RetroArch enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all.It enables you to run classic games on a wide range of computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. Settings are also unified so configuration is done once and for all. RetroArch has advanced features like shaders, netplay, rewinding, next-frame response times, runahead, and more!

RetroArch

Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

Dolphin Emulator

RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows and Linux. RPCS3 started development in May of 2011 by its founders DH and Hykem. The emulator is currently capable of running over 1800 commercial titles powered by Vulkan and OpenGL.The goal of this project is to experiment, research, and educate on the topic of PlayStation 3 emulation that can be performed on compatible devices and operating systems. All information was obtained legally by purchasing PlayStation 3 hardware and software. Additional information was obtained from various sources on the internet that include but is not limited to system hardware and software documentation. Most of this information can be found on the PlayStation 3 Developer Wiki.

RPCS3

Citra is an experimental open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator/debugger written in C++. It is written with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows, Linux and macOS.Citra emulates a subset of 3DS hardware and therefore is useful for running/debugging homebrew applications, and it is also able to run many commercial games! Some of these do not run at a playable state, but we are working every day to advance the project forward. (Playable here means compatibility of at least "Okay" on our game compatibility list.)

Citra

PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games in full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.

PPSSPP

DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices.

DuckStation

A free and open-source application that emulates the original Microsoft Xbox game console. Supports connecting up to 4 controllers for local play, networking for multiplayer, resolution scaling, and more.Only "$HOME/.var/app/app.xemu.xemu/data/xemu/xemu" can be written by xemu. The Hard Disk image has to be placed there, for example, at "$HOME/.var/app/app.xemu.xemu/data/xemu/xemu/xbox_hdd.qcow2".

xemu

melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation. While it is still a work in progress, it has a pretty solid set of features.Nearly complete core (CPU, video, audio, ...)OpenGL renderer, 3D upscalingRTC, microphone, lid close/openJoystick supportSavestatesVarious display position/sizing/rotations modesWork-in-progress Wi-Fi emulation for online connectivity and local multiplayerExperimental emulation of the Nintendo DSi...and even more is planned!Note: BIOS and firmware files dumped from a real DS or DSi console are required to use melonDS.

melonDS

PrimeHack is a fork of Dolphin Emulator to bring modern Mouse and Keyboard controls, as well as Dual-Stick gamepad controls to the Metroid Prime Trilogy. PrimeHack also offers many other features such as increased FoV and various new cheats.

PrimeHack

Dolphin Emu fork for various Metroid Prime mods

yuzu is the world's most popular, open-source, Nintendo Switch emulator — started by the creators of Citra.The emulator is capable of running most commercial games at full speed, provided you meet the necessary hardware requirements.For a full list of games yuzu support, please visit our Compatibility page.Check out our website for the latest news on exciting features, monthly progress reports, and more!

yuzu

MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.

MAME

MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework.

Rosalie's Mupen GUI is an easy to use yet customizable mupen64plus front-end, allowing you to easily play N64 games.

Rosalie's Mupen GUI

An easy to use & cross-platform mupen64plus front-end written in C++ & Qt

Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator written in C#This emulator aims at providing excellent accuracy and performance, a user-friendly interface, and consistent builds.

Ryujinx

PCSX2 is a Playstation 2 'emulator', a free program that tries to replicate the Playstation 2 console to enable you to play PS2 games on your PC.Advantages over the Playstation 2 console:Custom resolutions, up to 4096x4096, Anti Aliasing, and Texture filteringUnlimited memory cardsSave states, enabling you to quick save and load practically anywhere in your gameEasy cheating using our pnach patching systemUse any controller or keyboards and miceIncrease or decrease the game speed by using the built-in frame-limiterAbility to record in full HD with the built-in video recorder (F12 using the GSdx plugin)Copy your PS2 BIOS files to the default BIOS search path "$HOME/.var/app/net.pcsx2.PCSX2/config/PCSX2/bios".

PCSX2

Cemu is a Nintendo Wii U emulator that is able to run most Wii U games and homebrew in a playable state. Created by Exzap, and written in C/C++.This emulator aims at providing both high-accuracy and performance, and is actively being developed with new features and fixes to increase compatibility, convenience and usability.It was written from scratch and development on the project began roughly early 2015.

