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Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system [[ | {{Outdated}} | ||
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Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system emulator [[frontends]]. Intentionally excluded from this page are single-system frontends—such as EmuCon, MAME Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2 and others like them—and other software dedicated to other purposes that also offer some level of integration with standalone emulators, such as Kodi. | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | == Basic details == | ||
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! Name | {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-weight: 500; text-align: center; width: 100%;" | ||
! | ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width: 12em;" | Name | ||
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width: 9em;" | Developer | |||
! | ! scope="col" colspan="2" | Distribution | ||
! | ! scope="col" colspan="2" | Release production era | ||
! | ! scope="col" colspan="4" | Platform support and installation package types | ||
|- | |||
! scope="col" style="width: 4em;" | Source code available | |||
! | ! scope="col" style="width: 8.5em;" | Free/Libre license | ||
! | ! scope="col" data-sort-type="isoDate" style="width: 8.25em;" | Initial public | ||
| | ! scope="col" data-sort-type="isoDate" style="width: 9em;" | Latest stable | ||
! | ! scope="col" | Windows | ||
| | ! scope="col" | macOS | ||
| | ! scope="col" | GNU/Linux | ||
| | ! scope="col" style="width: 15em;" | Other | ||
| | |- | ||
| | ! scope="row" | [http://guerilla.bplaced.net/x86WinSoft.html All Stars Launcher] | ||
| | | 'el Comandante' | ||
| data-sort-value="1" {{Yellow|color=PaleGoldenrod}} On request | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text="Freeware"}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2020-09-30" | {{#formatdate:2020-09-30|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v2020.274)</span> | |||
|- | | data-sort-value="2024-01-30" | {{#formatdate:2024-01-30|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v2024.030)</span> | ||
! [http:// | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="asl_zip">File: [http://guerilla.bplaced.net/x86WinSoft/AllStarsLauncher.zip AllStarsLauncher.zip], version 2024.030, published on {{#formatdate:2024-01-30|ISO 8601}} at guerilla.bplaced.net.</ref>}} | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
|- | |||
| | ! scope="row" | [http://www.atomicfe.com/EN2/ Atomic FE] | ||
| {{ | | [mailto:[email protected] 'Youki'] | ||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✓ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| | | data-sort-value="2005-02-08" | {{#formatdate:2005-02-08|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v0.11)</span> | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=2010-01-23|text={{#formatdate:2010-01-23|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v0.20)</span>}} | ||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:.exe|EXE]]<ref name="atomic_exe">File: [http://www.atomicfe.com/ccount12/click.php?id=1 AtomicFE_v020.exe], version 0.20, published on {{#formatdate:2010-01-23|ISO 8601}} at www.atomicfe.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| | |- | ||
| | ! scope="row" | [https://attractmode.org/ Attract-Mode] | ||
| [mailto:[email protected] Andrew Mickelson] | |||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/mickelson/attract GitHub]<ref name="attract-mode_github">[https://github.com/mickelson/attract mickelson/attract] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2013-07-02|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPL-3.0-or-later]]<ref name="attract-mode_license">File: [https://github.com/mickelson/attract/blob/6fe2d8031308a641b525161f240b63fa24f32088/License.txt License.txt], from [https://github.com/mickelson/attract/commit/6fe2d8031308a641b525161f240b63fa24f32088 commit <kbd>6fe2d80</kbd>: Initial commit.] on {{#formatdate:2013-07-02|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/mickelson/attract mickelson/attract] at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| | | data-sort-value="2013-11-17" | {{#formatdate:2013-11-17|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/mickelson/attract/releases/tag/v1.0.2 v1.0])</span> | ||
|- | | data-sort-value="2023-06-10" | {{#formatdate:2023-06-10|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/mickelson/attract/releases/tag/v2.7.0 v2.7.0])</span> | ||
! [http:// | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="am_zip">File: [https://github.com/mickelson/attract/releases/download/v2.7.0/attract-v2.7.0-win64.zip attract-v2.7.0-win64.zip], version 2.7.0, published on {{#formatdate:2023-06-10|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| ' | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:Apple Disk Image|DMG]]<ref name="am_dmg">File: [https://github.com/mickelson/attract/releases/download/v2.6.1/attract-v2.6.1.dmg attract-v2.6.1.dmg], version 2.6.1, published on {{#formatdate:2020-01-18|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:tar (computing)|<span title="Compilation required">.tar.gz</span>]],<ref name="am_tarball">File: [https://github.com/mickelson/attract/archive/v2.7.0.tar.gz v2.7.0.tar.gz], version 2.7.0, published on {{#formatdate:2023-06-10|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref> [[wikipedia:Arch Linux#AUR|AUR]],<ref name="am_aur">Package: [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/attract attract] (unofficial), version 2.7.0-1, published on {{#formatdate:2023-06-12|ISO 8601}} by [https://aur.archlinux.org/account/eclairevoyant eclairevoyant] to the [[wikipedia:Arch Linux#AUR|Arch Linux User Repository (AUR)]].</ref> [[wikipedia:deb (file format)|DEB]]<ref name="am_ppa">File: [https://launchpad.net/~daveg/+archive/ubuntu/attract/+files/attract_2.2.0-3daveg1+yakkety_amd64.deb attract_2.2.0-3daveg1+yakkety_amd64.deb] (unofficial), version 2.2.0, published on {{#formatdate:2016-11-11|ISO 8601}} by [https://launchpad.net/~daveg David Gillies] to the [https://launchpad.net/~daveg/+archive/ubuntu/attract Attract-Mode PPA] on Launchpad.net.</ref>}} | ||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| | |- | ||
| | ! scope="row" | [https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/ Attract-Mode Plus] | ||
| | | [https://github.com/oomek Radek Dutkiewicz] | ||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/ GitHub]<ref name="amp_github">[https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/ oomek/attractplus] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2017-03-17|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPL-3.0-or-later]]<ref name="attract-mode_license" />}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2022-01-29" | {{#formatdate:2022-01-29|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/releases/tag/2.6.1 v2.6.1])</span> | |||
| {{✓|sort=2025-05-31|text={{#formatdate:2025-05-31|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/releases/tag/3.1.2 v3.1.2])</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:7z|7z]]<ref name="amp_7z_win">File: [https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/releases/download/3.1.2/attractplus_3.1.2_Windows.7z attractplus_3.1.2_Windows.7z], version 3.1.2, published on {{#formatdate:2025-05-31|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:7z|7z]]<ref name="amp_7z_mac">File: [https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/releases/download/3.1.2/attractplus_3.1.2_MacOS.7z attractplus_3.1.2_MacOS.7z], version 3.1.2, published on {{#formatdate:2025-05-31|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:deb (file format)|DEB]]<ref name="amp_deb">File: [https://github.com/oomek/attractplus/releases/download/3.1.2/attractplus_3.1.2_ubuntu-24.04_X11_amd64.deb attractplus_3.1.2_ubuntu-24.04_X11_amd64.deb], version 3.1.2, published on {{#formatdate:2025-05-31|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
|- | |||
| | ! scope="row" | [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub Aurora Game Hub] | ||
| [https://github.com/sguergachi Sammy Guergachi] | |||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://sourceforge.net/projects/auroragm/ Sourceforge],<ref name="agh_sourceforge">[https://sourceforge.net/projects/auroragm/ auroragm] public project page, created on {{#formatdate:2010-05-01|ISO 8601}} at Sourceforge.net.</ref> [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub GitHub]<ref name="agh_github">[https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub sguergachi/AuroraGameHub] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2012-09-30|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:Creative Commons license#BY-NC-ND|CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0]]<ref name="agh_license">File: [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub/blob/9080345e3c0638bb998a51b7058fded134b30ae0/LICENSE.txt LICENSE.txt], from [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub/commit/9080345e3c0638bb998a51b7058fded134b30ae0 commit <kbd>9080345</kbd>: Completed DashboardScreen Commenting&Refactoring] on {{#formatdate:2012-10-29|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub sguergachi/AuroraGameHub] at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| data-sort-value="2010-08-27" | {{#formatdate:2010-08-27|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://sourceforge.net/projects/auroragm/files/Aurora%20V1/ r09])</span> | |||
