A computer emulator is a system, usually implemented in software, that is designed to simulate the behavior of a computer.
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| x WinUAE | Amiga | ||
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| x Hatari | Atari ST |
Hatari is an open source emulator of the Atari ST 16/32-bit computer system family.
Hatari uses source code from several other emulators: WinSTon (Atari ST peripherals), UAE (Motorola 680x0 CPU), STonX (BLiTTER), Aranym (Motorola 56001 DSP, Videl,...
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| x SainT | Atari ST |
SainT Windows based cycle accurate ATARI ST emulator, written by James Boulton and Arnaud Carré.
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| x PaCifiST | Atari ST | ||
| x Steem | Atari ST | ||
| x WinSTon | Atari ST | ||
| x STonX | Atari ST | ||
| x C64 | Commodore 64 | ||
| x EP128Emu | Enterprise |
EP128Emu is a free, portable emulator of the Enterprise 64/128 computer for PC, written by Istvan Varga (a Hungarian developer), using Z80 emulation code from Kevin Thacker's ENTER emulator. EP128Emu implements all the basic functionality of an...
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| x Phoinix | Game Boy |
Phoinix is a Game Boy emulator, released as freeware, for the Palm OS, created by Bodo Wenzel in 2001.
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| x GpSP | Game Boy |
gpSP (game play SP) is a Game Boy Advance emulator, made by Exophase, for use with the Sony PlayStation Portable and GP2X video game systems. There have been ports to iPod , the iOS, as well as the Leapfrog Didj handheld.
The PSP version runs most...
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| x NO$GMB | Game Boy |
NO$GMB is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator that can play most Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. There are two versions - DOS and 32-bit Windows. Like most emulators, the controls can be altered and the hexadecimal code can be edited, making it a...
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| x VisualBoyAdvance | Game Boy |
VisualBoyAdvance (commonly abbreviated as VBA) is a free emulator of the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles.
Besides the DirectX version for the Windows platform, there is also one that is based on the free...
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| Game Boy Advance | |||
| x NO$GBA | Game Boy Advance |
NO$GBA (pronounced "no cash GBA") is a free Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance emulator for Microsoft Windows & DOS. It is capable of running commercial and homebrew Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS ROMs, many at full speed. It is the first Nintendo...
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MSX |
openMSX is an open source MSX emulator which is free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, available under the GNU General Public License.
For copyright reasons the emulator cannot be distributed with original BIOS ROM images. OpenMSX...
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| x AmiMSX | MSX | ||
| x UltraHLE | Nintendo 64 |
UltraHLE was an emulator for the Nintendo 64. It was hailed as a massive step forward in emulation technology at its 1999 release. Emulating the N64 (which was only 3 years old at the time) made it the first of the N64 emulators to run commercial...
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| x 1964 | Nintendo 64 |
1964 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows, written in C and released as free software. It is one of the oldest and most popular N64 emulators, supporting many commercial N64 games. The name consists of "19" (as in 1996, the year the...
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| x Project Unreality |
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Nintendo 64 |
Project Unreality, created by Michael Tedder and Brian Gordon, was the first Nintendo 64 emulator ever written for Microsoft Windows. The first version came out on November 29, 1997. Its compatibility was almost zero: all it could do was run several...
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| x Project64 | Nintendo 64 |
Project64 is a proprietary Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows. It employs a plug-in system that allows third-party software developers to create their own implementation of a specified component. Project64 allows the user to play Nintendo 64 games on...
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| x Virtual Console | Nintendo 64 |
Virtual Console (バーチャルコンソール, Bācharu Konsōru), sometimes abbreviated as VC, is a specialized section of the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo eShop, online services that allow players to purchase and download games and other software for Nintendo's Wii...
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| x Mupen64 | Nintendo 64 |
Mupen64 (MUlti Platform Emulator for the N64) is a Nintendo 64 game console emulator.
Mupen64 was originally developed on and for Linux, but is designed to be cross-platform. It has been ported to other operating systems supported by the SDL library...
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| x Project64k |
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Nintendo 64 |
Project64k is a modified version of Project64 1.4. The main purpose of Project64k is to provide "netplay" capabilities via integration of the Kaillera networking client, a utility which enables online multiplayer gaming. Players are able to join...
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| x Sixtyforce | Nintendo 64 |
Sixtyforce is a shareware Nintendo 64 emulator for Mac OS X. It natively supports both x86 and PowerPC-based machines.
Sixtyforce doesn't support as wide a range of games as Mupen64Plus (the only other active Nintendo 64 emulator that supports Mac...