Cemu

Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC or Workstation; which includes some real gems that were only ever released in Japan.

Snes9x

What is Retrodeck?RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application. It's inspired by other embedded emulation systems like AmberELEC, EmuELEC, CoreELEC, Lakka, and Batocera. RetroDECK is powered by EmulationStation Desktop Edition, that uses RetroArch and other standalone emulators to allow you to import and play your favorite games in a tidy environment. No other software is needed as everything it's already included in one package!BETA NOTICE: RetroDECK is still in Beta and the team is actively developing and adding more features. The primary focus during the beta period is on SteamOS and the Steam Deck but we hope to expand to more devices and general Linux desktop in the futureNOTE: It can be run on Linux desktop right now but there will be some manual configurations needed for input, storage location and other tiny hickups.INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE STEAM DECK:For more detailed information check our wiki: https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/wikiIf you want to sponsor the project: https://www.patreon.com/RetroDECKIf you want to join the RetroDECK community check our:Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroDECK/Discord: https://discord.gg/Dz3szYsP8g (If you want to help out with the project join the "i-want-to-help" channel)

RetroDECK

Your one in all application for emulation and retro gaming on the Steam Deck and more!

mGBA is a new emulator for running Game Boy Advance games. It aims to be faster and more accurate than many existing Game Boy Advance emulators, as well as adding features that other emulators lack.

mGBA

simple64 is an emulator based on a heavily modified version of mupen64plus-core, and ParaLLEl RSP/RDP. It includes a GUI, netplay, controller configuration, and much more!It should give you the best out-of-the-box experience available for N64 gaming. There are no plugins to download.

simple64

Flycast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator derived from reicast.

Flycast

Sega Dreamcast, Naomi and Atomiswave emulator

Parallel Launcher is an emulator launcher that aims to make playing N64 games, both retail and homebrew, as simple and as accessible as possible. Parallel Launcher uses the RetroArch emulator, but replaces its confusing menus and controller setup with a much simpler user interface. It also features optional integration with romhacking.com.

Parallel Launcher

DeSmuME

DOSBox-X is an open-source DOS emulator for running DOS games and applications. DOS-based Windows such as Windows 3.x and Windows 9x are officially supported. Compared to DOSBox, DOSBox-X is much more flexible and provides more features.DOSBox-X emulates a PC necessary for running many DOS games and applications that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, similar to DOSBox. However, while the main focus of DOSBox is for running DOS games, DOSBox-X goes much further than this. Started as a fork of the DOSBox project, it retains compatibility with the wide base of DOS games and DOS gaming DOSBox was designed for. But it is also a platform for running DOS applications, including emulating the environments to run Windows 3.x, 9x and ME and software written for those versions of Windows. By adding official support for Windows 95, 98, and ME emulation and acceleration, we hope that those old Windows games and applications could be enjoyed or used once more. Moreover, DOSBox-X adds support for emulating the NEC PC-98 such that you can also play PC-98 games with it.DOSBox-X emulates a legacy IBM PC and DOS environment, and has many emulation options and features such as:Emulate several PC variants: IBM PC, IBM PCjr, Tandy 1000, Amstrad and NEC PC-98CPUs: 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium MMX, Pentium II and IIIGraphics chipsets: MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, MCGA, VGA and SVGA (S3 Trio64, ET3000, ET4000, Paradise)Sound options: Sound Blaster series, Gravis Ultrasound, Disney Sound source and more audio optionsMIDI: FluidSynth, Roland MT-32 and General MIDI optionsExtended Serial, Parallel and Game port supportPrinter support (real or virtual) and emulation options3dfx Voodoo emulation with Glide wrapper supportNetwork emulation: IPX over UDP, and serial modemNetwork adapter emulation: NE2000 (pcap or slirp backend)Mounting a host directory as a harddisk, floppy or CD-ROM driveMounting harddisk images, floppy disk and CD-ROM images, including IDE emulationISO9660, FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 filesystem support, including long filenames (LFN)Support for running real DOS systems (MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, FreeDOS)Support for running Windows 1.0 to Windows 3.11, Windows 9x and Windows MEGUI drop-down menu for easier usageBuilt-in graphical configuration toolSave and load state with support for save files and up to 100 save slotsMore DOS commands, and ability to add your own programs to the virtual Z: driveSupport for clipboard copy &amp; paste and scalable TrueType fonts (TTF)Various output options, including output scaling (such as pixel-perfect scaling) and OpenGL shaders

DOSBox-X

ZSNES is a classical SNES Emulator. Its development started 1998 and is was one of the most used SNES Emulators for years.Today you should use ZSNES only for historical and nostalgia reasons, as there are Emulators out there which provide more Features and better Game compatibility.

