Emulators on Android: Difference between revisions

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: This page is about emulators that run on Android.

 

 

; Before diving in;

;* See each Wiki Category [[:Category:Consoles|Consoles]], [[:Category:Computers|Computers]] and [[:Category:Arcade|Arcade]] for individual dedicated system pages to see more detailed comparisons and information about software emulators. Dedicated system pages provide more up-to-date listings and in-depth information on specific aspects like hardware features, peripheral support, and compatibility etc.

;* Some games have [[Game engine recreations and source ports]] that run on Android, which can be the better than emulators for their specific games. Also see [[Emulators on Android#Source ports.2Fre-implementations|Source ports/re-implementations for Android]] page.

 

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|Arctic Fox

|Bumblebee

|Chipmunk

|Dolphin

|Electric Eel

|Flamingo

|Giraffe

|Hedgehog

|Iguana

|Jellyfish

|Koala

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

|Atom

| colspan="2" |1

|Bender Bending Rodríguez

|Cupcake

|Doughnut

| rowspan="3" |Éclair

|Frozen Yogurt

| rowspan="2" |Gingerbread

| rowspan="3" |Honeycomb

| rowspan="2" |Ice Cream Sandwich

| rowspan="3" |Jelly Bean

| rowspan="2" |Kit Kat

| rowspan="2" |Lollipop

|Marshmallow

| rowspan="2" |Nougat

| rowspan="2" |Oreo

|Pie

|Queen Cake

|Red Velvet Cake

| rowspan="2" |Snow Cone

|Tiramisu

|Upside-Down Cake

|Vanilla Ice Cream

|Baklava

|Cinnamon Bun

== Bootloader ==

 

 

{| {{Emulator table}}

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/google.11976/ Google]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/nothing.12583/ Nothing]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|code||{{Ya}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/motorola.11990/ Motorola]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/oneplus.11993/ OnePlus]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}} (ColorOS)

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/sony.12026/ Sony Xperia] (Global)||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|Xiaomi, Redmi (Global) & Poco||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|app||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/zte.12034/ ZTE] & [https://xdaforums.com/c/nubia.12011/ Nubia]||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/htc.12038/ HTC]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/lg.12042/ LG]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|web||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/nokia.12020/ Nokia]||{{Na}}||{{Ya}} (HMD)

|code||{{~}}

|[https://xdaforums.com/c/samsung.11975/ Samsung] (One UI 7 and earlier)||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|button||{{Ya}}

|Asus||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Huawei||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Oppo||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Samsung (One UI 8 and later)||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Sharp||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Sony Xperia (Japan)||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Vivo||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|Xiaomi & Redmi (China)||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

== Custom ROMs ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

!Name

!Android version

!Latest release

!Active?

!<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>

|[https://lineageos.org LineageOS]

|16

|23.2||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://crdroid.net crDroid]

|16

|12.7||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://paranoidandroid.co Paranoid Android]

|14

|Uvite||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://divestos.org DivestOS]

|13

|20||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://grapheneos.org GrapheneOS]

|16

|2026030700||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter Kali NetHunter]

|13

|2023.2||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://calyxos.org CalyxOS]

|12

|3||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://omnirom.org OmniROM]

|14

|14||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://resurrectionremix.com Resurrection Remix OS]

|10

|8.7.1||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://aokp.co AOKP]

|9

|Pie||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20130803012122/http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ CyanogenMod]

|7.1.1

|14.1||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://slimroms.org SlimRoms]

|7.1

|7||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

|[https://www.replicant.us Replicant]

|6

|6||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}  

* [https://havoc-os.com/download.html HavocOS Official Site]

* [https://www.xda-developers.com/resurrection-remix-7-android-pie RemixOS] [https://resurrectionremix.com RemixOS Official Site]

* [https://download.pixelexperience.org Pixel Experience Official Site]

* [https://pixelextended.me/#downloads Pixel Extended Official Site]

* [http://potatoproject.co POSP Official Site]

* [https://evolution-x.org/download Evolution X Official Site]

* [https://aosip.dev AOSIP Official Site] [https://derpfest.org Derpfest Site]

* [https://syberiaos.com/downloads SyberiaOS Official Site]

* [https://downloads.msmxtended.org MSM-Xtended Official Site]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20220625185049/https://downloads.aospextended.com/ AOSP Extended Official Site]

* [https://dirtyunicorns.com CorvusOS Official Site]

* [https://arrowos.net/download ArrowOS Official Site]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20221017064230/https://download.revengeos.com/ RevengeOS Official Site]

* [https://projectsakura.xyz/download.html Project Sakura Official Site]

* [https://blissroms.com BlissOS Official Site]

* [https://get.carbonrom.org CarbonOS Official Site]

=== List ===

 

== Recovery ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

!Download links

|[https://skyhawkrecovery.github.io Sky Hawk Recovery Project] (SHRP)

== Root ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

!Download links

== GApps ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

!Download links

== Custom ROM Installers ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

!Active?

