Emulators on iOS

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iOS
IOS.png
Developer Apple Inc.
Type Operating systems
Earliest release iPhone OS 1.0 (2007)
Latest release iOS 17 (2023)
This page is about emulators that run on IOS.
For software that emulates IOS on other hardware, see iOS emulators.
Before diving in;
  • See each Wiki Category Consoles, Computers and Arcade for individual dedicated system pages to see more detailed comparisons and information about software emulators. Dedicated system pages provide more up-to-date listings and in-depth information on specific aspects like hardware features, peripheral support, and compatibility etc.
  • Some games have Game engine recreations and source ports that run on iOS, which can be the better than emulators for their specific games.

iOS

Multi-Systems

RetroArch

Nightly

GitHub

iOS RetroArch Cores

RetroArch BIOS/ROMs

Name Version FLOSS Active Recommended
Delta git
Provenance git
Happy Chick Emulator (小鸡模拟器) 1.5.4 ✗ (stolen emulators)
Delta

Supported Consoles list

  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Nintendo 64
  • Gameboy / Gameboy Color
  • Gameboy Advance
  • Nintendo DS
Provenance

Supported Consoles list

  • SG-1000
  • Master System, Game Gear
  • Sega Genesis/MD, Sega CD, 32X, Sega Saturn
  • Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom Disk System
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Gameboy / Gameboy Color
  • Gameboy Advance
  • PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
  • PC Engine Super CD-ROM² System / TurboGrafx-CD
  • PC Engine SuperGrafx
  • PC-FX
  • SNK Neo Geo
  • PlayStation
  • Bandai WonderSwan
  • Atari 2600
  • Atari 5200
  • Atari 7800
  • Atari Lynx
  • Atari Jaguar
Happy Chick Emulator

Supported Consoles list

  • PlayStation
  • PlayStation Portable
  • Nintendo DS
  • Nintendo 64
  • Nintendo GBA
  • Nintendo GB/GBC
  • Nintendo SNES
  • Nintendo NES
  • Sega Genesis/MD
  • Sega Game Gear & Master System
  • Sega DreamCast
  • NEC PCE/PCECD/SuperGrafx
  • SNK NeoGeo Pocket/Pocket Color
  • Bandai WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color
  • MAME
  • FinalBurn Alpha
  • ONScripter

Eclipse

Eclipse is a web-based emulator for iOS devices. It supports classic Nintendo systems (NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA) as well as Sega Game Gear and Master System.

It's very easy to use since it doesn't require any third-party app store or jailbreak, instead the website can simply be added to the home screen from Safari. It also works offline. However, it doesn't have as many features as other emulators.

Sony

PlayStation

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PSX4iphone 1

PlayStation 2

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Play! Automated Builds

PlayStation Portable

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PPSSPP Builds

Nintendo

NES (Famicom)

Name Version Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Nesemu git High
Gearnes git High

Game Boy / Color

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
GearBoy git
GBA4iOS 2.1
Game Play Color 2.3.6 ?

Wii / GameCube

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Dolphin iOS 3.2.1

Nintendo DS

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
iNDS
(nds4ios derived)
git
NDS4iOS 1.3.5 ~

Nintendo 3DS

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Limón 1.0.8.5 (Build 1)

Sega

Saturn

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Yaba Sanshiro (Yaba三四郎) 2.1.2.0

MasterSystem / GameGear

Name Version SG-1000 Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
GearSystem git

Dreamcast

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Flycast Build ~

Microsoft

DOS

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
iDOS git ~ ~

NEC

PC9801

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
NP2-iOS git ~

PC8801

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
XM8-iOS git ~


Motorola.

6609

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
my6609 1.2

Sinclair

ZX80/ZX81 & TS1000

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
ZX81 1.13.2

Apple Inc.

Macintosh 68k

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
Mini vMac latest
BasiliskII 31/05/2020 ~

Apple llGS

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
ActiveGS git


Arcade

MAME

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME4iOS git

Programming based

Martin Magni

Name Version FLOSS Active Recommended
Fancade HTML51.12.4

Game Engine

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
OpenBOR-iOS git ~
Doom3-iOS git

Chip8 / Schip8

Name Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
iPhone-Chip-8-Emulator git ~

Other

Will add to relevant sections later

iPadOS

IPOS is an iOS based operating system developed for the iPad line of tablet computers.

WatchOS

WOS is an iOS based operating system developed for the Apple Watch.

Nintendo

GameBoy Advance

Name FLOSS Active Recommended
GBA4Watch TBD

GameBoy/GameBoy Color

Name Versions FLOSS Active Recommended
GIOVANNI WatchOS 5.2 fork Original version TBD
PlutoBoy git TBD

NES

Name Versions FLOSS Active Recommended
NESEmulator WatchOS 8 fork Original version TBD

Chip8

Name FLOSS Active Recommended
Chip-8-WatchOS TBD

See also