List of video game emulators

This is a selected list of video game system emulators. For information about emulating specific systems, including those not covered by the emulators in this list, see the respective article for each system.

Arcade

An arcade emulator is a program that emulates one or more arcade games on a different computer, such as a PC. The first known arcade emulation available publicly was the Williams Digital Arcade series from Digital Eclipse Software, released for the Macintosh in 1994. This series featured the Williams Electronics' arcade classics Joust,^[1] Defender and Robotron: 2084. In 1995, it was repackaged and expanded upon as Williams Arcade Classics for the PC.^[2] DASArcade (written by David Alan Spicer) was arguably the first PC-based multiple arcade game emulator. This was distinct from Digital Eclipse's release in that only one program was required to emulate more than one arcade game, rather than one program per game. The first version of DASArcade was released later in 1995 and emulated a few titles including Pac-Man and Frogger (two years before MAME which now dominates arcade emulation). DASArcade evolved into Sparcade which emulates over 70 games.^[3]

A virtual arcade is an extension of an arcade game emulator. With some setup, the player can view all the ROMs supported by the virtual arcade as actual arcade machines. The most commonly used emulator and virtual arcade software is MAME and 3D Arcade. Most common Virtual Arcades can not play more than one ROM at a time which makes it near impossible to play a game that requires the player to run two ROMs at once. Most virtual arcades also allow you to add new games, or customize the arcade.

Arcade System Emulators

Name	Current version	Last release	System	Platform	License	Link
DEmul	0.7A 180816	August 18, 2016	Dreamcast, Atomiswave, Naomi, Naomi 2	Windows	Freeware	Home
OpenEmu	2.0.3	August 12, 2016	NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color	OS X	BSD	Home
FB Alpha	0.2.97.39	October 15, 2016	Various arcade systems	Windows	FB Alpha License - non-commercial usage clause	Home
Kawaks[4]	1.65	May 1, 2016	CP System, CP System II, Neo Geo MVS	Windows	Freeware	Home
MAME	0.179	October 26, 2016	Various arcade systems	Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home
Nebula	2.25b	February 18, 2007	CP System, CP System II, Konami, Neo Geo MVS, PGM	Windows	Freeware	Home
Raine	0.64.13	May 19, 2016	Various arcade systems, CP System, CP System II, Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo AES	Cross-platform	Source available, redistribution without modifications.	Home
Zinc	1.1	January 25, 2005	Namco System 11, Sony ZN-1, Sony ZN-2	Windows	Freeware	Home
viva nonno	22.0.3	February 26, 2004	Namco System 22	Windows	Freeware	Home
Model 2 emulator	1.1a	January 2, 2014	Sega Model 2	Windows	Freeware	Home
Supermodel 3	0.2a	September 24, 2011	Sega Model 3	Windows, OS X	GPL	Home
Arcadeflex	0.36.13	July 29, 2016	Various Arcade systems	JVM	Freeware, Open Source	HomeGitHub

Atari

Home consoles

Atari 2600

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
6502.ts / Stellerator	rolling build	2016		Web Browser	GPLv2	githubplayable build
Ataroid	1.0.4	2011		Android	?	Unknown
javatari.js	1.0.0	2015		Web Browser	GPL	Home
MAME (formerly MESS)	0.179	October 26, 2016		Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home 12
PC Atari Emulator	2.6	March 16, 2002		Windows, DOS	GPL	Home
Stella	4.7.2	March 25, 2016		AmigaOS, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, MorphOS, Windows Mobile, Dreamcast, GP2X, Nintendo DS, Wii	GPLv2	SourceForge
z26	3.02.01	June 13, 2011		DOS, Windows, Mac OS, Linux	GPLv2	Home

Atari 5200

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Atari800	3.1.0	August 4, 2014	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Unix, Linux, Amiga, DOS, Windows, Windows CE, Dreamcast, Android	GPL	SourceForge
Altirra	2.81	October 16, 2016	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Windows	GPL	Home
Atari++	1.80	November 8. 2015	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Cross-platform	GPL	Home
Jum52	1.1	March 2, 2010	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Cross-platform	Freeware	Home
kat5200	0.6.2	June 28, 2009	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Windows, Linux	GPL	Home
MAME (formerly MESS)	0.179	October 26, 2016	Also emulates Atari 400/800	Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home 12
Rainbow	2.2	August 25, 2012	Also emulates various Atari 8-bit computers	Windows, Mac OS, OS X	Freeware	Home (Archived from August 14, 2012)

Atari 7800

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
EMU7800	1.8	September 27, 2015		Windows, .NET	GPL	SourceForge
MAME (formerly MESS)	0.179	October 26, 2016		Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home 12
ProSystem Emulator[5]	1.3	May 12, 2008		Windows	GPLv2	Home (Archived from March 15, 2014)

