Multi-system emulators
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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.
Emulators[edit]
Name | Platform(s) | Latest Version | Retro Achievements |
Libretro Core | # of Emulated systems | FLOSS | Active | Recommended |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Multi-company | ||||||||
MAME | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
git artifacts[N 1] 0.255 libretro core[N 2] |
✗ | ✓ | Thousands of electronics[1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mednafen | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1.31.0-UNSTABLE | ✗ | ✓ | 15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
OpenEmu | ![]() |
2.3.3 | ✗ | ✗ | 35 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
BizHawk | ![]() ![]() |
Dev builds 2.9.1 |
✓ | ✗ | 30 (excluding the libretro cores) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
ares | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
git Artifacts v132 |
✗ | ✗ | 17 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
ZEsarUX | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
10.2 | ✗ | ✗ | 22 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
Pantheon | ![]() |
12.406 | ✗ | ✗ | 21 | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
CLK | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2023-05-15 | ✗ | ✗ | 14 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
Phoenix | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2.8.JAG | ✗ | ✗ | 5 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
WinArcadia | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
29.37 | ✗ | ✗ | 21 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Xpeccy | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
0.6.20220219 | ✗ | ✗ | 14 | ? | ✓ | ✗ |
Z64K | ![]() |
2.0.0 | ✗ | ✗ | 5 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
DSP | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
0.19 | ✗ | ✗ | More than 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ? |
higan | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
v110 | ✗ | ~ | 14 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗[N 3] |
Wave | ![]() |
V0.9.6 | ✗ | ✗ | 8 (But you can import ROMs) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
EMU (Russian) | ![]() |
1.01 | ✗ | ✗ | More than 50 | ? | ✓ | ? |
kindred | ![]() |
1.12 Preview Build 3 | ✗ | ✗ | 7 | ✗ | ✓ | ? |
Xe | ![]() ![]() |
2.16.2 | ✗ | ✗ | 18 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
DarcNES | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9b0401/9b0313 | ✗ | ✗ | 8 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Nintendo | ||||||||
Dolphin | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
5.0 | ✗[N 4] | ✓ | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GBE+ | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1.7 | ✗ | ✗ | 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
No$GBA | ![]() ![]() |
3.05 | ✗ | ✗ | 3[N 5] | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Sega | ||||||||
Kega Fusion | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3.64 | ✗ | ✗ | 10 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
PicoDrive | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1.93 | ✗ | ✓ | 6 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
Sinclair | ||||||||
EightyOne | ![]() |
1.34 | ✗ | ✓ | 12 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Retro Virtual Machine | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2.0.beta-1.r6 | ✗ | ✗ | 2 | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
Commodore | ||||||||
VICE | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
3.7.1 | ✗ | ✓ | 6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
- ↑ CI-Windows CI-Linux CI-Macos
- ↑ As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)
- ↑ Superseded by ares.
- ↑ work-in-progress, Topic: Gamecube Dolphin achievements soon?
- ↑ No$GBA also does PocketStation emulation.
References[edit]
- ↑ www.mamedb.org's list (Only shows the games covered, not systems)
External Links[edit]
- 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.)