|- | | {{✗|sort=2014-08-30|text={{#formatdate:2014-08-30|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://sourceforge.net/p/auroragm/news/2014/08/aurora-game-hub---alpha-10/ Alpha 10])</span>}} | ||
! [ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="agh_zip_win">File: [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub/releases/download/Alpha_10/Aurora_Alpha10_Win.zip Aurora_Alpha10_Win.zip], version Alpha 10, published on {{#formatdate:2022-04-03|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="agh_zip_mac">File: [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub/releases/download/Alpha_10/Aurora_Alpha10_Mac.zip Aurora_Alpha10_Mac.zip], version Alpha 10, published on {{#formatdate:2022-04-03|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| {{✓ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
|- | |||
| | ! scope="row" | [[BizHawk]]<ref name="bizhawk_site">[https://tasvideos.org/BizHawk BizHawk official website], first uploaded on {{#formatdate:2012-03-03|ISO 8601}}.</ref> | ||
| [mailto:[email protected] 'YoshiRulz'] | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk GitHub]<ref name"bizhawk_github">[https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk TASEmulators/BizHawk] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2011-01-11|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:MIT License|MIT]]<ref name="bizhawk_license">File: [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/blob/f4a6e8711cbe660adf482fc1877c00d4bf2de8b2/LICENSE LICENSE], from [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/commit/f4a6e8711cbe660adf482fc1877c00d4bf2de8b2 commit <kbd>f4a6e87</kbd>: add MIT license to repository, since that's what it's always been, but add a long section describing what a mishmash this repository is -- fair warning. Fixes #933] on {{#formatdate:2017-07-24|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk TASEmulators/BizHawk] at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2012-03-03" | {{#formatdate:2012-03-03|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/PreviousReleaseHistory#Bizhawk100 v1.0.0])</span> | |||
| {{✓|sort=2025-01-07|text={{#formatdate:2025-01-07|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/ReleaseHistory#Bizhawk210 v2.10])</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="bizhawk_zip">File: [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/releases/download/2.10/BizHawk-2.10-win-x64.zip BizHawk-2.10-win-x64.zip], version 2.10, published on {{#formatdate:2025-01-07|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| data-sort-value="1" {{Yellow|color=PaleGoldenrod}} [[wikipedia:tar (computing)|<span title="Compilation required">.tar.gz</span>]]<ref name="bizhawk_tarball">File: [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/releases/download/2.10/BizHawk-2.10-linux-x64.tar.gz BizHawk-2.10-linux-x64.tar.gz], version 2.10, published (with [https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk#building compilation instructions]) on {{#formatdate:2025-01-07|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref> | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
|- | |||
| | ! scope="row" | [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/ Cabrio FE] | ||
| [https://github.com/SteveMaddison Steve Maddison] | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio GitHub]<ref name"cabrio_github">[https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio SteveMaddison/cabrio] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2009-10-19|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:GNU General Public License#Version 2|GPL-2.0-or-later]]<ref name="cabrio_license">File: [https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio/blob/a825fc8252489cabf4c17a65f5f67ec40cabc4ff/COPYING COPYING], from [https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio/commit/a825fc8252489cabf4c17a65f5f67ec40cabc4ff commit <kbd>a825fc8</kbd>: Added license information] on {{#formatdate:2009-10-24|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio SteveMaddison/cabrio] at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2009-11-29" | {{#formatdate:2009-11-29|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio/blob/master/debian/changelog v0.8.1 beta])</span> | |||
| {{✗|sort=2011-06-24|text={{#formatdate:2011-06-24|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio/blob/master/debian/changelog v0.8.2 beta])</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="cabrio_zip">File: [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/download/cabrio-0.8.1.zip cabrio-0.8.1.zip] (32-bit), version 0.8.1 beta, published on {{#formatdate:2009-11-29|ISO 8601}} at www.cabrio-fe.org.</ref>}} | |||
| | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:tar (computing)|<span title="Compilation required">.tar.gz</span>]],<ref name="cabrio_tarball">File: [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/download/cabrio-0.8.2.tar.gz cabrio-0.8.2.tar.gz], version 0.8.2 beta, published on {{#formatdate:2011-06-24|ISO 8601}} at www.cabrio-fe.org.</ref> [[wikipedia:deb (file format)|DEB]]<ref name="cabrio_deb">File: [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/download/cabrio_0.8.2-1_i386.deb cabrio_0.8.2-1_i386.deb] (32-bit), version 0.8.2 beta, published on {{#formatdate:2011-06-24|ISO 8601}} at www.cabrio-fe.org.</ref>}} | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | [http://emucenter.2.free.fr/website/ENG/ EmuCenter2] | |||
| {{ | | [mailto:[email protected] 'XotoB'] | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2010-03-20" | {{#formatdate:2010-03-20|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v0.6)</span> | |||
| {{✗|sort=2016-09-01|text={{#formatdate:2016-09-01|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v7.1.0.1)</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:.exe|EXE]]<ref name="emucenter2_exe">File: [http://emucenter.2.free.fr/update/update.7.1.0.1.exe update.7.1.0.1.exe] (32/64-bit), version 7.1.0.1, published on {{#formatdate:2016-09-01|ISO 8601}} at emucenter.2.free.fr.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✓ | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | [https://web.archive.org/web/20210607003404if_/https://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/ EmuCon] | |||
| [mailto:[email protected] Ciro Alfredo Consentino] | |||
| {{ | | {{✓|sort=2|text=✅<ref name"emucon_source">File: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210607003406if_/http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/files/emucon277-src.rar emucon277-src.rar], version 2.7.7, published on {{#formatdate:2017-11-21|ISO 8601}} at emuloader.mameworld.info.</ref>}} | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | ||
| | | data-sort-value="2008-04-23" | {{#formatdate:2008-04-23|ISO 8601}}<ref name="emucon_changelog">[https://web.archive.org/web/20180208221312if_/http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/changelog.htm EmuCon Changelog] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20210607003404if_/https://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/ emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/], last updated on {{#formatdate:2017-11-21|ISO 8601}}.</ref><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v2.0)</span> | ||
| | | {{✗|sort=2017-11-21|text={{#formatdate:2017-11-21|ISO 8601}}<ref name="emucon_changelog" /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(v2.7.7)</span>}} | ||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:RAR (file format)|RAR]]<ref name="emucon_rar">File: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210607003406if_/http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/files/emucon277-bin.rar emucon277-bin.rar], version 2.7.7, published on {{#formatdate:2017-11-21|ISO 8601}} at emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | [https://emulationstation.org/ EmulationStation] | |||
| [https://aloshi.com/ Alec Lofquist] | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation GitHub]<ref name"es_github">[https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation Aloshi/EmulationStation] public Git source code repository, created on {{#formatdate:2012-07-18|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| | | {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:MIT License|MIT]]<ref name="es_license">File: [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/blob/9350ed3615e996146e8adaf554a8403ef2b8fa9e/LICENSE.md LICENSE.md] from [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/commit/9350ed3615e996146e8adaf554a8403ef2b8fa9e commit <kbd>9350ed3</kbd>: Removed extremely out-of-date changelog.] on {{#formatdate:2014-06-05|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation Aloshi/EmulationStation] at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | ||
| data-sort-value="2013-10-26" | {{#formatdate:2013-10-26|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/releases/tag/1.0.0 v1.0.0])</span> | |||