Atari Jaguar

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Jagulator	2.0.2[6]	June 24, 2011		Windows	Freeware	Home (Archived from November 28, 2011)
Project Tempest	0.95	February 12, 2004		Windows	Freeware	Home
Virtual Jaguar	2.1.2	October 10, 2014		Linux, OS X, Windows, BeOS	GPL	Home

Handhelds

Atari Lynx

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Handy	0.95	February 20, 2007		Windows, Mac OS, Linux	zlib License	Home
aLynx	1.032	May 31, 2012		Android	MIT License	Google Play
MAME (formerly MESS)	0.179	October 26, 2016		Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home 12

Nintendo

Home consoles

Nintendo Entertainment System

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
EmiNES	1.0.0.6	September 3, 2013		Windows Phone 8, Symbian	Commercial	Home
vNESLight	1.2	November 1, 2012		Windows Phone 7	Commercial	Unknown
FakeNES[7]	0.5.9 b3	July 20, 2008		Windows, OS X, Linux, DOS	zlib	SourceForge
FCE Ultra GX	3.3.4	January 12, 2013		GameCube, Wii	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
Fergulator	v0.9	October 4, 2012		OS X, Linux	BSD 3-Clause	GitHub
FCEUX	2.2.3	July 28, 2016	Also emulates hardware add-on: FDS	Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris	GPLv2	HomeSourceForge
iNES[8]	1.4	January 1, 2011		iOS	?	Facebook
halfnes	061	February 16, 2016		Windows, Linux	?	Github
higan	101	August 9, 2016	Formerly known as bsnes Multi-system emulator; also for Super NES (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo), Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv3	Home
IMBNes[9]	2.14	May 31, 2011		PlayStation	GPLv2	Unknown
jsnes	0.0.0	May 28, 2013		Web Browser	GPL	GitHub
Jnes	1.1.1	June 22, 2013		Windows	Proprietary	Home
nemulator[10]	4.01	January 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for Master System	Windows	Proprietary	Home
Macifom	0.16	September 1, 2011		OS X	MIT License	Github
Mesen	0.5.3	November 12, 2016		Windows	GPLv3	Home
Nesoid	2.5	November 29, 2012		Android	GPLv3	SourceForge
NESten[11]	0.61b1	February 11, 2001		Windows	Proprietary	Home
Nester	b4a	February 15, 2009		Windows	GPLv2	SourceForge
NESticle[12]	x.xx	August 18, 1998		DOS	Proprietary	Home
Nestopia	1.40	June 11, 2008		Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv2	HomeSourceForge
Nestopia UE	1.47	January 9, 2016	Also emulates hardware add-on: FDS	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD	GPLv2	Home
Nintendulator	0.975b	October 13, 2014		Windows	GPLv2	HomeSourceForge
puNES	0.100	April 27, 2016	Also emulates hardware add-on: FDS	Windows, Linux	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
QuickNES	0.00	April 18, 2012		Windows	GPLv2	GitHub
TI-NESulator	0.40	May 30, 2008		Windows, OS X, Linux	Proprietary	Home
TuxNES	0.75	April 15, 2001		Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD	GPLv2	SourceForge
RockNES	5.25	July 22, 2016		Windows	Proprietary	Home
UberNES	2011	March 16, 2011		Windows	Proprietary	Home
VirtuaNES	0.97	October 14, 2007		Windows	GPLv2	Home
Yanese	0.89	September 21, 2015		Windows		Home

Super NES

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
CHAMPI	1.00	December 12, 1999		Windows	Proprietary	Unknown
ESNES	0.14a	August 5, 1997		Windows, DOS	Proprietary	Home (archived)
GrimSNES	?	July 10, 1997		DOS	Proprietary	Unknown
higan	101	August 9, 2016	Formerly known as bsnes Multi-system emulator; also for NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color Also emulates hardware add-ons: Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv3	Home
bsnes-plus	073+2	November 9, 2015	bsnes-plus (or bsnes+) is a fork of bsnes (based on bsnes-classic) intended to introduce some new features and improvements, mostly aimed at debugging.	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv2	GitHub
John Snes	3.07	November 26, 2015	Snes emulator for Android, The emulator includes local wi-fi multiplayer system for 2 devices.	Android 2.3+	John emulators (the creator)	Info on the Play Store
no$sns	1.6	March 21, 2016		Windows	Proprietary	Home
RSRSNES	0.2d	January 7, 1998		DOS	Proprietary	Home
SNEeSe	0.853b	August 28, 2006		Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD	Clarified Artistic License	HomeSourceForge
Snes9x	1.54	October 11, 2016	Ported as SNES9xTYL for PSP, Snes9x EX+ for Android and iOS, Snes8x for Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT.	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, PlayStation 3	MIT-like license with non-commercial usage clause, LGPL v2.1, GPL v2+	Home
Snes9x GX	4.3.2	November 9, 2012	Based on Snes9x 1.5.3	GameCube, Wii	GPL	GitHub
SNESGT	0.230 b6	August 30, 2008	Also emulates hardware add-on: BS-X Satellaview	Windows	Proprietary	Home
SNesoid	2.2.4	July 16, 2012		Android	Proprietary	Unknown
Super Sleuth	1.04 p6	August 1, 2008		Windows	Proprietary	Home (archived)
ZSNES	1.51	January 24, 2007		Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DOS (IA-32 only)	GPLv2	Home
MeSNEmu	1.4.4.2	October 17, 2014	Formerly known as SiOS	iOS	GPLv2	Home
Provenance	1.0.3	January 19, 2014	Multi-system emulator; also for (other systems) Master System, Game Gear, and Genesis	iOS	GPLv2	Home

