ColecoVision emulators

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ColecoVision
Coleco.jpg
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 Retro
Achievements
FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
BizHawk   2.9.1
ColEm         5.6
DSP       0.22
ares       v138
FinalBurn Neo
fbneo_libretro
        WIP builds
libretro core
NC [N 1]
CoolCV       0.6.9
MAME         0.265
Mugrat   0.5.0
Snepulator     git ~
Pantheon   13.640 ~
Phoenix       2.8.JAG ~
vdmgr   0.2.6 ~
blueMSX
blueMSX_libretro
   
      [N 2]
2.8.2
libretro core
~[N 3] ~
Retro Virtual Machine       2.1.10 TBD
higan (火眼)         v110 [N 4]
Clock Signal       2024-05-05
Bee       2.4.3
FreezeSMS   4.6
MEKA       0.8-alpha (2023-08-26)
DarcNES       9b0401/9b0313
Mobile / ARM
ColEm+      
 
 
5.6.4 (Android)
fbneo_libretro     libretro core NC [N 1]
MSX.emu
(blueMSX tech)
        1.5.77git
Pandora build 15
1.5.46.02
blueMSX_libretro    
   
libretro core ~
Consoles
fbneo_libretro     libretro core NC [N 1]
blueMSX_libretro    
   
   
libretro core ?
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
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 FinalBurn Neo was confirmed as having better compatibility than MAME/MESS, blueMSX, openMSX and CoolCV. See this topic.
  2. Only available outside Windows as a libretro core (e.g., RetroArch).
  3. Libretro core is still active.
  4. Superseded by ares