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Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system [[Frontends|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.
 
Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system [[Frontends|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.
  
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|-  
 
|-  
 
! Name
 
! Name
 
! Creator
 
! Creator
 
! Open Source
 
! Open Source
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! Free (FOSS)
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! Free (Libre)
 
! First public release date
 
! First public release date
 
! Latest stable version release date
 
! Latest stable version release date
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! GNU/Linux
 
! GNU/Linux
 
! Other platforms
 
! Other platforms
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|-
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! [http://guerilla.bplaced.net/x86WinSoft.html All Stars Launcher]
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| 'el Comandante'
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✗}}
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| 2020-09-30 (v2020.274)
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| 2024-01-30 (v2024.030)
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| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✗}}
 +
| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
! [http://www.atomicfe.com/EN2/ Atomic]
 
! [http://www.atomicfe.com/EN2/ Atomic]
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
 
| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
 
| 2013-11-17 (v1.0)
 
| 2013-11-17 (v1.0)
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| 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1)
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| 2023-06-10 (v2.7.0)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
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| style="background: #FFB" | "minefield"<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/blob/e60896c1b745ef573fde784155432bef44e78b18/LICENSE Repository License]</ref>
 
| style="background: #FFB" | "minefield"<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/blob/e60896c1b745ef573fde784155432bef44e78b18/LICENSE Repository License]</ref>
 
| 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0)
 
| 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0)
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| 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1)
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| 2020-02-24 (v2.4.8_1)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk#gnulinux BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux]</ref>
 
| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk#gnulinux BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux]</ref>
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| N/A
 
−
|-
 
−
! [https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Bottlenose]
 
−
| Quinton Ashley
 
−
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose]</ref>
 
−
| {{✓}} (MIT)
 
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| 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12)
 
−
| 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65)
 
−
| {{✓}}
 
−
| {{✓}}
 
−
| {{✓}}
 
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
|-
 
|-
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| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6)
 
| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6)
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| 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6)
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| 2021-10-27 (v8.9.4)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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| {{✓}} (LGPLv3)
 
| {{✓}} (LGPLv3)
 
| 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1)
 
| 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1)
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| 2018-06-08 (v1.9.8.5)
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| 2020-04-21 (v1.9.8.6)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| 2016-04-14 (v14.44)
 
| 2016-04-14 (v14.44)
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| 2019-05-15 (v15.60)
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| 2024-03-13 (v18.61)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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|-
 
|-
 
! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher]
 
! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher]
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| Jörg Sonntag
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| Jörg 'MK2k' Sonntag
 
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref>
 
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref>
 
| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
 
| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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|-
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! [https://github.com/quinton-ashley/nostlan Nostlan]
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| Quinton Ashley
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/quinton-ashley/nostlan Github - quinton-ashley/Nostlan]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (MIT)
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| 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12)
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| 2024-01-10 (v2.4.1)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| N/A
 
|-
 
|-
 
! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus]
 
! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus]
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
 
| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
 
| 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3)
 
| 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3)
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| style="background: #FFB" | 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11)
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| 2021-05-04 (alpha15)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}} (MIT)
 
| {{✓}} (MIT)
 
| 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha)
 
| 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha)
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| 2019-02-25 (v4.74)
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| 2023-06-22 (v10.18)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
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|-
 
|-
 
! [http://quickplay.sourceforge.net/ QuickPlay]
 
! [http://quickplay.sourceforge.net/ QuickPlay]
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| Tony 'butter100fly' Woode
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| John Scott
 
| {{✓}}<ref name"SourceForge repository">[https://sourceforge.net/p/quickplay/code/ SourceForge - QuickPlay]</ref>
 
| {{✓}}<ref name"SourceForge repository">[https://sourceforge.net/p/quickplay/code/ SourceForge - QuickPlay]</ref>
 
| {{✓}} (BSD-3)
 
| {{✓}} (BSD-3)
 
| 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0)
 
| 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0)
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| 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6)
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| 2022-03-26 (v4.7.6)
 
| {{✓}}
 
| {{✓}}
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
 
| N/A
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|-
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! [https://www.retroarch.com/ RetroArch]
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| 'Twinaphex' and others
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch Github - libretro/RetroArch]</ref>
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3)
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| 2011-01-25 (v0.2)
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| 2023-03-16 (v1.15.0)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| DOS, BSD, Haiku, Solaris, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Switch, NES/SNES Classic Edition, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Web Browser
 