Nintendo 64

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
1964	1.2 r146	August 17, 2012		Windows, Xbox[13]	GPLv2	Google Code (archived)
1964js	0.1.21 r296	October 3, 2013		Web Browser	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
CEN64	v0.1	November 17, 2013		Windows, OS X, Linux	BSD 3-clause	HomeGitHub
Corn	0.3	July 13, 2003		Windows	Proprietary	Home (archived)
DaedalusX64	r1878[14]	August 24, 2013		Windows, PSP	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
Mupen64	0.5.1	August 26, 2005		Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, QNX, BeOS	GPLv2	Home
Mupen64Plus	2.5	April 26, 2015		Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv2	Home
N64js	git-b58d391335	April 7, 2013		Web Browser	Expat	N64jsHomeGitHub
Nemu64[15]	0.8	March 23, 2003		Windows	Proprietary	Home
Project64	2.3[16]	August 13, 2016		Windows, Xbox[13]	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
sixtyforce	1.0.1	June 2014[17]		OS X	Proprietary	Home
Soft64	git	November 2015		Windows	GPLv3[18]	Home
UltraHLE	1.0.0	January 28, 1999		Windows, Xbox[13]	Proprietary	Home

GameCube

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Dolwin	0.10[19][20]	January 11, 2005		Windows	Open source[21]	HomeSourceForge
Gekko	0.3.1	August 12, 2010		Windows, Linux	GPLv2	Google Code (archived)
Dolphin	5.0	June 24, 2016	Also for Wii Boots every GameCube game[22]	Windows, OS X, Linux, Android[23]	GPLv2+	HomeGitHubGoogle Play

Wii

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Dolphin	5.0	June 24, 2016	Also for GameCube	Windows, OS X, Linux, Android[23]	GPLv2+	HomeGitHubGoogle Play

Wii U

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Cemu	1.6.0	August 15, 2016	First Wii U and eighth generation home console emulator to boot commercial games	Windows	Proprietary	Home
Decaf	git-04967a5 (In development)	October 15, 2015		Windows, Linux	GPLv2+	GitHub

Handhelds

Game Boy / Game Boy Color

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
BGB[24][25]	1.5.2	August 17, 2015	Also emulates hardware add-on for SNES: Super Game Boy	Windows	?	Home
Gambatte	git-f9fb003	March 22, 2015		Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD	GPLv2	FreecodeGitHub
GB Enhanced	1.0	April 1, 2014	For Game Boy only		GPLv2	GitHub
GBA4iOS	2.1	November 18, 2014	Also for Game Boy Advance. Still work with the latest iOS version.[26]	iOS	?	Home
GBE+	In development	In development	Continuation of GB Enhanced For Game Boy only Also for Game Boy Advance		GPLv2	GitHub
Gearboy	2.3	September 15, 2016		iOS, Windows, OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi	GPLv3	GitHub
GNUboy[27]	1.0.3	December 8, 2001	For Game Boy only	AmigaOS, Linux, Cross-platform	GPL
Goomba	2.3	September 17, 2005[28]		Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS	Proprietary	Home
Goomba Paletted	2.40	January 31, 2011		Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS	GPL	Home
higan	101	August 9, 2016	Formerly known as bsnes Multi-system emulator; also for Game Boy Advance, NES, Super NES (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo), Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv3	Home
KiGB[29]	2.0.5	September 27, 2008		Windows, Mac OS	Proprietary	Home
NO$GMB	2.5	July 23, 2000		DOS, Windows	Freeware / shareware (Color)	Home
Phoinix[30]	1.4.2	June 14, 2008	For Game Boy only	Palm OS	GPL	SourceForge
VisualBoyAdvance	1.7.2 (Windows) / 1.7.4 (OS X) / 1.7.1 (Linux)	May 25, 2004	Also for Game Boy Advance	Windows, OS X, Linux, BeOS	GPL	Home
VisualBoyAdvance 2	SVN246	February 23, 2010	Continuation of VisualBoyAdvance Also for Game Boy Advance	Windows, Linux	GPLv3	Google Code (archived)
Visual Boy Advance GX	2.2.8	July 7, 2012	Modified port of VisualBoyAdvance-M Also for Game Boy Advance	GameCube, Wii	GPL	GitHub
VisualBoyAdvance-M	2.0.0 Beta 2	September 29, 2015	Continuation of VisualBoyAdvance Also for Game Boy Advance	Windows, Linux	GPL	Home SourceForge
Wzonka-Lad	1.03	January 3, 2004	For Game Boy only	Amiga	Shareware (historical), GPL (current)	Home
GBCoid	1.8.6	November 15, 2012	For Game Boy Color only	Android	GPL[31]	SourceForge

