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{{WIPlowercase title}}Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system {{Infobox emulator|title = redream|logo = redream.png|version = {{RedreamVer}}|active = Yes|platform = [[FrontendsEmulators on PC|front-endsWindows]] for <br/>Linux<br/>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS]]<br/>[[Emulators on Android|Android]]<br/>Raspberry Pi|target = [[Sega Dreamcast emulators|Sega Dreamcast]]|developer = Anthony Pesch|website = [http://redream.io/ http://redream. The table does not include single system front-ends io]|source = [https://gitlab.com/inolen/redream GitLab] <small>(such as EmuCon, Mame Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2, etcClosed)</small> <br/>[https://github.com/inolen/redream GitHub] <small>(Former source) or front-ends for other dedicated software such as Kodi.</small>}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"|- ! Name! Creator! Open Source! Free (FOSS)! First public release date! Latest stable version release date! Windows! Macintosh! GNU/Linux! Other platforms|-! [http://www.atomicfe.com/EN2/ Atomic]| 'Youki'| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2005'redream''' is a closed-02-08 (v0.11)source [[Sega Dreamcast emulators| 2010-01-23 (v0.20)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://attractmode.org/ Attract-ModeSega Dreamcast emulator]]| Andrew Mickelson| {{✓}}<ref name="Github repository">[https://github.com/mickelson/attract Github - mickelson/attract]</ref>| {{✓}} (It was formerly licensed under GPLv3)| 2013, but then went closed-11-17 (v1.0)| source in January 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| N/A|-! [http://www.auroragamehub.com/ Aurora Game Hub]| Carlos Machado, Sammy Guergachi| {{✓}}<ref name="Sourceforge repository">[https://sourceforge.net/projects/auroragm/ SourceForge.net Closed- auroragm]</ref><ref name="AuroraGameHub gh reponews">[https://github.com/sguergachi/AuroraGameHub Github - sguergachi/AuroraGameHub]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)cite web| 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794)| styleurl="background: #FFB" | 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| N/A| BSD|-! [http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk.html BizHawk]| 'Nach'| {{✓}}<ref name"Github repository">[https://githubgitlab.com/TASVideosinolen/BizHawk Github - TASVideosredream/BizHawk]<issues/ref>| style="background: 301#FFB" note_53633080| "minefield"<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/blob/e60896c1b745ef573fde784155432bef44e78b18/LICENSE Repository License]</ref>| 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0)| 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1)| {{✓}}| N/A| styletitle="background: #FFB" | To be compiled<ref>[https://github.com/TASVideos/BizHawk#gnulinux BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux]</ref>Statement from inolen| N/A|-! [https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Bottlenose]| Quinton Ashley| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/quinton-ashley/bottlenose Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose]</ref>| {{✓}} (MIT)| 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12)| 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| N/A|-! [http://www.cabrio-fe.org/ CabrioFE]| Steve Maddison| {{✓}}<ref name"Github repository">[https://github.com/SteveMaddison/cabrio Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv2)| 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0)| stylepublisher="background: #FFB" | 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version)GitLab| styleaccessdate="background: #FFB" | v0.8.1| {{✗}}| {{✓}}| N/A|2018-! [http://coinops.ninja/ CoinOPS]| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A| N/A|-! [http://emucenter.2.free.fr/website/ENG/ EmuCenter 2]| N/A| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2010-0304-20 (v0.6)| 2016-09date=2018-01 (v7.1.0.181)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/ EmuCon]| N/A| {{✓08}}<ref name"Download page">[http://emuloader.mameworld.info/emucon/downloads.htm EmuCon Download page with sources]</ref>| {{✗}}| 2008-04-23 (v2.0)| 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [httpsThere are two editions of redream://emulationstation.org/ Emulation Station]| Alec Lofquist Lite and others| {{✓}}<ref name"Github repository">[https://githubPremium.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation Github First one is free to everyone while second one is payware with added high- Aloshi/EmulationStation]</ref><ref name"Github repository">[https://githubdefinition rendering.