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|-
 
! [http://retrofe.nl/ RetroFe]
 
! [http://retrofe.nl/ RetroFe]
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! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey]
 
! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey]
 
| 'romjacket'
 
| 'romjacket'
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| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/romjacket/skeletonKey Github - romjacket/skeletonKey]</ref>
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| {{{✗}}<ref>[https://github.com/romjacket/skeletonKey Github - romjacket/skeletonKey]</ref>
 
| {{✗}}
 
| {{✗}}
 
| 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34)
 
| 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34)
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! Libraries used
 
! Libraries used
 
|-  
 
|-  
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! All Stars Launcher
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| 100 KiB - 135 MiB
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| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued
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| MASM - Machine Language
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|
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|-
 
! Atomic
 
! Atomic
 
| 35.2 MiB
 
| 35.2 MiB
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|-
 
|-
 
! LusSpace
 
! LusSpace
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| 2.9 MiB
 +
| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued
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| Visual Basic 6
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|
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Lutris
 
! Lutris
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| 1.7 MiB
 +
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained
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| Python
 +
| PyYAML, PyGObject, evdev, requests, optional pypresence for discord
 
|-
 
|-
 
! MaLa
 
! MaLa
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|-
 
|-
 
! Metropolis Launcher
 
! Metropolis Launcher
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| 261.16 MiB
 +
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained
 +
| VB.Net 4.0
 +
| DevExpress WinForms v15.2, DiscUtils, HtmlAgilityPack, Newtonsoft.Json, Ookii.Dialogs, SgmlReaderDll, SharpCompress
 
|-
 
|-
 
! mGalaxy
 
! mGalaxy
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|-
 
|-
 
! Playnite
 
! Playnite
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|
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| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained
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|
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Project Ascension
 
! Project Ascension
 
|-
 
|-
 
! QuickPlay
 
! QuickPlay
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| 32.8 MiB
 +
| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained
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| Delphi
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|
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|-
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! RetroArch
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| 4.8 - 165 - 806 MiB (Android - Win10 64bit - PS3 DEX)
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| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained
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| C
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| libretro, an audio library (ALSA, OSS, etc.), optional dependencies
 
|-
 
|-
 
! RetroFe
 
! RetroFe
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! Name
 
! Name
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! RetroArch
 
! MAME
 
! MAME
 
! NEStopia
 
! NEStopia
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|-
 
|-
 
! Launch Box
 
! Launch Box
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
! LusSpace
 
! LusSpace
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|-
 
|-
 
! Metropolis Launcher
 
! Metropolis Launcher
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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|
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| {{✓}}
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|
 +
|
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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|
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| {{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
! mGalaxy
 
! mGalaxy
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|-
 
|-
 
! QuickPlay
 
! QuickPlay
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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|-
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! RetroArch
 
|-
 
|-
 
! RetroFe
 
! RetroFe
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|-
 
|-
 
! Metropolis Launcher
 
! Metropolis Launcher
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}} (built-in only)
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| {{✓}}
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| {{✓}}
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|
 +
| {{✓}} (offline db)
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| {{✓}}
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|
 
|-
 
|-
 
! mGalaxy
 
! mGalaxy
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Pegasus
 
! Pegasus
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| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Photon Game Manager
 
! Photon Game Manager
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Playnite
 
! Playnite
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| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| style="background: #FFB" | Via plugin
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| {{✓}}
 +
| style="background: #FFB" | Via plugin
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Project Ascension
 
! Project Ascension
 
|-
 
|-
 
! QuickPlay
 
! QuickPlay
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|-
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! RetroArch
 
|-
 
|-
 
! RetroFe
 
! RetroFe
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! Steam Rom Manager
 
! Steam Rom Manager
 
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Latest revision as of 08:12, 23 March 2024

