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Emulators on Windows NT 10.0

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Windows NT 10.0
Developer Microsoft
Initial release July 15, 2015
Latest release 26H1 (10.0.28000.2704) / August 11, 2026
Preceded by Windows NT 6.x (2013)
Emulated ✗
For emulators that run natively on Windows on ARM, see Emulators on Windows/ARM.
For software emulates Windows, see Hypervisors and Windows NT 5.x emulators#Hypervisors.
This page is for emulation Windows operating systems that based on currently maintained Windows NT (10.0), with x86 or x86_64 CPUs. Currently maintained releases are Windows 10 & 11.
Before diving in;
  • This list only shows the latest versions, and currently recommended or semi-recommended emulation software, if you have are an older Windows version, see the see also section.
  • Remember that emulators can have different levels of completion or compatibility. If a game you are trying to run does not work properly, try a different one. If the emulator too slow even with lowered settings with a recommended emulator, choose a less recommended one in the list.
  • Note that game compatibility can be lower in emulators for lower system requirements.
  • See each Wiki Category Consoles, Computers and Arcade for individual dedicated system pages to see provided up-to-date listings and in-depth information on specific aspects like hardware features, peripheral support, compatibility and also enhancements features etc.
  • Some games have Game engine recreations and source ports that run on Windows, which may perform better/be better than emulators, for the specific game(s).

Atari

Atari 8-bit family

Name Latest version Models XEGS libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Atari800 7.2.0 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✓ Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Altirra 4.40 400, 800, XL, XE ✓ ✗ Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Atari++ 1.85 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✗ Cycle TPL (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 Good: 400, 800
Basic: XL, XE 		✓ ✓ ? GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ~
Pantheon 16.458 800, XE ✗ ✗ Mid Proprietary ✓ ~
Atari800Win-PLus 4.1 400, 800, XL, XE ✓ ✗ ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
Rainbow 2.2.0 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✗ ? Proprietary ✗ ✗

Atari ST

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
Hatari 2.6.1 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Steem SSE 4.2.1 ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
ARAnyM git ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Gemulator 9.0 ✗ ? ✗ ~
Steem Engine 3.2 ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
SainT 2.40 ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
PCE/atarist pce-20191006 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
CaSTaway 0.9.2 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Atari 2600

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Stella 7.0 ✓ Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ Cycle GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
Pantheon 16.458 ✗ High Proprietary ✓ ~
PCAE 2.6
2.7 		✗ High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ~
z26 4.07 ✗ High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✗ ? MIT
GPL		 ✓ ✗
Gopher2600 0.56.1 ✗ High GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
EMU7800 5.7.0.0 ✗ Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
Stellarator git ✗ ? BSD-3-Clause (Permissive) ✓ ✗
VCS 2600 1.0 ✗ Low Proprietary ✓ ✗

Atari 5200

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Altirra 4.40 ✗ Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Atari800 7.2.0 ✓ Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
kat5200 1.0.2 ✗ ? GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ Mid GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗
Jum52 git ✗ ? Proprietary ✗ ✗
Rainbow 2.2 ✗ ? Proprietary ✗ ✗

Atari 7800

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ High GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
A7800 5.2 ✗ High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
ProSystem 1.3 (Windows)
git (libretro) 		✓ ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ [N 1] ✓
EMU7800 5.7.0.0 ✗ Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✗ ? MIT
GPL 		✓ ✗

Atari Jaguar

Name Latest version AJ-CD libretro License Active Recommended
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✓
Virtual Jaguar 2.1.2
Unofficial builds
git (libretro) 		✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗ [N 1] ✓
MAME 0.289 ~ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗
Project Tempest 0.95 ~ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗

Atari Lynx

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
Handy [0.971] ✓ zlib License (Permissive) ✗ ✗

Nintendo

Nintendo Entertainment System

Name Latest version Accuracy License Active Recommended
Mesen Dev builds Cycle GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
puNES WIP builds
0.111 		Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Nestopia UE libretro core
1.99.0
Nestopia JG git 		Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
FCEUX 2.6.6
libretro (FCEUmm) 		High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
ares git Artifacts
v148 		High ISC (Permissive) ✓ ~
BizHawk
(QuickNES)(NESHawk) 		Dev Builds
2.11.1 		?
(Core-dependent) 		MIT
GPL 		✓ ~
Nintendulator/NRS 2023-12-23
0.985 Beta 		Cycle GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
TetaNES 0.17.0 ? Apache 2.0 (Permissive)
MIT (Permissive) 		✓ ?