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation Github - RetroPie/EmulationStation (fork)]</ref>| {{✓}} (MIT)| 2013-10-26 (v1.0The emulator is one of the few if not the only Dreamcast emulator that can run without a BIOS; however, using a BIOS is highly recommended as some games may have bugs as the replacement BIOS is not currently perfect.0)| 2019-03-09 (v2.7.6 - on retropie repo)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✓}}| Raspberry Pi<ref name="RetroPie Documentation">[https://emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html#install_rpi_retropie RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki]</ref>|-! [http://emuloader.mameworld.info/ EmuLoader]| N/A| {{✓}}<ref name"Download page">[http://emuloader.mameworld.info/downloads.htm EmuLoader =Download page with sources]</ref>| {{✗}}| 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6)| 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://feelfrontend.altervista.org/ FEEL]| 'Sincro'| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/dr-prodigy/feel-frontend Github - dr-prodigy/feel-frontend]</ref>| {{✓}} (LGPLv3)| 2015-09-12 (v1.8.1)| 2018-06-08 (v1.9.8.5)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}} | {{✗}}|-! [https://www.gameex.com/ GameEx]| Tom Speirs| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2016-04-14 (v14.44)| 2019-05-15 (v15.60)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://gameroom.me/ GameRoom]| Max 'n0xew' ??| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2016-12-13 (v0.0.0.9)| 2018-03-12 (v1.1.2.0)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games Games (Gnome)]| Various contributors| {{✓}}<ref>[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-games/ Gitlab - GNOME-games]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0)| 2019-05-24 (v3.33.2)| {{✗}}| N/A| {{✓}}| N/A|-! [https://hyperspin-fe.com/ HyperSpin]| Jonathan Habers| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| N/A| 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| Android<ref name="Android download forum thread">[https://hyperspin-fe.com/files/category/445-hyperspin-android/ HyperSpin (Android)]</ref>|-! [https://scottrice.github.io/Ice/ Ice]| Scott Rice| {{✓}}<ref name"Github repository">[https://github.com/scottrice/Ice Github - scottrice/Ice]</ref>| {{✓}} (MIT)| 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0)| 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| N/A|-! [https://www.launchbox-app.com/ Launch Box]| Jason Carr| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| N/A| N/A| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://lusspace.free.fr/ LusSpace]| 'Space1'| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| N/A| 2016-11-08 (v1.23)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://lutris.net/ Lutris]| Mathieu Comandon and others| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/lutris/lutris Github - lutris/lutris]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2013-12-15 (v0.3.2)| 2019-04-09 (v0.5.2)| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✓}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://malafe.net/ MaLa]| Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b)| 2011-03-27 (v1.74)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://www.maximus-arcade.com/ Maximus Arcade]| N/A| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| N/A| N/A| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://www.metropolis-launcher.net/ Metropolis Launcher]| Jörg 'MK2k' Sonntag| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0)| 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [http://www.mgalaxy.com/ mGalaxy]| N/A| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| 2007-02-05 (v1.0)| 2019-04-?? (v7.5)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://pegasus-frontend.org/ Pegasus]| Mátyás Mustoha| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend]</ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3)| style="background: #FFB" | 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| Android, Raspberry Pi|-! [https://photongamemanager.com/ Photon Game Manager]| Thomas Preece| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| N/A| N/A| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| stylecellpadding="background: #FFB4" | Experimental| {{✗}}|-! [https://playnite.link/ Playnite]| Josef Nemec| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite Github - JosefNemec/Playnite]</ref>| {{✓}} (MIT)| 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha)| 2019-02-25 (v4.74)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}

