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Revision as of 15:55, 3 June 2019
Below is a basic comparison table for all the known multi-system front-ends for emulators. The table does not include single system front-ends (such as EmuCon, Mame Classic, Negatron, pfeMame, QMC2, etc.) or front-ends for other dedicated software such as Kodi.
| Name | Creator | Open Source | Free (FOSS) | First public release date | Year of latest stable version | Windows | Macintosh | GNU/Linux | Other platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic | 'Youki' | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-02-08 (v0.11) | 2010-01-23 (v0.20) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Attract-Mode | Andrew Mickelson | ✓[1] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-11-17 (v1.0) | 2018-11-14 (v2.5.1) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Aurora Game Hub | Carlos Machado, Sammy Guergachi | ✓[2][3] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794) | 2013-08-14 (Alpha_8_b794) | ✓ | ✓ | N/A | BSD |
| BizHawk | 'Nach' | ✓[4] | "minefield"[5] | 2018-03-15 (v1.0.0) | 2019-01-06 (v2.3.1) | ✓ | N/A | To be compiled[6] | N/A |
| Bottlenose | Quinton Ashley | ✓[7] | ✓ (MIT) | 2019-03-04 (v1.0.12) | 2019-04-09 (v1.0.65) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| CabrioFE | Steve Maddison | ✓[8] | ✓ (GPLv2) | 2009-10-26 (v0.3.0) | 2011-06-24 (v0.8.2 - beta version) | v0.8.1 | ✗ | ✓ | N/A |
| CoinOPS | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| EmuCenter 2 | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-09-01 (v7.1.0.181) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| EmuCon | N/A | ✓[9] | ✗ | 2008-04-23 (v2.0) | 2017-11-21 (v2.7.7) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Emulation Station | Alec Lofquist, Eduard Strehlau | ✓[10][11] | ✓ (MIT) | 2013-10-26 (v1.0.0) | 2014-06-12 (v1.0.2 - on original repo) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | Raspberry Pi[12] |
| EmuLoader | N/A | ✓[13] | ✗ | 2007-08-27 (v5.1.6) | 2019-05-31 (v8.7.6) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FEEL | 'Sincro' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2017-06-13 (v1.9.8.1c) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GameEx | Tom Speirs | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2019-05-09 (v1.05) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| GameRoom | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Games (Gnome) | Various contributors | ✓[14] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2015-10-20 (v3.18.0) | 2019-05-24 (v3.32.0) | ✗ | N/A | ✓ | N/A |
| HyperSpin | Jonathan Habers | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2018-05-07 (v1.5.1) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Android[15] |
| Ice | Scott Rice | ✓[16] | ✓ (MIT) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | 2016-01-29 (v1.0.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Launch Box | Jason Carr | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| LusSpace | 'Space1' | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | 2016-11-08 (v1.23) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Lutris | Mathieu Comandon and others | ✓[17] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2013-12-15 (v0.3.2) | 2019-04-09 (v0.5.2) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| MaLa | Stefan 'swindus' Windus, Simon 'loadman' Loader | ✗ | ✗ | 2005-07-26 (v0.9.7b) | 2011-03-27 (v1.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Maximus Arcade | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Metropolis Launcher | Jörg Sonntag | ✓[18] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-27 (v1.0.0) | 2018-09-07 (v1.2.0) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| mGalaxy | N/A | ✗ | ✗ | 2007-02-05 (v1.0) | 2019-04-?? (v7.5) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pegasus | Mátyás Mustoha | ✓[19] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-08-07 (Alpha 3) | 2019-03-10 (Alpha 11) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Android, Raspberry Pi |
