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===Comparisons===
 
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:The official Playdate emulator by Panic, included in the first-party Playdate SDK. Plays all games perfectly and does not need any files dumped from real hardware.
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:The official Playdate emulator by Panic, bundled in the first-party Playdate SDK. Plays most LUA games perfectly and does not need firmware dumped from real hardware, but by design it does not play encrypted (DRM-laden) Catalog games or Playdate games coded in C.
  
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:Early-stage open-source Playdate emulator. To-date much of the functionality is missing (sprites, audio, graphical effects), but the groundwork is laid for Lua and C games to boot down the line.
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Revision as of 06:47, 5 November 2023

Playdate
Playdate.png
Developer Panic Inc.
Type Handheld game console
Generation Ninth generation
Release date 2022
Dumped Play.date
Emulated

The Playdate is an handheld console developed by Panic Inc. It originally retailed for $179, before being bumped up to $199.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Playdate Simulator Windows macOS Linux 1.13.7
Cranked Windows Linux [1]
pd-emu Windows Linux [2]

Comparisons

Playdate Simulator
The official Playdate emulator by Panic, bundled in the first-party Playdate SDK. Plays most LUA games perfectly and does not need firmware dumped from real hardware, but by design it does not play encrypted (DRM-laden) Catalog games or Playdate games coded in C.
Cranked
Early-stage open-source Playdate emulator. To-date much of the functionality is missing (sprites, audio, graphical effects), but the groundwork is laid for Lua and C games to boot down the line.
pd-emu
Another early-stage emulator that cannot be run yet since the author has yet to integrate the Playdate API.