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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
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! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
 
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
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|Thousands of electronics<ref>[http://www.mamedb.org/List.aspx www.mamedb.org's list] (Only shows the games covered, not systems)</ref>
 
|Thousands of electronics<ref>[http://www.mamedb.org/List.aspx www.mamedb.org's list] (Only shows the games covered, not systems)</ref>
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|[[byuu (emulator)|byuu]]
 
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|[https://byuu.org/byuu {{ByuuVer}}]
 
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|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 
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|Retro Virtual Machine
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|[[ares]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/ 2.0.beta-1.r6]
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|[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
 
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|[[higan]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
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|[[higan]]
 
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|[https://byuu.org/higan {{higanVer}}]
 
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|[[Exodus]]
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|[[DSP]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator {{DSPVer}}]
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
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|[http://www.exodusemulator.com/index.php/downloads/current-release {{ExodusVer}}]
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]
 
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|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/ kindred]
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|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator 0.18]
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|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/files/kindred1r12a.zip {{kindredVer}}]
 
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|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia {{WinArcadiaVer}}]
 
|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia {{WinArcadiaVer}}]
 
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|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia {{Z64KVer}}]
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>
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|Xpeccy
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|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]
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|[https://github.com/samstyle/Xpeccy/releases {{XpeccyVer}}]
 
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|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/ kindred]
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022152846/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
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|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/files/kindred1r12a.zip 1.12 PreviewBuild 1]
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071129223043/http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/dn_bin/ 9b0401/9b0313]
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* [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers GitHub list of all covered 'drivers' (Systems & machines emulated) under the MAME group] (Pretty crappy list. Only the first 1,000 drivers are shown there. The rest are omitted. Approximately 2250 drivers in all.)
 
* [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/mame/drivers GitHub list of all covered 'drivers' (Systems & machines emulated) under the MAME group] (Pretty crappy list. Only the first 1,000 drivers are shown there. The rest are omitted. Approximately 2250 drivers in all.)
  
[[Category:Consoles]]
 
 
[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]
 
[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]

Revision as of 12:20, 23 December 2021

Multi-system emulators focus on emulating many different systems under one program. They can be focused on a single company's systems because of the similarity of the systems or may have systems from many different companies.

To be defined as "multi-system" an emulator has to emulate two or more distinct systems. Although, for simplicity reasons in this wiki (not just this page), the term, "multi-platform", in the OS column fields can come to mean three or more covered platforms. For the purpose of this list, Add-ons (eg. Sega CD, 32X) are not counted as a separate system.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Libretro Core # of Emulated systems FLOSS Active Recommended
Multi-company
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 Thousands of electronics[1]
Mednafen Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.32.0-UNSTABLE 17
OpenEmu macOS 2.4.1 35
Phoenix Windows Linux macOS 2.8.JAG 5
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 30 (excluding the libretro cores)
ZEsarUX Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 11 Beta1 18
ares Windows v136 14
higan Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD v110 12
Pantheon Windows 13.640 20 ~
CLK macOS FreeBSD Template:Clkver 11
DSP Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.22 More than 10 ?
EMU (Russian) Windows 1.01 More than 50 ? ?
kindred Windows 1.12 Preview Build 3 7 ?
WinArcadia Windows AmigaOS MorphOS 31.0 21 ?
Z64K Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 2.0.0 5 ?
Xpeccy Windows Linux macOS 0.6.20231226 14 ? ?
Xe Windows Linux 2.16.2 18
DarcNES Windows Linux FreeBSD 9b0401/9b0313 8
Nintendo
Dolphin Windows Linux macOS 5.0 3
GBE+ Windows Linux macOS 1.7 4 ~
No$GBA Windows MS-DOS 3.05 3*
Sega
Kega Fusion Windows Linux macOS 3.64 10 ~
PicoDrive Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.93 6 ~
Sinclair
EightyOne Windows 1.40 12
Retro Virtual Machine Windows Linux macOS 2.0.beta-1.r6 2 ~
Commodore
VICE Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 3.8 6

*No$GBA apparently also does PocketStation emulation

References

  1. www.mamedb.org's list (Only shows the games covered, not systems)

External Links