Emulation related

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Emulation related

These often get mistaken for emulators, while technically not the same, they often serve the same purpose for the user (to allow software written for one platform to run on another).

Compatibility layers
Here is where you find things like Wine and Proton.
Flash re-implementations
Such as WAFlash and Ruffle.
Game engines
Here is where you find things like ScummVM, Mugen, OpenMW and the Super Mario 64 port.
Hypervisors
Such as VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox.
Preservation projects
Such as Flashpoint.
Simulators
Here is where you find things like pinball simulators.
Wrappers
Such as nGlide.