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Emulators on Vita

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RetroArch: DOSBox works now, although not very well
In order to use emulators on your If you have a PS Vita or PlayStation TV, you must be PSTV on firmware version 3.60 firmware to install , you can turn it into a decent emulation device by installing the [https://henkaku.xyz/ HENkaku homebrew enabler]. Those with on firmware revisions versions prior to 3.60 can update to 3.60 using manually by following the instructions provided [http://wololo.net/2016/08/09/manually-update-ps-vita-firmware-3-60/ here]. There are currently no CFW and homebrew solutions for firmware versions firmwares 3.61 and above higher at this time. Because of the Vita's backwards compatibility with the PSP, the [[Emulators on PSP]] article also applies here.
==Multi-System=system=
===[[RetroArch]]===
* Download: [http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/playstation/vita/ Nightly builds]The following cores are available for the Vita port of RetroArch: 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Available cores! scope="col"|Core! scope="col"|Game/PlatformSystem! Working?! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Notes
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| style="text-align: center;" | 2048| style="text-align: center;" | 2048| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | DeSmuME| style="text-align: center;" | Nintendo DS| Not workingstyle="text-align: center;" | ✗|
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| style="text-align: center;" | DOSBox| style="text-align: center;" | DOS| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Virtual keyboard does not work|-| style="text-align: center;" | Final Burn Alpha| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Arcade| style="text-align: center;" | ✓||-| style="text-align: center;" | Final Burn Alpha (2012)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| <ul><li>Main core (fbalpha2012_libretro) does not work, use the platform-specific cores instead</li><li>Uses FBA v0.2.97.30 ROM sets</li><ul>|-| style="text-align: center;" | FCEUmm| Famicom Disk System/style="text-align: center;" | NES| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| Final Burn Alpha (2012)style="text-align: center;" | Fuse| Arcadestyle="text-align: center;" | ZX Spectrum| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Main core (fbalpha2012_libretro) is not working, use the CPS1/CPS2/Neo Geo cores insteadLoading more than one ROM in a single session will crash RetroArch
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| style="text-align: center;" | Gambatte| style="text-align: center;" | Game Boy/Color| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | Genesis Plus GX| style="text-align: center;" | Sega systems (SMS/Game GearGG/GenesisGEN/Sega CDSCD)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Redbook audio bugs in Sega CD gameshangs when suspending or pausing RetroArch
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| style="text-align: center;" | gpSP| style="text-align: center;" | Game Boy Advance| Mediocre frame rate (~30fps), style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Comparable to VBA Next runs slightly worsebut slower
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| style="text-align: center;" | Handy| style="text-align: center;" | Atari Lynx| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | MAME (2000)| rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Arcade| Not workingstyle="text-align: center;" | ✗| <ul><li>Uses MAME 0.37b5 ROM sets</li><li>Broken in more recent (late August) builds</li></ul>|-| style="text-align: center;" | MAME (2003)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| <ul><li>Uses MAME 0.78 ROM sets</li><li>30 FPS or less, FBA is recommended instead</li>
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|rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;"|Mednafen| style="text-align: center;" | Neo Geo Pocket/Color| style="text-align: center;" | ✓|Loading more than one ROM in a single session will crash RetroArch
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| style="text-align: center;" | PC Engine| style="text-align: center;" | ✓|
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| style="text-align: center;" |Virtual Boy| Low frame rate (style="text-align: center;" | ✓| ~25fps) and major graphical glitches25-30 FPS
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| style="text-align: center;" |WonderSwan/Color| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Decent frame rate (Full speed on WS games, ~45-60fps)60 FPS on WSC games
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| style="text-align: center;" | Nestopia| Famicom Disk System/style="text-align: center;" | NES| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | NXEngine| style="text-align: center;" | Cave Story| Unstable (prone to various crashes)style="text-align: center;" | ✓|
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| style="text-align: center;" | PicoDrive| SMS/Genesisstyle="text-align: center;" | Sega systems (GEN/Sega CDSCD/32X)| style="text-align: center;" | ✗| Not working
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| style="text-align: center;" | PrBoom| style="text-align: center;" | Doom| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | ProSystem| style="text-align: center;" | Atari 7800| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | QuickNES| Famicom Disk System/style="text-align: center;" | NES| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | Snes9x 2002 (2002/2005/2005+/2010PocketSNES)| SNESrowspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | Super Nintendo| Good frame rate (~55style="text-60fps) on standard games, decent (~50fps) on SuperFX games with the Snes9x 2005 align: center;" | ✓| Least accurate but fastest SNES core. Later cores are more accurate at the cost of speed.
