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Emulators

Arcade Arcade LaserDisc Neo-Geo/CD Sega Model 1 Sega Model 2 Sega Model 3 Sega Naomi Triforce Taito Type X Personal Computers PLATO MITS Altair 8800 Apple I Apple II Line Atari 400/800/XL/XE Apple III 86/286/386/486/Pentium Sinclair ZX81 PC-60 PC-88 BBC Micro ZX Spectrum Commodore 64 PC-98 Fujitsu FM-7 Camputers Lynx MSX Amstrad CPC Atari ST Amiga Sharp X68000 Multi-system emulators MAME MESS Mednafen

Atari Consoles Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 Atari Jaguar Atari Handhelds Atari Lynx Nintendo Consoles NES / Famicom Super Nintendo / Super Famicom Nintendo 64 GameCube Wii Wii U (Amiibo) Switch (Amiibo) Nintendo Handhelds Game & Watch Game Boy/Color Virtual Boy Game Boy Advance (e-Reader) Nintendo DS / DSi Nintendo 3DS (Amiibo) Sega Consoles SG-1000 Master System Genesis / Mega Drive, CD & 32X Saturn Dreamcast Sega Handhelds Game Gear NEC Consoles PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16, CD PC-FX

Sony Consoles PlayStation PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 ‡ Sony Handhelds PocketStation PlayStation Portable PlayStation Vita ‡ Microsoft Consoles Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One ‡ Other 90s Consoles Neo Geo AES Philips CD-i Pioneer LaserActive ‡ 3DO Other 90s Handhelds Neo-Geo Pocket/Color WonderSwan/Color Tiger LCD Handhelds First/Second Generation Consoles Magnavox Odyssey Fairchild Channel F APF MP1000 Magnavox Odyssey² Intellivision Emerson Arcadia 2001 ColecoVision Vectrex 1970s/1980s Console Boom Strange and Forgotten Consoles (1980-2000) Mobile Phones Cellphones N-Gage ‡ Android iOS ‡

Emulating On Other Systems

On Consoles Emulators on PS2 Emulators on Wii Emulators on PS3 On Linux Emulation on Linux Emulation on Ubuntu Emulation on Fedora

On Handhelds Emulators on GBA Emulators on DS Emulators on 3DS Emulators on Gizmondo Emulators on PSP Emulators on Vita

Official Emulators Official Nintendo Emulators Official Sony Emulators Emulators in Games Other Emulators on Browsers Emulators on TI Calculators Emulators with VR support Emulation Boxes

Not Really Emulators

Compatibility layers Wine Proton TeknoParrot Frontends RetroArch Lakka RoM-Jacket

Game engine recreations ScummVM ResidualVM EasyRPG

Simulators Pinball Game & Watch

FAQs

General Problems FAQ Auto-load next disc Black frame insertion Computer Specifications Console Display Resolutions Controllers Cue sheet (.cue) Displays Emulation Accuracy

Files and BIOS for Emulators Filetypes Frames per second High/Low level emulation Input lag Netplay Notable Ports

Overclocking Recommended N64 plugins Recommended PS1 Plugins Recording Video Ripping Games ROM & ISO Sites Save Converters Verifying Dumps Vsync

Shaders/Filters CRT Shaders Dithering List of Shaders and Filters NTSC Filters Shaders and Filters Texture filtering

Modding 60 FPS Hacks Achievements Support Alter Dumps to Save Disk Space Cheats and Patches Modding Consoles/Flashcarts Mods, Hacks and Fan-Translations ROM Hacking Resources Texture Packs Widescreen Hacks

Miscellaneous Console-specific development wikis Emulation Books and Articles Emulators on Patreon FPGA History of emulation