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Microsoft Windows
Icon Windows 10.png
Developer Microsoft
Type Operating systems
Earliest release Windows 1.0 (1985)[N 1]
Windows XP (2001)
Latest release Windows 11 (2021)
For emulators that run natively on Windows on ARM, see Emulators on Windows/ARM.
For software emulates Windows, see Hypervisors and Windows 2000/XP/Vista emulators.
This page is for emulation on Windows NT, with x86 or x86_64 CPUs

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems by Microsoft. The currently maintained releases are Windows 10 & 11.

Before diving in;
  • This list only shows the latest versions, and currently recommended or semi-recommended emulation software, if you have are an older Windows version, see the see also section.
  • Remember that emulators can have different levels of completion or compatibility. If a game you are trying to run does not work properly, try a different one. If the emulator too slow even with lowered settings with a recommended emulator, choose a less recommended one in the list.
  • Note that game compatibility can be lower in emulators for lower system requirements.
  • See each Wiki Category Consoles, Computers and Arcade for individual dedicated system pages to see provided up-to-date listings and in-depth information on specific aspects like hardware features, peripheral support, compatibility and also enhancements features etc.
  • Some games have Game engine recreations and source ports that run on Windows, which may perform better/be better than emulators, for the specific game(s).

Atari[edit]

Atari 8-bit family[edit]

Name Latest version Models XEGS libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Atari800 5.2.0 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Altirra 4.21 400, 800, XL, XE ✓ ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Atari++ 1.84 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 Good: 400, 800
Basic: XL, XE 		✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ~
Pantheon 14.360 800, XE ✗ ✗ Mid ✗ ✓ ~
Atari800Win-PLus 4.1 400, 800, XL, XE ✓ ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✗
Rainbow 2.2.0 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Atari ST[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Hatari 2.5.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Steem SSE 4.2.0 R21 ✗ ? ✓ ✓
ARAnyM git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gemulator 9.0 ✗ ? ✗ ~
Steem Engine 3.2 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
SainT 2.40 ✗ ? ✗ ✗
PCE/atarist pce-20191006 ✗ ? ✓ ✗
CaSTaway 0.9.2 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Atari 2600[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Stella 7.0 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Pantheon 14.360 ✗ High ✗ ✓ ~
PCAE 2.6
2.7 		✗ High ✓ ✗ ~
z26 4.07 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
Gopher2600 0.35.1 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✗
EMU7800 5.4.0.1 ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Stellarator git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
VCS 2600 1.0 ✗ Low ✓ ✓ ✗

Atari 5200[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Altirra 4.21 ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Atari800 5.2.0 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
kat5200 0.8.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Jum52 git ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗
Rainbow 2.2 ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Atari 7800[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
A7800 5.2 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
ProSystem 1.3 (Windows)
git (libretro) 		✓ ? ✓ ✗ [N 2] ✓
EMU7800 5.4.0.1 ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗

Atari Jaguar[edit]

Name Latest version AJ-CD libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Virtual Jaguar 2.1.2
Unofficial builds
git (libretro) 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ [N 2] ✓
MAME 0.270 ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Project Tempest 0.95 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Atari Lynx[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Handy 0.95 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗

Nintendo[edit]

Nintendo Entertainment System[edit]

Name Latest version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mesen Dev builds Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
puNES WIP builds
0.111 		Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Nestopia UE libretro core
1.52.1
Nestopia JG git 		Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
FCEUX 2.6.6
libretro (FCEUmm) 		High ✓ ✓ ✓
ares git Artifacts
v140 		High ✓ ✓ ~
BizHawk
(QuickNES)(NESHawk) 		Dev Builds
2.10-rc1 		?
(Core dependent) 		✓ ✓ ~
Nintendulator/NRS 2023-12-23
0.985 Beta 		Cycle ✓ ✓ ~

Super Nintendo Entertainment System[edit]

Name Latest version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
ares git Artifacts
v140 		Full Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
bsnes nightly Partial Cycle ✓ ~ ✓
Mesen 2.0.0 (preview) Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Snes9x nightly
libretro nightly core
1.63 		High NC ✓ ✓

Nintendo 64[edit]