Game Boy Advance

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Boycott Advance	0.4.0	September 27, 2008		Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD, JVM	?	Home
iDeaS[32]	1.0.4.0	February 12, 2012	Also for Nintendo DS	Windows, Linux		Home
IodineGBA	git-5558faabd3	December 10, 2013		Web Browser	GPL v2	HomeGitHub
GBA4iOS	2.1	November 18, 2014	Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	iOS	?	Home
GBE+	In development	In development	Continuation of GB Enhanced Also for Game Boy		GPLv2	GitHub
GBA Emulator 2016	9.3	February 18, 2015	Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	iOS	GPLv2	Home
higan	101	August 9, 2016	Formerly known as bsnes Multi-system emulator; also for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, NES, Super NES (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo), Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv3	Home
mGBA	0.5.1	October 5, 2016	Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD	MPL v2.0	HomeGitHub
NO$GBA	2.8d	May 26, 2016	Also for Nintendo DS	DOS, Windows	Freeware	Home
PocketGBA	060723	July 24, 2006		Pocket PC	?	Home
VisualBoyAdvance	1.7.2 (Windows) / 1.7.4 (OS X) / 1.7.1 (Linux)	May 25, 2004	Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	Windows, OS X, Linux, BeOS	GPL	Home
VisualBoyAdvance 2	SVN246	February 23, 2010	Continuation of VisualBoyAdvance Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	Windows, Linux	GPLv3	Google Code (archived)
Visual Boy Advance GX	2.2.8	July 7, 2012	Modified port of VisualBoyAdvance-M Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	GameCube, Wii	GPL	GitHub
VisualBoyAdvance-M	2.0.0 Beta 2	September 29, 2015	Continuation of VisualBoyAdvance Also for Game Boy and Game Boy Color	Windows, Linux	GPL	Home SourceForge

Nintendo DS

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
dasShiny	git-c2ed70905e	August 4, 2013		Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv3	GitHub
DeSmuME	0.9.11	April 14, 2015	Formerly known as YopYop DS	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS 4, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii	GPLv2	HomeBuildbot
DraStic	r 2.4.0.1a (Android) / 2.1.6.1p (Pandora)	August 2, 2015		Android, Pandora	Proprietary (available on inquiry)	Home 12 3Google Play
DuoS	1.0	?		Windows	?	Home
Ensata	1.4e	March 16, 2007		Windows	Proprietary (official developers only)	Home
iDeaS[32]	1.0.4.0	February 12, 2012	Also for Game Boy Advance	Windows, Linux		Home
nds4droid	46	December 9, 2014	Based on DeSmuME	Android	GPLv2	HomeSourceForge
nds4ios	0r37-272-gdca7ea0 [33]	July 27, 2014	A Nintendo DS emulator for iPhone & iPad.[34]	iOS	GPLv2+	HomeGitHub
NO$GBA	2.8d	May 26, 2016	Also for Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DSi, and PocketStation	DOS, Windows	Freeware	Home

Nintendo 3DS

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Citra	In development	In development		OS X, Windows, Linux	GPLv2[35]	HomeGitHub
3dmoo	rolling build			OS X, Windows, Linux	GPLv2	GitHub
TronDS	1.0.0.5	February 22, 2015		Windows	Freeware	Home
XDS	In development	In development		Windows	GPLv2	GitHub

Pokémon Mini

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
VBjin-OVR	2.0	July 29, 2014	VBjin-OVR is a Virtual Boy Emulator for Windows with support for the Oculus Rift VR display device.	Windows	GPLv2	GitHub

Virtual Boy

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance Other systems including: Lynx, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, TurboGrafx-16 (TurboGrafx-CD), SuperGrafx, PC-FX	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Nintendo Wii	GPLv2	Home
VBjin	SVN61	May 21, 2010		Windows	GPLv2	Google Code (archived)
VBjin-OVR	2.0	July 29, 2014	VBjin-OVR is a Virtual Boy Emulator for Windows with support for the Oculus Rift VR display device.	Windows	GPLv2	GitHub

