Emulators on Linux

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Linux
Tux (Linux).png
Type Operating systems
Earliest release Linux Kernel 0.02 (1991)
Latest release Linux Kernel 6.7 (2024)
This page is about software on Linux that emulates other hardware, like video game consoles.
For software that can run Linux on other Operating Systems, see Hypervisors.

Linux is a family of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Operating systems using the Linux kernel are commonly called Linux distributions (distro).

Emulators on Linux

Due to the overlap with the technical and open source communities, the majority of emulators in existence will have Linux versions available. The commercial success of the Steam Deck has also contributed heavily to consumer demand for native emulators on Linux.

Before diving in;
  • If you're on a Steam Deck, you should probably use EmuDeck which is an installation script that helps you get started with emulation. It is not an all in one solution like some other software; instead, it strives to provide the best possible official options to you, set up and ready to go.
  • See the Linux guide for emulators for Distro specific instructions
  • See the Recommended Linux distributions.
  • See each Wiki Category Consoles, Computers and Arcade for individual dedicated system pages to see more detailed comparisons and information about software emulators. Dedicated system pages provide more up-to-date listings and in-depth information on specific aspects like hardware features, peripheral support, and compatibility etc.
  • Some games have Game engine recreations and source ports that run on Linux, which can be the better than emulators for their specific games.

Contents

Atari[edit]

Atari 8-bit family[edit]

Name Latest version Models XEGS libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Atari800 5.2.0 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Atari++ 1.84 400, 800, XL, XE ✗ ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 Good: 400, 800
Basic: XL, XE 		✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ~

Atari ST[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Hatari 2.4.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Steem SSE 4.1.2 R14 ✗ ? ✓ ✓
ARAnyM git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
Steem Engine 3.2 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
PCE/atarist pce-20191006 ✗ ? ✓ ✗
CaSTaway 0.9.2 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Atari 2600[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Stella 6.7.1 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
z26 4.07 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
Gopher2600 0.30.0 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✗
CLK 2024-01-22 ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Stellarator git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗

Atari 5200[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Atari800 5.2.0 ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
kat5200 0.8.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Jum52 git ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Atari 7800[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
A7800 5.2 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
ProSystem git (libretro) ✓ ? ✓ ✗ [N 1] ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗

Atari Jaguar[edit]

Name Latest version AJ-CD libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Virtual Jaguar 2.1.2
Unofficial builds
git (libretro) 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ [N 1] ✓
MAME 0.264 ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

Atari Lynx[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Handy 0.95 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗

Nintendo[edit]

Nintendo Entertainment System[edit]

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 ✓ ✓ ✓
3dSen 0.9.5 ✗ ✗ ? ✗ ✓ ~
FinalBurn Neo WIP builds ✓ ✓ ? ✗ ✓ ✗
iNES 6.1 ✓ ✗ High ? ✓ ✗
Gearnes git ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✗
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✓ ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✗
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ (as bsnes v083) Cycle ✓ ✓ ✗
ANESE git ✗ ✗ Cycle ✓ ~ ✗
cxNES git ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✗
FCEUX 2.6.6 ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
QuickNES git (libretro) ? ✓ Low ✓ ✗ ✗

Super Nintendo Entertainment System[edit]

Name Version Satellaview libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
bsnes
(Official) 		v115 ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
bsnes-hd
(forked bsnes) 		beta 10.6 ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Mesen S 0.4.0 ✗ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✗ ~
Snes9x 1.62.3 ✓ ✓ High ✗ [N 2] ✓ ~
Mednafen (SNES-Faust) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
nSide (forked higan) git ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✗ ✗
BizHawk (bsnes v087) 2.9.1 ✓ ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✗
Mednafen (bsnes v059) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✓ Low ✓ ✓ ✗
ZSNES 1.51 ✗ ✗ Low ✓ ✗ ✗
CATSFC 1.36 ✗ ✓ Low ✓ ✗ ✗

Nintendo 64[edit]

Name Latest version Plugins Controller Pak Rumble Pak Transfer Pak 64DD libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
simple64 (ParaLLEl) 2024.03.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
simple64 (Final GLideN64) Final GLideN64 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
RMG git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
ares v137 ✗ ✓ ~ ~ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ~
CEN64 git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ~
Mupen64Plus git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