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 (Libre) First public release date Latest stable version release date Windows Macintosh GNU/Linux Other platforms
All Stars Launcher 'el Comandante' ✓ ✗ 2020-09-30 (v2020.274) 2024-01-30 (v2024.030) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Atomic 'Youki' ✗ ✗ 2005-02-08 (v0.11) 2010-01-23 (v0.20) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Attract-Mode Andrew Mickelson ✓[1] ✓ (GPLv3) 2013-11-17 (v1.0) 2023-06-10 (v2.7.0) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
Aurora Game Hub Carlos Machado, Sammy Guergachi ✓[2][3] ✓ (GPLv3) 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794) 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794) ✓ ✓ N/A BSD
BizHawk 'Nach' ✓[4] "minefield"[5] 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0) 2020-02-24 (v2.4.8_1) ✓ N/A To be compiled[6] N/A
CabrioFE Steve Maddison ✓[7] ✓ (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 ✗ ✗ 2010-03-20 (v0.6) 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
EmuCon N/A ✓[8] ✗ 2008-04-23 (v2.0) 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Emulation Station Alec Lofquist and others ✓[9][10] ✓ (MIT) 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) 2019-03-09 (v2.7.6 - on retropie repo) ✓ ✗ ✓ Raspberry Pi[11]
EmuLoader N/A ✓[12] ✗ 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) 2021-10-27 (v8.9.4) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
FEEL 'Sincro' ✓[13] ✓ (LGPLv3) 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1) 2020-04-21 (v1.9.8.6) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GameEx Tom Speirs ✗ ✗ 2016-04-14 (v14.44) 2024-03-13 (v18.61) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GameRoom Max 'n0xew' ?? ✗ ✗ 2016-12-13 (v0.0.0.9) 2018-03-12 (v1.1.2.0) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Games (Gnome) Various contributors ✓[14] ✓ (GPLv3) 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) 2019-05-24 (v3.33.2) ✗ N/A ✓ N/A
HyperSpin Jonathan Habers ✗ ✗ N/A 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) ✓ ✗ ✗ Android[15]
Ice Scott Rice ✓[16] ✓ (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 ✓[17] ✓ (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 'MK2k' Sonntag ✓[18] ✓ (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) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Nostlan Quinton Ashley ✓[19] ✓ (MIT) 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) 2024-01-10 (v2.4.1) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
Pegasus Mátyás Mustoha ✓[20] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) 2021-05-04 (alpha15) ✓ ✓ ✓ Android, Raspberry Pi
Photon Game Manager Thomas Preece ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ Experimental ✗
Playnite Josef Nemec ✓[21] ✓ (MIT) 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) 2023-06-22 (v10.18) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Project Ascension Jake Schadewe and others ✓[22] ✓ (MIT) 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
QuickPlay John Scott ✓[23] ✓ (BSD-3) 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) 2022-03-26 (v4.7.6) ✓ N/A N/A N/A
RetroArch 'Twinaphex' and others ✓[24] ✓ (GPLv3) 2011-01-25 (v0.2) 2023-03-16 (v1.15.0) ✓ ✓ ✓ DOS, BSD, Haiku, Solaris, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Switch, NES/SNES Classic Edition, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Web Browser
RetroFe Don Honerbrink ✓[25] ✓ (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' ✗[26] ✗ 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Snowflake Ronny Chan ✓[27] ✓ (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 ✓[28] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A

Technical facts[edit]