Name Latest version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mupen64Plus-Next Parallel Launcher Fork Plugin dependent ✓ ✓ ✓
ares git Artifacts
v140 		High ✓ ✓ ✓
simple64 2024.09.1
GLideN64 		High ✓ ✓ ✓
RMG 0.6.6 stable
0.6.6 -dev 		Plugin dependent ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk
(Mupen64Plus)(ares)(MAME)[N 3] 		Dev builds
2.10-rc1 		Plugin dependent
Core dependent 		✓ ✓ ~
Project64 Rosalie241's MMHD
Nightly
3.0.1
Keygen 		Plugin dependent ✓ ✓ ✗

GameCube / Wii / Triforce[edit]

Name Latest version GameCube Wii Triforce libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Dolphin Dev ✓ ✓ ~[N 4] ✓[N 5] ✓ ✓ ✓
Ishiiruka-Dolphin (いし海豚) Dev ✓ ✓ ✗ ~ ✓ ✓ ~
Pureikyubu (PlayCube) 1.6 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Wii U[edit]

Name Latest version Accurancy Amiibo FLOSS Active Recommended
Cemu 2.2 Medium ~ ✓ ✓ ✓
Decaf git Low ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Name Latest version Amiibo FLOSS Active Recommended
Ryujinx Nightlygit ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
yuzu Nightly (Offline)git (Offline) ✓ ✓ ✗* ✓

Nintendo 3DS[edit]

Name Latest Version New 3DS FLOSS Active Recommended
Citra
citra_libretro
 Canary
Nightly
libretro cores 		~ ✓ ✗ ✓
Panda3DS 0.8 ~ ✓ ✓ ~

Nintendo DS[edit]

Name Latest Version FLOSS Active Recommended
melonDS Dev Builds[N 6]
0.9.5
libretro core[N 7] 		✓ ✓ ✓
DeSmuME 0.9.13
libretro core 		✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk* Dev builds
2.10-rc1 		✓ ✓ ~
No$GBA 3.05 ✗ ✓ ~

Game Boy Advance[edit]

Name Latest version Game Link Support e-Reader libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
mGBA 0.10.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✗ ✗ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ✓
VBA-M 2.1.11 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓

Pokémon mini[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
GBE+ 1.8 [N 8] ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
PokeMini 0.6.0git ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
minimon 2005:01:20 ✗ ✓ ✗ ~
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
PokeKaMini 0.7.0 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Virtual Boy[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
VBjin SVN r103 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓

Game Boy / Game Boy Color[edit]

Name Latest version Game Link Support libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
SameBoy 0.16.7 ✓[N 9] ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BGB 1.6.4 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
Gambatte r571 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gearboy 3.5.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
Emulicious 2024-08-31 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ~

Game & Watch[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DSP 0.23WIP1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sega[edit]

Sega Model 1[edit]

Name Latest version Active libretro FLOSS Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Modeler 0.9.3a ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Sega Model 2[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Model 2 Emulator 1.1a ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ~

Sega Model 3[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Supermodel SVN Builds ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

SG-1000[edit]

Name Latest version SC-3000 SF-7000 libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MasterGear 4.9.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ~

Master System / Game Gear[edit]

Name Latest version GG libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ Very high ✗ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Emulicious 2024-08-31 ✓ ✗ Very high ✗ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✓ ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ~
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✓ ✗ Very high ✗ ✓ ~

Genesis / MegaDrive / CD / 32X[edit]

Name Latest version CD 32X Pico libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
BlastEm 0.6.2 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Exodus 2.1 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ? ✓ ✓
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓

Saturn / ST-V[edit]

Name Latest version ST-V libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SSF PreviewVer R33 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
Kronos 2.6.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Yaba Sanshiro 2 (Yaba三四郎2) 1.15.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~

Dreamcast / NAOMI[edit]

Name Latest version NAOMI Atomiswave Windows CE libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
DEmul 0.7 Build 280418 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
redream 1.5.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
Flycast CI Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
reicast r20.04 (Not Working)
r8.1 (Snap Store) 		✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ~ ✗
nullDC 1.0.4 r150 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Makaron T12/5 ✗ ✗ ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chankast 0.25 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
MAME 0.270 ~ ~ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sega VMU[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
SoftVMS 1.10 (source only) ✗ ? ✗ ~
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
ElysianVMU 0.2.0 ✗ ? ✗ ✗
DirectVMS 1.8 ✗ ? ✗ ✗
DreamVMU 0.1 ✗ ? ✗ ✗