Sega

SG-1000 / SC-3000

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
CrabEmu	0.2.0	February 27, 2013	Multi-system emulator; also for Master System, Game Gear Other systems including: NES, ColecoVision	OS X, Linux, Dreamcast	GPLv2	SourceForge
Genesis Plus GX	1.7.4	June 21, 2013	Multi-system emulator; also for Sega Mark III, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis (Sega CD), Pico	Nintendo GameCube, Wii	Freeware[36]	Home
Kega Fusion[37]	3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)	March 7, 2010	Multi-system emulator; also for Master System, Game Gear, Pico, Genesis (Sega CD, 32X, and SVP)	Windows, OS X, Linux	Freeware	Home
OpenEmu	1.0.4	October 15, 2014	For SG-1000 only Multi-system emulator; also for Master System, Game Gear, Genesis Other systems including: NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color	OS X	BSD	HomeGitHub

Master System / Game Gear

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
CrabEmu	0.2.0	February 27, 2013	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000 Other systems including: NES, ColecoVision	OS X, Linux, Dreamcast	GPLv2	SourceForge
DSMasterPlus[38]	1.3	August 20, 2007		Nintendo DS	?	Home
Gearsystem	2.2	March 3, 2016		iOS, Windows, OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi	GPLv3	GitHub
Genesis Plus GX	1.7.4	June 21, 2013	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000, SC-3000, Sega Mark III, Genesis (Sega CD), Pico	Nintendo GameCube, Wii	Freeware[36]	Home
jsSMS	git-9ed0ac0b09	November 26, 2013		Web Browser	GPLv3	GitHub
Kega Fusion[37]	3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)	March 7, 2010	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000, SC-3000, Pico, Genesis (Sega CD, 32X, and SVP)	Windows, OS X, Linux	Freeware	Home
MasterEmu	2.1	March 14, 2016		Android	Freeware	Home
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance Other systems including: Lynx, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, TurboGrafx-16 (TurboGrafx-CD), SuperGrafx, PC-FX	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Nintendo Wii	GPLv2	Home
Provenance	1.0.3	January 19, 2014	Multi-system emulator; also for Genesis (Sega CD) Other system including: NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance	iOS	Freeware	Home
nemulator[10]	4.01	January 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for NES	Windows	Proprietary	Home
BrSMS	20r	April 12, 1999	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000, SC-3000, Game Gear	DOS	Proprietary	Home

Genesis (Mega Drive)

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
BlastEm	0.4.1	August 6, 2016		Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv3	Home
EmiGens Plus	1.0.0.14	September 5, 2013	Also for Game Gear Also emulates hardware add-ons: Sega CD and 32X	Windows Phone, Symbian	?	Unknown
Exodus	2.0.1	April 30, 2015		Windows	MS-RL	Home
Genecyst	x.xx	August 18, 1998		DOS	Freeware	Home
VGen	x.xx	August 18, 1998		DOS	Freeware	Home
Genesis Plus[39]	1.3.1	January 17, 2010		AmigaOS 4, Windows, Mac OS, Dreamcast, Nintendo GameCube, Wii	Freeware	Home 12
Genesis Plus GX	1.7.4	June 21, 2013	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000, SC-3000, Sega Mark III, Master System, Game Gear, Pico Also emulates hardware add-on: Sega CD	Nintendo Gamecube, Wii	Freeware[36]	HomeGitHub
Gens	2.14	May 21, 2006	Also emulates hardware add-ons: Sega CD and 32X	Windows, Linux, Palm	GPL	Home
Gens/GS	r7	February 23, 2010	Also emulates hardware add-ons: Sega CD and 32X	Windows, Linux	GPL	Home
Gens32 Surreal	1.90 Std	October 17, 2013	Also emulates hardware add-ons: Sega CD and 32X	Windows	Freeware	Archived November 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
Kega Fusion[37]	3.64 (Windows), 3.63i (Mac OS), 3.63x (Linux)	March 7, 2010	Multi-system emulator; also for SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Pico Also emulates hardware add-ons: Sega CD, 32X, and SVP	Windows, OS X, Linux	Freeware	Home
KGen	V0.34b	June 10, 1998		DOS	Freeware	Home
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance Other systems including: Lynx, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, TurboGrafx-16 (TurboGrafx-CD), SuperGrafx, PC-FX	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Nintendo Wii	GPLv2	Home
Provenance	1.0.3	January 19, 2014	Multi-system emulator; also for Master System and Game Gear Other system including: NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance	iOS	Freeware	Home

Sega Saturn

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
GiriGiri[40]	0.6a	2003		Windows	Freeware, later commercial	Home (archived)
SSF	0.12 beta R4	June 8, 2013	Also for ST-V	Windows	Freeware	Home 12
Saturn.emu	1.5.12 (1.4.32 WebOS)	May 24, 2013		Android, iOS, WebOS, Linux	GPLv2	Home
Yabause	0.9.15	August 24, 2016		Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Dreamcast, Wii, PlayStation Portable	GPLv2	HomeGitHub