! |align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|LiA}}|'''[https://projectascensionredream.io Project Ascension/download Stable and Dev builds]| Jake Schadewe and others| {{✓}}'''<br/><refsmall>[https://githubarch.comb4k.co/vg/thread/Proj-Ascension264792040/ Github - Project Ascension#264802560 How to manually unlock Premium]</refsmall>| {{✓}} (MIT)| 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34)| 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}

! [http://quickplay.sourceforge.net/ QuickPlay]| John Scottalign=center| {{✓Icon|Win|Lin|Mac|LiA}}<ref name"SourceForge repository">|'''[https://sourceforgeredream.netio/p/quickplay/code/ SourceForge - QuickPlaypremium Premium]'''<br/ref>| {{✓}} (BSD-3)| 2014-04-14 (v3<small>Payware $5.9See above.0)| 2020-04-29 (v4.7.5)| {{✓}}| N</A| N/A| N/Asmall>

! [https://www.retroarch.com/ RetroArch]| 'Twinaphex' and othersalign=center| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch Github - libretro/RetroArch]</ref>Icon| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2011-01-25 (v0.2)| 2019Android-05-08 (v1.7.7)| {{✓big}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| DOS, BSD, Haiku, Solaris, PS2, PS3, PSP, PSVita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Switch, NES/SNES Classic Edition, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Web Browser|-! '''[httphttps://retrofeplay.nl/ RetroFe]| Don Honerbrink| {{✓}}<ref name"BitBucket repository">[https://bitbucketgoogle.org/phulshof/retrofe/srccom/ Bitbucket - phulshofstore/retrofe]<apps/ref>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2016-07-26 (v0.7.2-beta-1)| 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0)| {{✓}}| styledetails?id="background: #FFB" | To be compiled| {{✓}}| N/A|-! [http://romjacketio.mudlordrecompiled.info/ RoM-Jacketredream Google Play store]| 'Jinx'| {{✓}} (.bat files)| {{✗}}| N/A| N/A| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://romjacket.github.io/ skeletonKey]| 'romjacket'| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/romjacket/skeletonKey Github - romjacketbr/skeletonKey]</ref>| {{✗}}| 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34)| 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81)| {{✓}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}| {{✗}}|-! [https://snowflakepowe.red/ Snowflake]| Ronny Chan| {{✓}}<refsmall>[https://github.com/SnowflakePowered/snowflake Github Free to download, offers in- SnowflakePowered/snowflake]</ref>| {{✓}} (MPLv2app purchases.0)| 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0)| style="background: #FFB" | 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158)| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled| style="background: #FFB" | To be compiled| N/A|-! [https://frogthefrog.github.io/steam-rom-manager/ Steam Rom Manager]| Lukas Senionis| {{✓}}<ref>[https://github.com/FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager]</refsmall>| {{✓}} (GPLv3)| 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0)| 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| N/A

= Technical facts =System Requirements=====PC===Operating system: Windows 7+ 64-bit, macOS 64-bit or Linux 64-bit Processor: x86-64 compatible with SSE2 support (AVX2 recommended) Memory: 512 MB RAM