GameCube / Wii / Triforce[edit]

Name Latest version GameCube Wii Triforce libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Dolphin Dev ✓ ✓ ~[N 3] ✓[N 4] ✓ ✓ ✓
Ishiiruka-Dolphin (いし海豚) Dev ✓ ✓ ✗ ~ ✓ ✓ ~
Pureikyubu (PlayCube) 1.6 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Wii U[edit]

Name Latest version Accurancy Amiibo FLOSS Active Recommended
Cemu 2.0-78 Medium ~ ✓ ✓ ✓
Decaf git Low ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Nintendo Switch[edit]

Name Latest version Amiibo FLOSS Active Recommended
yuzu (柚子) Nightly (Offline)git (Offline) ✓ ✓ ✗* ✓
Ryujinx (龍神X) Nightlygit ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Nintendo 3DS[edit]

Name Latest version Amiibo FLOSS libretro Active Recommended
Citra Nightly ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓

Nintendo DS[edit]

Name Latest version DSi libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
DeSmuME 0.9.13 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
melonDS 0.9.5
Dev Builds 		~ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Game Boy Advance[edit]

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

Pokémon mini[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
GBE+ 1.8 [N 5] ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
PokeMini 0.6.0git ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓

Virtual Boy[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Rustual Boy git ✗ ✓ ~ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Planet Virtual Boy emulator 2019-03-27 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Red Dragon 0.38 Final ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Game Boy / Game Boy Color[edit]

Name Latest version Game Link Support libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
SameBoy 0.16.3 ✓[N 6] ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BGB 1.6.2 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
Gambatte r571 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Gearboy 3.5.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
Emulicious 2024-03-31 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ~

Game & Watch[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DSP 0.22 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sega[edit]

Sega Model 1[edit]

Name Latest version Active libretro FLOSS Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Modeler 0.9.3a ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Sega Model 2[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ~

Sega Model 3[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Supermodel SVN Builds ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

SG-1000[edit]

Name Latest version SC-3000 SF-7000 libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MasterGear 4.9.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 7] 1.7.5 RC1 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ~
Gearsystem 3.5.0 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
blueMSX 2.8.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
MEKA 0.8-alpha (2023-08-26) ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
CoolCV 0.6.9 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
TwoMbit 1.0.5 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ {{✗}

Master System / Game Gear[edit]

Name Latest version GG libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Genesis Plus GX[N 7] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✓ Very high ✗ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Emulicious 2024-03-31 ✓ ✗ Very high ✗ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✓ ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ~
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ~
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✓ ✗ Very high ✗ ✓ ~
TwoMbit 1.0.5 ✓ ✗ Very high ✓ ✗ ✗
Gearsystem 3.5.0 ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✗
MasterGear 4.9.3 ✓ ✗ High ✗ ✓ ✗
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✗ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
PicoDrive 1.93 ✗[N 8] ✓ Mid ✗ ✓ ✗

Genesis / MegaDrive / CD / 32X[edit]

Name Latest version CD 32X Pico libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
BlastEm 0.6.2 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Genesis Plus GX[N 7] 1.7.5 RC1 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ? ✓ ✓
Kega Fusion 3.64 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
PicoDrive 1.93 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
FinalBurn Neo Stable nightly builds ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Gens/GS r7 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
DGen 1.33 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
GENS 2.14 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✗ ✗ ✓(bsnes) ✓ ✓ ✗
Megado git ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ? ✗ ✗
Regen 0.972 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ? ✗ ✗

Saturn / ST-V[edit]

Name Latest version ST-V libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Kronos 2.6.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Yaba Sanshiro 2 (Yaba三四郎2) 1.14.3 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
Yabause 0.9.15 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

Dreamcast / NAOMI[edit]

Name Latest version NAOMI Atomiswave Windows CE libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Flycast CI Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
redream 1.5.0 (Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi)
1.2.07 (Android) 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
DEmul 0.7 Build 280418 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ~
reicast r20.04 (Not Working)
r8.1 (Snap Store) 		✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ~ ✗
nullDC 1.0.4 r150 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
lxdream-nitro git ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ~ ~ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sega VMU[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
VeMUlator_libretro Nightly ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
SoftVMS 1.10 (source only) ✗ ? ✗ ~
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
ElysianVMU 0.2.0 ✗ ? ✗ ✗