| {{✗|sort=2015-03-08|text={{#formatdate:2015-03-08|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/commit/646bede3d9ec0acf0ae378415edac136774a66c5 v2.0.1a])</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:.exe|EXE]],<ref name="es_exe">File: [https://emulationstation.org/downloads/releases/2.0.1a/emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.exe emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.exe] (32-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on {{#formatdate:2015-03-08|ISO 8601}} at emulationstation.org.</ref> [[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="es_zip">File: [https://emulationstation.org/downloads/releases/2.0.1a/emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.zip emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.zip] (32-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on {{#formatdate:2015-03-08|ISO 8601}} at emulationstation.org.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:deb (file format)|DEB]]<ref name="es_deb">File: [https://emulationstation.org/downloads/releases/2.0.1a/emulationstation_2.0.1a-1_amd64.deb emulationstation_2.0.1a-1_amd64.deb] (64-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on {{#formatdate:2015-03-08|ISO 8601}} at emulationstation.org.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | [https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/ EmulationStation:<br />RetroPie fork] | |||
| [https://github.com/tomaz82 Tomas Jakobsson] & [https://github.com/joolswills <span style="white-space: nowrap;">Jools Wills</span>] | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation GitHub]<ref name"es_retropie_github">[https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation RetroPie/EmulationStation] public Git source code repository forked from [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation Aloshi/EmulationStation] on {{#formatdate:2015-06-01|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:MIT License|MIT]]<ref name="es_license" />}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2017-03-07" | {{#formatdate:2017-03-07|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v0.2 v2.0.2])</span> | |||
| data-sort-value="2023-04-13" | {{#formatdate:2023-04-13|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/releases/tag/v2.11.2 v2.11.2])</span> | |||
| data-sort-value="1" {{Yellow|color=PaleGoldenrod}} [[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|<span title="Compilation required">ZIP</span>]]<ref name="es_retropie_zip">File: [https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/archive/refs/tags/v2.11.2.zip v2.11.2.zip], version 2.11.2, published (with [https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation#building-on-windows compilation instructions]) on {{#formatdate:2023-04-12|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref> | |||
| {{✗|sort=0|text=❌}} | |||
| data-sort-value="1" {{Yellow|color=PaleGoldenrod}} [[wikipedia:tar (computing)|<span title="Compilation required">.tar.gz</span>]]<ref name="es_retropie_tarball">File: [https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/archive/refs/tags/v2.11.2.tar.gz v2.11.2.tar.gz], version 2.11.2, published (with [https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation#building-on-linux compilation instructions]) on {{#formatdate:2023-04-13|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref> | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:Raspberry Pi|Raspberry Pi]] Zero/<span style="white-space: nowrap;">Zero 2 W</span>/1/2/3/4/400<ref name="RetroPie Documentation">[https://emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html#install_rpi_retropie RetroPie Documentation on the EmulationStation wiki]</ref> ([[wikipedia:IMG (file format)|IMG]])<ref name="es_retropie_img">File: [https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/releases/download/4.8/retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400.img.gz retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400.img.gz], version 4.8, published on {{#formatdate:2022-03-14|ISO 8601}} at GitHub.com.</ref>}} | |||
|- | |||
! scope="row" | [https://es-de.org/ EmulationStation<br />Desktop Edition (ES-DE)] | |||
| [mailto:[email protected] Leon Styhre] | |||
| {{~|sort=2|color=PaleGoldenrod|text=[https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de GitLab]<ref name="es-de_gitlab">[https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de ES-DE/ES-DE Frontend] public Git source code repository forked from [https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation Aloshi/EmulationStation] on {{#formatdate:2020-05-16|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref><ref name="es-de_sources">[https://es-de.org/#Download ES-DE Frontend (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) – Download (es-de.org)]: "The Android release is a paid app and is partially-closed source; please don't distribute it or share download links to the APK. The Windows, macOS and Linux releases are, however, fully open source and free to download, use and distribute in any way you want." Android version requires a minimum donation of US$5.50 on [https://www.patreon.com/es_de Patreon] (no re-subscription required for future updates) or US$6.50 at select mobile app stores (currently only [https://galaxystore.samsung.com/detail/org.es_de.frontend.galaxy Samsung Galaxy Store]; the app was delisted from the Huawei AppGallery).</ref>}} | |||
| {{~|sort=2|color=PaleGoldenrod|text=[[wikipedia:MIT License|MIT]]<ref name="es_license" /><br />(except Android)}} | |||
| data-sort-value="2021-04-20" | {{#formatdate:2021-04-20|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/releases?after=eyJyZWxlYXNlZF9hdCI6IjIwMjItMDMtMzAgMTc6MTk6NTMuNjU5NDk2MDAwICswMDAwIiwiaWQiOiI0NjAwMDA4In0#version-100 v1.0.0])</span> | |||
| {{✓|sort=2025-07-15|text={{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}}<br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">([https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/releases#version-330--330-48 v3.3.0-48])</span>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:.exe|EXE]],<ref name="es-de_exe">File: [https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/package_files/210672910/download ES-DE_3.3.0-x64.exe] (64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref> [[wikipedia:ZIP (file format)|ZIP]]<ref name="es-de_zip">File: [https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/package_files/210673039/download ES-DE_3.3.0-x64_Portable.zip] (64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:Apple Disk Image|DMG]],<ref name="es-de_dmg_intel">File: [https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/package_files/212641229/download ES-DE_3.3.0-x64.dmg] (Intel 64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref><ref name="es-de_dmg_apple">File: [https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/package_files/210210122/download ES-DE_3.3.0-arm64.dmg] (Apple Silicon 64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref> [[wikipedia:Homebrew|Homebrew]]<ref name="es-de_homebrew">Cask: [https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/es-de es-de], version 3.3.0,210210122; published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-18|ISO 8601}} to the Homebrew Formulae.</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:AppImage|AppImage]],<ref name="es-de_appimage_linux">File: [https://gitlab.com/es-de/emulationstation-de/-/package_files/210210324/download ES-DE_x64.AppImage] (64-bit, official), version 3.3.0-48, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} at GitLab.com.</ref> [[wikipedia:rpm (file format)|RPM]],<ref name="es-de_rpm_terra">File: [https://github.com/terrapkg/packages/blob/frawhide/anda/games/emulationstation-de/emulationstation-de.spec emulationstation-de.spec] (unofficial), version 3.3.0, from [https://github.com/terrapkg/packages/commit/8ab9217999fa1a7a75a18c2e5dda4d6b171cc0cd commit <kbd>8ab9217</kbd>: bump: emulationstation-de inputplumber] on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} to [https://github.com/terrapkg/packages terrapkg/packages] (Fyra Labs Terra 3<sup>rd</sup>-party package repository for Fedora Linux) at GitHub.com.</ref><ref name="es-de_rpm_alt">Package: [https://packages.altlinux.org/en/sisyphus/srpms/emulationstation-de/ emulationstation-de] (unofficial), version 3.2.0-alt1, published on {{#formatdate:2025-05-23|ISO 8601}} by [https://packages.altlinux.org/en/sisyphus/maintainers/arbars/ Artyom Bystrov] to the [[wikipedia:ALT Linux|ALT Linux]] [https://packages.altlinux.org/en/sisyphus/ Sisyphus package repository].</ref> [[wikipedia:Arch Linux#AUR|AUR]],<ref name="es-de_aur">Package: [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emulationstation-de emulationstation-de] (official), version 3.3.0-1, published on {{#formatdate:2025-07-15|ISO 8601}} by [https://aur.archlinux.org/account/LeonStyhre LeonStyhre] to the [[wikipedia:Arch Linux#AUR|Arch Linux User Repository (AUR)]].</ref> [[wikipedia:Nix (package manager)#Nixpkgs|Nixpkg]]<ref name="es-de_nixpkg">Package: [https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=emulationstation-de emulationstation-de] (unofficial), version 3.2.0, published on {{#formatdate:2025-04-30|ISO 8601}} by [https://github.com/ivarmedi Ivar Larsson] to [[wikipedia:Nix (package manager)#Nixpkgs|Nixpkgs]].</ref>}} | |||
| {{✓|sort=2|text=[[wikipedia:Android (operating system)|Android]], [[wikipedia:FreeBSD|FreeBSD]], [[wikipedia:Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]], [[wikipedia:OpenBSD|OpenBSD]], [[wikipedia:Steam Deck|Steam Deck]]}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! [http://emuloader.mameworld.info/ EmuLoader] | ! [http://emuloader.mameworld.info/ EmuLoader] | ||