Dreamcast

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Chankast[41]	Alpha 0.25	July 7, 2004		Windows	Proprietary	Home
DEmul	0.7A 180816	August 18, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for Atomiswave, Naomi, Naomi 2	Windows	GPLv2	HomeGoogle Code (archived)
redream	?	August 23, 2015	Dreamcast	Linux, OS X	MIT	Github
lxdream[42]	0.9.1	June 29, 2009		Linux, OS X	GPLv2	Home
nullDC	1.0.4 r136	August 21, 2011	Also for Naomi	Windows	GPLv3	Google Code (archived)
nullDCe	0.37 Alpha	August 24, 2012	Also for Naomi	Android	GPLv3 (currently non-compliant)[43]	Google Code (archived)
reicast	r6	December 19, 2013	Also for Naomi	Linux, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Ouya, Pandora (console)	GPLv2	HomeGitHub

Sony

PlayStation

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
bleem!	1.6b	August 16, 2001		Windows	Commercial	Unknown
bleemcast!	1.0 beta	November 1, 2001		Dreamcast	Commercial	Unknown
Connectix Virtual Game Station	1.4.1	October 11, 2000		Windows, Mac OS	Commercial	Unknown
PSone Classics		November 22, 2006		PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita	Proprietary
WiiSX	Beta 2.1	July 11, 2010		GameCube, Wii
EmiPSX	1.0.5	November 2013		Windows Phone	Commercial	Home
ePSXe	2.0.5	June 23, 2016		Windows, Linux, OS X, Android	Freeware, Commercial (Android)[44]	Home
FPse	0.11.136	June 23, 2014		Android, Windows Mobile	Commercial[45]	Home
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for (other systems) Atari Lynx, NES, Super NES, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, TurboGrafx-16 (TurboGrafx-CD), SuperGrafx, PC-FX	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD The PSX Core of Mendafen is also included in Bizhawk.	GPLv2	Home
NO$PSX	1.9	May 28, 2014		Windows	Freeware	Home
PCSX	1.5	May 12, 2003		Windows, Mac OS, Linux	GPL	Home
PCSX-df	1.10	March 29, 2009		Linux	GPL	SourceForge
PCSX-Reloaded	1.9.93	August 26, 2013		Windows, Mac OS, Linux	GPLv2	Home
Xebra	161028	October 28, 2016		Windows	Freeware	Home (Japanese)

PlayStation 2

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
NeutrinoSX2[46]	0.08.01	January 13, 2004		Windows	GPLv2	Home (archived)
PlayStation 2 Classics		October 4, 2011		PlayStation 3	Proprietary
PCSX2	1.4.0 (Windows) / 0.9.7 (OS X) / 1.4.0 (Linux)	January 8, 2016		Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv3	HomeGitHub
PS2Emu	Alpha 01	May 6, 2004		Windows	Proprietary	Home (archived)
Play!	0.30	May 29, 2016		Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS	FreeBSD License (Simplified BSD License)	HomeGitHub
PS2 emulation for PS4		December 5, 2015		PlayStation 4	Proprietary

PlayStation 3

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
RPCS3	v0.0.0.9	April 16, 2016	Also for PlayStation Vita[47]	Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
Nucleus	0.1.0	May 13, 2016		Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android, iOS	GPLv2	GitHub
Short Waves	0.0.2	January 20, 2014		Windows		Wololo Download Link

PlayStation Portable

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
JPCSP	r3458	February 7, 2014		Windows, OS X, Linux	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
MFZPSP	r270	September 4, 2008		Windows	GPLv3	Google Code (archived)
PCSP	0.5.5	June 9, 2012		Windows	GPLv3	HomeGoogle Code (archived)
PSPE4All	0.2.127	June 2, 2013		Windows	Proprietary	Home
Potemkin[48]	0.1	May 7, 2007[48]		Windows	GPL	Home
PPSSPP	1.3	September 17, 2016		Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, BlackBerry 10, Symbian, iOS	GPLv2+	HomeGithub
PSPE[49]	0.9b	June 4, 2005		Windows	Proprietary	Unknown
PSP Player	r612	November 24, 2008		Windows	LGPL	HomeGoogle Code (archived)
Sam PSP	r18	February 4, 2009		Windows	GPLv3	Google Code (archived)
Soywiz PSP Emu	r555	August 15, 2013		Windows	GPL[50]	HomeGitHub
Yaupspe	git-c9ddde8b5935	April 24, 2011		Windows, Linux	GPLv2	Google Code (archived)Home

Microsoft

Xbox

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Cxbx[51]	0.8.1-Pre3	May 6, 2013		Windows	GPLv2	Home 123SourceForge
Cxbx-Reloaded	0.0.1	October 6, 2016		Windows	GPLv2	HomeGitHub
Dxbx	0.5	December 19, 2010		Windows	GPLv3	HomeSourceForge
Xbox Backwards Compatibility Mode	X: 5829.0	November 27, 2007		Xbox 360	Proprietary	Home
Xeon[46]	1.0	August 13, 2003		Windows	Proprietary	Home
XQEMU	rolling build			Windows, Linux, OS X	GPLv2	HomeGitHub