NEC[edit]

NEC PC-6000[edit]

Emulator Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PC6001VX 4.2.5 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

NEC PC-8800[edit]

Emulator Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
XM8 1.70 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME git artifacts[N 9]
0.264 		✓ ✓ ✓ ~[N 10]
QUASI88
quasi88_libretro 		libretro core
0.6.4 		✓ ✓ ~[N 11] ~
X88000 1.5.3 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

NEC PC-9800[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Neko Project II kai (猫Project II改) git ✓ High ✓ ~ ✓
Neko Project II (猫Project II) 0.86 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ Low ✓ ✓ ~
DOSBox-X 2024.03.01 ✗ Low ✓ ✓ ~

PC Engine / PC Engine CD / SuperGrafx[edit]

Name Latest version PCE-CD SuperGrafx libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen (PCE-Accurate) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Mednafen (PCE-Fast) 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ~ ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ~
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ Low ? ✗ ✗
Hu-Go! 2.12 ✓ ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ✗

PC-FX[edit]

Name Latest version GA libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 TBD ✓ Mid-High ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ~ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
MagicEngine-FX 1.1.1 TBD ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ✗
Xe 2.16.2 TBD ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Sony[edit]

PlayStation[edit]

Name Latest Version Plugins FLOSS libretro RIR Accuracy Active Recommended
DuckStation git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓
PCSX-Redux git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ? ✓ ✗ (WIP)
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ (WIP)
Rustation NG git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ✓ ✗ (WIP)
PCSX-R PGXP(git)
 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ Plugin dependent ✗ ✗
ePSXe 2.0.5 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ Plugin dependent ✗ ✗
Rustation git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ High ✗ ✗
Avocado git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ Mid ~ ✗
pSX 1.13 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ Mid ✗ ✗

PlayStation 2[edit]

Name Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PCSX2 1.6.0 (stable)
SVN 		~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
Play! Builds ✓ ✓ ✓ ~
DobieStation git
Builds 		✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

PlayStation 3[edit]

Name Latest Release Version FLOSS Active Recommended
RPCS3 0.0.31 Alpha[N 12] ✓ ✓ ✓
Nucleus git ✓ ✗ ✗

PlayStation 4[edit]

Name Latest Release Version FLOSS Active Recommended
RPCSX git ✓ ✓ ✗(WIP)
Obliteration git ✓ ✓ ✗(WIP)
Orbital git ✓ ~ ✗
RPCS4 N/A ? ? ✗
Spine 2022-05-17 ✗ ✗ ✗

PlayStation 5[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Pocket Station[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓

PlayStation Portable[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
PPSSPP 1.17.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JPCSP SVN ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

PlayStation Vita[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Vita3K git ✓ ✓ ✓

Google[edit]

Android[edit]

Name Version Backend[N 13] Compatibility FLOSS Active Recommended
Android x86 Bliss OS
8.1-r6 		entire OS
though installable to VM through Hypervisor 		Mid ✓ ~ ~
Genymotion 3.6.0 VirtualBox Mid-High ✗ ✓ ~[N 14]
Waydroid git wine-like approach Low ✓ ✓ ~
KMRE 2.4.6.8? docker ? ? ✓ ✗
Android Studio 4.0 QEMU Low ~ ✓ ✗
Andy OS 0.47.226.1096.26 ? ? ✗ ✓ ✗
Anbox git wine-like approach Low ✓ ✗ ✗

Microsoft[edit]

MSX series[edit]

Name Latest version MSX 1 MSX 2 MSX 2+ TurboR Accuracy libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
openMSX git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
blueMSX 2.8.2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ High ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
fMSX 6.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓ ~
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ ✗ Low ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Original Xbox[edit]

Name Latest version Sega Chihiro (千尋) FLOSS Active Recommended
xemu 0.7.120 ~ (WIP) ✓ ✓ ✓
XQEMU git ~ (WIP) ✓ ✗ ✗
StrikeBox git ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
MAME 0.264 ~ ✓ ✓ ✗

Xbox 360[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Xbox One[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Xbox Series X and Series S[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Apple[edit]

Apple I[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Pom1 v1.0.0 ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ~

