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|release = 2021April 18, 2022|official site pre-order price = {{Inflation|USD|179|2022}}|introductory price = {{Inflation|USD|199|2022}}|website = [http://play.date/ Play.date]|emulated = {{✗✓}}

The '''[[Wikipedia: Playdate (console)|Playdate]]''' are Handheld video game consoles is an handheld console developed by [[Wikipedia: Panic Inc.|Panic Inc]]. They were released 2021==Emulators=={| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"! scope="col"|Name! scope="col"|Platform(s)! scope="col"|Latest Version! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>! scope="col"|Active! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]|-! colspan="10"|PC / x86|-| Playdate Simulator| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Mac|Linux}} | [https://play.date/dev/ 2.2.0] | {{✗}} | {{✓}} | {{✓}}|-| Cranked| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}} | [https://github. The Playdate retailed for com/TheLogicMaster/Cranked] | {{✓}} | {{✓}} | {{Inflation✗}}|-| pd-emu|USDalign=left|149{{Icon|2021Windows|Linux}}| [https://github.com/scratchminer/pd-emu] | {{✓}} | {{✓}} | {{✗}}|}

==Emulators=Comparisons===;Playdate Simulator{{no current emulators}}:The official Playdate emulator by Panic, bundled in the first-party Playdate SDK as a test platform for developers. Plays most Lua-coded games perfectly by itself, but by design it does not play encrypted (DRM-laden) Catalog games or compiled C games from disparate platforms. In other words, a Playdate game partially coded in C but compiled on Mac won't run on the Windows simulator and vice versa because the Simulator runs compiled C code natively (as in, without emulation or interpretation).

<!-;Cranked:Early-===Emulation issues===stage open-source Playdate emulator. To->date much of the functionality is missing (sprites, audio, graphical effects), but the groundwork is laid for Lua and C games to boot down the line.

<!;pd--==References=={{Reflist}}emu:Another early-stage, open->source emulator that cannot be run since the author has yet to integrate the Playdate API.

[[Category:Not yet emulated]]<!ARM--[[Category:Very early emulationbased]]-->