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Name Latest version Accuracy License Active Recommended
ares git Artifacts
v148 		Full Cycle ISC (Permissive) ✓ ✓
bsnes nightly Partial Cycle GPLv3 (Copyleft) ~ ✓
Mesen 2.2.1 Cycle GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Snes9x nightly
libretro nightly core
1.63 		High Non-commercial ✓ ✓
SUPER ZSNES 0.300 High Proprietary ✓ ✓

Nintendo 64

Name Latest version Accuracy License Active Recommended
Mupen64Plus-Next Parallel Launcher Fork Plugin-dependent GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
ares git Artifacts
v148 		High ISC (Permissive) ✓ ✓
simple64 2024.12.1
GLideN64 		High GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
RMG 0.9.0 stable
0.9.0-dev 		Plugin-dependent GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
BizHawk
(Mupen64Plus)(ares)(MAME)[N 2] 		Dev builds
2.11.1 		Plugin-dependent
Core-dependent 		MIT
GPL 		✓ ~
Project64 Rosalie241's MMHD
Nightly
3.0.1
Keygen 		Plugin-dependent GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗

GameCube / Wii / Triforce

Name Latest version GameCube Wii Triforce libretro License Active Recommended
Dolphin Dev[N 3] ✓ ✓ ~[N 4] ✓[N 5] GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Ishiiruka-Dolphin (いし海豚) Dev ✓ ✓ ✗ ~ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
Pureikyubu (PlayCube) 1.8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ CC0 1.0 (Public domain equivalent) ✓ ✗
Lazuli Nightly releases ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
Gecko Releases ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗

Wii U

Name Latest version Accurancy Amiibo License Active Recommended
Cemu 2.6 Medium ~ MPL 2.0 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Decaf git Low ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Nintendo Switch

Name Latest version Amiibo License Active Recommended
Ryujinx 1.1.1403‡
ryujinx-mirror builds
LDN builds‡
custom build for revived SMB35 		✓ MIT (Permissive) ✓ ✓
yuzu Dark Git repository (requires Tor) (2024-05-31)
NotABug mirror 		✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗* ✓

Nintendo 3DS

Name Latest Version New 3DS License Active Recommended
Citra
citra_libretro
 Canary
Nightly
libretro cores 		~ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓
Panda3DS 0.9 ~ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ~

Nintendo DS

Name Latest Version License Active Recommended
melonDS Dev Builds[N 6]
1.1
libretro core[N 7] 		GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
DeSmuME 0.9.13
libretro core 		GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
BizHawk* Dev builds
2.11.1 		MIT
GPL		 ✓ ~
No$GBA 3.06 Proprietary ✓ ~

Game Boy Advance

Name Latest version Game Link Support e-Reader libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
mGBA 0.10.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✗ ✗ ✓ ? GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
VBA-M 2.2.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓

Pokémon mini

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
GBE+ 1.10 [N 8] ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
PokeMini 0.6.0git ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓
minimon 2005:01:20 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ~
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
PokeKaMini 0.7.0 ✗ ? ✗ ✗

Virtual Boy

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
VBjin SVN r103 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓

Game Boy / Game Boy Color

Name Latest version Game Link Support libretro License Active Recommended
SameBoy 1.0.3 ✓[N 9] ✓ MIT (Permissive) ✓ ✓
BGB 1.6.6 ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✓
Gambatte r571 ✗ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Gearboy 3.8.15 ✗ ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✓ ✗ MIT
GPL		 ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✗ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ~
Emulicious 2026-03-19 ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✓ ~

Game & Watch

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
DSP 0.24WIP3 ✗ Non-commercial ✓ ✗

Sega

Sega Model 1

Name Latest version Active libretro License Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
Modeler 0.9.3a ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗

Sega Model 2

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
Model 2 Emulator 1.1a ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ~

Sega Model 3

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
Supermodel SVN Builds ~ (WIP) GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗

SG-1000

Name Latest version SC-3000 SF-7000 libretro License Active Recommended
MasterGear 4.9.10 ✓ ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✗ ✗ ✗ MIT
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✗ ✗ ✓ MAME license (Non-commercial) ✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✗ ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
ZEsarUX 13.0 ✗ ✗ ✗ GPL (Copyleft) ✓ ?
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ~