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| style="text-align: center;" | Snes9x 2005 (CatSFC)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| ~55-60 FPS on standard games, ~50 FPS on Super FX games|-| style="text-align: center;" | Snes9x 2005+ (CatSFC+)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Same as Snes9x 2005 but with better sound, at the cost of a few FPS|-| style="text-align: center;" | Snes9x 2010 (Snes9x Next)| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| Most accurate but slowest SNES core (~40 FPS)|-| style="text-align: center;" | Stella| style="text-align: center;" | Atari 2600| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | TGB Dual| style="text-align: center;" | Game Boy/Color| style="text-align: center;" | ✓|
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| style="text-align: center;" | TyrQuake| style="text-align: center;" | Quake| Not workingstyle="text-align: center;" | ✗|
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| style="text-align: center;" | VBA Next| style="text-align: center;" | Game Boy Advance| Mediocre frame rate (style="text-align: center;" | ✓| ~30fps), gpSP runs slightly better45-50 FPS
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| style="text-align: center;" | Vecx| style="text-align: center;" | Vectrex| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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| style="text-align: center;" | Yabause| style="text-align: center;" | Sega Saturn| Not workingstyle="text-align: center;" | ✗| Technically works but is unplayably slow
|}
==Atari=Nintendo====Atari Lynx===* HandyVITA ([https://github.com/frangarcj/HandyVITA/releases/ Henkaku edition])  ==Super Nintendo=====Game Boy/Color/Advance==={| class="wikitablesortable"! scope="col"|Name! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Latest Version! scope="col"|GB/GBC! scope="col"|GBA! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|RealBoyCATSFC-libretro-vita|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/xerpiexsinner/realboyCATSFC-vitalibretro/releases/ 1.2Git]|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✗|style="text-align:center;"|✓
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[mGBA]]Snes9xVITA|style="text-align:center;"|[https://mgbagithub.iocom/frangarcj/Snes9xVITA/downloads.html {{mGBAVer}}releases Git]|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✗*
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Sound and frame rate are currently choppy, but optimizations are in progress<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/4vmkft/lets_talk_about_mgba/d5ztglv</ref>. HENkaku was recently updated with [[Dynamic recompilation|dynamic recompiler]] support<ref>http://wololo.net/2016/08/03/henkaku-updated-adds-dynarec-support-something-nice/</ref>, which should speed up future releases of mGBA considerably.
===Nintendo DSGame Boy/Color/Advance==={| class="wikitablesortable"! scopeName! class="unsortable"|Version! class="colunsortable"|NameGB! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Latest VersionGBC! scopeclass="colunsortable"|GBA! [[Recommended emulatorsEmulators|Recommended]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[DeSmuMEmGBA]] (MasterFeizz)|style="text-align:center;"|[https://githubmgba.comio/xerpi/realboy-vita/releases/ 1downloads.2html {{mGBAVer}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✗*| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| style="text-align: center;" | ✗†
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[DeSmuME]] (xerpi)RealBoy-Vita|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/xerpi/desmumerealboy-vita Source/releases/ Git]**|style="text-align:center;"|?| style="text-align: center;" | ✓| style="text-align: center;" | ✗| style="text-align: center;" | ✓
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† ''mGBA runs slow on the Vita currently, but optimizations and a [[Dynamic recompilation|dynamic recompiler]] are in progress.''<nowikiref>*<https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/4vmkft/lets_talk_about_mgba/nowiki> No dynamic recompiler, runs slowd5ztglv<br /ref><nowikiref>**</nowiki> No official binary available, but a .vpk is available [https://megagithub.nzcom/#!ZRciiDRS!rtGBlsIKmjJ_C_sywzCea5GeX23VmCo6Y6mvtSjbLIE here]mgba-emu/mgba/pull/378</ref>
===SNESNintendo DS==={| class="wikitablesortable"! scope="col"|Name! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Latest Version! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulatorsEmulators|Recommended]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|CATSFCDeSmuME-libretro-vitaVita (MasterFeizz)|style="text-align:center;"|[https://www.mediafiregithub.com/?297zgaj8gj2p06k 1.1.0masterfeizz/DeSmuME-Vita/releases/ Git]|style="text-align:center;"|<nowiki>*</nowiki>✗†
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|style="text-align:center;"|Snes9xVITADeSmuME-Vita (xerpi)|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/skogabyxerpi/Snes9xVITA/releases/ 1.0.0desmume-vita Source]|style="text-align:center;"|<nowiki>*</nowiki>?
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† ''No dynamic recompiler, runs very slow''<nowiki>*<br /nowiki> Snes9xVITA is more accurate than CATSFC ‡ ''No official binary available, but sloweran unofficial one can be found [https://mega.nz/#!1Ys1wSCS!rtGBlsIKmjJ_C_sywzCea5GeX23VmCo6Y6mvtSjbLIE here].''
 ==Sega=={| class="wikitablesortable"! scope="col"|Name! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Latest Version! scopeclass="colunsortable"|SMSGEN! scopeclass="colunsortable"|GGSCD! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Mega DriveSMS! scopeclass="colunsortable"|Sega CDGG! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulatorsEmulators|Recommended]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Genesis Plus GX|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/frangarcj/Genesis-Plus-GX/releases/ GitHubGit]|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓
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|style="text-align:center;"|SMSplusVITA|style="text-align:center;"|[https://github.com/frangarcj/SMSplusVITA/releases/ GitHubGit]|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|✗
|}
=Other systems=
===Atari Lynx===
* HandyVITA (Download: [https://github.com/frangarcj/HandyVITA/releases Git])
==Other Platforms==
===Neo Geo Pocket/Color===
* NeopopVITA (Download: [https://github.com/frangarcj/NeopopVITA/releases Henkaku editionGit])
=See also=
* [[Emulators on PSP]]
==Resources=References=* [http://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarch-libretro-thread-ps-vita-edition-nightlies-included.437034/ RetroArch<references /Libretro Vita thread (GBAtemp)]>
=External links=
* [https://gbatemp.net/threads/henkaku-homebrew-the-listing-of-all-vpks.436535/ List of emulators and homebrew for the Vita (GBAtemp)]
* [http://wololo.net/emulators-for-the-ps-vita/ List of emulators for the Vita (Wololo)]
* [http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3989/ Official RetroArch Vita thread (Libretro)]
* [https://gbatemp.net/threads/retroarch-libretro-thread-ps-vita-edition-nightlies-included.437034/ RetroArch/Libretro thread (GBAtemp)]
==References==<references />[[Category:Emulators on consoles]]
[[Category:Recommendations]]
[[Category:Emulators on consoles]]

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