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* [[Mednafen|Mednafen PSX]] is an emulator focused on [[accuracy]]. It is extremely compatible, outdoing even Sony's official PSone emulator in accuracy tests. Do note if you find an exception, though. It requires a very specific BIOS for each region. The minimum system requirement is a Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz clock. Mednafen itself is command line only and has no GUI. There are external GUI launchers available. Both [[RetroArch]] and [[BizHawk]] have cores based on this emulator. They're easier to use than the standalone emulator thanks to their GUIs. The RetroArch fork of Mednafen PSX (known as Beetle PSX) has several experimental modifications and enhancements not present in the standalone version, including a widescreen hack, CPU overclocking for smoother framerates, and increasing the internal resolution up to 8x. Increasing the resolution carries a heavy performance cost, however, since graphics are rendered in software.
* [[PCSX-R]] is an open source [[Recommended_PSX_Plugins|plugin]]-based emulator. The main reason to use this over mednafen is that it can render at higher resolutions without being unplayably slow. Though development seems to have slowed down recently and completely dead for Windows, you can still however post any issues you find on their [https://pcsxr.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic issue tracker]. If you're going to use this, you should most likely use [https://github.com/SonofUgly/PCSX-Reloaded/releases SonofUgly's fork], which fixes a major bug causing slowdown in many games, and also adds overclocking.
* [[EPSXe|ePSXe]] is a fairly standard [[Recommended_PSX_Plugins|plugin]]-based emulator like PCSX-R. Accuracy is typically about the same between the two, however due to being closed source, it is not recommended. Since version 1.8.0, ePSXe has been available on Android as a paid app.
