ColecoVision emulators
Developer | Coleco Industries, Inc. |
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Type | Home video game console |
Generation | Second generation |
Release date | 1982 |
Discontinued | 1985 |
Predecessor | Telstar series |
Emulated | ✓ |
The ColecoVision was the second-generation video game console produced by Coleco in August 1982 before being discontinued in 1984, partly due to the ongoing crash in North America at the time. It retailed for $174.99 and had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 8 KBs of RAM. Notably, it provided gamers with experiences very much like the arcade versions of games, as well as having Donkey Kong as a pack-in title to showcase this, although the Atari 2600 and Intellivision could do the same with the respected hardware. It shares largely the same underpinnings as the SG-1000. Indeed, a clone of the SG-1000 known as the Dina 2-in-1 (sold in the United States as the Telegames Personal Arcade) had support for both SG-1000 and ColecoVision games, though compatibility with the latter is spotty due to the lack of an expansion module interface or a second numeric keypad, rendering two-player ColecoVision games unplayable.
Emulators
Name | Platform(s) | Latest version | libretro | FLOSS | Active | Recommended |
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PC / x86 | ||||||
BizHawk | 2.9.1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ColEm | 5.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
DSP | 0.23WIP1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
ares | v139 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
FinalBurn Neo | WIP builds | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓[N 1] | |
Pantheon | 14.062 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
vdmgr | 0.2.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CoolCV | 0.6.9 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
MAME | 0.266 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
higan | v110 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ~[N 2] | |
Phoenix | 2.8.JAG | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | |
FreezeSMS | 4.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ | |
Retro Virtual Machine | 2.0.beta-1.r7 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | TBD | |
Clock Signal | 2024-06-03 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
Bee | 2.4.3 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
blueMSX | [N 3] |
2.8.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
MEKA | 0.8-alpha (2023-08-26) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | |
DarcNES | 9b0401/9b0313 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | |
Mugrat | 0.5.0 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Mobile / ARM | ||||||
ColEm+ | |
5.6.4 (Android) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
MSX.emu (blueMSX tech) |
1.5.77git Pandora build 15 1.5.46.02 |
✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
blueMSX | [N 3] |
2.8.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Consoles | ||||||
blueMSX | git | ✓ | ? | ✗ | ✓ | |
ColEm | 2.6.1 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
WiiColEm | 0.3 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
ColemPS2 | 2.0 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
AdamX | v4 | ✗ | ? | ✗ | ✓ | |
(D)ColEm | 0.99 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | |
CollisionGC | 1.01 b1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | |
ColecoDS | git | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | |
CoG | 0.9.7 beta | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
- ↑ FinalBurn Neo was confirmed as having better compatibility than MAME/MESS, blueMSX, openMSX and CoolCV. See this topic.
- ↑ Superseded by ares
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Only available outside Windows as a libretro core (e.g., RetroArch).