Xbox 360

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
Xenia	rolling build	November 28, 2016	a Xbox 360 emulator that is the very first to achieve the feat of running a commercial Xbox 360 game, Frogger 2	Windows	BSD	HomeGitHub Current build
Xbox One Backward Compatibility		November 12, 2015		Xbox One	Proprietary	Home

NEC

TurboGrafx-16

Name	Current version	Last release	Notes	Platform	License	Link
BizHawk	1.11.8.2	October 25, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for SuperGrafx, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Sega Saturn, ColecoVision	Windows	MIT License	Home GitHub
DeePCE	0.12a beta	August 24, 2000		Windows 9x	Proprietary	Unknown
DPCE	Initial Release	September 15, 2000		Windows 9x	Proprietary	Unknown
Hu-Go!	2.12	April 9, 2005		Windows, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD	GPLv2, BSD 3-clause	Home
Hu6280	1.50	February 4, 2000	Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows 9x, DOS	Proprietary	Unknown
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Multi-system emulator; also for SuperGrafx, PC-FX, Atari Lynx, NES, Super NES, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and WonderSwan Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD	GPLv2	Home
MagicEngine[52]	1.1.3	May 26, 2008	Also for SuperGrafx Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows, OS X, DOS	Proprietary	Home
Ootake	2.78	April 29, 2016	Also for SuperGrafx	Windows	GPLv2	Home (Japanese)
pcejin	svn-r211	April 20, 2013	Also for SuperGrafx Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows	GPLv2	GitHub
PicchioEngine	0.0.8	October 9, 2009		Windows	Expat, LGPL v2.1	Home
Project PC2E	20050123	January 23, 2005	Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows	GPLv2	Home
TG16 EMU	0.01	April 14, 1998		Windows 9x, DOS, PlayStation	Proprietary	Home
TGEmu	0.1	February 16, 2001		Windows 9x, DOS, Mac OS, BeOS	GPLv2	Home
Turbo Engine	0.32	April 18, 2010	Also for SuperGrafx Also emulates hardware add-on: TurboGrafx-CD	Windows	Proprietary	Home
VPCE	0.3	November 23, 1997		Windows 9x, DOS, Mac OS, Linux, BeOS, RISC OS	Proprietary	Unknown
xpce	0.11	December 12, 1998		Windows 9x	Proprietary	Home
MagicEngine FX	1.1.1	February 13, 2008	PC-FX	Windows, Mac OS	Proprietary	Home

Other

These programs emulate multiple systems with cores used from various emulators and/or systems without many alternatives. Many early and obscure systems are covered by one or more of these emulators.

Name	Current version	Last release	System	Platform	License	Link
BizHawk	1.11.5	February 16, 2016	Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Game Boy, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis (experimental), Sega Saturn, ColecoVision, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx	Windows	MIT License	Home GitHub
Bliss[53]	2.0.5	May 25, 2006	Mattel Intellivision	Windows, Palm OS	?	Home (archived)
CDi Emu	0.5.3 beta 2	January 9, 2012	Philips CDi	Windows	?	Home
ColEm[54]	3.8	November 15, 2015	ColecoVision	Windows	Proprietary	Home
Emulicious	2016-06-17	June 17, 2016	Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Master System, Game Gear	Windows, Linux, OS X and JVM	Freeware - non-commercial	Home
Little John Palm OS	1.2	2009	NES, Super NES, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Wonderswan/Wonderswan Color, Neo-Geo Pocket/Neo-Geo Pocket Color, Atari 2600, TurboGrafx-16 (Not fully implemented)	Palm OS	GNU General Public License	Home (archived)
Mednafen	0.9.39.2	September 19, 2016	Atari Lynx, NES, Super NES, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Saturn, PlayStation, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, TurboGrafx-16 (TurboGrafx-CD), SuperGrafx, PC-FX	Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD	GPLv2	Home
MAME (formerly MESS)	0.179	October 26, 2016	Various systems	Cross-platform, Web Browser (JSMESS)	GPLv2	Home 12
NeoRAGEx	0.6b	June 24, 1999	Neo Geo AES	Windows	Freeware	Home (archived)
OdyEmu	?	November 29, 1999	Magnavox Odyssey	DOS	?
OpenEmu	1.0.4	October 15, 2014	NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, SG-1000, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color	OS X	BSD	HomeGitHub
Oswan	1.73 (Windows) / 0.8.1 (Mac OS)	January 23, 2007	WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal	Windows, Mac OS	Open source	SourceForgeHome
RetroArch	1.3.6	July 17, 2016	PlayStation, NES, Super NES, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, Sega CD, Master System/Game Gear, Arcade, Virtual Boy, PC Engine, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Wonderswan Color/SwanCrystal, possibly other in-development [55]	Windows, OS X, Linux, Android,[56][57][58][59] iOS (jailbroken), Blackberry 10,[60] Raspberry Pi, OpenPandora, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable[61]	GPLv3,[62] individual cores may be licensed differently	Home
RetroCopy	0.960	May 16, 2011	SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, NES, Various arcade systems	Windows, Linux	Freeware	Home
WinUAE	3.3.0	August 23, 2016	Amiga CD32, Commodore CDTV, All Amiga	Windows, Linux	GPL	Home