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| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | | 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | ||
| | | 2021-10-27 (v8.9.4) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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! [http://feelfrontend.altervista.org/ FEEL] | ! [http://feelfrontend.altervista.org/ FEEL] | ||
| 'Sincro' | | 'Sincro' | ||
| {{ | | {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/dr-prodigy/feel-frontend Github - dr-prodigy/feel-frontend]</ref> | ||
| {{ | | {{✓}} (LGPLv3) | ||
| | | 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1) | ||
| | | 2020-04-21 (v1.9.8.6) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| | | 2016-04-14 (v14.44) | ||
| | | 2024-03-13 (v18.61) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! [https://gameroom.me/ GameRoom] | ! [https://gameroom.me/ GameRoom] | ||
| | | Max 'n0xew' ?? | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| | | 2016-12-13 (v0.0.0.9) | ||
| | | 2018-03-12 (v1.1.2.0) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3) | | {{✓}} (GPLv3) | ||
| 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) | | 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) | ||
| 2019-05-24 (v3. | | 2019-05-24 (v3.33.2) | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
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| N/A | | N/A | ||
|- | |- | ||
! [https://www.launchbox-app.com/ | ! [https://www.launchbox-app.com/ LaunchBox] | ||
| Jason Carr | | Jason Carr | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher] | ! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher] | ||
| Jörg Sonntag | | Jörg 'MK2k' Sonntag | ||
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref> | | {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref> | ||
| {{✓}} (GPLv3) | | {{✓}} (GPLv3) | ||
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| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | | 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | ||
| | | 2024-05-01 (v10.1) | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
|- | |||
! [https://github.com/quinton-ashley/nostlan Nostlan] | |||
| Quinton Ashley | |||
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/quinton-ashley/nostlan Github - quinton-ashley/Nostlan]</ref> | |||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) | |||
| 2025-08-12 (v3.0) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| N/A | |||
|- | |- | ||
! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus] | ! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus] | ||
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| {{✓}} (GPLv3) | | {{✓}} (GPLv3) | ||
| 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) | | 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) | ||
| | | 2025-10-04 (alpha 16) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
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| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} Experimental | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
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| {{✓}} (MIT) | | {{✓}} (MIT) | ||
| 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) | | 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) | ||
| | | 2025-01-28 (v10.35) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! [http://quickplay.sourceforge.net/ QuickPlay] | ! [http://quickplay.sourceforge.net/ QuickPlay] | ||
| | | John Scott | ||
| {{✓}}<ref name"SourceForge repository">[https://sourceforge.net/p/quickplay/code/ SourceForge - QuickPlay]</ref> | | {{✓}}<ref name"SourceForge repository">[https://sourceforge.net/p/quickplay/code/ SourceForge - QuickPlay]</ref> | ||
| {{✓}} (BSD-3) | | {{✓}} (BSD-3) | ||
| 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | | 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | ||
| | | 2022-03-26 (v4.7.6) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
|- | |||
! [https://www.retroarch.com/ RetroArch] | |||
| 'Twinaphex' and others | |||
| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch Github - libretro/RetroArch]</ref> | |||
| {{✓}} (GPLv3) | |||
| 2011-01-25 (v0.2) | |||
| 2024-05-30 (v{{RetroArchVer}}) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| DOS, BSD, Haiku, Solaris, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Switch, NES/SNES Classic Edition, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Web Browser | |||
|- | |- | ||
! [http://retrofe.nl/ RetroFe] | ! [http://retrofe.nl/ RetroFe] | ||
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| 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) | | 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} To be compiled | ||
| {{✓}} | | {{✓}} | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
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! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey] | ! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey] | ||
| 'romjacket' | | 'romjacket' | ||
| {{ | | {{{✗}}<ref>[https://github.com/romjacket/skeletonKey Github - romjacket/skeletonKey]</ref> | ||
| {{✗}} | | {{✗}} | ||
| 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) | | 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) | ||
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| {{✓}} (MPLv2.0) | | {{✓}} (MPLv2.0) | ||
| 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) | | 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158) | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} To be compiled | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} To be compiled | ||
| | |{{Yellow}} To be compiled | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
|- | |- | ||
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|} | |} | ||
= Technical facts = | == Technical facts == | ||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
! Name | ! Name | ||
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! Libraries used | ! Libraries used | ||
|- | |- | ||
! All Stars Launcher | |||
| 100 KiB - 135 MiB | |||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| MASM - Machine Language | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! Atomic | ! Atomic | ||
| 35.2 MiB | | 35.2 MiB | ||
| | |{{Red}} Discontinued | ||
| Visual Basic | | Visual Basic | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
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! Attract-Mode | ! Attract-Mode | ||
| 34.5 - 35.9 MiB | | 34.5 - 35.9 MiB | ||
| | |{{Green}} Actively maintained | ||
| C++ | | C++ | ||
| SFML, OpenAL, Zlib, FreeType 2, FFmpeg (avformat, avcodec, swscale, avutil, swresample/avresample), OpenGL+GLU, JPEG. Optionally: Fontconfig, Xinerama, libarchive, Libcurl. | | SFML, OpenAL, Zlib, FreeType 2, FFmpeg (avformat, avcodec, swscale, avutil, swresample/avresample), OpenGL+GLU, JPEG. Optionally: Fontconfig, Xinerama, libarchive, Libcurl. | ||
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! Aurora Game Hub | ! Aurora Game Hub | ||
| 12.2 MiB | | 12.2 MiB | ||
| | |{{Red}} Discontinued | ||
| Java | | Java | ||
| h2 database Engine | | h2 database Engine | ||
|- | |- | ||
! BizHawk | ! BizHawk | ||
| 48.1 MiB (+43 MiB on | | 48.1 MiB (+43 MiB on Windows) | ||
| | |{{Green}} Actively maintained | ||
| C++ & C# | | C++ & C# | ||
| DirectX 9, libblip_buf | | DirectX 9, libblip_buf | ||
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! Bottlenose | ! Bottlenose | ||
| 56.4 - 87.2 MiB | | 56.4 - 87.2 MiB | ||
| | |{{Green}} Actively maintained | ||
| HTML/JS/CSS | | HTML/JS/CSS | ||
| await-spawn, bootstrap, chrome-finder, circletype, contro, contro-ui, copy-paste, deep-extend, delay, diacritics, electron-pug, fs-extra, fuse.js, gca-js, gooder, jquery, klaw, markdown-it, material-design-icons-iconfont, moment, mousetrap, node-7z, opn, popper.js, probe-image-size, pug, puppeteer-core, requisition, tether, three, yauzl-promise | | await-spawn, bootstrap, chrome-finder, circletype, contro, contro-ui, copy-paste, deep-extend, delay, diacritics, electron-pug, fs-extra, fuse.js, gca-js, gooder, jquery, klaw, markdown-it, material-design-icons-iconfont, moment, mousetrap, node-7z, opn, popper.js, probe-image-size, pug, puppeteer-core, requisition, tether, three, yauzl-promise | ||
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! CabrioFE | ! CabrioFE | ||
| 1.5 MiB | | 1.5 MiB | ||
| | |{{Red}} Discontinued | ||
| C | | C | ||
| SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg | | SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg | ||
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! CoinOPS | ! CoinOPS | ||
| ? | | ? | ||
| | |{{Red}} Discontinued | ||
| ? | | ? | ||
| ? | | ? | ||
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! EmuCenter 2 | ! EmuCenter 2 | ||
| 176 MiB | | 176 MiB | ||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| C++ and/or C# | | C++ and/or C# | ||
| N/A | | N/A | ||
|- | |- | ||
! EmuCon | ! EmuCon | ||
| 5.54 MiB | |||
|{{Red}} Discontinued | |||
| Pascal | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! EmulationStation | ||
| 13.1 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| C++ | |||
| SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Locale), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL | |||
|- | |- | ||
! EmuLoader | ! EmuLoader | ||
| 16.50 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| Pascal | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
