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== Archival & hardware donations ==

Optical discs like CD and DVDs have a limited lifespan. They degrade over time and will eventually be unreadable to a disc reader.

'''[[Preservation projects]]''' like [http://no-intro.org/ No-Intro] and [~~http~~://wiki.redump.~~org~~/~~index.php?title=~~Redump~~.org~~ Redump] are focused on identifying all officially released carts and discs, respectively.

'''[[Preservation projects]]''' like [http://no-intro.org/ No-Intro] and [https://wiki.redump.info/Redump Redump] are focused on identifying all officially released carts and discs, respectively.

Each known cart/disc is stored with information which makes it possible for users to verify the correctness of their cart/disc.

Contributing to these databases (by dumping your cart/disc and contributing metadata) helps to build a full-set for testing emulators.

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===Emulators===

Note: If a single author or developer team maintains several different emulator projects at once, then instead of creating a separate entry for each emulator and listing the same author/team with each entry, just list the author/team in question along with all the emulators under author's/team's maintenance. Additionally, don't confuse [[commercial emulators]]/payware with free emulators with an option to donate to the dev(s), the table below is for the latter case. And please only add active emulators still being worked on.

Note: If a single author or developer team maintains several different emulator projects at once, then instead of creating a separate entry for each emulator and listing the same author/team with each entry, just list the author/team in question along with all the emulators under author's/team's maintenance. Additionally, don't confuse [[commercial emulators]]/payware with free emulators with an option to donate to the dev(s), the table below is for the latter case. The only case where adding payware is fine is where there's an option for OPTIONAL financial support IN ADDITION TO (not instead of) buying a licensed emulator. And please only add active emulators still being worked on.

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|Name in YouTube videos, and on website. Priority video requests.

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|[[AmiArcadia]], [[WinArcadia]], [[Super Bug Advance]]

|[[Emerson Arcadia 2001 emulators|Arcadia 2001]] (AmiArcadia, WinArcadia), [[Game Boy Advance emulators|GBA]] (Super Bug Advance)

|[https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&[email protected]&item_name=Software%20Development PayPal]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{n}}

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|[[Amiberry]]

|[[Amiga emulators|Amiga]]

|[https://github.com/sponsors/BlitterStudio GitHub Sponsor] [https://ko-fi.com/midwan Ko-fi]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{Y}}

|Name on website, and in releases notes. Logo on website and Readme. Priority issue responses. Amiberry Certified Partner badge for business.

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|[[BGB]]

|[[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Game Boy Color]]

|[https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1GKtGirdpJbY7BgKttJ4LCGzyUVzBJoL4W Bitcoin]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{N}}

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|[[BigPEmu]]

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|{{✓}}

|Discord, exclusive news, name in emulator

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|Clean Flash Player

|[[Flash]]

|[https://github.com/darktohka GitHub Sponsor] [https://liberapay.com/darktohka Liberapay] [https://ko-fi.com/disyer Ko-fi]

|{{Green}} {{License|MIT}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|{{n}}

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|[[ClownMDEmu]]

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|[[Emulicious]]

|[https://paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=J9X82EY8FHVX6 PayPal]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{n}}

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|[[Flycast]]

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|[[Geargrafx]], [[Gearboy]], [[Gearcoleco]], [[Gearsystem]], [[Gearlynx]]

|[[Geargrafx]], [[Gearboy]], [[Gearcoleco]], [[Gearsystem]], [[Gearlynx]], [[Geartowns]]

|[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)]], SuperGrafx (Geargrafx), [[Game Boy (Color)]] (Gearboy), [[ColecoVision]] (Gearcoleco), Sega Mark III, [[SG-1000]], [[Master System]], Game Gear, Othello Multivision (Gearsystem), [[Atari Lynx]] (Gearlynx)

|[[PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators|PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)]], [[SuperGrafx]] (Geargrafx), [[Game Boy (Color)]] (Gearboy), [[ColecoVision]] (Gearcoleco), Sega Mark III, [[SG-1000]], [[Master System]], Game Gear, Othello Multivision (Gearsystem), [[Atari Lynx]] (Gearlynx), [[FM Towns emulators|FM Towns]] (Geartowns)

|[https://github.com/sponsors/drhelius GitHub Sponsor]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