NEC[edit]

NEC PC-6000[edit]

Emulator Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PC6001VX 4.2.9 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
PC6001V 2.0.4 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
yaPC-6001 2018/12/27 ✗ ✗ ✗ ~
MAME 0.270 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
PC6001VW 310f ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

NEC PC-8800[edit]

Emulator Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
ePC8801MA Kai SE (ePC8801MA改SE) 210523 ✗ ✓ ~ ✓
ePC-8001 1/28/2023 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
XM8 1.70 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME git artifacts[N 11]
0.270 		✓ ✓ ✓ ~[N 12]
QUASI88
quasi88_libretro 		libretro core
0.6.4 		✓ ✓ ~[N 13] ~

NEC PC-9800[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Neko Project 21/W (猫Project 21/W) v0.86 rev92 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Neko Project II kai (猫Project II改) git ✓ High ✓ ~ ✓
Neko Project II (猫Project II) 0.86 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
Anex86 e1 ✗ Low-Mid ? ✗ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ Low ✓ ✓ ✗
SL9821 0.4.0.3 ✗ High ? ✓ TBD
DOSBox-X 2024.10.01 ✗ Low ✓ ✓ ~

PC Engine / PC Engine CD / SuperGrafx[edit]

Name Latest version PCE-CD SuperGrafx libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen (PCE-Accurate) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Mednafen (PCE-Fast) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ~

PC-FX[edit]

Name Latest version GA libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 TBD ✓ Mid-High ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ~ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
MagicEngine-FX 1.1.1 TBD ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ✗
Xe 2.16.2 TBD ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Sony[edit]

PlayStation[edit]

Name Latest Version Plugins FLOSS libretro RIR Accuracy Active Recommended
DuckStation git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
XEBRA 22/11/06 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ High ✓ ✓
PCSX-R PGXP(git)
Windows
 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ Plugin dependent ✗ ✗
ePSXe 2.0.5 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ Plugin dependent ~ ✗

PlayStation 2[edit]

Name Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PCSX2 1.6.0 (stable)
SVN 		~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
Play! Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
DobieStation git
Builds 		✗ ✓ ✗ ~
hpsx64 v0450 ✗ ✓ ~ ✗
orbum git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

PlayStation 3[edit]

Name Latest Release Version FLOSS Active Recommended
RPCS3 0.0.33 Alpha[N 14] ✓ ✓ ✓
Nucleus git ✓ ✗ ✗
Short Waves 0.0.2 ✗ ✗ ✗
PS3F 0.1 ✗ ✗ ✗

PlayStation 4[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Orbital git ✓ ✗ ✗
GPCS4 git ✓ ✗ ✗
PS4Delta git ✓ ✗ ✗
fpPS4 git ✓ ✓ ~

PlayStation 5[edit]

THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EMULATORS FOR THIS DEVICE THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES AND/OR SOFTWARE.

Name Latest Version Hardware features
and peripherals 		Enhancements FLOSS Active Recommended
Kyty git ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Pocket Station[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
No$GBA 3.05 ✗ Mid ✗ ✓ ✓
PK201 20/04/28 (Windows)
24/08/30 (Android) 		✗ Mid ✗ ✓ ✓
PKEmu 1.1 Private Beta ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗
pockystation git ✓ (git) ? ✓ ✗ ✗

PlayStation Portable[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PPSSPP 1.17.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JPCSP SVN ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

PlayStation Vita[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Vita3K git ✓ ✓ ✓

Google[edit]

Android[edit]

Name Version VM Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Genymotion 3.7.1 VirtualBox High ✗ ✓ ✓
BlueStacks 5.21.205 QEMU (before v2.5) / VirtualBox (after v2.5) High ✗ ✓ ✓
MEmu 8.0.0 VirtualBox High ✗ ✓ ✓
LDPlayer 4.0.50.3 VirtualBox High ✗ ✓ ✓
NoxPlayer 7.0.0.9 VirtualBox High ✗ ✓ ✓
MuMu 1.1.0.2
1.1.0.5 (v2.3.17) (Chinese Version) 		VirtualBox High ✗ ✓ ✓
Android x86 14.1-r5 VirtualBox, VMWare (for 3d acc) Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Android Studio 4.0 QEMU Low ~ ✓ ✗

Microsoft[edit]

