Notable projects and people
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This page is for relevant/notable emulation projects and people who are part of them.
- Notable platforms that need attention
- There are several systems that require more attention from the emulation community. While multiple emulators may exist, none of them appear particularly promising.
- Philips CD-i — No existing emulator fully supports CD-i games with full motion video due to the absence of DVC emulation. Implementing DVC emulation would significantly enhance CD-i emulation compatibility, and enabling support for CD-i Digital Video and Video CD playback as well.
- Pioneer LaserActive
- Game.com
- Gizmondo
- VMU/VMS
- PocketStation
- Apple iPod
- PlayStation Mobile
- GP32, GP2X, GP2X Wiz
- Pokitto
- BREW
- Palm OS
- Thumby
- XBLIG
- Apple Pippin
- Pico (Beena)
- Super A'Can
- Windows XP
- There might be more systems but keep in mind that this list is not extensive.
- Promising projects
- There are several promising projects in active development — currently in a highly incomplete state with limited compatibility and with a basic user interface.
- EKA2L1
- touchHLE
- Xenia, Xenia Canary and Xenia Netplay
- shadPS4 and RPCSX
- WinDurango and XWine1
- Infuse
- Nuance
- SnowPME
- DingusPPC
- Genymotion
- libevmu
- Delayed dreams
- While more mature than 'promising projects', these are still don't reach the level of 'most impressive' projects.
- melonDS (DS): Lack of DS(i) hardware feature implementations and enhancement features.
- PPSSPP: Lack of PSP hardware feature implementations.
- ares: Poor or lack of support for fifth-gen+ systems and enhancement features.
- xemu: Compatibility level, Lack of enhancement features, certain titles may demand significant CPU single-thread performance.
- Cemu: Compatibility level, lack of enhancement features.
- RPCS3: Compatibility level, hardware feature support is "not quite there yet" and lack of enhancements support, highly CPU-intensive especially for titles that heavily utilize the SPU.
- Vita3K: Compatibility level, lack of Vita hardware feature implementations and enhancement features.
- 86Box: Lack of ACPI PC hardware support implementations and enhancement features.
- J2ME Loader, FreeJ2ME (Plus and fork): Lack of enhancement features such as save states.
- Most impressive
- State-of-the-art projects, excellent compatibility levels, robust hardware feature and peripheral support, and comprehensive enhancement support.
- MAME
- Dolphin
- Flycast
- BigPEmu
- PCSX2: Even though hardware feature support is "not quite there yet", compatibility level and enhancement support is excellent.
- DuckStation: Even though hardware feature support is "not quite there yet", compatibility level and enhancement support is excellent.
- Historic emulators
- see History of emulation for more early emulators.
- These are not the most impressive/used emulators now, but were famous and/or revolutionary at one point.
- Most active and notable developers in the emulation and related scenes
- A dedicated section highlighting and featuring prominent figures for projects in the emulation scene could significantly contribute to the wiki's awareness and also it would be beneficial for the emulation community.
- Hans-Kristian Arntzen (Themaister) — CEO & Founder of Arntzen Software AS, contributor for lots of crucial emulator related projects, paraLLEl-RDP, paraLLEl-GS
- Connor McLaughlin (Stenzek) — Contributor to Dolphin Emulator, Contributions for the DuckStation project since last year, Contributions for the PCSX2 project since last year
- Luke Usher — Contributions for the ares project since last year, Contributions for the CXBX-Reloaded project since last year, also Insignia project.
- Rich Whitehouse — BigPEmu project.
- George Moralis (Shadow) — Founder of PCSX2 and PCSX projects. Contributions for the ShadPS4 project since last year.
- Henrik Rydgård — Contributions for the PPSSPP project since last year.
- flyinghead — Contributions for the Flycast project since last year.
- Gliniak — Contributions for the Xenia Canary project since last year.
- Other notable active contributors
- Refraction, JordanTheToaster and lightningterror — Contributions for the PCSX2 project since last year
- Megamouse, elad335 and kd-11 — Contributions for the RPCS3 project since last year
- Vitaliy Kuzmin (Triang3l) — Contributions for the Xenia project since last year
- Matt Borgerson — Contributions for the xemu project since last year
- Admiral H. Curtiss — Contributions for the Dolphin project since last year
- Miran Grča (OBattler) — Contributions for the 86Box project since last year
- Noah Pistilli — Contributor to Dolphin Emulator and Project Lead @ WiiLink.
- scribam — Contributions for the Flycast project since last year and Contributions for the Vita3K project since last year