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|Exclusive news

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|[[Hi65]]

|[[Commodore 64 emulators#Commodore 65|Commodore 65]]

|[https://paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=J7JM3BHNLS5YG PayPal]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{n}}

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|[[Iris]], [[psxe]]

|[[PlayStation 2 emulators|PlayStation 2]], [[PlayStation emulators|PlayStation]]

|[https://buymeacoffee.com/allkern Buy Me A Coffee]

|{{Green}} {{License|MIT}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|{{✗}}

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|[[Manic EMU]]

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|Discord, technical support

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|[[PCSX-Redux]]

|[[PlayStation emulators|PlayStation]]

|[https://ko-fi.com/nicolasnoble Ko-fi]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

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|[[PCSX2]]

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|Retro Virtual Machine

|[[Retro Virtual Machine]]

|[[ZX Spectrum line|ZX Spectrum]], [[Amstrad CPC emulators|Amstrad CPC]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/retrovirtualmachine Patreon]

|[https://www.patreon.com/retrovirtualmachine Patreon] [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=55EBDLAKKU9HL PayPal] [https://ko-fi.com/D1D42AI31 Ko-fi]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{✓}}

|Exclusive news, name in emulator

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|[[RPCEmu]]

|[[RISC OS emulators|RISC OS]]

|[https://buymeacoffee.com/rpcemu Buy Me A Coffee]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{N}}

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|[[RPCS3]]

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|Discord, exclusive news, technical support, development polls, name in emulator

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|[[Ruffle]]

|[[Flash]]

|[https://opencollective.com/ruffle Open Collective] [https://github.com/sponsors/ruffle-rs GitHub Sponsor]

|{{Green}} {{License|Dual}} {{License|Permissive}} ({{License|MIT}} and {{License|Apache2}})

|{{n}}

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|[[SameBoy]]

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|[https://github.com/sponsors/LIJI32 GitHub Sponsor]

|{{Green}} {{License|MIT}} ({{License|Permissive}})

|{{n}}

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|[[SquirrelJME]]

|[[J2ME]]

|[http://ko-fi.com/xerthesquirrel Ko-fi] [https://www.patreon.com/SquirrelJME Patreon] [https://liberapay.com/xershadowtail Liberapay] [https://paypal.me/xerthesquirrel PayPal] [https://github.com/sponsors/XerTheSquirrel GitHub Sponsor] [https://btc.com/3AxDtLvmEk7h61BFy7J2v2t4s9m9uzWVvY Bitcoin]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{n}}

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|[[StarPSX]]

|[[PlayStation emulators|PlayStation]]

|[https://buymeacoffee.com/kaezr Buy Me A Coffee]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{n}}

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|[https://ko-fi.com/shadps4 Ko-fi]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{n}}

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|[[SUPER ZSNES]]

|[[SNES emulators|SNES]]

|[https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZSNES Patreon]

|{{Red}} {{License|Proprietary}}

|{{n}}

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|{{✓}}

|Exclusive emulator features, Discord, exclusive news

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|[[vAmiga]], [[VirtualC64]]

||[[Amiga emulators|Amiga]] (vAmiga), [[Commodore 64 emulators|Commodore 64]] (VirtualC64)

|[https://github.com/sponsors/dirkwhoffmann GitHub Sponsor]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv3}} {{License|MPL2}} {{License|MIT}} {{License|GPLv3}}

|{{n}}

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|[[VBA-M]]

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|Discord, name in readme, higher priority on reported issues

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|[[WinUAE]]

|[[Amiga emulators|Amiga]]

|[https://paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=DBQ9F44NEWTML PayPal]

|{{Green}} {{License|GPLv2}} ({{License|Copyleft}})

|{{✗}}

|{{n}}

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|[[xemu]]

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===~~Misc~~===

===Miscellaneous===

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! scope="col"|Name

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|[https://romhacking.net/ ROMhacking.net]

|[[Mods, hacks and fan-translations|Rom hacking]] website. The biggest(?) database of ~~rom~~ hacks and translations.

|[[Mods, hacks and fan-translations|Rom hacking]] website. The biggest (?) database of ROM hacks and translations.

|[https://www.patreon.com/Romhackingnet Romhackingnet]

|Site themes, site development forum, ad-free, sticky article, new site feature or improvement of your choosing.