ZSNES

Nestopia is a portable NES/Famicom emulator written in C++.Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community. This includes support for new platforms, and bug fixes in the emulator core.

Nestopia

bsnes is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator focused on performance, features, and ease of use.Unique features of bsnes:True Super Game Boy emulation (using the SameBoy core by Lior Halphon)HD mode 7 graphics (by DerKoun) with optional supersamplingLow-level emulation of all SNES coprocessorsMulti-threaded PPU graphics rendererSpeed mode settings which retain smooth audio outputBuilt-in games database with over 1,200 game entriesBuilt-in cheat code database (by mightymo) with hundreds of game entriesBuilt-in save state manager with screenshot previews and naming capabilitiesCustomizable game mappings to support any game cartridges, including prototypes7-zip decompression supportExtensive Satellaview emulation, including BS Memory flash write and wear-leveling supportOptional higan game folder support (standard game ROM files are also supported!)Advanced mapping system allowing multiple bindings to every emulated inputStandard features of bsnes:MSU1 supportBPS and IPS soft-patching supportSave states with undo and redo support (for reverting accidental saves and loads)OpenGL multi-pass pixel shadersSeveral built-in software filters, including HQ2x (by MaxSt) and snes_ntsc (by blargg)Adaptive sync and dynamic rate control for perfect audio/video synchronizationJust-in-time input polling for minimal input latencyRun-ahead support for removing internal game engine input latencySupport for Direct3D exclusive mode videoSupport for WASAPI and ASIO exclusive mode audioPeriodic auto-saving of game savesAuto-saves of states when unloading games, and auto-resuming when reloading gamesSprite limit disable supportCubic audio interpolation supportDeinterlacing supportOptional high-level emulation of most SNES coprocessorsOptional emulation of flaws in older emulators for compatibility with older, unofficial softwareCPU, SA1, and SuperFX overclocking supportFrame advance supportCheat code search supportMovie recording and playback supportRewind supportHiDPI monitor supportMulti-monitor supportTurbo support for controller inputs

bsnes

DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.It features:A built-in DOS-like consoleEmulation of several PC variants: (IBM PC, IBM PCjr, Tandy 1000), and CPUs (286, 386, 486, and Pentium I)Graphics chipsets: Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, and SVGAAudio solutions: PC Speaker, Tandy Sound System, Disney Sound Source, Sound Blaster series, and Gravis UltraSoundCDROM and CD Digital Audio with audio optionally encoded as FLAC, Opus, OGG/Vorbis, MP3 or WAVJoystick emulation working with modern game controllersSerial port emulation including IPX over UDP and Telnet over TCP/IPHardware-accelerated video output including integer (pixel-perfect) scaling, sharp-bilinear scaling, OpenGL shaders, and moreDOSBox Staging is highly configurable and sufficiently-optimized to run any DOS game on a modern computer.

DOSBox Staging

Kega Fusion is an emulator for a number of different Sega 8 and 16-bit consoles.(null)

Kega Fusion

An emulator for Sega 8 and 16-bit consoles

THE BEST WAY TO PLAY RETRO GAMES ONLINEFightcade is a matchmaking platform for retro gaming, bundled with different emulators for seamless online play.Our main emulator is FightcadeFBNeo, built using latest FBNeo (0.2.97.44) with a custom and improved GGPO implementation and a better rendering core, making it the current best netplay implementation for rollback-based P2P online play. In layman terms, this means that demanding games in terms of input lag and responsiveness (such as fighting games) can be played over the internet with very little perceivable lag.NOTE: This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by the official Fightcade team.

Fightcade

BlastEm is an open source, highly accurate emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive that runs on modest hardware. It also supports playing back Sega Master System games.Blastem has support for savestates, Mega/Sega Mouse, XBAND and Saturn keyboard emulation.

Blastem

A Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and Master System emulator