Apple II Line[edit]

Name Latest version ][ ][+ //e IIc //e Enhanced //e Platinum IIc Plus IIGS FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
LinApple git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MicroM8 Continuous ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ (WIP)
DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Apple /// Line[edit]

Name Latest version /// /// Revised /// Plus FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Apple IIGS[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
KEGS 1.34 ✓ ✓ ✓
GSplus 0.14 ✓ ✗ ~
GSport 0.31 ✓ ✗ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✗

Apple Lisa[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
LisaEm 1.2.7 ✓ ~* ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✗

Macintosh line[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
68k
Basilisk II 1.0 R5 ✓ ✓ ✓
Mini vMac 36.04 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ TBD
PCE 0.2.2 ✓ ✗ TBD
Ardi Executor 2.1.17 ✓ ✗ ✗
vMac 0.19 ✓ ✗ ✗
PowerPC
SheepShaver git ✓ ✓ ✓
QEMU 4.0.0 ✓ ✓ TBD
PearPC 0.6.0 ✓ ✗ ✗
DingusPPC [1] TBD ✓ ✗

Apple iPod[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

iOS[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

SNK Corporation[edit]

Neo Geo and variants[edit]

Name Latest version NG NG-CD HNG-64 libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ~ ✓[N 15] ✓ ✓ ✓
FinalBurn Neo stable WIP builds ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓
RAINE 0.96.7 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
Xe 2.16.2 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
ares v137 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
GnGeo git ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Neo Geo Pocket[edit]

Name Latest version NGP NGPC libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
Mednafen 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ares v137 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
higan (火眼) v110 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Commodore[edit]

Commodore 64 & 128[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
VICE (x64sc) 3.8 ✓ Very high ✓ ✓ ✓
Denise 2.2.1 ✗ Very high ✓ ✓ ✓
VICE (x64) 3.8[N 16] ✓ High ✓ ✓ ~
Emu64 git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ~
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✗
Frodo 4.1b ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✗

Commodore 65[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ Low ✓ ✓ ✗

Amiga Line[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
FS-UAE 3.0.5 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Amiberry 6.2.0 Preview ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Denise N/A ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

x86 CPUs[edit]

Name Latest version 8086 286 386 486 Pentium Pentium II Celeron libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
86Box git ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
PCem v17 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓
DOSBox-X 2024.03.01 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
DOSBox 0.74-3
SVN 		✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Bochs 2.8 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ~ ~ ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
QEMU 9.0.0-rc4 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[N 17] ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Sinclair[edit]

ZX81[edit]

Name Latest version libretro FLOSS Relative Speed[N 18] Active Recommended
ZEsarUX 11 Beta1 ✗ ✓ 110.9% ✓ ✓
SZ81
(xz80 & z81 based) 		2.1.7
2.3.10 (Unofficial) 		✗ ✓ 100.0% ✗ ~
MAME 0.264 ✓ ? Not tested ✓ ✗

ZX Spectrum[edit]

Name Latest Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
FUSE 1.5.7 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Speccy 5.9 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
ZEsarUX 11 Beta1 ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk 2.9.1 ✗ ? ✓ ~
Retro Virtual Machine 2.0.beta-1.r6 ✗ ? ✓ ~
ZX-Poly 2.3.0 ✗ ✓ ✓ TBD
Xpeccy 0.6.20231226 ✗ ? ✓ ✗
DSP git ✗ ? ✓ ✗
fbzx git ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗
JSpeccy git ✗ ? ✓ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
ZX4ALL Beta 2 ✗ ? ✗ ✗

Acorn Computers[edit]

BBC Micro/BBC Master[edit]

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[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓
CLK git ✓ ✓ ✗
eek git ✓ ✗ ✗
ElectrEm 0.6c ? ✗ ✗
ElkJS git ? ✗ ✗
Elkulator git ✓ ✗ ✗

Multi (Atom, Micro, Electron)[edit]

Name Latest version Atom BBC Micro BBC Master Electron FLOSS Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ A, B, B+, M128 ? ✓ ✓ ✓

Archimedes[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
Arculator 2.1 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✗
ArcEm 1.50 ✓ ✗ ✗

Risc PC / A7000[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
RPCEmu 0.9.4 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✗