{| class="wikitable sortable"! Name! Download size! Current status! Language used! Libraries used|- ! Atomic| 35.2 MiB| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Discontinued| Visual Basic| N/A|-! Attract-Mode| 34.5 - 35.9 MiB| style="backgroundGraphics: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C++| SFML, OpenAL, Zlib, FreeType 2, FFmpeg (avformat, avcodec, swscale, avutil, swresample/avresample), OpenGL+GLU, JPEG. Optionally: Fontconfig, Xinerama, libarchive, Libcurl.|-! Aurora Game Hub| 12.2 MiB| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Discontinued| Java| h2 database Engine|-! BizHawk| 483.1 MiB support (+43 MiB on windows)| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C++ & C#| DirectX 9, libblip_buf|Order-! Bottlenose| 56.independent transparency support is only available in OGL 4 - 87.2 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| HTML/JS/CSS| await-spawn, bootstrap, chrome-finder, circletype, contro, contro-ui, copy-paste, deep-extend, delay, diacritics, electron-pug, fs-extra, fuse.js, gca-js, gooder, jquery, klaw, markdown-it, material-design-icons-iconfont, moment, mousetrap, node-7z, opn, popper.js, probe-image-size, pug, puppeteer-core, requisition, tether, three, yauzl-promise|-! CabrioFE| 1.5 MiB| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Discontinued| C| SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg|-! CoinOPS| ?| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Discontinued| ?| ?|-! EmuCenter 2| 176 MiB| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| C++ and/3 or C#| N/A|-! EmuCon| 5.54 MiB| style="background: #FFD2D2" | Discontinued| Pascal| |-! Emulation Station| 13.1 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C++| SDL2, Boost (System, Filesystem, DateTime, Localehigher), FreeImage, FreeType, Eigen3, and cURL|-! EmuLoader| 16.50 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| Pascal||-! FEEL| 26.4 MiB| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| C#| XNA, SharpDx, SmartASD, "other smaller libs" (sic)|-! GameEx| 81.8 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C#||-! GameRoom| 67.7 MiB| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| Java||-! Games (Gnome)| 8.9 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| Vala| retro-gtk, libmanette, libhandy|-! HyperSpin| 479.12 MiB| styleMobile="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| ActionScript||-! Ice| 11.3 MiB| style="background: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| Python| appdirs, pastebin, psutil, pysteam|-! Launch Box| 218 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C#||-! LusSpace| 2.9 MiB| style="backgroundAndroid: #FFB" | Possibly discontinued| Visual Basic 6||-! Lutris| 1.7 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| Python| PyYAML, PyGObject, evdev, requests, optional pypresence for discord|-! MaLa|-! Maximus Arcade|-! Metropolis Launcher| 261.16 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| VB.Net 4Android 5.0| DevExpress WinForms v15.2+, DiscUtils, HtmlAgilityPack, NewtonsoftOpenGL ES 3.Json, Ookii.Dialogs, SgmlReaderDll, SharpCompress|-! mGalaxy|-! Pegasus|-! Photon Game Manager|-! Playnite|-! Project Ascension|-! QuickPlay| 32.8 MiB| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| Delphi| |-! RetroArch| 4.8 - 165 - 806 MiB (Android - Win10 64bit - PS3 DEX)| style="background: #D2FFD2" | Actively maintained| C| libretro, an audio library (ALSA, OSS, etc.), optional dependencies|-! RetroFe|-! RoM-Jacket|-! skeletonKey|-! Snowflake|-! Steam Rom Manager|}1

= Emulator support =Overview==On [https://redream.io/posts/improving-audio-video-synchronization-multi-sync July 2018], inolen introduced a major change to redream's audio/video synchronization in version 1.2.3 by utilizing a feature called, in his words, "MultiSync". This helps to prevent audible crackling, unexpected latency in audio and skipped or torn frames in video output. The solution does involve some added code complexity and memory bandwidth to handle the extra bits.

{| class="wikitable sortable"It also has a few more subtle benefits:! Name*Lower spec machines have more time to do actual emulation work as the main thread is never blocked by [[vsync]].! RetroArch! 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| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}| {{✓}}|-! RetroArch|-! RetroFe|-! RoM-Jacket|-! skeletonKey|-! Snowflake|-! Steam Rom Manager|}*If the user has vsync force disabled in their control panel, emulation still runs at the correct speed since it's being driven by the audio sync."

= Features =References==<references/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"! 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| {{✓}}| {{✓}} (built-in only)| {{✓}}| {{✓}}|| {{✓}} (offline db)| {{✓}}||-! mGalaxy|-! Pegasus|-! Photon Game Manager|-! Playnite|-! Project Ascension|-! QuickPlay|-! RetroArch|-! RetroFe|-! RoM-Jacket|-! skeletonKey|-! Snowflake=External links==|-* [https://redream.io/compatibility/ Official compatibility list]! Steam Rom Manager* [https://discordapp.com/invite/zuEAVTG Discord chat channel] for redream|}* [https://twitter.com/inolen Twitter news feed] for redream

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