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This page contains information of console emulation history, For a list of independent updates look at [[Template:News#Previous years|emulator news from previous years]].

Emulation, in general, gained popularity around 1995-1997, [[PC_Emulator_Comparisons#x86_CPU.27s|mostly due to increases in CPU speed]], the increased usage of the Internet, and the increased number of decent emulators.

Later, Sparcade by David Spicer <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010202172300/http://www.sparcade.freeserve.co.uk/download.htmSparcade 2.25 and 2.33b Download](1998 and 1999 releases)</ref> was capable of running some arcade games in 1996<ref>[https://www.myabandonware.com/game/sparcade-47o Sparcade!] (1.94 release 1996)</ref>.

1998 was also the year of the release of various complex multiple arcade games emulators, such as [[Callus ]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080701073241/http://bloodlust.zophar.net/Callus/callus.html Callus 0.42 download page]</ref>(Capcom CPS-1) and System16 <ref>[https://system16.com/emu-sys16.php System16 Download page]</ref> (Sega System 16)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990119235522/http://abyssweb.ml.org:80/s16w32.html original System16 page]</ref>.

The first Commodore 64 emulator appeared on BBSs in early 1990s. C64S is capable of running games on a 286 IBM PC. <ref>[https://commodore.software/downloads/download/193-c64s/11782-c64s-v0-9aC64S v0.9a Download]</ref>

[https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203848-first-atari-2600-emulator/First Atari 2600 emulator? forum question by jhd]</ref><br>Stella began development in late 1995.<ref>[https://www.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/people/bwmott/ Info about the Creator and his projects]</ref>

*'''LandyNES''' by Alex Krasivsky, which it seems became the base of iNES emulator. At least one beta version for [[Intel CPUsPOS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#Intel_CPU.27s|DOS]], called '''Prerelease "Stupid" version''', was released to the public on September 8, 1996 with the filename "DC-NES.ZIP".<ref>[http://lngn.net/archaic-ruins/features/ar-dc/nes-emu.htm#lnes Archaic Ruins: Nintendo]</ref> This version supported some simple Mapper 1 games and had graphical glitches.<ref>[http://oldies.malban.de/firstpage/EMU2.HTM EMULATOR PAGE 2]</ref> Unfortunately no copy of this Luckily on January 5, 2023, the emulator remains was discovered on the internetarchive<ref name="LandyNES on Lost Media Wiki" >[https://lostmediawiki.com/LandyNES_(found_early_NES_emulator_software;_1996)#Discovery LandyNES on Lost Media Wiki]</ref>; it was mainly hosted on now-defunct FTP sites and none of the websites that supposedly hosted it were archived by Wayback Machine. This project was discontinued after the release of NESticle.

*[[No$|No$GMB]] was released for [[Intel CPUsPOS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#Intel_CPU.27s|DOS]] in 1997. Game Boy Color support was added in 1998 along with it being paid only.

*[http://segaretro.org/GenEm GenEm], first released in 1996, is the second Genesis emulator released. The [[Intel CPUsPOS_(Pong_Consoles)_CPUs_and_Other_Chips#Intel_CPU.27s|DOS]] version of it was the first emulator to feature (preliminary) sound emulation.

Xbox emulation dates as far back as 2002.* [[Cxbx]] was released as a proof of concept on in August 2002. It can do some test apps, and later commercial games. Discontinued in October 2015.* Xeon, released in 2003, was the first Xbox emulator whose first version can could play games, but the only game that can it could boot and show graphics was Halo CE.

* [[Cxbx-Reloaded]] is a fork of Cxbx, that went open-source in April 2016. Because little work has been done on the original CXBX, its development is very slow (equals 15% playable titles), and like older Xbox emulators, it didn't need a BIOS dump to work.* [[XQEMU]] was the first low-level Xbox emulator. Its first commit It was on February 1, 2009released around mid-late 2012. It emulated games at slow speeds. Its last commit was on in December 2019.* [[xemu]] is a continuation of XQEMU, released somewhere in February 2020. It can play 5x more titles than Cxbx-Reloaded, and needed an requires a BIOS dump to work. ====External links====*[https://youtu.be/aiWH4TcFCAY MVG: The Current State of Original Xbox Emulation on the PC]

*[[fpPS4 ]] started development on December 8, 2021. It was able to boot it's first game, Sonic Mania, on May 2022.* RPCSX started development sometime in 2016 as RPCS4, but only first released on June 22, 2023 when the source code was published.<ref>[https://github.com/RPCSX/rpcsx/commit/1fdadaaee929886c60de3bcfa5e93d88934de86d RPCSX's initial commit.]</ref> It booted its first game, We Are Doomed, on July 17, 2023.<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/252023769500090368/1124815779230122096/1130613406974623917 RPCSX Discord - First game boot]</ref>

* [[Skyline]] is an Switch emulator for Android. It's first commit was on June 28, 2019. It's first breakthrough was booting Super Mario Odyssey. ==Lawsuits=={{Main|Legal_Status_of_Emulation}}