Master System / Game Gear

Name Latest version GG libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ Very high MAME license (Non-commercial) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ High GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
Emulicious 2026-03-19 ✓ ✗ Very high Proprietary ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✓ ✗ Very high MIT
GPL 		✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ High GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
ZEsarUX 13.0 ✗ ✗ ? GPL (Copyleft) ✓ ?
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✓ ✗ Very high Proprietary ✓ ~

Genesis / MegaDrive / CD / 32X

Name Latest version CD 32X Pico libretro License Active Recommended
BlastEm 1.0.0 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Exodus 2.1 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ MIT (Permissive) ✗ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 10] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ MAME license (Non-commercial) ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ MIT
GPL		 ✓ ✓
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✓

Saturn / ST-V

Name Latest version ST-V libretro License Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
SSF PreviewVer R38 ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✓
Kronos 2.7.5 ✓ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Yaba Sanshiro 2 (Yaba三四郎2) [http://www.uoyabause.org/static_pages/download

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Dreamcast / NAOMI

Name Latest version NAOMI Atomiswave Windows CE libretro License Active Recommended
DEmul v0.7 (2025/12/20) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✓
redream 1.5.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✓
Flycast CI Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
reicast r20.04 (Not Working)
r8.1 (Snap Store) 		✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ BSD-3-Clause
GPLv2
LGPLv2.1		 ~ ✗
nullDC 2.0.0-pre ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ MIT (Permissive) ✓ ✗
Makaron T12/5 ✗ ✗ ~ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
Chankast 0.25 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
MAME 0.289 ~ ~ ✗ ✓ GPLv2
 ✓ ✗

Sega VMU

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
DreamPotato v0.3.1 ? MIT (Permissive) ✓ ✓
SoftVMS 1.10 (source only) ✗ ? ✗ ~
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
ElysianVMU 0.2.0 ✗ ? ✗ ✗
DirectVMS 1.8 ✗ ? ✗ ✗
DreamVMU 0.1 ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗

NEC

NEC PC-6000

Emulator Latest Version libretro License Active Recommended
PC6001VX 4.5.0 ✗ LGPLv2.1 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
PC6001V 2.1.4 ✗ LGPLv2.1 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
yaPC-6001 2018/12/27 ✗ Proprietary ✗ ~
MAME 0.289 ✗ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
PC6001VW 310f ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗

NEC PC-8800

Emulator Latest Version libretro License Active Recommended
ePC8801MA Kai SE (ePC8801MA改SE) 210523 ✗ ? ~ ✓
ePC-8001 1/1/2026 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
XM8 1.70 ✗ ? ✗ ✓
MAME git artifacts[N 11]
0.289 		✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ~[N 12]
QUASI88
quasi88_libretro 		libretro core
0.6.4 		✓ BSD-3-Clause (Permissive) ~[N 13] ~

NEC PC-9800

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Neko Project 21/W (猫Project 21/W) v0.86 rev92 ✗ High ? ✓ ✓
Neko Project II kai (猫Project II改) git ✓ High ? ~ ✓
Neko Project II (猫Project II) 0.86 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
Anex86 e1 ✗ Low-Mid ? ✗ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ Low GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
SL9821 0.4.0.3 ✗ High ? ✓ TBD
DOSBox-X 2026.08.02 ✗ Low GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~

PC Engine / PC Engine CD / SuperGrafx

Name Latest version PCE-CD SuperGrafx libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Mednafen (PCE-Accurate) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ High GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
Mednafen (PCE-Fast) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ High MIT
GPL		 ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✓ ✓ ? GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ~

PC-FX

Name Latest version GA libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 TBD ✓ Mid-High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ~ ✓ Mid GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
MagicEngine-FX 1.1.1 TBD ✗ Low Proprietary ✗ ✗
Xe 2.16.2 TBD ✗ ? Proprietary ✗ ✗
pcfxemu git ✓ ✗ ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓

Sony

PlayStation

Name Latest Version Plugins License libretro RIR Accuracy Active Recommended
DuckStation git ✗ CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
XEBRA 22/11/06 ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗ High ✓ ✓
PCSX-R PGXP(git)
Windows
 ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓ Plugin-dependent ✗ ✗
ePSXe [http://www.epsxe.com/download.php

