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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, Addons Add-ons (eg. Sega CD, 32X) are not counted as a separate system.

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! scope="col"|Operating SystemPlatform(s)

! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>! scope="col"|Active! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulatorsEmulators|Recommended]]|-!colspan="9"|Multi-company

|Multi-platformalign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|<abbr title="Latest development version">git artifacts</abbr><ref group=N>[https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-windows/master CI-Windows] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-linux/master CI-Linux] [https://nightly.link/mamedev/mame/workflows/ci-macos/master CI-Macos]</ref></br>[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<ref group=N>As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)</ref></br>[https://archive.org/download/mame-merged/mame/ {{MAMEVer}} (akatana and ddpsdoj unlocked)]<ref group=N>Akai Katana and Dodonpachi Saidaioujou removed at the request of the current rightholder, exA-Arcadia ([email protected]). https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/54899379258a7266db8d5bc6cda8b48169e67503</ref>|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|Thousandsof electronics<ref>[http://www.mamedb.comorg/historyList.aspx www.mamedb.org's list] (Only shows the games covered, not systems)</ref>|{{✓}}

|Multi-platformalign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Wii|PS3}}<br/>{{Icon|GCWZero}}|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]<br/>[https://github.com/raz0red/wii-mednafen/releases Wii]<br/>[https://github.com/aaerox/mednafen-ps3 PS3]<br/>[https://github.com/gameblabla/mednafen-gcw GCW Zero]|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|1315|{{✓}}|{{✓}}

|OS Xalign=left|{{Icon|macOS}}|[http://openemu.org/ 2{{OpenEmuVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|35|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[BizHawk]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://gitlab.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/-/pipelines Dev builds]<br/>[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|30 (excluding the [[libretro]] cores)|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[ares]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://nightly.0link/ares-emulator/ares/workflows/build/master <abbr title="Latest development build version">git Artifacts</abbr>]<br/>[https://github.1com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]|29{{✗}}|{{✗}}|20|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|[[ZEsarUX]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases {{ZEsarUXVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|22|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Pantheon]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|21|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{ClkVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|14

|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Multi-platformmacOS}}

|4{{✗}}|{{✗}}|5|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}|-|WinArcadia|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|AmigaOS|MorphOS}}|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia 30.7]|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|21|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{~}}|-|Xpeccy|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/samstyle/Xpeccy/releases {{XpeccyVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|14|?|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[Z64K]]|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}|[https://www.z64k.com/ {{Z64KVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|5|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[[DSP]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator {{DSPVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|More than 10|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|?|-|[[higan]] (火眼)|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{~}}|14|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|{{✗}}<ref group=N>Superseded by [[ares]].</ref>|-|Wave|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}|[https://turbowarp.org/723002351/fullscreen?fps=60 V0.9.6]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|8 (But you can import ROMs)|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✗}}|-|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru EMU] <small>(Russian)</small>|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/index/files/0-11 1.01]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|More than 50|?

|[[BizHawk]https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/ kindred]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[httphttps://tasvideoswww.orgcrazysmart.net.au/kindred/BizHawkfiles/ReleaseHistorykindred1r12a.html zip {{BizHawkVerkindredVer}}]|17 (excluding the Libretro cores){{✗}}|{{✗}}|7

|Pantheon[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Xe]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://bostjanwww.xe-grandovecemulator.sicom/Content/Newsindex.php?m=download 2.htm 616.8682]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}

|[[Higan|higan]https://web.archive.org/web/20131022152846/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, OS X|BSD}}|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071129223043/http://byuuwww.dridus.orgcom/~nyef/emulationdn_bin/higan9b0401/ 9b0313]|{{higanVer✗}}]|12

|{{✗}}<nowiki>*</nowiki>official cores only, plus [[MAME]]|{{✗}} ===Nintendo==={| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"! scopecolspan="col9"|Name! scope="col"|Operating System(s)! scope="col"|Latest Version! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]Nintendo

|Multi-platformalign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Android|XboxOne|SXS}}|[https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ 5{{DolphinVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]|{{✗}}<ref group=N>[https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen%2Bclosed+retroachievements+ work-in-progress], [https://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=12922&o=0Topic: Gamecube Dolphin achievements soon?]</ref>|{{✓}}

|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|DOS}}|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm 2.8f{{No$GBAVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|3*<ref group=N>[[No$|No$GBA]] also does [[PocketStation emulators|PocketStation emulation]].</ref>|{{✗}}|{{✓}}

|}<nowiki>*</nowiki>No$GBA apparently also does PocketStation emulation ===Sega==={| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"! scopecolspan="col9"|Name! scope="col"|Operating System(s)! scope="col"|Latest Version! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]Sega

|align=left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, OS X|macOS}}

|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|10|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}|-|[[PicoDrive]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Pandora}}<br/>{{Icon|GP2X|Gizmondo|PS2|PSP}}<br/>{{Icon|PS3|Vita|NGC|Wii|WiiU|NX}}<br/>{{Icon|XboxOne|SXS}}|[https://notaz.gp2x.de/pico.php {{PicoDriveVer}}]<br/>[https://retroarch.com/?page=platforms libretro core]|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|6|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|{{~}}|-!colspan="8"|Sinclair|-|[[EightyOne]] (81)|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/eightyone-sinclair-emulator/files/ {{EightyOneVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|12|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|{{✓}}|-|Retro Virtual Machine|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/ {{Retro_Virtual_MachineVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✗}}|2|{{✗}}

!colspan="8"|Commodore|-|[[PicoDriveVICE]]|Multialign=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://vice-platformemu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download {{VICEVer}}]|{{✗}}|{{✓}}|6|1.92{{✓}}|5{{✓}}

 ==External Links==* [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.)* [Categoryhttps:Consoles]//old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/14mnu64/list_of_multisystem_console_emulators_on_windows/ List of multi-system console emulators on Windows]