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|9.8||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jmz.soft.twrpmanager

|1.9.2||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify

|1.3.0.0||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.rom.installer

|0.73||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash

|3.0||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.flasher

== Multi-Systems ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

! colspan="6" |[[MAME]]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4d2024 {{MAME4droidVer}}]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

[https://github.com/seleuco/MAME4droid-2024 git]

|1.16.9||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4droid

[https://github.com/seleuco/MAME4droid-0.139u1- git]

|1.5.3||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seleuco.mame4all

[https://github.com/seleuco/imame4all git]

|1.1.7||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mameall.mame4android

! colspan="6" |[[libretro]]

|[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/android nightly]

[https://buildbot.libretro.com/stable stable]

 

[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.retroarch 1.19.1] (F-Droid)

 

[https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch git]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://github.com/neil4/RetroArch-Lite git]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.swordfish.lemuroid 1.16.1] (F-Droid)

 

[https://github.com/Swordfish90/Lemuroid git]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portableandroid.classicboyLite 6.4.4] (Lite)

[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portableandroid.classicboy 6.8.0] (Pro)

|{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chg.retrogamecenter 2.5.3]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rgh.retrogameworld 2.5.2]||{{~}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

! colspan="6" |[[Mednafen]]

|[[WonderDroid Ultra]]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atelieryl.wonderdroid {{WonderDroidUltraVer}}]

[https://github.com/williehwc/wonderdroid-x git]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

! colspan="6" |AmiArcadia

|[https://amigan.1emu.net/releases {{DroidArcadiaVer}}]

[https://amigan.yatho.com {{DroidArcadiaVer}}]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}

! colspan="6" |Others

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.markspace.retro 1.0.0.448]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emulator.box.aio 3.2.0]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{~}}

|[https://matsu-player.en.uptodown.com/android 4.13.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://afba.en.uptodown.com/android 0.2.97.35]

[https://github.com/Cpasjuste/afba git]

|{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[https://www.windroid7.net/2019/02/kawaks-arcade-emulator-v525-apk.html 5.2.7]

[http://www.mediafire.com/file/371twysokohu15n/kawaks.apk/file x.x]

|{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://appvn.com/android/jrioni-arcade-full-version/3-2-0/detail?id=com.jrioni.jarcade 3.2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xiaoji001.app 1.8.3]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}} (stolen emulators)||{{Na}}

|

== x86 CPUs ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

![[Recommended emulators|Recommended? (overall)]]

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bruenor.magicbox 1.0.96]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}

|[https://virtualmachinery.weebly.com/limbo-downloads.html 6.0.1]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{~}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.bochs 2.6.11]

[https://github.com/lubomyr/bochs git]

|{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zone.dos.app 2.1.5]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xls.screencapture 22.06.15]||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkcombo.com/ldosbox/lb.myapp.ldosbox/download/apk 2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://adosbox.en.uptodown.com/android 0.2.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locnet.dosbox 1.2.8]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.dosbox 2.2.0]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishstix.dosboxfree 2.1.21]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkcombo.app/dosbox4sk/name.atkio.dev.android.dosbox/download/apk 0.0.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkpure.com/gdosbox-dosbox-for-android/org.gemesys.android.dosbox 0.7.5.5]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.litchie.aemula4droid 2.2]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[[UniPCemu]]

|[https://superfury.itch.io/unipcemu 1.0]||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://apkpure.com/lbochs-pc-emulator/lb.myapp.lbochs 2.1]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

|[https://sites.google.com/site/wadimspc/spc-emulator-for-android 150513]||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Ya}}||{{Ya}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}||{{Na}}

{| {{Emulator table}}

| - '''Linux Distribution'''

* [https://www.slitaz.org/en/get Slitaz GNU/Linux]

* [http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html Damn Small Linux]

* [https://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer Debian Linux]

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/trinux/files Trinux]

* [https://www.freedos.org/download FreeDOS]

* [https://kolibrios.org/en/download KolibriOS]

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/files/ReactOS/0.4.13 ReactOS]

* [http://download.opensuse.org OpenSUSE]

* [https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Ubuntu]

* [https://getfedora.org Fedora]

* [https://www.kali.org/downloads Kali linux]

* [https://www.parrotsec.org/download ParrotOS]

* [https://www.android-x86.org/download Android X86 OS]

* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/files Nanolinux]

* [https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download RedHat linux]

* [https://www.centos.org/download CentOS]

* [https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html Knoppix]

* [https://www.bodhilinux.com/download Bodhi linux]

* [https://distrowatch.com/index-mobile.php?newsid=02133 Mandrake linux]

* [https://www.openmandriva.org/en/download OpenMandriva]

* [https://www.raspberrypi.org/software Raspberry Pi OS]

* [https://www.chakralinux.org Chakra linux]

* [https://manjaro.org/download Manjaro]

* [https://www.pentoo.ch/downloads pentoo linux]

* [http://iso.linuxquestions.org/deft-linux/ Deft linux]

* [http://www.slackware.com/getslack Slackware linux]

* [https://tails.boum.org/install Tails]

* [https://www.backbox.org/download BlackBox linux]

* [https://nixos.org/download.html NixOS]

* [https://www.oracle.com/in/solaris/solaris11/downloads/solaris-downloads.html Solaris]

* [https://zorinos.com/download ZorinOS]

* [https://mxlinux.org/download-links MX linux]

- '''Windows Supported'''

* [https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-98/98-second-edition Windows 98]

 

- '''macOS Supported'''

 

* [https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2071?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US macOS 10.15.7]

== Cloud Gaming/PC Games Streaming ==

{| {{Emulator table}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.limelight 10.8.4] (NVIDIA-Only)

[https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-android git]

|{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Ya}}  

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remotemyapp.vortex 2.0.1]||{{Na}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|[https://apkpure.com/remotr-remote-desktop/com.remotrapp.remotr 1.0.348]||{{Na}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.geforcenow 5.55.31461266]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|<!--[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.gloud.client.en -->4.2.4<!--]-->||{{Na}}

|PC/PS4/X360||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netboom.cloudgaming.vortex_stadia_shadow_GeForce 1.6.4.4]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.valvesoftware.steamlink 1.1.93]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihuaj.gamecc.global 1.6.31]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rainway 1.3.5]||{{~}}

|PC||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.parsec.client 3.150.078.00]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Ya}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thasnimindustries.cloudgaming 10.1]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Na}}

|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudgaming.torq V18]||{{Ya}}

|PC||{{Na}}