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| x TR64 | Nintendo 64 |
TR64 (TrueReality64) was a Nintendo 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows. It lags behind other emulators due to compatibility issues. A later release was called TR64Win, which had fewer issues, but still a long list.
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| x Corn | Nintendo 64 |
Corn was a software emulator of the Nintendo 64 (N64) games console targeting x86 computers running Microsoft Windows. Corn was developed by a programmer using the alias ContraSF.
When Corn was released in 1999, it was renowned for being one of the...
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| x Mupen64Plus | Nintendo 64 |
Mupen64Plus (previously know as Mupen64-64bit and Mupen64-amd64) is a cross-platform Nintendo 64 emulator, written in C and released as free software. Mupen64Plus allows the user to play Nintendo 64 games on a computer by reading ROM images, either...
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| x IDeaS | Nintendo DS |
iDeaS is a plugin-based Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows and Linux, using the GTK+ toolkit.
So far iDeaS has emulated the ARM7 GBA processor at 100%, and the ARM9 dual screen processor at 99%, enabling it to run many...
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| x Ensata | Nintendo DS |
Ensata is an official Nintendo DS emulator provided to developers in NDS development kits.
So far Ensata has emulated the ARM7 and ARM9 dual screen processor at 100% with some software exceptions. The touch screen is fully emulated with a cursor and...
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| x DeSmuME | Nintendo DS |
DeSmuME (formerly known as YopYop DS) is an open source Nintendo DS emulator for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Its name is derived from emu which is short for emulator, DS and ME.
The original emulator itself was in French (with user translations to...
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| x Dualis | Nintendo DS |
Dualis is a plugin-based Nintendo DS emulator for Windows-based x86 computers. It is written in x86 assembly and C++. The emulator also has the capability to record videos using the VfW encoding system, outputting in AVI containers.
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| x NeonDS | Nintendo DS |
NeonDS is a Windows-based Nintendo DS emulator. Currently, there is a lack of sound support. However, preliminary tests show that its emulation is fairly advanced already, producing reasonable speeds.
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| x NESticle | Nintendo Entertainment System |
NESticle was a popular NES emulator for DOS, created by Sardu of Bloodlust Software. The name is a portmanteau of "NES" (the console it emulates) and "testicle".
NESticle offered its initial release as NESticle v0.2 on April 3, 1997. The program...
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| x MESS | Nintendo Entertainment System |
Multi Emulator Super System (MESS) is an emulator for many game consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core.
The primary purpose of MESS is to preserve decades of computer and console history. As technology continues to progress, MESS...
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| x Nestopia | Nintendo Entertainment System |
Nestopia is an open source NES/Famicom emulator designed to emulate the NES hardware as accurately as possible. Originally for Windows only, Nestopia has been ported to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Nestopia emulates the NES CPU at cycle...
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| x Jnes |
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Nintendo Entertainment System |
Jnes is a NES emulator for Microsoft Windows. It is coded by Jabo, who is known for his work on Project64, a Nintendo 64 emulator. Using DirectX for hardware acceleration, Jnes also features online play with Kaillera, and the ability to use codes...
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| x PocketNES | Nintendo Entertainment System |
PocketNES is an NES emulator which runs on the Game Boy Advance, written by Neal Tew (Loopy) and Fredrik Olsson (Flubba). It can run on a GBA through use of flash cartridges, or with the GBA Movie Player. The emulator has been released into the...
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| x FCE Ultra | Nintendo Entertainment System |
FCEUX is an open source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator. It is a merger of various forks of FCE Ultra.
The Win32 version of FCEUX does not currently support TCP/IP network play functionality. The most recent...
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| x Mednafen | Nintendo Entertainment System |
Mednafen is an OpenGL and SDL multi-system free software emulator, driven from the command-line. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Mednafen is an acronym for "My Emulator Doesn't Need A Frickin' Excellent Name"....
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| x FakeNES | Nintendo Entertainment System |
FakeNES is a free, portable, and Open source NES emulator written in C and C++, using the Allegro game library. It runs on any operating system that Allegro supports, such as 32-bit DOS or compatible, any version of Windows released after 1995, and...
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| x NESten | Nintendo Entertainment System |
NESten is a software emulator for running Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer video game console programs in Microsoft Windows. NESten was originally written by two anonymous authors known as "TNSe" and "The Quietust" in 1999. NESten...