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|[https://www.preservegames.org/ The Video Game Preservation Collective (VGPC)]

|Video game preservation. Contributes to [http://redump.~~org~~/ ~~redump.org~~], No-Intro and [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive].

|Video game preservation. Contributes to [http://redump.info/ Redump], No-Intro and [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive].

|[https://www.patreon.com/vgpc vgpc]

|Name on website

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;External links

* [https://graphtreon.com/ Graphtreon] - View a project's Patreon earnings, statistics, graphs and rankings.

==Bounty==

WIP

Happy Wars revival: $1000 ([https://discord.com/channels/1376193691345092768/1479539282782982350 Discord])

==Notable projects and people==

WIP section, kinda pointless atm.

This section is for relevant/notable emulation projects and people who are part of them.

~~;Platforms that need attention~~

~~{{main|:Category:Partially emulated}}~~

:There are several systems that require more attention from the emulation community. While multiple emulators may exist, none of them appear particularly promising. These systems for which a PC cannot yet fully replicate the experience, because emulators are incomplete, or lack support for key hardware features, peripherals, or specialized components. As a result, certain software or functions remain usable only on original hardware.

*[[Gizmondo emulators|Gizmondo]]

*[[IPod Classic emulators|Apple iPod]]

*[[IOS_emulators|Apple iOS]]

*[[PlayStation Mobile]]

*[[GP2X emulators|GP2X]], [[GP2X Wiz emulators|GP2X Wiz]]

*[[List of consoles|Pokitto]]

*[[List of consoles|Thumby]]

*Xbox 360's [[Xbox_360_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|Avatars]], [[Xbox_360_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|HD DVD player]], [[Xbox_360_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|XBLIG]] and [[Xbox_360_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|Kinect]]

*PSP's [[PlayStation_Portable_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|XrossMediaBar]] (XMB) and [[PlayStation_Portable_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|UMD Video, UMD Music, UMD-PG]]

*CD-i [[Philips CD-i emulators#Hardware features and accessories|DVC]] — No existing emulator fully supports CD-i games with full-motion video due to the absence of [[Philips CD-i emulators#Hardware features and accessories|DVC emulation]]. Implementing DVC emulation would significantly enhance CD-i emulation compatibility, and also enabling proper/full support for [[Home media players#Emulators|CD-i Digital Video and Video CD 1.1]] on PCs as well. Good news is, there are promising progress for DVC emulation on both CDi_MiSTer core and CD-i Emu.

*[[Game_Boy_(Color)_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|Game Boy (Color) hardware feature]] implementations

*[[Game_Boy_Advance_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|Game Boy Advance hardware feature]] implementations

*[[Nintendo_DS_emulators#Hardware_features_and_peripherals|DS hardware feature]] implementations and [[Nintendo DS emulators#Enhancements|enhancement features]]''

*[[Xbox emulators#Enhancements|Enhancement features for Original Xbox]]

*[[Intel-based_PC_emulator_comparisons#Hardware.2C_peripherals.2C_and_features|ACPI PC hardware support]] implementations and [[Intel-based_PC_emulator_comparisons#Enhancements|enhancement features]]

*Enhancement features for [[J2ME]]

*[[Apple Pippin]]

*[[Symbian_emulators|Symbian]]

*[[Xbox One emulators|Xbox One (X/S)]]

*[[Windows_NT_5.x_emulators|Windows XP]]

*[[MacOS_emulators|Mac OS X PPC]]

*[[Zeebo]] and [[BREW]]

*[[Nuon emulators#Emulators|Nuance]]

*[[Official emulators]]

;Tiers of Emulator Compatibility

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| || [[BigPEmu]] || Atari Jaguar/Jaguar CD