Editing Multi-system emulators

Multi-system emulators focus on emulating many different systems under one program. They can be focused on a single company's systems because of the similarity of the systems or may have systems from many different companies.

To be defined as "multi-system" an emulator has to emulate two or more distinct systems. Although, for simplicity reasons in this wiki (not just this page), the term, "multi-platform", in the OS column fields can come to mean three or more covered platforms. For the purpose of this list, Add-ons (eg. Sega CD, 32X) are not counted as a separate system.

The term 'multi-system emulator' can sometimes be confused with [[Frontends|frontend applications]]. placeholder text

==Emulators==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
|-
!colspan="8"|Multi-company
|-
|[[MAME]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|<abbr title="Latest development version">git artifacts</abbr><ref group=N>[https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-windows/master CI-Windows] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-linux/master CI-Linux] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-macos/master CI-Macos]</ref></br>[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<ref group=N>As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)</ref>
|{{✓}}
|Thousands of electronics<ref>[http://www.mamedb.org/List.aspx www.mamedb.org's list] (Only shows the games covered, not systems)</ref>
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Mednafen]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|15
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[OpenEmu]]
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|[http://openemu.org/ {{OpenEmuVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|35
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[BizHawk]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|30 (excluding the [[libretro]] cores)
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[ares]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|17
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[Delta]]
|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688 AppStore]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|6
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[ZEsarUX]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases {{ZEsarUXVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|22
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Pantheon]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|21
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{ClkVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|14
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 2.8.JAG]
|{{✗}}
|5
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{~}}
|-
|WinArcadia
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|AmigaOS|MorphOS}}
|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia {{WinArcadiaVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|21
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}}
|-
|Xpeccy
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/samstyle/Xpeccy/releases {{XpeccyVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|14
|?
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[Z64K]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
|[https://www.z64k.com/ {{Z64KVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|5
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[[DSP]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator {{DSPVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|More than 10
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|?
|-
|[[higan]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|14
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}<ref group=N>Superseded by [[ares]].</ref>
|-
|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]
|{{✗}}
|More than 50
|?
|{{✓}}
|?
|-
|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/ kindred]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/files/kindred1r12a.zip {{kindredVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|7
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}} 
|?
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Xe]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download 2.16.2]
|{{✗}}
|18
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022152846/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|BSD}}
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071129223043/http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/dn_bin/ 9b0401/9b0313]
|{{✗}}
|8
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|-
|Wave
|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}
|[https://turbowarp.org/723002351/fullscreen?fps=60 {V0.9.6}]
|{{✗}}
|8 (But you can import ROMs)
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
!colspan="8"|Nintendo
|-
|[[Dolphin]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ {{DolphinVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|3
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[GBE+]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases {{GBEVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|4
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
|[[No$|No$GBA]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|DOS}}
|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm {{No$GBAVer}}]
|{{✗}}
|3*
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✗}}
|-
!colspan="8"|Sega
|-
|[[Kega Fusion]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]
|{{✗}}
|10
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|[[PicoDrive]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[https://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|6
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{~}}
|-
!colspan="8"|Sinclair
|-
|[[EightyOne]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files/ {{EightyOneVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|12
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
|Retro Virtual Machine
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/ 2.0.beta-1.r6]
|{{✗}}
|2
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}
|-
!colspan="8"|Commodore
|-
|[[VICE]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download {{VICEVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|6
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|}
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<references group=N/>
<nowiki>*</nowiki>No$GBA apparently also does [[PocketStation emulators|PocketStation emulation]]

==References==
<references/>

==See also==
* [[Frontends]]
* [[Comparison of Emulator Frontends]]

==External Links==
* [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers GitHub list of all covered 'drivers' (Systems & machines emulated) under the MAME group] (Pretty crappy list. Only the first 1,000 drivers are shown there. The rest are omitted. Approximately 2250 drivers in all.)

[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]