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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
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|Thousands of electronics<ref>[http://www.mamedb.org/List.aspx www.mamedb.org's list] (Only shows the games covered, not systems)</ref>
 
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|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
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|Retro Virtual Machine
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|[[ares]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/ 2.0.beta-1.r6]
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|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
 
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
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|[[higan]]
 
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|[https://byuu.org/higan {{higanVer}}]
 
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|[[Exodus]]
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|[[DSP]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator {{DSPVer}}]
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>
 
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|[http://www.exodusemulator.com/index.php/downloads/current-release {{ExodusVer}}]
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]
 
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|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator 0.18]
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|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia {{WinArcadiaVer}}]
 
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>
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|Xpeccy
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]
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|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/files/kindred1r12a.zip 1.12 PreviewBuild 1]
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* [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.)
 
* [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:Consoles]]
 
 
[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]
 
[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]

Revision as of 12:20, 23 December 2021

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

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Libretro Core # of Emulated systems FLOSS Active Recommended
Multi-company
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.266 Thousands of electronics[1]
Mednafen Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.32.1 17
OpenEmu macOS 2.4.1 35
Phoenix Windows Linux macOS 2.8.JAG 5
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 30 (excluding the libretro cores)
ZEsarUX Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 11.0 18
ares Windows v138 14
higan Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD v110 12
Pantheon Windows 14.062 20 ~
CLK macOS FreeBSD Template:Clkver 11
DSP Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.22 More than 10 ?
EMU (Russian) Windows 1.01 More than 50 ? ?
kindred Windows 1.12 Preview Build 3 7 ?
WinArcadia Windows AmigaOS MorphOS 32.6 21 ?
Z64K Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 2.0.0 5 ?
Xpeccy Windows Linux macOS 0.6.20231226 14 ? ?
Xe Windows Linux 2.16.2 18
DarcNES Windows Linux FreeBSD 9b0401/9b0313 8
Nintendo
Dolphin Windows Linux macOS 5.0 3
GBE+ Windows Linux macOS 1.8 4 ~
No$GBA Windows MS-DOS 3.05 3*
Sega
Kega Fusion Windows Linux macOS 3.64 10 ~
PicoDrive Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.93 6 ~
Sinclair
EightyOne Windows 1.40 12
Retro Virtual Machine Windows Linux macOS 2.0.beta-1.r6 2 ~
Commodore
VICE Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 3.8 6

*No$GBA apparently also does PocketStation emulation

References

  1. www.mamedb.org's list (Only shows the games covered, not systems)

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