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Revision as of 01:09, 2 June 2019
Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system front-ends for emulators. The table does not include single system front-ends (such as EmuCon, Mame Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2, etc.)
Name | Creator | Open Source | Free (FOSS) | First public release date | Year of latest stable version | Windows | Macintosh | GNU/Linux | Other platforms |
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Atomic | 'Youki' | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-02-08 (v0.11) | 2010-01-23 (v0.20) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Attract-Mode | Andrew Mickelson | ✓[1] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-11-17 (v1.0) | 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
CabrioFE | Steve Maddison | ✓[2] | ✓ (GPLv2) | 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0) | 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version) | v0.8.1 | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
EmuCenter 2 | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Emulation Station | Alec Lofquist, Eduard Strehlau | ✓[3][4] | ✓ (MIT) | 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) | 2014-06-12 (v1.0.2 - on original repo) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Raspberry Pi[5] |
EmuLoader | N/A | ✓[6] | ✗ | 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | 2018-08-31 (v8.6.6) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
FEEL | 'Sincro' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2017-06-13 (v1.9.8.1c) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
GameEx | Tom Speirs | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2019-05-09 (v1.05) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
HyperSpin | Jonathan Habers | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Android[7] |
Ice | Scott Rice | ✓[8] | ✓ (MIT) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
Launch Box | Jason Carr | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
LusSpace | 'Space1' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-11-08 (v1.23) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
MaLa | Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b) | 2011-03-27 (v1.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
mGalaxy | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | 2019-04-?? (v7.5) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
QuickPlay | Tony 'butter100fly' Woode | ✓[9] | ✓ (BSD-3) | 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6) | ✓ | N/A | N/A | N/A |
RetroFe | Don Honerbrink | ✓[10] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2016-07-26 (v0.7.2-beta-1) | 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) | ✓ | To be compiled | ✓ | N/A |
RoM-Jacket | 'Jinx' | ✓ (.bat files) | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
- ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
- ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
- ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
- ↑ Github - Herdinger/EmulationStation (fork)
- ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
- ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
- ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
- ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
- ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
- ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe