If you have a PS Vita or PSTV on firmware version 3.60, you can turn it into a decent emulation device by installing the HENkaku homebrew enabler. Those on firmware versions prior to 3.60 can update manually by following the instructions here. There are no homebrew solutions for firmwares 3.61 and higher at this time.
Multi-system
Available cores
| Core
|
Game/System
|
Working?
|
Notes
|
| 2048
|
2048
|
✓
|
|
| DeSmuME
|
Nintendo DS
|
✗
|
|
| DOSBox
|
DOS
|
✓
|
Virtual keyboard does not work
|
| Final Burn Alpha
|
Arcade
|
✓
|
|
| Final Burn Alpha (2012)
|
✓
|
- Main core (fbalpha2012_libretro) does not work, use the platform-specific cores instead
- Uses FBA v0.2.97.30 ROM sets
|
| FCEUmm
|
NES
|
✓
|
|
| Fuse
|
ZX Spectrum
|
✓
|
Loading more than one ROM in a single session will crash RetroArch
|
| Gambatte
|
Game Boy/Color
|
✓
|
|
| Genesis Plus GX
|
Sega systems (SMS/GG/GEN/SCD)
|
✓
|
Redbook audio hangs when suspending or pausing RetroArch
|
| gpSP
|
Game Boy Advance
|
✓
|
Comparable to VBA Next but slower
|
| Handy
|
Atari Lynx
|
✓
|
|
| MAME (2000)
|
Arcade
|
✗
|
- Uses MAME 0.37b5 ROM sets
- Broken in more recent (late August) builds
|
| MAME (2003)
|
✓
|
- Uses MAME 0.78 ROM sets
- 30 FPS or less, FBA is recommended instead
|
| Mednafen
|
Neo Geo Pocket/Color
|
✓
|
Loading more than one ROM in a single session will crash RetroArch
|
| PC Engine
|
✓
|
|
| Virtual Boy
|
✓
|
~25-30 FPS
|
| WonderSwan/Color
|
✓
|
Full speed on WS games, ~45-60 FPS on WSC games
|
| Nestopia
|
NES
|
✓
|
|
| NXEngine
|
Cave Story
|
✓
|
|
| PicoDrive
|
Sega systems (GEN/SCD/32X)
|
✓
|
|
| PrBoom
|
Doom
|
✓
|
|
| ProSystem
|
Atari 7800
|
✓
|
|
| QuickNES
|
NES
|
✓
|
|
| Snes9x 2002 (PocketSNES)
|
Super Nintendo
|
✓
|
Least accurate but fastest SNES core
|
| Snes9x 2005 (CatSFC)
|
✓
|
~55-60 FPS on standard games, ~50 FPS on Super FX games
|
| Snes9x 2005+ (CatSFC+)
|
✓
|
Same as Snes9x 2005 but with better sound, at the cost of a few FPS
|
| Snes9x 2010 (Snes9x Next)
|
✓
|
Most accurate but slowest SNES core (~40 FPS)
|
| Stella
|
Atari 2600
|
✓
|
|
| TGB Dual
|
Game Boy/Color
|
✓
|
|
| TyrQuake
|
Quake
|
✗
|
|
| VBA Next
|
Game Boy Advance
|
✓
|
~45-50 FPS
|
| Vecx
|
Vectrex
|
✓
|
|
| Yabause
|
Sega Saturn
|
✗
|
Technically works but is unplayably slow
|
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
| Name
|
Version
|
| CATSFC-libretro-vita
|
Git
|
| Snes9xVITA
|
Git
|
Game Boy/Color/Advance
† mGBA runs slow on the Vita currently, but optimizations and a dynamic recompiler are in progress.[1][2]
Nintendo DS
† No dynamic recompiler, runs very slow
‡ No official binary available, but an unofficial one can be found here.
Sega
| Name
|
Version
|
GEN
|
SCD
|
SMS
|
GG
|
Recommended
|
| Genesis Plus GX
|
Git
|
✓
|
✓
|
✓
|
✓
|
✓
|
| SMSplusVITA
|
Git
|
✗
|
✗
|
✓
|
✓
|
✗
|
Other systems
Atari Lynx
- HandyVITA (Download: Git)
Neo Geo Pocket/Color
- NeopopVITA (Download: Git)
See also
References
External links
