ColecoVision emulators

ColecoVision

Developer	Coleco Industries, Inc.
Type	Home video game console
Generation	Second generation
Release date	1982
Discontinued	1985
Predecessor	Telstar series
Emulated	✓

The ColecoVision was the second-generation video game console produced by Coleco in August 1982 before being discontinued in 1984, partly due to the ongoing crash in North America at the time. It retailed for $174.99 and had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 8 KBs of RAM. Notably, it provided gamers with experiences very much like the arcade versions of games, as well as having Donkey Kong as a pack-in title to showcase this, although the Atari 2600 and Intellivision could do the same with the respected hardware. It shares largely the same underpinnings as the SG-1000. Indeed, a clone of the SG-1000 known as the Dina 2-in-1 (sold in the United States as the Telegames Personal Arcade) had support for both SG-1000 and ColecoVision games, though compatibility with the latter is spotty due to the lack of an expansion module interface or a second numeric keypad, rendering two-player ColecoVision games unplayable.

Emulators

Name	Platform(s)	Latest version	libretro	Retro Achievements	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
PC / x86
BizHawk		2.9.1	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
ColEm		5.6	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
DSP		0.22	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
ares		v137	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
FinalBurn Neo fbneo_libretro		WIP builds libretro core	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
CoolCV		0.6.9	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
MAME		0.265	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Mugrat		0.5.0	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
Snepulator		git	✗	✗	✓	✓	~
Pantheon		13.640	✗	✗	✗	✓	~
Phoenix		2.8.JAG	✗	✗	✗	✗	~
vdmgr		0.2.6	✗	✗	✗	✓	~
blueMSX blueMSX_libretro		2.8.2 libretro core	✓	✓	✓	~	~
Retro Virtual Machine		2.1.9	✗	✗	✗	✓	TBD
higan		v110	✓	✗	✓	✗	✗
Clock Signal		2024-01-22	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
Bee		2.4.3	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
FreezeSMS		4.6	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
MEKA		0.8-alpha (2023-08-26)	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗
DarcNES		9b0401/9b0313	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
Mobile / ARM
ColEm+		5.6.4 (Android)	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
fbneo_libretro		libretro core	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
MSX.emu (blueMSX tech)		1.5.77git Pandora build 15 1.5.46.02	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
blueMSX_libretro		libretro core	✓	✓	✓	✓	~
Consoles
fbneo_libretro		libretro core	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
blueMSX_libretro		libretro core	✓	✓	?	✓	✓
ColEm		2.6.1	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
WiiColEm		0.3	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
ColemPS2		2.0	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
AdamX		v4	✗	✗	?	✗	✓
(D)ColEm		0.99	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
CollisionGC		1.01 b1	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓
ColecoDS		git	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
CoG		0.9.7 beta	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