! ES-DE | |||
| 189 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| C++ | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! FEEL | ! FEEL | ||
| 26.4 MiB | |||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| C# | |||
| XNA, SharpDx, SmartASD, "other smaller libs" (sic) | |||
|- | |- | ||
! GameEx | ! GameEx | ||
| 81.8 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| C# | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! GameRoom | ! GameRoom | ||
| 67.7 MiB | |||
|{{Red}} Discontinued | |||
| Java | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Games (Gnome) | ! Games (Gnome) | ||
| 8.9 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| Vala | |||
| retro-gtk, libmanette, libhandy | |||
|- | |- | ||
! HyperSpin | ! HyperSpin | ||
| 479.12 MiB | |||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| ActionScript | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Ice | ! Ice | ||
| 11.3 MiB | |||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| Python | |||
| appdirs, pastebin, psutil, pysteam | |||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! LaunchBox | ||
| 218 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| C# | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! LusSpace | ! LusSpace | ||
| 2.9 MiB | |||
|{{Yellow}} Possibly discontinued | |||
| Visual Basic 6 | |||
| | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Lutris | ! Lutris | ||
| 1.7 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| Python | |||
| PyYAML, PyGObject, evdev, requests, optional pypresence for discord | |||
|- | |- | ||
! MaLa | ! MaLa | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Metropolis Launcher | ! Metropolis Launcher | ||
| 261.16 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| VB.Net 4.0 | |||
| DevExpress WinForms v15.2, DiscUtils, HtmlAgilityPack, Newtonsoft.Json, Ookii.Dialogs, SgmlReaderDll, SharpCompress | |||
|- | |- | ||
! mGalaxy | ! mGalaxy | ||
| 194 MiB | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
|- | |- | ||
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! Playnite | ! Playnite | ||
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|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
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! Project Ascension | ! Project Ascension | ||
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! QuickPlay | ! QuickPlay | ||
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|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| Delphi | |||
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! RetroArch | |||
| 4.8 - 165 - 806 MiB (Android - Win10 64bit - PS3 DEX) | |||
|{{Green}} Actively maintained | |||
| C | |||
| libretro, an audio library (ALSA, OSS, etc.), optional dependencies | |||
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! RetroFe | ! RetroFe | ||
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|} | |} | ||
= Emulator support = | == Emulator support == | ||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
! Name | ! Name | ||
! RetroArch | |||
! MAME | ! MAME | ||
! NEStopia | ! NEStopia | ||
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! EmuCon | ! EmuCon | ||
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! | ! EmulationStation | ||
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! EmuLoader | ! EmuLoader | ||
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! ES-DE | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! FEEL | ! FEEL | ||
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! Ice | ! Ice | ||
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! | ! LaunchBox | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! LusSpace | ! LusSpace | ||
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! Metropolis Launcher | ! Metropolis Launcher | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! mGalaxy | ! mGalaxy | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! Pegasus | ! Pegasus | ||
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! QuickPlay | ! QuickPlay | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |||
! RetroArch | |||
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! RetroFe | ! RetroFe | ||
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|} | |} | ||
= Features = | == Features == | ||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | {| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
! Name | ! Name | ||
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! Scrape video previews | ! Scrape video previews | ||
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! Atomic | ! [http://www.atomicfe.com/EN2/index.php Atomic] | ||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! Attract-Mode | ! [http://attractmode.org/index.html Attract-Mode] | ||
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| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Aurora Game Hub | ! [https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub Aurora Game Hub] | ||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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! BizHawk | ! [https://tasvideos.org/BizHawk BizHawk] | ||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
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! Bottlenose | ! [https://github.com/vassilmladenov/bottlenose Bottlenose] | ||
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! CabrioFE | ! [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/ CabrioFE] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! CoinOPS | ! CoinOPS | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! EmuCenter 2 | ! EmuCenter 2 | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! EmuCon | ! EmuCon | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Emulation Station | ! Emulation Station | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! EmuLoader | ! EmuLoader | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! FEEL | ! [https://feelfrontend.altervista.org/ FEEL] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! GameEx | ! [https://www.gameex.com/ GameEx] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! GameRoom | ! GameRoom | ||
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! Games (Gnome) | ! Games (Gnome) | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! HyperSpin | ! [https://hyperspin-fe.com/ HyperSpin] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} | |||
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! Ice | ! [https://scottrice.github.io/Ice/ Ice] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! | ! [https://www.launchbox-app.com/ LaunchBox] | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} (Paid) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! LusSpace | ! LusSpace | ||
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! Lutris | ! Lutris | ||
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! MaLa | ! MaLa | ||
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! Maximus Arcade | ! Maximus Arcade | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Metropolis Launcher | ! Metropolis Launcher | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} (built-in only) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✓}} (offline db) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! mGalaxy | ! mGalaxy | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} (Paid) | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
|- | |- | ||
! Pegasus | ! Pegasus | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|- | |- | ||
! Photon Game Manager | ! Photon Game Manager | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Playnite | ! Playnite | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
|{{Yellow}} Via plugin | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
|{{Yellow}} Via plugin | |||
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! Project Ascension | ! Project Ascension | ||
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! QuickPlay | ! QuickPlay | ||
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|- | |||
! RetroArch | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✓}} (Limited) | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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! RetroFe | ! RetroFe | ||
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! RoM-Jacket | ! RoM-Jacket | ||
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! skeletonKey | ! skeletonKey | ||
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! Snowflake | ! Snowflake | ||
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|- | |- | ||
! Steam Rom Manager | ! Steam Rom Manager | ||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✗}} | |||
| {{✓}} | |||
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|} | |} | ||
</div> | |||
== References == | |||
<references responsive /> | |||
== External links == | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190306132727/http://coinops.ninja/ CoinOPS.ninja] | |||
[[Category:FAQs]] | |||
[[Category:Tables]] | |||
Latest revision as of 21:46, 6 November 2025
Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system emulator frontends. Intentionally excluded from this page are single-system frontends—such as EmuCon, MAME Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2 and others like them—and other software dedicated to other purposes that also offer some level of integration with standalone emulators, such as Kodi.