MSX series[edit]

Name Latest version MSX 1 MSX 2 MSX 2+ TurboR Accuracy libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
openMSX git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
blueMSX 2.8.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ High ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
fMSX 6.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓ ~
Pantheon 14.360 ✓ ✓ ~ ~ High ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
MSXPLAYer
(fMSX based) 		MSX Game Reader
(Commercial) 		✓ ~ ~ ✓ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ Low ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Xbox Classic[edit]

Note: xboxdevwiki's own list of emulators
Name Latest version Sega Chihiro (千尋) FLOSS Active Recommended
xemu 0.7.132 ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
Cxbx-Reloaded git ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ~
XQEMU git ~ (WIP) ✓ ✗ ✗
StrikeBox git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Cxbx git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Dxbx 0.5 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Xbox 360[edit]

Name Latest version OS FLOSS Active Recommended
Xenia git Win7+ ✓ ✓ ✓

Xbox One[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Xbox Series X and Series S[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Apple[edit]

Apple I[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Pom1 v1.0.0 ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ~
CocoaPom (Java) v0.1 ? ✗ ✗
Apple 1 Emulator 1.4 ? ✗ ?

Apple II Line[edit]

Name Latest version ][ ][+ //e IIc //e Enhanced //e Platinum IIc Plus IIGS FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
AppleWin 1.30.19.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MicroM8 Continuous ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
BizHawk
(Virtu based) 		2.10-rc1 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ (WIP)
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

apple /// Line[edit]

Name Latest version /// /// Revised /// Plus FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Apple IIGS[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
KEGS 1.34 ✓ ✓ ✓
GSplus 0.14 ✓ ✗ ~
GSport 0.31 ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✗

Apple Lisa[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
LisaEm 1.2.7 ✓ ✓ ✓
IDLE r23 ✓ ✓ TBD
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✗

Macintosh line[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
68k
Basilisk II 1.0 R5 ✓ ✓ ✓
Mini vMac 36.04 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ TBD
PCE 0.2.2 ✓ ✗ TBD
Ardi Executor 2.1.17 ✓ ✗ ✗
vMac 0.19 ✓ ✗ ✗
PowerPC
SheepShaver 03-12-2022 (Win)
git 		✓ ✓ ✓
QEMU 4.0.0 ✓ ✓ TBD
PearPC 0.6.0 ✓ ✗ ✗
DingusPPC [1] TBD ✓ ✗

Apple iPod[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

iOS[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
touchHLE 0.1.2
Actions 		✓ ✓ ~

SNK Corporation[edit]

Neo Geo and variants[edit]

Name Latest version NG NG-CD HNG-64 libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ~ ✓[N 15] ✓ ✓ ✓
FinalBurn Neo stable WIP builds ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
RAINE 0.96.12 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.43 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
Xe 2.16.2 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
ares v140 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
Kawaks 1.65 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
NeoRAGEx 5.4e ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Neo Geo Pocket[edit]

Name Latest version NGP NGPC libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ares v140 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
NeoPop 1.06b ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✓ ~
vdmgr 0.2.6 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✗ ~
NeoGPC 1.1 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Commodore[edit]

Commodore 64 & 128[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
VICE (x64sc) 3.8 ✓ Very high ✓ ✓ ✓
Denise 2.3 ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ✓
Hoxs64 1.1.2.6 ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ✓
VICE (x64) 3.8[N 16] ✓ High ✓ ✓ ~
Emu64 git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ~
Micro64 1.00.2018.03.16 Build 719 ✗ High ✗ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
CCS64 V3.9.2 ✗ High ✗ ✗ ✗
Hyper64 1.00.2008.08.08 Build 20 ✗ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
MAME 0.270 ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Frodo 4.1b ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Commodore 65[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Hi65 v9 ✗ BASIC 10 only ✓ ✓ ~
MAME 0.270 ✓ Low ✓ ✓ ✗

Amiga Line[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
FS-UAE 3.0.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
WinUAE 5.3.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
WinFellow 0.5.11 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Denise N/A ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

x86 CPUs[edit]

Name Latest version 8086*¹ 286 386*² 486*³ Pentium*⁴ Pentium II*⁵ Celeron*⁶ libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
86Box git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
PCem v17 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓
VARCem Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
DOSBox-X 2024.10.01 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
DOSBox 0.74-3
SVN 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bochs 2.8 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ~ ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
QEMU 9.1.0 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[N 17] ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sinclair[edit]