VTech[edit]

CreatiVision[edit]

Name Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
cvemu (creatiVision emulator) 21.05.01 Preview (source)

16.04.24 (windows)

✗ ✓ ~[N 19] ✓
MAME git artifacts[N 9]
0.264
libretro core[N 20] 		✓ ✓ ✓ ✓*
FunnyMu FunnyMu 0.43 SDL ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
CvEmu2 0.6.1 (CvEmu2) ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗

Socrates[edit]

Name Latest Version libretro FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME git artifacts[N 9]
0.264
libretro core[N 20] 		✓ ✓ ✓ ~*

V.Smile[edit]

Name Latest Version FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME git artifacts[N 9]
0.264
libretro core[N 20] 		✓ ✓ ~*
Unununium git ✗ ✗ ✗

V.Flash[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

InnoTV[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

Miscellaneous[edit]

Panasonic (3DO)[edit]

Name Latest version libretro Retro achievements FLOSS Active Recommended
4DO 1.3.2.4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Opera libretro core ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Phoenix 2.8.JAG ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ~
3d'oh SVN ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Phillips (CD-i)[edit]

Name Latest Version DVC libretro Retro
Achievements 		FLOSS Active Recommended
Same CDi
same_cdi_libretro 		libretro core ✗* ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME 0.264 ✗ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓*
CeDImu None (pre-alpha) ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ (WIP)
CD-iCE 2001-08-20 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

GamePark Holdings[edit]

GP32[edit]

Name Latest version FLOSS Active Recommended
MAME 0.264 ✓ ✓ ~

GP2X[edit]

THERE ARE NO EMULATORS FOR THIS PLATFORM.

IBM[edit]

System 370/390/z[edit]

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

Symbian and N-Gage[edit]

Name Version Accuracy Retro
Achievements 		FLOSS Active Recommended
EKA2L1 git Mid ✗ ✓ ~ ✓

J2ME[edit]

Name Version Mascot Capsule 3D Accuracy VM Derived from FLOSS Active Recommended
Kahvibreak Stable
Dev 		✗ Mid Host JVM (FreeJ2ME) ? ✓ ✓ ✓ (WIP)
SquirrelJME 0.2.0 ✗ Aims for 100% Custom (Java) - ✓ ✓ ? (WIP)
MicroEmu git ✗ Mid Host JVM - ✓ ✗ ✗
MPowerPlayer 2.0 ✗ Low ? ? ? ✗ ✗
N-GAGE Cool! 1.2.1 (Trial) ($) ✗ Low ? ? ? ✗ ✗

Notes[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.
  2. ↑ Due to using a non-commercial license. Source code is still publicly available.
  3. ↑ Requires the Triforce branch to work. It is very old and unsupported.
  4. ↑ At Alpha release and has bugs that are not present on standalone Dolphin.
  5. ↑ Pokémon mini core available not yet available in binary releases (source only).
  6. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Only available on PC as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).
  7. ↑ The Game Gear emulation doesn't work.
  8. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 CI-Linux
  9. ↑ As of Version 0.251, NEC PC-8801MA, NEC PC-8801MH, and NEC PC-8801mkIISR, and the clones: NEC PC-8801FA, NEC PC-8801MA2, NEC PC-8801mkIIFR and NEC PC-8801mkIIMR have been promoted to working status and is considered playable
  10. ↑ Only libretro core is still active.
  11. ↑ The developers are currently treating version increments as milestones, not as stables.
  12. ↑ The backend column describes what backend technology used mainly (VM, AOSP or an actual OS etc). Emulators labeled with "VirtualBox" sometimes need the user to install Oracle VM VirtualBox, but usually you don't need to install manually. Hardware-assisted virtualization feature must be turned for VM backends due to performance reasons. Keep in mind that you should turn off Hyper-V windows feature if emulator uses type-2 hypervisor (VirtualBox or VMware) due to conflict issue, although some emulators (like BlueStacks) provide special Hyper-V build for this.
  13. ↑ Bloatware
  14. ↑ As 0.153 (2014), 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003)
  15. ↑ Source only, pass '--enable-x64' to configure
  16. ↑ Supports the Conroe model.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ creatiVision commits
  19. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)

See also[edit]

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