emulator

Continuing with the number of available retro emulators found in the Apple Store, after Apple's decision to finally allow videogame emulators on their store, another retro console emulator is now available for Apple users to enjoy. The latest emulator to join the ranks is an emulator for the...

Lime is the Nintendo 3DS open source emulator based entirely on Citra, which it is continuing to develop. It is written in portability and versions are actively maintained for Windows, Linux, Android and macOS. Changelog: https://github.com/Lime3DS/Lime3DS

This is Citra with adjustments/additions that should be better than the original Citra. Changelog: https://github.com/Gamer64ytb/Citra-Enhanced/

Torzu is a fork of Yuzu, the most popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator in the world. It is written in C-for portability, and the author plans to actively maintain the versions for Linux, Android, and Windows. Changelog: https://github.com/litucks/torzu/

Artic Base, an open source tool for broadcasting games from your Nintendo 3DS to an emulator, has been released! Artic Base allows playing your owned collection of 3DS games, physical or digital, on a compatible emulator without having to dump them first. Furthermore, the tool syncs the save...

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Flycast Dojo is a fork of Flycast, a multi-platform emulator Sega Dreamcast, Naomi/2 and Atomiswave derived from Reicast, with an emphasis on netplay features and playback. Flycast Dojo can be recovered from GitHub or as part of the Fightcade matchmaking service. Regardless of how you get it...

Xemu is a cross-platform and open source application that emulates the hardware of the original Xbox game console, allowing users to play their Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. This project is an active branch of the XQEMU project, which is itself based on the QEMU project...

It is the best Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator. Extremely accurate and faithful, he does not throw PDs that do not work on a real Game Boy by default (yet a hack can be activated). All games work perfectly with the exception of a handle using an additional special chip in the cartridge...

Created by Shima is one of the best Saturn emulators. He was the first to emulate commercial games. Changelog: https://github.com/shimazzz/SEGASaturnEmulator-SSF/releases/tag/PreviewVer

Created by Rich Whitehouse, BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD emulator to offer compatibility with the entire commercially available cartridge library and offers excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features. It should be noted that at the base it was a closed source...

Play is an emulator of PlayStation 2 and Namco System 2X6 (as well as the System 147/148 variants) for Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android. It is currently written in C/C plus and uses a cacheting and instruction recompilation system to achieve better performance while emulating the CPU. The emulator can...

The multi-console emulator Provenance is still coming to the iOS App Store, despite a DMCA takedown request from Nintendo. Developer Joseph Mattiello had been contacted by Nintendo following the announcement that Provenance would include Yuzu, the Switch emulator that was recently shut down by...

ares is a multi-system emulator that began development on October 14th, 2004. It is a descendant of higan and bsnes, and focuses on accuracy and preservation. https://ares-emu.net/compatibility Changelog: ares

Created by DH and Hykem (and joined by a set of developers), RPCS3 is a multi-platform Playstation 3 emulator that aims to become as complete as possible. It was primarily a disassembly but now pushes performance to the point of running a certain number of commercial games, thus becoming the...

It is a user interface that is simple to use for mupen64plus (which it integrates), free and open source is written in C-plus. Changelog: https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG

With just a couple weeks after its initial release in the App Store, the Delta emulator for iOS was received with great success, after Apple loosened up its rules in regards to video game emulators being available in their App Store at the start of the month. However, despite the success of the...

2024 has been a hard year for emulator and homebrew enthusiasts, with many websites and projects being taken down, like some GitHub homebrew projects, and others have been sued, as was the case with Yuzu, which sadly took Citra down as collateral damage as well. Given the whole ordeal that...

The time has finally come, and after many, many years (if not decades) of Apple users having to side load emulator apps into their iOS devices through unofficial stores (like AltStore), emulators are finally a reality in the official Apple Store for iOS devices. The Delta emulator, the...