ZX81[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Relative Speed[N 18] Active Recommended
ZEsarUX 11.0 ✗ ✓ 110.9% ✓ ✓
EightyOne (81) 1.40 ✓ ✓ 114.3% ✓ ✓
Spud81 0.221 ✗ ? 114.9% ✓ ~
SZ81
(xz80 & z81 based) 		2.1.7
2.3.10 (Unofficial) 		✗ ✓ 100.0% ✗ ~
MAME 0.270 ✓ ? Not tested ✓ ✗
MTMW
(aka 'MulTiMachine') 		1.30b ✗ ? Not tested ✗ ✗
No$ZX 2.0 ✗ ✗ 100.1%
[N 19] 		✗ ✗
VB81 1.30 ✗ ✓ Not tested ✗ ✗
VB81 XuR 1.30.3 (26/11/2019) ✗ ? 100.5% ✓ ✗

ZX Spectrum line[edit]

Name Latest Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
EightyOne 1.40 ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
FUSE 1.5.7 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Speccy 5.9 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
ZEsarUX 11.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.10-rc1 ✗ ? ✓ ~
Retro Virtual Machine 2.0.beta-1.r6 ✗ ? ✓ ~
EMU (Russian) 1.01 ✗ ? ✓ ~
ZX-Poly 2.3.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ TBD

Acorn Computers[edit]

BBC Micro/BBC Master[edit]

Name Latest version BBC Micro BBC Master FLOSS Active Recommended
BeebEM git B, B+, M128 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
B-em 2.2, git A, B, B+, M128, MC MT, M512 ✓ ✓ ✓
Model B 10-04-04 B, B+ ✗ ? ✗ ✓
B2 git B, B+, M128 ✗ ? ✓ ✗

Electron[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✓
eek git ✓ ✗ ✗
ElectrEm 0.6c ? ✗ ✗
ElkJS git ? ✗ ✗
Elkulator git ✓ ✗ ✗

Multi (Atom, Micro, Electron)[edit]

Name Latest version Atom BBC Micro BBC Master Electron FLOSS Recommended
MAME 0.270 ✓ A, B, B+, M128 ? ✓ ✓ ✓
Pantheon 14.360 ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✗ ✓

Archimedes[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Arculator 2.1 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✗
ArcEm 1.50 ✓ ✗ ✗

Risc PC / A7000[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
RPCEmu 0.9.4 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.270 ✓ ✓ ✗

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ First ever release of Windows, was a graphical shell for MS-DOS see Emulators for DOS
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.
  3. ↑ MAME core for Aleck 64 only.
  4. ↑ Requires the Triforce branch to work. It is very old and unsupported.
  5. ↑ At Alpha release and has bugs that are not present on standalone Dolphin.
  6. ↑ Windows
  7. ↑ melonDS libretro core two versions out of date (still on 0.9.3), and the generation 5 Pokemons are broken. If you turn on C-Gear, after a few minutes you'll be unable to save. You also can't use any wifi features or do in game trades either or the game will freeze.
  8. ↑ Pokémon mini core available not yet available in binary releases (source only).
  9. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Only available on PC as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).
  10. ↑ CI-Windows
  11. ↑ As of Version 0.251, NEC PC-8801MA, NEC PC-8801MH, and NEC PC-8801mkIISR, and the clones: NEC PC-8801FA, NEC PC-8801MA2, NEC PC-8801mkIIFR and NEC PC-8801mkIIMR have been promoted to working status and is considered playable
  12. ↑ Only libretro core is still active.
  13. ↑ The developers are currently treating version increments as milestones, not as stables.
  14. ↑ As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)
  15. ↑ Source only, pass '--enable-x64' to configure
  16. ↑ Supports the Conroe model.
  17. ↑ As calculated by Carlo Delhez's clkfreq, originally distributed with his XTender emulator. The ZX81 has relatively complicated timing mechanics, depending on signalling of WAIT during NMI; relative speed is a measurement of how closely an emulator matches a real machine in terms of clock cycles spent processing within a frame. 100.0% denotes the same execution speed as a real machine.
  18. ↑ After turning off the simulated hardware improvements that were not standard in the original computer.

See Also[edit]

Emulators on

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