Basic details
[edit | edit source]| Name | Developer | Distribution | Release production era | Platform support and installation package types | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source code available | Free/Libre license | Initial public | Latest stable | Windows | macOS | GNU/Linux | Other | ||
| All Stars Launcher | 'el Comandante' | On request | "Freeware" | 2020-09-30 (v2020.274) |
2024-01-30 (v2024.030) |
ZIP[1] | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Atomic FE | 'Youki' | ❌ | ❌ | 2005-02-08 (v0.11) |
2010-01-23 (v0.20) |
EXE[2] | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Attract-Mode | Andrew Mickelson | GitHub[3] | GPL-3.0-or-later[4] | 2013-11-17 (v1.0) |
2023-06-10 (v2.7.0) |
ZIP[5] | DMG[6] | .tar.gz,[7] AUR,[8] DEB[9] | ❌ |
| Attract-Mode Plus | Radek Dutkiewicz | GitHub[10] | GPL-3.0-or-later[4] | 2022-01-29 (v2.6.1) |
2025-05-31 (v3.1.2) |
7z[11] | 7z[12] | DEB[13] | ❌ |
| Aurora Game Hub | Sammy Guergachi | Sourceforge,[14] GitHub[15] | CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0[16] | 2010-08-27 (r09) |
2014-08-30 (Alpha 10) |
ZIP[17] | ZIP[18] | ❌ | ❌ |
| BizHawk[19] | 'YoshiRulz' | GitHub[20] | MIT[21] | 2012-03-03 (v1.0.0) |
2025-01-07 (v2.10) |
ZIP[22] | ❌ | .tar.gz[23] | ❌ |
| Cabrio FE | Steve Maddison | GitHub[24] | GPL-2.0-or-later[25] | 2009-11-29 (v0.8.1 beta) |
2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 beta) |
ZIP[26] | ❌ | .tar.gz,[27] DEB[28] | ❌ |
| EmuCenter2 | 'XotoB' | ❌ | ❌ | 2010-03-20 (v0.6) |
2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.1) |
EXE[29] | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| EmuCon | Ciro Alfredo Consentino | ✅[30] | ❌ | 2008-04-23[31] (v2.0) |
2017-11-21[31] (v2.7.7) |
RAR[32] | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| EmulationStation | Alec Lofquist | GitHub[33] | MIT[34] | 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) |
2015-03-08 (v2.0.1a) |
EXE,[35] ZIP[36] | ❌ | DEB[37] | ❌ |
| EmulationStation: RetroPie fork |
Tomas Jakobsson & Jools Wills | GitHub[38] | MIT[34] | 2017-03-07 (v2.0.2) |
2023-04-13 (v2.11.2) |
ZIP[39] | ❌ | .tar.gz[40] | Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero 2 W/1/2/3/4/400[41] (IMG)[42] |
| EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) |
Leon Styhre | GitLab[43][44] | MIT[34] (except Android) |
2021-04-20 (v1.0.0) |
2025-07-15 (v3.3.0-48) |
EXE,[45] ZIP[46] | DMG,[47][48] Homebrew[49] | AppImage,[50] RPM,[51][52] AUR,[53] Nixpkg[54] | Android, FreeBSD, Haiku, OpenBSD, Steam Deck |
| EmuLoader | N/A | ✓[55] | ✗ | 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | 2021-10-27 (v8.9.4) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FEEL | 'Sincro' | ✓[56] | ✓ (LGPLv3) | 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1) | 2020-04-21 (v1.9.8.6) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GameEx | Tom Speirs | ✗ | ✗ | 2016-04-14 (v14.44) | 2024-03-13 (v18.61) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GameRoom | Max 'n0xew' ?? | ✗ | ✗ | 2016-12-13 (v0.0.0.9) | 2018-03-12 (v1.1.2.0) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Games (Gnome) | Various contributors | ✓[57] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) | 2019-05-24 (v3.33.2) | ✗ | N/A | ✓ | N/A |
| HyperSpin | Jonathan Habers | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Android[58] |
| Ice | Scott Rice | ✓[59] | ✓ (MIT) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| LaunchBox | Jason Carr | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| LusSpace | 'Space1' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-11-08 (v1.23) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lutris | Mathieu Comandon and others | ✓[60] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-12-15 (v0.3.2) | 2019-04-09 (v0.5.2) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MaLa | Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b) | 2011-03-27 (v1.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maximus Arcade | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Metropolis Launcher | Jörg 'MK2k' Sonntag | ✓[61] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0) | 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| mGalaxy | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | 2024-05-01 (v10.1) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nostlan | Quinton Ashley | ✓[62] | ✗ | 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) | 2025-08-12 (v3.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Pegasus | Mátyás Mustoha | ✓[63] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) | 2025-10-04 (alpha 16) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Android, Raspberry Pi |
| Photon Game Manager | Thomas Preece | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | Experimental | ✗ |
| Playnite | Josef Nemec | ✓[64] | ✓ (MIT) | 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) | 2025-01-28 (v10.35) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Project Ascension | Jake Schadewe and others | ✓[65] | ✓ (MIT) | 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) | 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| QuickPlay | John Scott | ✓[66] | ✓ (BSD-3) | 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | 2022-03-26 (v4.7.6) | ✓ | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RetroArch | 'Twinaphex' and others | ✓[67] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2011-01-25 (v0.2) | 2024-05-30 (v1.22.2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | DOS, BSD, Haiku, Solaris, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Switch, NES/SNES Classic Edition, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Web Browser |
| RetroFe | Don Honerbrink | ✓[68] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2016-07-26 (v0.7.2-beta-1) | 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) | ✓ | To be compiled | ✓ | N/A |
| RoM-Jacket | 'Jinx' | ✓ (.bat files) | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| skeletonKey | 'romjacket' | ✗[69] | ✗ | 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) | 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Snowflake | Ronny Chan | ✓[70] | ✓ (MPLv2.0) | 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) | 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158) | To be compiled | To be compiled | To be compiled | N/A |
| Steam Rom Manager | Lukas Senionis | ✓[71] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) | 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
Technical facts