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] 		✓ Proprietary ✗ ✓ Plugin-dependent ~ ✗

PlayStation 2

Name Latest Version libretro License Active Recommended
PCSX2 2.8.2 (stable)
SVN 		~ (WIP) GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Play! Builds ✓ MIT (Permissive) ✓ ~
DobieStation git
Builds 		✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ~
hpsx64 v0490 ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ~ ✗
orbum git ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
Iris 0.20-alpha ✗ MIT (Permissive) ✓ ✗

PlayStation 3

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
RPCS3 0.0.42 Alpha[N 14] GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Nucleus git GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
Short Waves 0.0.2 Proprietary ✗ ✗
PS3F 0.1 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

PlayStation 4

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
shadPS4 0.18.0 ✓ ✓ ~
fpPS4 Nightly
GUI Temmie's Launcher
GUI Temmie's Launcher (Proto) 		LGPLv2.1 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
Orbital git MIT (Permissive) ✗ ✗
GPCS4 git GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
PS4Delta git GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

PlayStation 5

THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EMULATORS FOR THIS DEVICE THAT CAN RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES AND/OR SOFTWARE.

Name Latest Version Hardware features
and peripherals 		Enhancements License Active Recommended
Kyty git ✗ ✗ MIT (Permissive) ✗ ✗

Pocket Station

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ High GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
No$GBA 3.06 ✗ Mid Proprietary ✓ ✓
PK201 20/04/28 ✗ Mid ✓ ✓
PKEmu 1.1 Private Beta ✗ ? Proprietary ✗ ✗
pockystation git ✓ (git) ? MIT (Permissive) ✗ ✗

PlayStation Portable

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
PPSSPP 1.20.4 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
JPCSP SVN ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗

PlayStation Vita

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
Vita3K git GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓

Google

Android

Name Version VM Accuracy License Active Recommended
Genymotion 3.10.0 VirtualBox High Proprietary ✓ ✓
BlueStacks 5.22.130 QEMU (before v2.5) / VirtualBox (after v2.5) High Proprietary ✓ ✓
MEmu 9.5.3 VirtualBox High Proprietary ✓ ✓
LDPlayer 4.0.50.3 VirtualBox High Proprietary ✓ ✓
NoxPlayer 7.0.0.9 VirtualBox High Proprietary ✓ ✓
MuMu 1.1.0.2
1.1.0.5 (v2.3.17) (Chinese Version) 		VirtualBox High Proprietary ✓ ✓
Android x86 14.1-r5 VirtualBox, VMWare (for 3d acc) Mid GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
Android Studio 4.0 QEMU Low Source-available ✓ ✗

Microsoft

MSX series

Name Latest version MSX 1 MSX 2 MSX 2+ TurboR Accuracy libretro License Active Recommended
openMSX git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
blueMSX 2.8.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ BSD-3-Clause
GPLv2		 ✗ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ High ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
ZEsarUX 13.0 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ? ? GPL (Copyleft) ✓ ?
fMSX 6.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ Proprietary ✓ ~
Pantheon 16.458 ✓ ✓ ~ ~ High ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✗
MSXPLAYer
(fMSX based) 		MSX Game Reader
(Commercial) 		✓ ~ ~ ✓ Mid ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ Low ✗ Non-commercial ✗ ✗

Xbox Classic

Note: xboxdevwiki's own list of emulators
Name Latest version Sega Chihiro (千尋) License Active Recommended
xemu 0.8.136 ~ (WIP) GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Cxbx-Reloaded git ~ (WIP) GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
XQEMU git ~ (WIP) GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
StrikeBox git ✗ BSD-2-Clause (Permissive) ✗ ✗
Cxbx git ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
Dxbx 0.5 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Xbox 360

Name Latest version OS License Active Recommended
Xenia git Win7+ BSD-3-Clause (Permissive) ✓ ✓

Xbox One

THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EMULATORS FOR THIS DEVICE OR PLATFORM. ANY CLAIMS TO OFFER THEM ARE SCAMS!

Xbox Series X and Series S

THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EMULATORS FOR THIS DEVICE OR PLATFORM. ANY CLAIMS TO OFFER THEM ARE SCAMS!

