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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.
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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.
  
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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.
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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.
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The term 'multi-system emulator' can sometimes be confused with [[Frontends|frontend applications]]. placeholder text
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==
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===Multi-company===
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<div style="max-width:100%; overflow:auto;">
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Name
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! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
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! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 +
! scope="col"|[https://retroachievements.org/download.php <abbr title="Multi-system emulators supporting RetroAchievements">Retro<br/>Achievements</abbr>]
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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
 
! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
 +
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 +
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 +
|-
 +
!colspan="9"|Multi-company
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[MAME]]
 
|[[MAME]]
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|Multi-platform
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
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|<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>
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|Infinite<ref>mamedb.com/history</ref>
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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>
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Mednafen]]
 
|[[Mednafen]]
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|Multi-platform
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD|Wii|PS3}}<br/>{{Icon|GCWZero}}
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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|[{{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]
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|13
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|15
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[OpenEmu]]
 
|[[OpenEmu]]
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|macOS
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|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
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|[http://openemu.org/ 2.0.1]
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|[http://openemu.org/ {{OpenEmuVer}}]
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|29
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|35
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[BizHawk]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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|[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}}
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|[https://nightly.link/ares-emulator/ares/workflows/build/master <abbr title="Latest development build version">git Artifacts</abbr>]<br/>[https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/releases {{aresVer}}]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|20
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[Delta]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|iOS}}
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|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688 AppStore]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|6
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[ZEsarUX]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[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}}
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|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{ClkVer}}]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|14
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
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|[[Phoenix]]
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|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
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||Multi-platform
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 2.8.JAG]
 
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 2.8.JAG]
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|5
 
|5
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{~}}
 +
|-
 +
|WinArcadia
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|AmigaOS|MorphOS}}
 +
|[http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/#amiarcadia 30.7]
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|21
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
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|[[BizHawk]]
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|Xpeccy
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|Windows
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
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|[https://github.com/samstyle/Xpeccy/releases {{XpeccyVer}}]
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|17 (excluding the Libretro cores)
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✗}}
 +
|14
 +
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|-
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|[[Z64K]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
 +
|[https://www.z64k.com/ {{Z64KVer}}]
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✗}}
 +
|5
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|-
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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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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|More than 10
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|?
 
|-
 
|-
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|[[Pantheon]]
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|[[higan]] (火眼)
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|Windows
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]
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|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
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|20
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|{{✗}}
 
|{{~}}
 
|{{~}}
 +
|14
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}<ref group=N>Superseded by [[ares]].</ref>
 
|-
 
|-
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|[[higan]]
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|Wave
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|Windows, Linux, macOS
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|align=left|{{Icon|Web}}
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|[http://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ {{higanVer}}]
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|[https://turbowarp.org/723002351/fullscreen?fps=60 V0.9.6]
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|12
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|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
 +
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|?
 +
|-
 +
|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/ kindred]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 +
|[https://www.crazysmart.net.au/kindred/files/kindred1r12a.zip {{kindredVer}}]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|7
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|?
 +
|-
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Xe]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download 2.16.2]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|18
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
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|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022152846/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
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|macOS, Linux
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|BSD}}
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|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkver}}]
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071129223043/http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/dn_bin/ 9b0401/9b0313]
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|11
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|8
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
−
|}
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|-
−
 
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!colspan="9"|Nintendo
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===Nintendo===
 
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
−
! scope="col"|Name
 
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! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
 
−
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
−
! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
 
−
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Dolphin]]
 
|[[Dolphin]]
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|Multi-platform
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Android|XboxOne|SXS}}
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|[https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ 5.0]
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|[https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ {{DolphinVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
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|{{✗}}<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=0 Topic: Gamecube Dolphin achievements soon?]</ref>
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|{{✓}}
 
|3
 
|3
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|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[mGBA]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|BSD|Android}}<br/>{{Icon|iOS|Pandora|Wii|WiiU|Switch|3DS}}<br/>{{Icon|Vita}}
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|[https://mgba.io/builds/1/ Dev builds]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://mgba.io/downloads.html 0.10.2]
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|{{~}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|2
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[GBE+]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|[https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases {{GBEVer}}]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|4
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[No$|No$GBA]]
 
|[[No$|No$GBA]]
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|Windows
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|DOS}}
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|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm 2.8f]
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|[http://problemkaputt.de/gba.htm {{No$GBAVer}}]
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|3*
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
−
|}
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|{{✗}}
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>No$GBA apparently also does PocketStation emulation
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|3<ref group=N>[[No$|No$GBA]] also does [[PocketStation emulators|PocketStation emulation]].</ref>
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|{{✗}}
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===Sega===
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|{{✓}}
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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|{{✗}}
−
! scope="col"|Name
+
|-
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! scope="col"|Operating System(s)
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!colspan="9"|Sega
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! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
−
! scope="col"|# of Emulated systems
 