[edit | edit source]| Name | Download size | Current status | Language used | Libraries used |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Stars Launcher | 100 KiB - 135 MiB | Possibly discontinued | MASM - Machine Language | |
| Atomic | 35.2 MiB | Discontinued | Visual Basic | N/A |
| Attract-Mode | 34.5 - 35.9 MiB | Actively maintained | C++ | SFML, OpenAL, Zlib, FreeType 2, FFmpeg (avformat, avcodec, swscale, avutil, swresample/avresample), OpenGL+GLU, JPEG. Optionally: Fontconfig, Xinerama, libarchive, Libcurl. |
| Aurora Game Hub | 12.2 MiB | Discontinued | Java | h2 database Engine |
| BizHawk | 48.1 MiB (+43 MiB on Windows) | Actively maintained | C++ & C# | DirectX 9, libblip_buf |
| Bottlenose | 56.4 - 87.2 MiB | Actively maintained | HTML/JS/CSS | await-spawn, bootstrap, chrome-finder, circletype, contro, contro-ui, copy-paste, deep-extend, delay, diacritics, electron-pug, fs-extra, fuse.js, gca-js, gooder, jquery, klaw, markdown-it, material-design-icons-iconfont, moment, mousetrap, node-7z, opn, popper.js, probe-image-size, pug, puppeteer-core, requisition, tether, three, yauzl-promise |
| CabrioFE | 1.5 MiB | Discontinued | C | SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg |
| CoinOPS | ? | Discontinued | ? | ? |
| EmuCenter 2 | 176 MiB | Possibly discontinued | C++ and/or C# | N/A |
| EmuCon | 5.54 MiB | Discontinued | Pascal | |
| EmulationStation | 13.1 MiB | Actively maintained | C++ | SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Locale), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL |
| EmuLoader | 16.50 MiB | Actively maintained | Pascal | |
| ES-DE | 189 MiB | Actively maintained | C++ | |
| FEEL | 26.4 MiB | Possibly discontinued | C# | XNA, SharpDx, SmartASD, "other smaller libs" (sic) |
| GameEx | 81.8 MiB | Actively maintained | C# | |
| GameRoom | 67.7 MiB | Discontinued | Java | |
| Games (Gnome) | 8.9 MiB | Actively maintained | Vala | retro-gtk, libmanette, libhandy |
| HyperSpin | 479.12 MiB | Possibly discontinued | ActionScript | |
| Ice | 11.3 MiB | Possibly discontinued | Python | appdirs, pastebin, psutil, pysteam |
| LaunchBox | 218 MiB | Actively maintained | C# | |
| LusSpace | 2.9 MiB | Possibly discontinued | Visual Basic 6 | |
| Lutris | 1.7 MiB | Actively maintained | Python | PyYAML, PyGObject, evdev, requests, optional pypresence for discord |
| MaLa | ||||
| Maximus Arcade | ||||
| Metropolis Launcher | 261.16 MiB | Actively maintained | VB.Net 4.0 | DevExpress WinForms v15.2, DiscUtils, HtmlAgilityPack, Newtonsoft.Json, Ookii.Dialogs, SgmlReaderDll, SharpCompress |
| mGalaxy | 194 MiB | Actively maintained | ||
| Pegasus | ||||
| Photon Game Manager | ||||
| Playnite | Actively maintained | |||
| Project Ascension | ||||
| QuickPlay | 32.8 MiB | Actively maintained | Delphi | |
| RetroArch | 4.8 - 165 - 806 MiB (Android - Win10 64bit - PS3 DEX) | Actively maintained | C | libretro, an audio library (ALSA, OSS, etc.), optional dependencies |
| RetroFe | ||||
| RoM-Jacket | ||||
| skeletonKey | ||||
| Snowflake | ||||
| Steam Rom Manager |
Emulator support
[edit | edit source]| Name | RetroArch | MAME | NEStopia | FCEUX | Snes9x | ZSnes | Mupen64Plus | Dolphin | Cemu | VisualBoyAdvance(-M) | Citra | NeoCD | EPSXe | PCSX2 | RPCS3 | PPSSPP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic | ||||||||||||||||
| Attract-Mode | ||||||||||||||||
| Aurora Game Hub | ||||||||||||||||
| BizHawk | ||||||||||||||||
| Bottlenose | ||||||||||||||||
| CabrioFE | ||||||||||||||||
| CoinOPS | ||||||||||||||||
| EmuCenter 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| EmuCon | ||||||||||||||||
| EmulationStation | ||||||||||||||||
| EmuLoader | ||||||||||||||||
| ES-DE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FEEL | ||||||||||||||||
| GameEx | ||||||||||||||||
| GameRoom | ||||||||||||||||
| Games (Gnome) | ||||||||||||||||
| HyperSpin | ||||||||||||||||
| Ice | ||||||||||||||||
| LaunchBox | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LusSpace | ||||||||||||||||
| Lutris | ||||||||||||||||
| MaLa | ||||||||||||||||
| Maximus Arcade | ||||||||||||||||
| Metropolis Launcher | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| mGalaxy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pegasus | ||||||||||||||||
| Photon Game Manager | ||||||||||||||||
| Playnite | ||||||||||||||||
| Project Ascension | ||||||||||||||||
| QuickPlay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RetroArch | ||||||||||||||||
| RetroFe | ||||||||||||||||
| RoM-Jacket | ||||||||||||||||
| skeletonKey | ||||||||||||||||
| Snowflake | ||||||||||||||||
| Steam Rom Manager |
Features
[edit | edit source]| Name | Has console categories | Theme support | Display descriptions | Display box arts | Display video previews | Scrape descriptions | Scrape box arts | Scrape video previews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Attract-Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Aurora Game Hub | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| BizHawk | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Bottlenose | ||||||||
| CabrioFE | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| CoinOPS | ||||||||
| EmuCenter 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| EmuCon | ||||||||
| Emulation Station | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ||
| EmuLoader | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| FEEL | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| GameEx | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| GameRoom | ||||||||
| Games (Gnome) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| HyperSpin | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Ice | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| LaunchBox | ✓ | ✓ (Paid) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| LusSpace | ||||||||
| Lutris | ||||||||
| MaLa | ||||||||
| Maximus Arcade | ||||||||
| Metropolis Launcher | ✓ | ✓ (built-in only) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (offline db) | ✓ | ||
| mGalaxy | ✓ | ✓ (Paid) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pegasus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Photon Game Manager | ||||||||
| Playnite | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Via plugin | ✓ | ✓ | Via plugin |
| Project Ascension | ||||||||
| QuickPlay | ||||||||
| RetroArch | ✓ | ✓ (Limited) | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| RetroFe | ||||||||
| RoM-Jacket | ||||||||
| skeletonKey | ||||||||
| Snowflake | ||||||||
| Steam Rom Manager | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ File: AllStarsLauncher.zip, version 2024.030, published on 2024-01-30 at guerilla.bplaced.net.
