Emulators on BSD

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This page is about software on BSD Variants that emulates other hardware, like video game consoles.

For software that can run BSD variants on other Operating Systems, see Hypervisors.

BSD



Release date	Original BSD 1978
Discontinued	1995
Successor	FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Other BSD descendants
Emulated	Hypervisors

BSD varients
Type	Operating System
Latest release	FreeBSD 14.0 OpenBSD 7.4 NetBSD 9.3

This list is currently taken from console specific pages. if you want to add to this list test emulators work on BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) and add them to this list and add BSD to the console specific list of supported platforms

Nintendo

Nintendo Entertainment System

Name	Latest version	FDS	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Mesen	2.0.0 (preview)	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
Nestopia UE	1.52.1	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
puNES	0.111	✓	✗	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
FinalBurn Neo	WIP builds	✓	✓	?	✗	✓	✗
iNES	6.1	✓	✗	High	?	✓	✗
FCEUX	2.6.6	✓	✗	Mid	✓	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✗
QuickNES	git (libretro)	?	✓	Low	✓	✗	✗

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Name	Version	Satellaview	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
bsnes (Official)	v115	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
bsnes-hd (forked bsnes)	beta 10.6	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
higan	v110	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✓	✓
Snes9x	1.62.3	✓	✓	High	✗^{[N 1]}	✓	~
Mednafen (SNES-Faust)	1.32.1	✓	✓	?	✓	✓	✗
nSide (forked higan)	git	✓	✓	Cycle	✓	✗	✗
Mednafen (bsnes v059)	1.32.1	✓	✓	High	✓	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✗	✓	Low	✓	✓	✗
CATSFC	1.36	✗	✓	Low	✓	✗	✗

↑ Due to using a non-commercial license. Source code is still publicly available.

Nintendo 64

Name	Latest version	Plugins	Controller Pak	Rumble Pak	Transfer Pak	64DD	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Mupen64Plus	git	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	~
MAME	0.265	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗

GameCube / Wii / Triforce

Name	Latest version	GameCube	Wii	Triforce	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Dolphin	Dev	✓	✓	~^{[N 1]}	✓^{[N 2]}	✓	✓	✓

Nintendo DS

Name	Latest version	DSi	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
melonDS	0.9.5 Dev Builds	~	✓	✓	✓	✓

Game Boy Advance

Name	Latest version	Game Link Support	e-Reader	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
mGBA	0.10.3	✓	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓
higan	v110	✗	✗	✓	?	✓	✓	✓
VBA-M	2.1.9	✓	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓

Game Boy / Game Boy Color

Name	Latest version	Game Link Support	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
SameBoy	0.16.3	✓^{[N 3]}	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gearboy	3.5.0	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✗	✓	✓	✓	~
Emulicious	2024-04-30	✗	✗	✗	✓	~

Sega

SG-1000

Name	Latest version	SC-3000	SF-7000	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MasterGear	4.9.3	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Genesis Plus GX^{[N 4]}	1.7.5 RC1	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓	~
higan	v110	~	✗	✓	✓	✓	~
Gearsystem	3.5.0	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗
blueMSX	2.8.2	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗
MEKA	0.8-alpha (2023-08-26)	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗
DarcNES	9b0401/9b0313	~	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
CoolCV	0.6.9	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗

Master System / Game Gear

Name	Latest version	GG	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Genesis Plus GX^{[N 4]}	1.7.5 RC1	✓	✓	Very high	✗	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	High	✓	✓	✓
Emulicious	2024-04-30	✓	✗	Very high	✗	✓	~
higan	v110	✓	✓	High	✓	✓	~
Phoenix	2.8.JAG	✓	✗	Very high	✗	✓	~
Gearsystem	3.5.0	✓	✓	High	✓	✓	✗
MasterGear	4.9.3	✓	✗	High	✗	✓	✗
PicoDrive	1.93	✗^{[N 5]}	✓	Mid	✗	✓	✗

Genesis / MegaDrive / CD / 32X

Name	Latest version	CD	32X	Pico	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Genesis Plus GX^{[N 4]}	1.7.5 RC1	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✓	✓
PicoDrive	1.93	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗
Gens/GS	r7	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
DGen	1.33	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
GENS	2.14	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
higan	v110	~	✗	✗	✓(bsnes)	✓	✓	✗

Saturn / ST-V

Name	Latest version	ST-V	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Mednafen	1.32.1	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Yabause	0.9.15	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗

Dreamcast / Naomi

Name	Latest version	Naomi	Atomiswave	Windows CE	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	~	~	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗

Sega VMU

Name	Latest version	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
SoftVMS	1.10 (source only)	✗	?	✗	~
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✗

