emulator

There are plenty of forgotten gaming platforms out there, but the South American Zeebo console has to rank as one of the most obscure. Released in Brazil and Mexico in 2009, the system had 3G connectivity and was based on Qualcomm's BREW mobile gaming chipset. The aim was to avoid piracy by...

mGBA is a new generation of Game Boy Advance emulator. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally played without...

Visual Boy Advance is an open-source Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and IOS devices. Experience all your favorite Gameboy games from the past with VBA, the best and most popular GBA emulator available to date. Who are we? VisualBoyAdvance was created in 1999...

Apple's latest update for iOS on iPhone has enabled something that the company would have most certainly preferred to keep under lock and key: the ability to download apps from outside the official App Store. The change is a result of the Digital Markets Act in the EU, which is intended to...

The developers behind the iOS app Delta, which lets users emulate thousands of Nintendo games on iPhone and iPad, have hastily updated the app's logo after receiving legal threats from Photoshop creator Adobe (thanks, The Verge). In an update via the App Store, the notes simply state "Adobe...

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...