ColecoVision emulators
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| Developer | Coleco Industries, Inc. |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PC / x86 | ||||||
| BizHawk | 
|
2.9.1 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ColEm |   
|
5.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DSP |
|
0.22 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ares |
|
v138 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FinalBurn Neo |
|
WIP builds | ✓ | NC | ✓ | ✓[N 1] |
| Pantheon |
|
13.640 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CoolCV |
|
0.6.9 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MAME |
|
0.265 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snepulator |
|
git | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| higan |
|
v110 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ~[N 2] |
| Phoenix |
|
2.8.JAG | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| vdmgr |
|
0.2.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
| Retro Virtual Machine |
|
2.0.beta-1.r7 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | TBD |
| Clock Signal |
|
2024-05-05 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Bee |
|
2.4.3 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| blueMSX |  [N 3]
|
2.8.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FreezeSMS |
|
4.6 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 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).