Apple

Apple I

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
Pom1 1.9.4
v1.0.0 (old) 		GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ~
CocoaPom (Java) v0.1 ? ✗ ✗
Apple 1 Emulator 1.4 ? ✗ ?

Apple II Line

Name Latest version ][ ][+ //e IIc //e Enhanced //e Platinum IIc Plus IIGS License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
AppleWin 1.32 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MicroM8 Continuous ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✗
BizHawk
(Virtu based) 		2.11.1 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ MIT
GPL		 ✓ ✗
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ (WIP)
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Non-commercial ✗ ✗

apple /// Line

Name Latest version /// /// Revised /// Plus License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓

Apple IIGS

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
KEGS 1.38 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
GSplus 1.38.0 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ~
GSport 0.31 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗

Apple Lisa

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
LisaEm 1.2.7 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
IDLE r23 MIT (Permissive) ✓ TBD
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗

Macintosh line

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
68k
Basilisk II 1.0 R5 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Mini vMac 36.04 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ TBD
PCE 0.2.2 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ TBD
Ardi Executor 2.1.17 MIT (Permissive) ✗ ✗
vMac 0.19 ? ✗ ✗
PowerPC
SheepShaver 03-12-2022 (Win)
git 		GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
QEMU 4.0.0 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ TBD
PearPC 0.6.0 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
DingusPPC git GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗

Apple iPod

THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EMULATORS FOR THIS DEVICE OR PLATFORM. ANY CLAIMS TO OFFER THEM ARE SCAMS!

iOS

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
touchHLE 0.1.2
Actions 		MPL 2.0 (Permissive) ✓ ~

SNK Corporation

Neo Geo and variants

Name Latest version NG NG-CD HNG-64 libretro License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ~ ✓[N 15] GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
FinalBurn Neo stable WIP builds ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ Non-commercial ✓ ✓
RAINE 0.97.6 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ? ✓ ✓
FinalBurn Alpha 0.2.97.43 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ Non-commercial ✗ ✗
Xe 2.16.2 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
ares v148 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ISC (Permissive) ✓ ✗
Kawaks 1.65 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗
NeoRAGEx 5.4e ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ Proprietary ✗ ✗

Neo Geo Pocket

Name Latest version NGP NGPC libretro License Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✓
ares v148 ✓ ✓ ✗ ISC (Permissive) ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ ✓ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
NeoPop 1.06b ✓ ✓ ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
vdmgr 0.2.7 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? Proprietary ~
NeoGPC 1.1 ✗ ✓ ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Commodore

Commodore 64 & 128

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
VICE (x64sc) 3.10 ✓ Very high GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Denise 2.8 ✗ Very high GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Hoxs64 1.1.2.9 ✗ Very high GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
VICE (x64) 3.10 [N 16] ✓ High GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
Emu64 git ✗ ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
Micro64 1.00.2018.03.16 Build 719 ✗ High Proprietary ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✗ ? MIT
GPL 		✓ ✗
CCS64 3.10 ✗ High Proprietary ✗ ✗
Hyper64 1.00.2008.08.08 Build 20 ✗ Mid Proprietary ✗ ✗
MAME 0.289 ✓ Mid GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
Frodo 4.2 ✗ ? GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Commodore 65

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy License Active Recommended
Hi65 v9 ✗ BASIC 10 only GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ~
MAME 0.289 ✓ Low GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗

Amiga Line

Name Latest version libretro License Active Recommended
FS-UAE 3.0.5 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
WinUAE 6.1.0 beta 6 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
WinFellow 0.5.11 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗
Denise ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗

x86 CPUs

Name Latest version 8086*¹ 286 386*² 486*³ Pentium*⁴ Pentium II*⁵ Celeron*⁶ libretro License Active Recommended
86Box git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
PCem v17 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✓
VARCem 1.7.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ✗ ✗ BSD-3-Clause
GPLv2		 ✗ ✓
DOSBox-X 2026.08.02 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
DOSBox 0.74-3
SVN 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Bochs 3.0 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ LGPLv2.1 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
MAME 0.289 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ~ ~ ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓ ✗
QEMU 11.1.0 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[N 17] ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗
MartyPC v0.4.1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? MIT (Permissive) ✓ ?

