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Revision as of 11:57, 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.) or front-ends for other dedicated software such as Kodi.
| Name | Creator | Open Source | Free (FOSS) | First public release date | Year of latest stable version | Windows | Macintosh | GNU/Linux | Other platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| BizHawk | 'Nach' | ✓[2] | "minefield"[3] | 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0) | 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1) | ✓ | N/A | To be compiled[4] | N/A |
| Bottlenose | Quinton Ashley | ✓[5] | ✓ (MIT) | 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) | 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| CabrioFE | Steve Maddison | ✓[6] | ✓ (GPLv2) | 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0) | 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version) | v0.8.1 | ✗ | ✓ | N/A |
| CoinOPS | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| EmuCenter 2 | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EmuCon | N/A | ✓[7] | ✗ | 2008-04-23 (v2.0) | 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Emulation Station | Alec Lofquist, Eduard Strehlau | ✓[8][9] | ✓ (MIT) | 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) | 2014-06-12 (v1.0.2 - on original repo) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Raspberry Pi[10] |
| EmuLoader | N/A | ✓[11] | ✗ | 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FEEL | 'Sincro' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2017-06-13 (v1.9.8.1c) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GameEx | Tom Speirs | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2019-05-09 (v1.05) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Games (Gnome) | Various contributors | ✓[12] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) | 2019-05-24 (v3.32.0) | ✗ | N/A | ✓ | N/A |
| HyperSpin | Jonathan Habers | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Android[13] |
| Ice | Scott Rice | ✓[14] | ✓ (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) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lutris | Mathieu Comandon and others | ✓[15] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-12-15 (v0.3.2) | 2019-04-09 (v0.5.2) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MaLa | Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b) | 2011-03-27 (v1.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maximus Arcade | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Metropolis Launcher | Jörg Sonntag | ✓[16] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0) | 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| mGalaxy | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | 2019-04-?? (v7.5) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pegasus | Mátyás Mustoha | ✓[17] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) | 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Android, Raspberry Pi |
| Playnite | Josef Nemec | ✓[18] | ✓ (MIT) | 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) | 2019-02-25 (v4.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| QuickPlay | Tony 'butter100fly' Woode | ✓[19] | ✓ (BSD-3) | 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6) | ✓ | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RetroFe | Don Honerbrink | ✓[20] | ✓ (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 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| skeletonKey | 'romjacket' | ✓[21] | ✗ | 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) | 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Snowflake | Ronny Chan | ✓[22] | ✓ (MPLv2.0) | 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) | 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158) | To be compiled | To be compiled | To be compiled | N/A |
| Steam Rom Manager | Lukas Senionis | ✓[23] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) | 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
- ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
- ↑ Github - TASVideos/BizHawk
- ↑ Repository License
- ↑ BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux
- ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose
- ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
- ↑ EmuCon Download page with sources
- ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
- ↑ Github - Herdinger/EmulationStation (fork)
- ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
- ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
- ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
- ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
- ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
- ↑ Github - lutris/lutris
- ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
- ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
- ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
- ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
- ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
- ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
- ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
- ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager
