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! Atomic
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! Attract-Mode
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! Aurora Game Hub
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! BizHawk
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! Bottlenose
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! CabrioFE
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! CoinOPS
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! EmuCenter 2
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! EmuCon
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! Emulation Station
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! EmuLoader
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! FEEL
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! GameEx
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! GameRoom
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! Games (Gnome)
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! HyperSpin
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! Ice
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! Launch Box
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! LusSpace
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! Lutris
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! MaLa
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! Maximus Arcade
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! Metropolis Launcher
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! mGalaxy
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! Pegasus
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! Photon Game Manager
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! Playnite
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! Project Ascension
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! QuickPlay
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! RetroFe
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! RoM-Jacket
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! skeletonKey
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! Snowflake
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! Steam Rom Manager
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Revision as of 13:42, 2 June 2019

Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system front-ends for emulators. The table does not include single system front-ends (such as EmuCon, Mame Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2, etc.) or front-ends for other dedicated software such as Kodi.

Name Creator Open Source Free (FOSS) First public release date Year of latest stable version Windows Macintosh GNU/Linux Other platforms
Atomic 'Youki' ✗ ✗ 2005-02-08 (v0.11) 2010-01-23 (v0.20) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Attract-Mode Andrew Mickelson ✓[1] ✓ (GPLv3) 2013-11-17 (v1.0) 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
Aurora Game Hub Carlos Machado, Sammy Guergachi ✓[2] ✓ (GPLv3) N/A N/A ✓ ✓ N/A BSD
BizHawk 'Nach' ✓[3] "minefield"[4] 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0) 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1) ✓ N/A To be compiled[5] N/A
Bottlenose Quinton Ashley ✓[6] ✓ (MIT) 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
CabrioFE Steve Maddison ✓[7] ✓ (GPLv2) 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0) 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version) v0.8.1 ✗ ✓ N/A
CoinOPS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
EmuCenter 2 N/A ✗ ✗ N/A 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
EmuCon N/A ✓[8] ✗ 2008-04-23 (v2.0) 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Emulation Station Alec Lofquist, Eduard Strehlau ✓[9][10] ✓ (MIT) 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) 2014-06-12 (v1.0.2 - on original repo) ✓ ✗ ✓ Raspberry Pi[11]
EmuLoader N/A ✓[12] ✗ 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
FEEL 'Sincro' ✗ ✗ N/A 2017-06-13 (v1.9.8.1c) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GameEx Tom Speirs ✗ ✗ N/A 2019-05-09 (v1.05) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GameRoom N/A ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Games (Gnome) Various contributors ✓[13] ✓ (GPLv3) 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) 2019-05-24 (v3.32.0) ✗ N/A ✓ N/A
HyperSpin Jonathan Habers ✗ ✗ N/A 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) ✓ ✗ ✗ Android[14]
Ice Scott Rice ✓[15] ✓ (MIT) 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A
Launch Box Jason Carr ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
LusSpace 'Space1' ✗ ✗ N/A 2016-11-08 (v1.23) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Lutris Mathieu Comandon and others ✓[16] ✓ (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 Sonntag ✓[17] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0) 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
mGalaxy N/A ✗ ✗ 2007-02-05 (v1.0) 2019-04-?? (v7.5) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Pegasus Mátyás Mustoha ✓[18] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11) ✓ ✓ ✓ Android, Raspberry Pi
Photon Game Manager Thomas Preece ✗ ✗ N/A N/A ✓ ✗ Experimental ✗
Playnite Josef Nemec ✓[19] ✓ (MIT) 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) 2019-02-25 (v4.74) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Project Ascension Jake Schadewe and others ✓[20] ✓ (MIT) 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
QuickPlay Tony 'butter100fly' Woode ✓[21] ✓ (BSD-3) 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6) ✓ N/A N/A N/A
RetroFe Don Honerbrink ✓[22] ✓ (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' ✓[23] ✗ 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Snowflake Ronny Chan ✓[24] ✓ (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 ✓[25] ✓ (GPLv3) 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) ✓ ✓ ✓ N/A

Technical facts

Name Download size Current status Language used Libraries used
Atomic
Attract-Mode
Aurora Game Hub
BizHawk
Bottlenose
CabrioFE
CoinOPS
EmuCenter 2
EmuCon
Emulation Station
EmuLoader
FEEL
GameEx
GameRoom
Games (Gnome)
HyperSpin
Ice
Launch Box
LusSpace
Lutris
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher
mGalaxy
Pegasus
Photon Game Manager
Playnite
Project Ascension
QuickPlay
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager

Emulator support

Name 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
Emulation Station
EmuLoader
FEEL
GameEx
GameRoom
Games (Gnome)
HyperSpin
Ice
Launch Box
LusSpace
Lutris
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher
mGalaxy
Pegasus
Photon Game Manager
Playnite
Project Ascension
QuickPlay
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager

Features

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
Launch Box
LusSpace
Lutris
MaLa
Maximus Arcade
Metropolis Launcher
mGalaxy
Pegasus
Photon Game Manager
Playnite
Project Ascension
QuickPlay
RetroFe
RoM-Jacket
skeletonKey
Snowflake
Steam Rom Manager
  1. ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
  2. ↑ SourceForge.net - auroragm
  3. ↑ Github - TASVideos/BizHawk
  4. ↑ Repository License
  5. ↑ BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux
  6. ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose
  7. ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
  8. ↑ EmuCon Download page with sources
  9. ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
  10. ↑ Github - Herdinger/EmulationStation (fork)
  11. ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
  12. ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
  13. ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
  14. ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
  15. ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
  16. ↑ Github - lutris/lutris
  17. ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
  18. ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
  19. ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
  20. ↑ Github - Project Ascension
  21. ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
  22. ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
  23. ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
  24. ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
  25. ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager
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