- ↑ File: AtomicFE_v020.exe, version 0.20, published on 2010-01-23 at www.atomicfe.com.
- ↑ mickelson/attract public Git source code repository, created on 2013-07-02 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 File: License.txt, from commit 6fe2d80: Initial commit. on 2013-07-02 to mickelson/attract at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: attract-v2.7.0-win64.zip, version 2.7.0, published on 2023-06-10 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: attract-v2.6.1.dmg, version 2.6.1, published on 2020-01-18 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: v2.7.0.tar.gz, version 2.7.0, published on 2023-06-10 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ Package: attract (unofficial), version 2.7.0-1, published on 2023-06-12 by eclairevoyant to the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR).
- ↑ File: attract_2.2.0-3daveg1+yakkety_amd64.deb (unofficial), version 2.2.0, published on 2016-11-11 by David Gillies to the Attract-Mode PPA on Launchpad.net.
- ↑ oomek/attractplus public Git source code repository, created on 2017-03-17 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: attractplus_3.1.2_Windows.7z, version 3.1.2, published on 2025-05-31 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: attractplus_3.1.2_MacOS.7z, version 3.1.2, published on 2025-05-31 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: attractplus_3.1.2_ubuntu-24.04_X11_amd64.deb, version 3.1.2, published on 2025-05-31 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ auroragm public project page, created on 2010-05-01 at Sourceforge.net.
- ↑ sguergachi/AuroraGameHub public Git source code repository, created on 2012-09-30 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: LICENSE.txt, from commit 9080345: Completed DashboardScreen Commenting&Refactoring on 2012-10-29 to sguergachi/AuroraGameHub at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: Aurora_Alpha10_Win.zip, version Alpha 10, published on 2022-04-03 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: Aurora_Alpha10_Mac.zip, version Alpha 10, published on 2022-04-03 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ BizHawk official website, first uploaded on 2012-03-03.
- ↑ TASEmulators/BizHawk public Git source code repository, created on 2011-01-11 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: LICENSE, from commit f4a6e87: add MIT license to repository, since that's what it's always been, but add a long section describing what a mishmash this repository is -- fair warning. Fixes #933 on 2017-07-24 to TASEmulators/BizHawk at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: BizHawk-2.10-win-x64.zip, version 2.10, published on 2025-01-07 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: BizHawk-2.10-linux-x64.tar.gz, version 2.10, published (with compilation instructions) on 2025-01-07 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ SteveMaddison/cabrio public Git source code repository, created on 2009-10-19 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: COPYING, from commit a825fc8: Added license information on 2009-10-24 to SteveMaddison/cabrio at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: cabrio-0.8.1.zip (32-bit), version 0.8.1 beta, published on 2009-11-29 at www.cabrio-fe.org.
- ↑ File: cabrio-0.8.2.tar.gz, version 0.8.2 beta, published on 2011-06-24 at www.cabrio-fe.org.
- ↑ File: cabrio_0.8.2-1_i386.deb (32-bit), version 0.8.2 beta, published on 2011-06-24 at www.cabrio-fe.org.
- ↑ File: update.7.1.0.1.exe (32/64-bit), version 7.1.0.1, published on 2016-09-01 at emucenter.2.free.fr.
- ↑ File: emucon277-src.rar, version 2.7.7, published on 2017-11-21 at emuloader.mameworld.info.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 EmuCon Changelog at emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/, last updated on 2017-11-21.
- ↑ File: emucon277-bin.rar, version 2.7.7, published on 2017-11-21 at emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/.
- ↑ Aloshi/EmulationStation public Git source code repository, created on 2012-07-18 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 File: LICENSE.md from commit 9350ed3: Removed extremely out-of-date changelog. on 2014-06-05 to Aloshi/EmulationStation at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.exe (32-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on 2015-03-08 at emulationstation.org.
- ↑ File: emulationstation_2.0.1a_win32.zip (32-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on 2015-03-08 at emulationstation.org.
- ↑ File: emulationstation_2.0.1a-1_amd64.deb (64-bit), version 2.0.1a, published on 2015-03-08 at emulationstation.org.
- ↑ RetroPie/EmulationStation public Git source code repository forked from Aloshi/EmulationStation on 2015-06-01 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: v2.11.2.zip, version 2.11.2, published (with compilation instructions) on 2023-04-12 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ File: v2.11.2.tar.gz, version 2.11.2, published (with compilation instructions) on 2023-04-13 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the EmulationStation wiki
- ↑ File: retropie-buster-4.8-rpi4_400.img.gz, version 4.8, published on 2022-03-14 at GitHub.com.
- ↑ ES-DE/ES-DE Frontend public Git source code repository forked from Aloshi/EmulationStation on 2020-05-16 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ ES-DE Frontend (EmulationStation Desktop Edition) – Download (es-de.org): "The Android release is a paid app and is partially-closed source; please don't distribute it or share download links to the APK. The Windows, macOS and Linux releases are, however, fully open source and free to download, use and distribute in any way you want." Android version requires a minimum donation of US$5.50 on Patreon (no re-subscription required for future updates) or US$6.50 at select mobile app stores (currently only Samsung Galaxy Store; the app was delisted from the Huawei AppGallery).
- ↑ File: ES-DE_3.3.0-x64.exe (64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on 2025-07-15 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ File: ES-DE_3.3.0-x64_Portable.zip (64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on 2025-07-15 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ File: ES-DE_3.3.0-x64.dmg (Intel 64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on 2025-07-15 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ File: ES-DE_3.3.0-arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon 64-bit), version 3.3.0-48, published on 2025-07-15 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ Cask: es-de, version 3.3.0,210210122; published on 2025-07-18 to the Homebrew Formulae.
- ↑ File: ES-DE_x64.AppImage (64-bit, official), version 3.3.0-48, published on 2025-07-15 at GitLab.com.
- ↑ File: emulationstation-de.spec (unofficial), version 3.3.0, from commit 8ab9217: bump: emulationstation-de inputplumber on 2025-07-15 to terrapkg/packages (Fyra Labs Terra 3rd-party package repository for Fedora Linux) at GitHub.com.
- ↑ Package: emulationstation-de (unofficial), version 3.2.0-alt1, published on 2025-05-23 by Artyom Bystrov to the ALT Linux Sisyphus package repository.
- ↑ Package: emulationstation-de (official), version 3.3.0-1, published on 2025-07-15 by LeonStyhre to the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR).
- ↑ Package: emulationstation-de (unofficial), version 3.2.0, published on 2025-04-30 by Ivar Larsson to Nixpkgs.
- ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
- ↑ Github - dr-prodigy/feel-frontend
- ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
- ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
- ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
- ↑ Github - lutris/lutris
- ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
- ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/Nostlan
- ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
- ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
- ↑ Github - Project Ascension
- ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
- ↑ Github - libretro/RetroArch
- ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
- ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
- ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
- ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager