone SNES emulator using the higan SNES core

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator. The emulator concentrates on performance, features, and ease of use.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Snes9x – freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

ZSNES – free Super Nintendo emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ZSNES is an emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It can run most of the SNES games at full speed with sound and special graphic filters.

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Video-Emulators

Mesen – high-accuracy NES and Famicom emulator and NSF player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mesen is a cross-platform NES/Famicom emulator for Windows and Linux.

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