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

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

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

Lutris

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

Install and manage Wine- and Proton-based compatibility tools for Steam and Lutris with this graphical user interface.Supported launchers:SteamLutrisHeroic Games LauncherBottlesBoth normal, Snap and Flatpak installations are supportedSupported compatibility tools:GE-ProtonSteamTinkerLaunchProton-TkgLuxtorpedaBoxtronRobertaNorthstarProtonScrumplex's Steam-Play-NoneWine-GELutris-WineKron4ek's Vanilla Wine-BuildsDXVK and DXVK asyncD8VKVKD3DDouble click compatibility tools to show more information and games using the tool.Advanced settings and the color theme can be managed in the About dialog.

ProtonUp-Qt

Install Wine- and Proton-based compatibility tools

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run a wide variety of classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!Currently, ScummVM supports a huge library of adventures with over 250 games in total. It supports many classics published by legendary studios like LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan, Inc. and Westwood Studios.Next to ground-breaking titles like the Monkey Island series, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner and countless other games you will find some really obscure adventures and truly hidden gems to explore.This version of ScummVM is sandboxed. You have to copy your games to your Documents directory.

ScummVM

Interpreter for numerous adventure games and role-playing games

Heroic is an Open Source Games Launcher. Right now it supports launching games from the Epic Games Store using Legendary and GOG Games using our custom implementation with gogdl.Main Features:Have access to your Epic and GOG games in a intuitive interface.Add Games outside GOG or Epic Games Store native or not.A Download queue to download multiple games at once.Install and launch your Windows Games using Wine or Proton. Or Launch your Native GOG Games.Cloud Saves support for the both GOG and Epic Games.Import Games installed through the Epic Store or GOG Galaxy.Verify and Repair corrupted installations or even move your installation to different folders.Access the Epic and GOG store and also Heroic Wiki directly from the App.Check HowLongtoBeat database to see how long it will take to finish a game.And many more featuresCurrent Limitations on the Flatpak:Heroic will not find or use Wine and Proton Flatpak versions. At least for now.For now would be better to use the Built-in Wine Manager to download and install Wine and Proton Versions.It should find Proton from the Steam folder for both Steam Flatpak and non-Flatpak if they are on installed on the library inside your $HOME folderHeroic cannot access /usr/bin so it won't be able to find any wine or proton isntalled there for now.

Heroic Games Launcher

An Open Source GOG and Epic Games Launcher.

Steam is a software distribution service with an online store, automated installation, automatic updates, achievements, SteamCloud synchronized savegame and screenshot functionality, and many social features.Note: This is a community package of Steam gaming plaform not officially supported by Valve. Report bugs through linked issue tracker.Note: To add a game library on another drive, first you need to grant the app access to it:flatpak override --user --filesystem=/path/to/your/Steam/Library com.valvesoftware.SteamNote: You need Flatpak version 1.12 or later to be able to run Proton 5.13 and newer.

Steam

Launcher for the Steam software distribution service

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

Prism Launcher is a custom launcher for Minecraft that focuses on predictability, long term stability and simplicity.
      Features:
      
        Easily install game modifications, such as Fabric, Forge and Quilt
        Easily install and update modpacks from the Launcher
        Control your Java settings, and enable Mangohud or Gamemode with a toggle
        Manage worlds and resource packs from the launcher
        See logs and other details easily through a dashboard
        Kill Minecraft in case of a crash/freeze
        Isolate Minecraft instances to keep everything clean
        Install and update mods directly from the launcher
        Customize the launcher with themes, and more
        And cat :3
      
    

Prism Launcher

A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once

Join people all over the world playing Minecraft, one of the most popular videogames around! Your own imagination is the limit in this fun game where you get to build the world around you. Play with friends, or alone, as you adventure, gather, build, and battle in an incredible land of your very own. For the best experience, we recommend you create an account and purchase online at minecraft.net/en-us/store before installing this app. ** Requires internet.NOTE: This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by Mojang or Microsoft.

Minecraft

Create your own world in one of the most popular video games

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 filtering
        Unlimited memory cards
        Save states, enabling you to quick save and load practically anywhere in your game
        Easy cheating using our pnach patching system
        Use any controller or keyboards and mice
        Increase or decrease the game speed by using the built-in frame-limiter
        Ability 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

Chiaki is a Free and Open Source Client for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play. It can be used to play in real time on a PlayStation as long as there is a network connection.

Chiaki

Free and Open Source Client for PlayStation Remote Play

Grapejuice is a launcher for the popular Roblox platform. It enables users to create, play, and socialize on the Roblox platform.

Grapejuice

A Launcher for Roblox Player and Roblox Studio.

Moonlight can stream games and other applications from a PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX/RTX or NVIDIA Quadro GPU and GeForce/Quadro Experience installed.Features include:Streaming at up to 4K resolutionSupport for up to 120 FPS streaming (high refresh rate monitor recommended)Hardware accelerated video decoding with VAAPI, VDPAU, and NVDEC support7.1 surround sound audio supportSupport for both pointer capture (for games) and direct mouse control (for remote desktop)Support for passing system-wide keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab to the hostDirect touchscreen mouse controlHEVC support for better video compression efficiencyGamepad support with force feedback for up to 4 players

Moonlight

Play games remotely from your NVIDIA GameStream-enabled PC

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


            To use this launcher you have to own Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on google play store, you may be unable to play the latest update of the Game. Otherwise you will get an license error while launching the google play apk.
        
      
            For sound you will have to install pulseaudio on your host system, otherwise the game will be silent on arm based systems.
        
      
            The project runs the native libraries from the Android version directly on your computer. This is accomplished by fixing the incompatibilities between the libc used on Android and the one used on desktop Linux or OS X (Android - Bionic; Linux - glibc). This is a simple compatibility layer which doesn’t impact performance in any significant way; it’s similar to Wine, but much more lightweight and simple. Aditionally, all Android-specific code has been rewritten to run on Linux (AppPlatform, Store, Xbox Live, etc.).
        
      
            This is an unofficial Linux launcher for the Minecraft Bedrock codebase. This project is not affiliated with Minecraft, Mojang or Microsoft.
        
    

Minecraft Bedrock Launcher

Download and play Minecraft Bedrock Edition on GNU/Linux

Reverse engineering of '3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet', a game bundled with Windows.

Space Cadet Pinball

Reverse engineering of 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet, a game bundled with Windows.

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

The Steam Link app allows you to stream games from your other computers. Just plug in a controller, connect to a computer running Steam on the same local network, and start playing your existing Steam games.

Steam Link

Stream games from another computer with Steam

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

Game, work, and play together from anywhere.Parsec allows you to access your machine at home, while you are on the go. Share machine access with your friends and family to have a remote couch game evening. Or use the Arcade mode to play with random strangers all sorts of games.NOTE: A Parsec account is required to use this application.NOTE: Parsec will not allow you to access your Linux machine remotely. You can only join other host machines.NOTE: This wrapper is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by Parsec Cloud, Inc.

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