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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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Hypervisors

QEMU – machine emulator and virtualizer

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. QEMU can be used in several different ways.

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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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Video-Emulators

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

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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Video-Emulators

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) – portable NES/Famicom emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is an NES/Famicom emulator. It’s a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.

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Video-Emulators

higan – Nintendo multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

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.

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Video-Emulators

Mupen64Plus – N64 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games.

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Video-Emulators

Dolphin – GameCube and Wii emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii.

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Video-Emulators

SameBoy – user friendly Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C.

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Video-Emulators

mGBA – Game Boy Advance emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

mGBA is an emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators.

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Video-Emulators

DeSmuME – Nintendo DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator that aims to be portable. It can be run from the command line directly or as a graphical program.

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