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[Kega Fusion]]
 
|[[Kega Fusion]]
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|Windows, Linux, macOS
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 
|[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]
 
|[http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ 3.64]
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|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|10
 
|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
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[PicoDrive]]
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!colspan="8"|Commodore
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|Multi-platform
+
|-
−
|1.92
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|[[VICE]]
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|5
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 +
|[http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download {{VICEVer}}]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|6
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|}
 
|}
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</div>
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<references group=N/>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
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[[Category:Consoles]]
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 +
==See also==
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* [[Frontends]]
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* [[Comparison of Emulator Frontends]]
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 +
==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.)
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* [https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/14mnu64/list_of_multisystem_console_emulators_on_windows/ List of multi-system console emulators on Windows]
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[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]
 
[[Category:Multi-emulators|*]]

Latest revision as of 14:17, 27 April 2024

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.

The term 'multi-system emulator' can sometimes be confused with frontend applications. placeholder text

Contents

Emulators[edit]

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Retro
Achievements 		Libretro Core # of Emulated systems FLOSS Active Recommended
Multi-company
MAME         git artifacts[N 1]
0.265
libretro core[N 2]
0.265 (akatana and ddpsdoj unlocked)[N 3] 		✗ ✓ Thousands of electronics[1] ✓ ✓ ✓
Mednafen            
  		1.32.1
Wii
PS3
GCW Zero 		✗ ✓ 15 ✓ ✓ ✓
OpenEmu   2.4.1 ✗ ✗ 35 ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk     Dev builds
2.9.1 		✓ ✗ 30 (excluding the libretro cores) ✓ ✓ ✓
ares       git Artifacts
v137 		✗ ✗ 20 ✓ ✓ ✓
Delta   AppStore ✗ ✗ 6 ✓ ✓ ~
ZEsarUX         11 Beta1 ✗ ✗ 22 ✓ ✓ ~
Pantheon   13.640 ✗ ✗ 21 ✗ ✓ ~
CLK       2024-01-22 ✗ ✗ 14 ✓ ✓ ~
Phoenix       2.8.JAG ✗ ✗ 5 ✗ ✗ ~
WinArcadia       30.7 ✓ ✗ 21 ✗ ✓ ~
Xpeccy       0.6.20231226 ✗ ✗ 14 ? ✓ ✗
Z64K   2.0.0 ✗ ✗ 5 ✗ ✓ ✗
DSP         0.22 ✗ ✗ More than 10 ✓ ✓ ?
higan (火眼)         v110 ✗ ~ 14 ✓ ✗ ✗[N 4]
Wave   V0.9.6 ✗ ✗ 8 (But you can import ROMs) ✓ ✓ ✗
EMU (Russian)   1.01 ✗ ✗ More than 50 ? ✓ ?
kindred   1.12 Preview Build 3 ✗ ✗ 7 ✗ ✓ ?
Xe     2.16.2 ✗ ✗ 18 ✗ ✗ ✗
DarcNES       9b0401/9b0313 ✗ ✗ 8 ✗ ✗ ✗
Nintendo
Dolphin             5.0
libretro core 		✗[N 5] ✓ 3 ✓ ✓ ✓
mGBA          
           
  		Dev builds
libretro core
0.10.2 		~ ✓ 2 ✓ ✓ ✓
GBE+       1.8 ✗ ✗ 4 ✓ ✓ ~
No$GBA     3.05 ✗ ✗ 3[N 6] ✗ ✓ ✗
Sega
Kega Fusion       3.64 ✗ ✗ 10 ✗ ✗ ~
PicoDrive          
       
           
    		1.93
libretro core 		✗ ✓ 6 ✗ ✗ ~
Sinclair
EightyOne (81)   1.40 ✗ ✓ 12 ✓ ✓ ✓
Retro Virtual Machine       2.1.11 ✗ ✗ 2 ✗ ✓ ~
Commodore
VICE         3.8 ✗ ✓ 6 ✓ ✓ ✓
  1. ↑ CI-Windows CI-Linux CI-Macos
  2. ↑ As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)
  3. ↑ Akai Katana and Dodonpachi Saidaioujou removed at the request of the current rightholder, exA-Arcadia ([email protected]). https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/54899379258a7266db8d5bc6cda8b48169e67503
  4. ↑ Superseded by ares.
  5. ↑ work-in-progress, Topic: Gamecube Dolphin achievements soon?
  6. ↑ No$GBA also does PocketStation emulation.

References[edit]

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

See also[edit]

External Links[edit]

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