| Photon Game Manager | Thomas Preece | ✗ | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | Experimental | ✗ |
| Playnite | Josef Nemec | ✓[20] | ✓ (MIT) | 2017-03-28 (v0.70 Alpha) | 2019-02-25 (v4.74) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Project Ascension | Jake Schadewe and others | ✓[21] | ✓ (MIT) | 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) | 2016-01-30 (v1.0.34) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| QuickPlay | Tony 'butter100fly' Woode | ✓[22] | ✓ (BSD-3) | 2014-04-14 (v3.9.0) | 2019-02-19 (v4.6.6) | ✓ | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RetroFe | Don Honerbrink | ✓[23] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2016-07-26 (v0.7.2-beta-1) | 2019-05-26 (v0.9.0) | ✓ | To be compiled | ✓ | N/A |
| RoM-Jacket | 'Jinx' | ✓ (.bat files) | ✗ | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| skeletonKey | 'romjacket' | ✓[24] | ✗ | 2018-05-22 (v0.99.34.34) | 2019-05-30 (v0.99.69.81) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Snowflake | Ronny Chan | ✓[25] | ✓ (MPLv2.0) | 2015-01-15 (v0.1.0) | 2017-07-10 (v0.2.1158) | To be compiled | To be compiled | To be compiled | N/A |
| Steam Rom Manager | Lukas Senionis | ✓[26] | ✓ (GPLv3) | 2017-04-30 (v1.0.0) | 2019-03-10 (v2.2.19) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
Technical facts
| Name | Download size | Current status | Language used | Libraries used |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic | 35.2 MiB | Discontinued | Visual Basic | N/A |
| Attract-Mode | 34.5 - 35.9 MiB | 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 | Discontinued | Java | h2 database Engine |
| BizHawk | 48.1 MiB (+43 MiB on windows) | Actively maintained | C++ & C# | DirectX 9, libblip_buf |
| Bottlenose | 56.4 - 87.2 MiB | 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 | Discontinued | C | SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, glut, libxml2, ffmpeg |
| 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 | ||||
| RetroFe | ||||
| RoM-Jacket | ||||
| skeletonKey | ||||
| Snowflake | ||||
| Steam Rom Manager |
Emulator support
| Name | 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 | |||||||||||||||
| RetroFe | |||||||||||||||
| RoM-Jacket | |||||||||||||||
| skeletonKey | |||||||||||||||
| Snowflake | |||||||||||||||
| Steam Rom Manager |
Features
| 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 | ||||||||
| mGalaxy | ||||||||
| Pegasus | ||||||||
| Photon Game Manager | ||||||||
| Playnite | ||||||||
| Project Ascension | ||||||||
| QuickPlay | ||||||||
| RetroFe | ||||||||
| RoM-Jacket | ||||||||
| skeletonKey | ||||||||
| Snowflake | ||||||||
| Steam Rom Manager |
- ↑ Github - mickelson/attract
- ↑ SourceForge.net - auroragm
- ↑ Github - sguergachi/AuroraGameHub
- ↑ Github - TASVideos/BizHawk
- ↑ Repository License
- ↑ BizHawk README.md - Installing GNU+Linux
- ↑ Github - quinton-ashley/bottlenose
- ↑ Github - SteveMaddison/cabrio
- ↑ EmuCon Download page with sources
- ↑ Github - Aloshi/EmulationStation
- ↑ Github - Herdinger/EmulationStation (fork)
- ↑ RetroPie Documentation on the emulation station wiki
- ↑ EmuLoader Download page with sources
- ↑ Gitlab - GNOME-games
- ↑ HyperSpin (Android)
- ↑ Github - scottrice/Ice
- ↑ Github - lutris/lutris
- ↑ Github - theMK2k/MetropolisLauncher
- ↑ Github - mmatyas/pegasus-frontend
- ↑ Github - JosefNemec/Playnite
- ↑ Github - Project Ascension
- ↑ SourceForge - QuickPlay
- ↑ Bitbucket - phulshof/retrofe
- ↑ Github - romjacket/skeletonKey
- ↑ Github - SnowflakePowered/snowflake
- ↑ Github - FrogTheFrog/steam-rom-manager