NEC

Sony

Mircosoft

Apple

SNK Corporation

Neo Geo and variants

Name	Latest version	NG	NG-CD	HNG-64	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	~	✓^{[N 6]}	✓	✓	✓

Neo Geo Pocket

Name	Latest version	NGP	NGPC	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Mednafen	1.32.1	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
higan	v110	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Commodore

Commodore 64 & 128

Name	Latest version	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
VICE (x64sc)	3.8	✓	Very high	✓	✓	✓
VICE (x64)	3.8^{[N 7]}	✓	High	✓	✓	~
MAME	0.265	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✗

Commodore 65

Name	Latest version	libretro	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	Low	✓	✓	✗

Amiga Line

Name	Latest version	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
FS-UAE	3.0.5	✓	✓	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✗
CLK	2024-05-05	✗	✓	✓	✗

Intel CPUs

Name	Latest version	8086*¹	286	386*²	486*³	Pentium*⁴	Pentium II*⁵	Celeron*⁶	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
DOSBox	0.74-3 SVN	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗
Bochs	2.8	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✓	~	~	~	✓	✓	✓	✗
QEMU	9.0.0	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓^{[N 8]}	✗	✓	✓	✗

Sinclair

ZX81

Name	Latest version	libretro	FLOSS	Relative Speed^{[N 9]}	Active	Recommended
ZEsarUX	11 Beta1	✗	✓	110.9%	✓	✓
SZ81 (xz80 & z81 based)	2.1.7 2.3.10 (Unofficial)	✗	✓	100.0%	✗	~
MAME	0.265	✓	?	Not tested	✓	✗

ZX Spectrum

Name	Latest Version	Libretro Core	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
FUSE	1.5.7	✓	✓	✓	✓
Speccy	5.9	✗	✗	✓	✓
ZEsarUX	11 Beta1	✗	✓	✓	✓
Xpeccy	0.6.20231226	✗	?	✓	✗
DSP	git	✗	?	✓	✗
fbzx	git	✗	✓	✓	✗
JSpeccy	git	✗	?	✓	✗
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓	✗

Acorn Computers

BBC Micro/BBC Master

Name	Latest version	BBC Micro	BBC Master	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
BeebEM	git	B, B+, M128	✓	✓	✓	✓
B-em	2.2, git	A, B, B+, M128, MC	MT, M512	✓	✓	✓
B2	git	B, B+, M128	✗	?	✓	✗

Electron

Name	Latest version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✓
CLK	git	✓	✓	✗
eek	git	✓	✗	✗
ElectrEm	0.6c	?	✗	✗
ElkJS	git	?	✗	✗
Elkulator	git	✓	✗	✗

Multi (Atom, Micro, Electron)

Name	Latest version	Atom	BBC Micro	BBC Master	Electron	FLOSS	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	A, B, B+, M128	?	✓	✓	✓

Archimedes

Name	Latest version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✗
ArcEm	1.50	✓	✗	✗

Risc PC / A7000

Name	Latest version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
RPCEmu	0.9.4	✓	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	✗

Miscellaneous

Panasonic (3DO)

Name	Latest version	Libretro	Retro achievements	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
opera_libretro 4DO	libretro core 1.3.2.4	✓	✓	✓	~^{[N 10]}	✓
MAME	0.265	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗

Phillips (CD-i)

Name	Latest Version	DVC	libretro	Retro Achievements	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Same CDi same_cdi_libretro	libretro core	✗*	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
MAME	0.265	✗	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓*

GamePark Holdings

GP32

Name	Latest version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME	0.265	✓	✓	~

GP2X

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

IBM

System 370/390/z

Name	Latest version	libretro	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Hercules	3.07	✗	✓	✓	✓

Notes

↑ Requires the Triforce branch to work. It is very old and unsupported.
↑ At Alpha release and has bugs that are not present on standalone Dolphin.
↑ SameBoy's libretro core supports Link Cable, standalone does not.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Only available on PC as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).
↑ The Game Gear emulation doesn't work.
↑ As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)
↑ Source only, pass '--enable-x64' to configure
↑ Supports the Conroe model.
↑ 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.
↑ only the core.

[noncomm-1] Due to using a non-commercial license. Source code is still publicly available.

[triforce-2] Requires the Triforce branch to work. It is very old and unsupported.

[3] At Alpha release and has bugs that are not present on standalone Dolphin.

[sameboylink-4] SameBoy's libretro core supports Link Cable, standalone does not.

[GPGXLibretro-5] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Only available on PC as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).

[PicoDrive-6] The Game Gear emulation doesn't work.

[7] As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)

[x64-8] Source only, pass '--enable-x64' to configure

[conroe-9] Supports the Conroe model.

[RelativeSpeed-10] 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.

[4DO-11] y the core.

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