Playdate
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Developer | Panic Inc. |
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Type | Handheld game console |
Generation | Ninth generation |
Release date | 2022 |
Dumped | Play.date |
Emulated | ✓ |
The Playdate is an handheld console developed by Panic Inc. It originally retailed for $179, before being bumped up to $199.
Emulators[edit]
Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | FLOSS | Active | Recommended | ||||
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PC / x86 | |||||||||
Playdate Simulator | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2.1.1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Cranked | ![]() ![]() |
[1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ||||
pd-emu | ![]() ![]() |
[2] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Comparisons[edit]
- Playdate Simulator
- The official Playdate emulator by Panic, bundled in the first-party Playdate SDK as a test platform for developers. Plays most Lua-coded games perfectly by itself, but by design it does not play encrypted (DRM-laden) Catalog games or compiled C games from disparate platforms. In other words, a Playdate game partially coded in C but compiled on Mac won't run on the Windows simulator and vice versa because the Simulator runs compiled C code natively (as in, without emulation or interpretation).
- Cranked
- Early-stage open-source Playdate emulator. To-date much of the functionality is missing (sprites, audio, graphical effects), but the groundwork is laid for Lua and C games to boot down the line.
- pd-emu
- Another early-stage, open-source emulator that cannot be run since the author has yet to integrate the Playdate API.