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Video-Emulators

Citra – work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Citra is a work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator started in early 2014. It runs under Windows and Linux.

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Video-Emulators

RPCS3 – free and open source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger. About 35% of PS3 game are playable with the emulator.

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Video-Emulators

PCSX2 – PlayStation 2 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 emulator.The emulator contains highly optimized dynamic translators for the PS2’s MIPS and VU chips.

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PPSSPP – free and open source PSP emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator released under an open source license. PPSSPP simulates the BIOS and the internal OS.

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Yabause – Sega Saturn emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Yabause (Yet Another Buggy And Uncomplete Saturn Emulator) is an emulator for the Sega Saturn. Yabause can boot Saturn bios and games.

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Video-Emulators

Reicast – Sega Dreamcast emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Reicast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator. It’s an app that allows you to play your Dreamcast games on your computer or Android phone.

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Stella – Multi-platform Atari 2600 Video Computer System

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Stella allows you to enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games once again by emulating the 2600’s hardware with software.

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Video-Emulators

RetroArch – front-end for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and more

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. It supports a huge range of emulators.

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Video-Emulators

AdvanceMAME – port of the MAME 0.106 and MESS 0.106 emulators

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

AdvanceMAME/MESS are unofficial MAME/MESS versions with an advanced video support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies Monitors and also for PC Monitors.

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Video-Emulators

Mednafen – multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument (command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features.

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Mega Drive

Gens – Genesis emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Gens is a Sega Mega Drive, MegaCD and 32X emulator. It is a feature rich emulator which is very stable, and has good compatibility.

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Mega Drive

Regen – accuracy focused emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Regen/GTK+ is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, Sega Master System, GameGear, SG-1000, and SC-3000 systems. Concentrates on accuracy.

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Mega Drive

Xe – multi system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Xe is a multi system emulator for Linux that emulates many console and handheld video game systems. It offers great compatibility and high accuracy.

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Mega Drive

Kega Fusion – multi-console emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Kega Fusion is an impressive multi-console emulator created by Steve Snake. The emulator supports most of the Sega consoles.

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Mega Drive

DGen/SDL – emulator for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive systems

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DGen/SDL is an emulator for Unix-esque operating systems supported by the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library.

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Retro

BeebEm – Acorn BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

BeebEm is a popular Acorn BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator. There are many versions of BeebEm available on the net.

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Retro

Atari++Emulator – emulator of the Atari eight bit computers

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

The Atari++ Emulator (atari++) is an emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console.

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Retro

ARAnyM – software virtual machine

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ARAnyM is an acronym: Atari Running on Any Machine. It is a 32-bit Atari computer clone.

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Retro

b-em – open source BBC Micro emulator

November 12, 2023 Luke Baker Emulators, Games

B-em is an emulator for various models of BBC Microcomputer, produced by Acorn Computers in the 1980s.

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Retro

Atari800 – Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more).

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