Sinclair

ZX81

Name Latest version libretro License Relative Speed[N 18] Active Recommended
ZEsarUX 13.0 ✗ GPL (Copyleft) 110.9% ✓ ✓
EightyOne (81) 1.41 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) 114.3% ✓ ✓
Spud81 0.221 ✗ Proprietary 114.9% ✓ ~
SZ81
(xz80 & z81 based) 		2.1.7
2.3.10 (Unofficial) 		✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) 100.0% ✗ ~
MAME 0.289 ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		Not tested ✓ ✗
MTMW
(aka 'MulTiMachine') 		1.30b ✗ Proprietary Not tested ✗ ✗
No$ZX 2.0 ✗ Proprietary 100.1%
[N 19] 		✗ ✗
VB81 1.30 ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) Not tested ✗ ✗
VB81 XuR 1.30.3 (26/11/2019) ✗ GPLv2 (Copyleft) 100.5% ✓ ✗

ZX Spectrum line

Name Latest Version Libretro Core License Active Recommended
EightyOne 1.41 ~ (WIP) GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
FUSE 1.5.7 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Speccy 5.9 ✗ Proprietary ✓ ✓
ZEsarUX 13.0 ✗ GPL (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.11.1 ✗ MIT
GPL 		✓ ~
Retro Virtual Machine 2.0.beta-1.r6 ✗ Proprietary ✓ ~
EMU (Russian) 1.01 ✗ Proprietary ✓ ~
ZX-Poly [https://github.com/raydac/zxpoly

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Acorn Computers

BBC Micro/BBC Master

Name Latest version BBC Micro BBC Master License Active Recommended
BeebEM git B, B+, M128 ✓ GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
B-em 2.2, git A, B, B+, M128, MC MT, M512 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
Model B 10-04-04 B, B+ ✗ ? ✗ ✓
B2 git B, B+, M128 ✗ GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✓ ✗

Electron

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✓
eek git GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
ElectrEm 0.6c GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗
ElkJS git ? ✗ ✗
Elkulator git GPLv3 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Multi (Atom, Micro, Electron)

Name Latest version Atom BBC Micro BBC Master Electron License Recommended
MAME 0.289 ✓ A, B, B+, M128 ? ✓ GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause		 ✓
Pantheon 16.458 ✓ ✓ ? ✓ Proprietary ✓

Archimedes

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
Arculator 2.1 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗
ArcEm 1.50 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✗ ✗

Risc PC / A7000

Name Latest version License Active Recommended
RPCEmu 0.9.4 GPLv2 (Copyleft) ✓ ✓
MAME 0.289 GPLv2
BSD-3-Clause 		✓ ✗

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.
  2. ↑ MAME core for Aleck 64 only.
  3. ↑ The last Dolphin release to support Windows 10 versions 1703 to 1809 is 2503a, and the last development build is 2503-148.[1]
  4. ↑ Requires the Triforce branch to work. It is very old and unsupported.
  5. ↑ At Alpha release and has bugs that are not present on standalone Dolphin.
  6. ↑ Windows
  7. ↑ melonDS libretro core two versions out of date (still on 0.9.3), and the generation 5 Pokemons are broken. If you turn on C-Gear, after a few minutes you'll be unable to save. You also can't use any wifi features or do in game trades either or the game will freeze.
  8. ↑ Pokémon mini core available not yet available in binary releases (source only).
  9. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Only available on PC as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).
  10. ↑ CI-Windows
  11. ↑ As of Version 0.251, NEC PC-8801MA, NEC PC-8801MH, and NEC PC-8801mkIISR, and the clones: NEC PC-8801FA, NEC PC-8801MA2, NEC PC-8801mkIIFR and NEC PC-8801mkIIMR have been promoted to working status and is considered playable
  12. ↑ Only libretro core is still active.
  13. ↑ The developers are currently treating version increments as milestones, not as stables.
  14. ↑ As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)
  15. ↑ Source only, pass '--enable-x64' to configure
  16. ↑ Supports the Conroe model.
  17. ↑ As calculated by Carlo Delhez's clkfreq, originally distributed with his XTender emulator. The ZX81 has relatively complicated timing mechanics, depending on signalling of WAIT during NMI; relative speed is a measurement of how closely an emulator matches a real machine in terms of clock cycles spent processing within a frame. 100.0% denotes the same execution speed as a real machine.
  18. ↑ After turning off the simulated hardware improvements that were not standard in the original computer.

See Also

See also

Emulators on other systems(edit)

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