ColecoVision emulators
Developer | Coleco Industries, Inc. |
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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 | Adam | libretro | Retro Achievements |
FLOSS | Active | Recommended |
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PC / x86 | ||||||||
BizHawk | 2.9.1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
ColEm | 5.6 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
E.mul T.wo | git | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ADAMEm SDL | git | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ADAMEm | 1.0 (MS-DOS)Acorn | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✓ | |
DSP | 0.22 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
ares | v137 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FinalBurn Neo fbneo_libretro |
WIP builds libretro core |
✗ | ✓ | ✓ | NC | ✓ | ✓[N 1] | |
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 |
[N 2] |
2.8.2 libretro core |
✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~[N 3] | ~ |
Retro Virtual Machine | 2.1.10 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | TBD | ||
higan (火眼) | v110 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗[N 4] | |
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) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
NumPadPlayer | 1.0.5 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
fbneo_libretro | libretro core | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | NC | ✓ | ✓[N 1] | |
MSX.emu (blueMSX tech) |
1.5.77git Pandora build 15 1.5.46.02 |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
blueMSX_libretro | |
libretro core | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
Consoles | ||||||||
fbneo_libretro | libretro core | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | NC | ✓ | ✓[N 1] | |
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 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 FinalBurn Neo was confirmed as having better compatibility than MAME/MESS, blueMSX, openMSX and CoolCV. See this topic.
- ↑ Only available outside Windows as a libretro core (e.g., RetroArch).
- ↑ Libretro core is still active.
- ↑ Superseded by ares