Multi-system emulators
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 | Retro Achievements |
Libretro Core | # of Emulated systems | FLOSS | Active | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-company | ||||||||
| MAME |    
|
git artifacts[N 1] 0.270 libretro core[N 2] 0.270 (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 2.10-rc1 |
✓ | ✗ | 30 (excluding the libretro cores) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ares |
|
git Artifacts v140 |
✗ | ✗ | 17 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ZEsarUX |
|
11.0 | ✗ | ✗ | 22 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Pantheon |
|
14.360 | ✗ | ✗ | 21 | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
| CLK |
|
2024-09-08 | ✗ | ✗ | 14 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Phoenix |
|
2.8.JAG | ✗ | ✗ | 5 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| WinArcadia |  
|
30.7 | ✓ | ✗ | 21 | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
| Xpeccy |
|
0.6.20240621 | ✗ | ✗ | 14 | ? | ✓ | ✗ |
| Z64K | 
|
2.0.0 | ✗ | ✗ | 5 | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| DSP |
|
0.23WIP1 | ✗ | ✗ | 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 |   
|
2409 libretro core |
✗[N 5] | ✓ | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| mGBA |      
|
Dev builds libretro core 0.10.2 |
~ | ✓ | 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GBE+ |
|
1.8 | ✗ | ✗ | 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| No$GBA | 
|
3.05 | ✗ | ✗ | 3[N 6] | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sega | ||||||||
| Kega Fusion |
|
3.64 | ✗ | ✗ | 10 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| PicoDrive |     
|
1.93 libretro core |
✗ | ✓ | 6 | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| Sinclair | ||||||||
| EightyOne (81) |
|
1.40 | ✗ | ✓ | 12 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retro Virtual Machine |
|
2.1.17 | ✗ | ✗ | 2 | ✗ | ✓ | ~ |
| Commodore | ||||||||
| VICE |
|
3.8 | ✗ | ✓ | 6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
- ↑ CI-Windows CI-Linux CI-Macos
- ↑ As 0.251, 0.139 (2010), 0.78 (2003), 0.37b5 (2000)
- ↑ Akai Katana and Dodonpachi Saidaioujou removed at the request of the current rightholder, exA-Arcadia ([email protected]). https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/54899379258a7266db8d5bc6cda8b48169e67503
- ↑ Superseded by ares.
- ↑ work-in-progress, Topic: Gamecube Dolphin achievements soon?
- ↑ No$GBA also does PocketStation emulation.
References
- ↑ www.mamedb.org's list (Only shows the games covered, not systems)
External Links
- 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.)
- List of multi-system console emulators on Windows