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| x Nester | Nintendo Entertainment System |
Nester is a NES emulator for Windows that emphasizes ease of use, stability, performance, emulation of many Multi-Memory Controller chips, and organized source code that is easy to maintain and port to other host platforms. Darren Ranalli started...
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| x NEStimulator | Nintendo Entertainment System |
NEStimulator is an NES emulator written by game programmers Gustavo Restrepo and Igor Todorovski of Overmind Games. The current version is 0.2.
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| x FwNES | Nintendo Entertainment System |
fwNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System console emulator that is designed for classic Pentium computers. It optimally works on a Pentium 133 MHZ computer. Modern personal computers or any personal computer running above 1 GHZ run this emulator too...
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| x TuxNES | Nintendo Entertainment System |
TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. TuxNES is based on Nestra, a public-domain NES emulator by Quor. TuxNES adds many features not found in Nestra, and uses a more collaborative development model. Enhancements to...
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| x Connectix Virtual Game Station | PlayStation |
The Virtual Game Station (VGS) is an emulator by Connectix that allows Sony PlayStation games to be played on a desktop computer. It was first released for the Macintosh, in 1999. VGS was created by Aaron Giles. The recompiling CPU emulator was...
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| x Bleem! | PlayStation |
Bleem! (styled as bleem!) was a commercial PlayStation emulator released by the Bleem Company in 1999 for IBM-compatible PCs and Dreamcast. It is notable for being one of the few commercial software emulators to be aggressively marketed during the...
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| x EPSXe | PlayStation |
ePSXe (enhanced PSX emulator) is a PlayStation emulator for x86-based PC hardware with Microsoft Windows or Linux. It was written by three authors, using the aliases "Calb", "_Demo_", and "Galtor". ePSXe is closed source with the exception of the...
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| x Bleemcast! | PlayStation |
Bleemcast! is an independently developed commercial emulator by Bleem! that allows one to load and play PlayStation discs on the Sega Dreamcast. It is compatible with most Dreamcast controllers and steering wheels, and leverages the Dreamcast's...
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| x PSX emulator |
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pSX emulator (more commonly referred to as pSX) is a PlayStation emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. Its first public Windows version (1.0) was released on January 29, 2006, and the first official Linux port (1.11) was...
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| x PCSX | PlayStation |
PCSX is a free console emulator which allows software and peripherals designed to be used with the PlayStation to be used with personal computers. It is currently available for a number of different operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac...
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| x PCSXbox | PlayStation |
PCSXbox is an emulator which allows PlayStation games to be played on a Microsoft Xbox. It is a port of the open source emulator PCSX as part of the Xport project. Due to restrictions on the original Xbox which allow only commercial games to be...
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| x PSEmu |
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PSEmu was a PlayStation emulator created by Duddie, Kazzuya and Tratax, the first versions of which were made for MS-DOS and the later for Microsoft Windows. The team that created it also helped in the development of Connectix Virtual Game Station....
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| x PSXeven | PlayStation |
PSXeven is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware. It was written and self coded by author and developer, Xeven.
PSXeven makes use of a plugin system to emulate GPU, SPU, and CD drive functions, similar to the...
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| x PCSX2 | PlayStation 2 |
PCSX2 is an open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. In its latest stable release, many PS2 games are playable, and several games have full functionality. The main bottleneck in PS2 emulation is...
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| x Potemkin emulator | PlayStation Portable |
Potemkin was an experimental open source HLE PlayStation Portable emulator that was released on May 6, 2007, and is one of the few emulators for the PSP. The original author, ector, did not want to continue work on the emulator, so he decided to...
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| x ZSNES | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
ZSNES is a free software SNES emulator written mostly in x86 assembly with official ports for Linux, MS-DOS, Mac OS X, Windows, and an unofficial port for Xbox.
Development of ZSNES began on 3 July 1997 and the first version was released on 14...
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| x Snes9x | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
Snes9x is an SNES emulator written in C++ with official ports for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, PSP, and Android.
Development of Snes9x began in July 1997 when Snes96's Gary Henderson and Snes97's Jerremy Koot merged their respective...
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| x Bsnes | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
bsnes is a free SNES emulator for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows which aims to emulate the original SNES hardware as accurately as possible. As such, bsnes is a low-level emulator. As of version 0.87, bsnes can run all SNES titles commercially...
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| x SpeccyDS | ZX Spectrum |
SpeccyDS is a ZX Spectrum emulator for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DS Lite.
It can load .sna and .z80 files, but not the common .tap file format, as of the current version (0.2a).
It can be played using a Game Boy Advance flash cartridges...
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