See also

• Emulator
• List of computer system emulators
• List of emulators
• Video game console emulator

Notes

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2. "Jeff Vavasour's VIDEO AND COMPUTER GAME Page". vavasour.ca.
3. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/thumbs.aloft/wos/world/edge/sparcade.htm
4. Carless 2004, p. 59
5. Kohler 2006, p. 157
6. "Jagulator v2.0.2 - EmuCR". www.emucr.com. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
7. Kohler 2006, p. 171
8. Kohler 2006, p. 166
9. PSX Scene, p. 205
10. "nemulator – The Best-Looking NES Emulator… Ever". Techgage. 30 April 2012.
11. Carless, 2004, p. 60
12. Kohler 2006, p. 165
13. "Info - Surreal64 CE". Surreal64ce.wikidot.com. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
14. "DaedalusX64.com • View topic - PSP Release thread for DaedalusX64 - Revision: 1861". Forums.daedalusx64.com. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
15. "The Emulator Zone Project64". The Emulator Zone.
16. http://www.pj64-emu.com/downloads/project64/binaries/
17. "sixtyforce - Release notes 1.0.1". sixtyforce.com.
18. "License.txt". Github. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
19. "Dolwin 0.10 Released! - Emulation64.com News". EmuTalk.net. 2005-01-11. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
20. "Dolwin 0.10 Released!". Forums.emulator-zone.com. 2005-01-11. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
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22. "Booting the Final GameCube Game". Retrieved September 28, 2016.
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24. Kohler 2006, p. 194
25. Gralla 2007, p. 469
26. "Download & Install GBA4iOS 2.1 for iOS 9 Without Jailbreak - iPhonebyte". iPhonebyte. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
27. Kohler 2006, p. 202
28. http://www.ndsretro.com/gbadown.html
29. Kohler 2006, p. 181
30. Kohler 2006, p. 203
31. "GBCoid". sourceforge.net.
32. Ransom-Wiley, James (May 10, 2005). "DS emulator off the ground, still glitchy". Joystiq. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
33. http://nds4ios.angelxwind.net/builds/iOS-fat/Karen_angelXwind/Version-stable.txt
34. "Best DS Emulators for iPhone: NDS4iOS vs. iNDS - Cydia Geeks". Cydia Geeks. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
35. GPL v2-only remnants in VFP code · Issue #1279 · citra-emu/citra
36. "LICENSE.txt -- genplus-gx -- An enhanced port of Genesis Plus". Genesis Plus GX. Retrieved 7 Oct 2013.
37. Kohler 2006, p. 178
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41. Stolarz 2005, p.318
42. Goodwin, Steven. "Appliance Hacking". Smart Home Automation with Linux. Apress. p. 53.
43. Although nullDCe is listed as GPLv3 on its Google Code project page, the source, as well as the binaries, are nowhere to be found.
44. "ePSXe for Android". Google Play. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
45. "FPse for android - Android Apps on Google Play". Google Play. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
46. Stolarz 2005, p.319
47. "Various progress by Nekotekina · Pull Request #855 · RPCS3/rpcs3". GitHub.
48. Yoon, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Experimental emulator brings PSP games to Windows". Joystiq. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
49. Prochnow, Dave (2005). PSP Hacks, Mods, and Expansions. McGraw-Hill. p. 124.
50. "Soywiz's PSP Emulator: License". Pspemu.soywiz.com. Retrieved 2013-01-06.
51. Grand et al. 2004, p. 145
52. Kohler 2006, p. 179
53. Kohler 2006, p. 148
54. Kohler 2006, p. 151
55. "libretro". GitHub.
56. "30 best Android apps this week". www.guardian.co.uk. February 1, 2013.
57. "RetroArch: Android Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. May 8, 2013.
58. "Getting to grips with Android emulator app RetroArch - One emulator to rule them all - but is it any good?". pocketgamer.com. February 6, 2013.
59. "RetroArch Emulates Nearly Every Classic Gaming Console on Android". lifehacker.com. March 6, 2013.
60. "How to play your favorite old school console games on your BlackBerry 10 phone or BlackBerry PlayBook". crackberry.com. June 3, 2013.
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