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|style="text-align:center;"|1.7.0
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|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
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|style="text-align:center;"|0.153
|style="text-align:center;"|18*
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.mamedb.com/history 8726]**
 
|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[Mednafen]]
 
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Mednafen]]
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
|style="text-align:center;"|0.9.32-WIP
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/releases/ 0.9.35.1]
 
|style="text-align:center;"|13
 
|style="text-align:center;"|13
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|style="text-align:center;"|✓
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[MESS]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
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|style="text-align:center;"|0.153
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|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.mess.org/ 769]
 
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|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[BizHawk]]
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[RetroArch]]
|style="text-align:center;"|Windows
 
|style="text-align:center;"|1.7.0
 
|style="text-align:center;"|12
 
|style="text-align:center;"|✗
 
|-
 
|style="text-align:center;"|[[MAME]]
 
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
|style="text-align:center;"|0.153
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|style="text-align:center;"|1.0.0.2
|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.mamedb.com/history 8726]**
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|style="text-align:center;"|18*
|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
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|style="text-align:center;"|[[MESS]]
 
|style="text-align:center;"|Multi-Platform
 
|style="text-align:center;"|0.153
 
|style="text-align:center;"|685
 
 
|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
|style="text-align:center;"|✓
 
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Revision as of 10:51, 24 June 2014

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. For the purpose of this list, Addons (eg. Sega CD, 32x) are not counted as a separate system.

Emulators

Multi-company

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version # of Emulated systems Recommended
BizHawk Windows 1.7.0 12
MAME Multi-Platform 0.153 8726**
Mednafen Multi-Platform 0.9.35.1 13
MESS Multi-Platform 0.153 769
OpenEmu OS X 1.0 12
RetroArch Multi-Platform 1.0.0.2 18*

*official cores only, plus MAME

**2747 "Good", 858 "Imperfect", 5121 "Preliminary"

Nintendo

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version # of Emulated systems Recommended
higan Windows, Linux, OS X 0.93 6
No$GBA Windows 2.7a 3*
Dolphin Windows, Linux, OS X, Android 3.5 3

*No$GBA apparently also does PocketStation emulation

Sega

Name Operating System(s) Latest Version # of Emulated systems Recommended
Kega Fusion Windows, Linux, OS X 3.64 8
PicoDrive Multi-Platform 1.80 5