Name Download size Current status Language used Libraries used
All Stars Launcher 100 KiB - 135 MiB Possibly discontinued MASM - Machine Language
Atomic 35.2 MiB Discontinued Visual Basic N/A
Attract-Mode 34.5 - 35.9 MiB Actively maintained C++ SFML, OpenAL, Zlib, FreeType 2, FFmpeg (avformat, avcodec, swscale, avutil, swresample/avresample), OpenGL+GLU, JPEG. Optionally: Fontconfig, Xinerama, libarchive, Libcurl.
Aurora Game Hub 12.2 MiB Discontinued Java h2 database Engine
BizHawk 48.1 MiB (+43 MiB on windows) Actively maintained C++ & C# DirectX 9, libblip_buf
Bottlenose 56.4 - 87.2 MiB Actively maintained HTML/JS/CSS await-spawn, bootstrap, chrome-finder, circletype, contro, contro-ui, copy-paste, deep-extend, delay, diacritics, electron-pug, fs-extra, fuse.js, gca-js, gooder, jquery, klaw, markdown-it, material-design-icons-iconfont, moment, mousetrap, node-7z, opn, popper.js, probe-image-size, pug, puppeteer-core, requisition, tether, three, yauzl-promise
CabrioFE 1.5 MiB Discontinued C SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg
CoinOPS ? Discontinued ? ?
EmuCenter 2 176 MiB Possibly discontinued C++ and/or C# N/A
EmuCon 5.54 MiB Discontinued Pascal
Emulation Station 13.1 MiB Actively maintained C++ SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Locale), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL
EmuLoader 16.50 MiB Actively maintained Pascal
FEEL 26.4 MiB Possibly discontinued C# XNA, SharpDx, SmartASD, "other smaller libs" (sic)
GameEx 81.8 MiB Actively maintained C#
GameRoom 67.7 MiB Possibly discontinued Java
Games (Gnome) 8.9 MiB Actively maintained Vala retro-gtk, libmanette, libhandy
HyperSpin 479.12 MiB Possibly discontinued ActionScript
Ice 11.3 MiB Possibly discontinued Python appdirs, pastebin, psutil, pysteam
Launch Box 218 MiB Actively maintained C#
LusSpace 2.9 MiB Possibly discontinued Visual Basic 6
Lutris 1.7 MiB Actively maintained Python PyYAML, PyGObject, evdev, requests, optional pypresence for discord
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher 261.16 MiB Actively maintained VB.Net 4.0 DevExpress WinForms v15.2, DiscUtils, HtmlAgilityPack, Newtonsoft.Json, Ookii.Dialogs, SgmlReaderDll, SharpCompress
mGalaxy
Pegasus
Photon Game Manager
Playnite Actively maintained
Project Ascension
QuickPlay 32.8 MiB Actively maintained Delphi
RetroArch 4.8 - 165 - 806 MiB (Android - Win10 64bit - PS3 DEX) Actively maintained C libretro, an audio library (ALSA, OSS, etc.), optional dependencies
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager

Emulator support[edit]

Name RetroArch MAME NEStopia FCEUX Snes9x ZSnes Mupen64Plus Dolphin Cemu VisualBoyAdvance(-M) Citra NeoCD EPSXe PCSX2 RPCS3 PPSSPP
Atomic
Attract-Mode
Aurora Game Hub
BizHawk
Bottlenose
CabrioFE
CoinOPS
EmuCenter 2
EmuCon
Emulation Station
EmuLoader
FEEL
GameEx
GameRoom
Games (Gnome)
HyperSpin
Ice
Launch Box ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
LusSpace
Lutris
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
mGalaxy
Pegasus
Photon Game Manager
Playnite
Project Ascension
QuickPlay ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RetroArch
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager

Features[edit]

Name Has console categories Theme support Display descriptions Display box arts Display video previews Scrape descriptions Scrape box arts Scrape video previews
Atomic
Attract-Mode
Aurora Game Hub
BizHawk
Bottlenose
CabrioFE
CoinOPS
EmuCenter 2
EmuCon
Emulation Station
EmuLoader
FEEL
GameEx
GameRoom
Games (Gnome)
HyperSpin
Ice
Launch Box
LusSpace
Lutris
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher ✓ ✓ (built-in only) ✓ ✓ ✓ (offline db) ✓
mGalaxy
Pegasus ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Photon Game Manager
Playnite ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Via plugin ✓ ✓ Via plugin
Project Ascension
QuickPlay
RetroArch
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager
  1. ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
  2. ↑ SourceForge.net - auroragm
  3. ↑ Github - sguergachi/AuroraGameHub
  4. ↑ Github - TASVideos/BizHawk
  5. ↑ Repository License
  6. ↑ BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux
  7. ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
  8. ↑ EmuCon Download page with sources
  9. ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
  10. ↑ Github - RetroPie/EmulationStation (fork)
  11. ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
  12. ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
  13. ↑ Github - dr-prodigy/feel-frontend
  14. ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
  15. ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
  16. ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
  17. ↑ Github - lutris/lutris
  18. ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
  19. ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/Nostlan
  20. ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
  21. ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
  22. ↑ Github - Project Ascension
  23. ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
  24. ↑ Github - libretro/RetroArch
  25. ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
  26. ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
  27. ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
  28. ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager
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