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MAME
A multi-purpose emulation framework
On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators, which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short. -
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BizHawk
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#
A multi-system emulator written in C#. As well as quality-of-life features for casual players, it also has recording/playback and debugging tools, making it the first choice for TASers (Tool-Assisted Speedrunners). Screenshotting and recording audio + video to file. Firmware management, input, framerate, and more in a HUD over the game. Rebindable hotkeys for controlling the frontend (keyboard+mouse+gamepad). A comprehensive input mapper for the emulated gamepads and other peripherals. Programmatic control over core and frontend with Lua or C#.NET. Development builds are made automatically whenever someone contributes. Because of this, we recommend using a release for work that requires stability (such as TASing), and only switching to a dev build if there's a specific change or addition you need. -
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CDemu - a virtual CD/DVD drive for Linux. Project includes Linux kernel module & userspace utilities.
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Xenia
Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
Xenia is an open-source experimental emulator for the Xbox 360 that aims to let users run Xbox 360 games on Windows and other platforms by reverse-engineering the console’s hardware and firmware behavior in software. It implements the 360’s CPU (Xenon), GPU (including Direct3D shader logic), and system libraries to translate Xbox instructions into equivalent host machine operations, enabling many titles to launch and in some cases play at improved frame rates compared with the original hardware. Because Xbox 360 games use custom hardware features and proprietary APIs, Xenia developers have progressively mapped and translated these into PC-friendly code while balancing performance and accuracy, and the project includes compatibility tracking so users can see what games work and how well. Although not all titles are supported and some still suffer graphical or audio issues, the emulator continues to evolve with community contributions and experimental support for Vulkan and Direct3D. -
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SkyEmu
Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator
SkyEmu is a modern, multi-system handheld emulator that supports Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and experimental Nintendo DS emulation, with a strong focus on balancing accuracy, performance, and usability. It is designed as a low-level emulator that accurately reproduces hardware behavior while still offering a smooth and accessible user experience across a wide range of platforms. The emulator is highly portable, supporting desktop operating systems, mobile devices, and even web browsers through WebAssembly builds. SkyEmu includes advanced visual enhancements such as upscaling shaders, color correction, and screen effects that mimic original hardware displays. It also features extensive debugging tools, making it useful not only for players but also for developers working on homebrew or reverse engineering. With features like save states, rewind, fast-forward, and controller support, it offers a full-featured modern emulation experience. -
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MAME
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. -
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RetroArch
RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
RetroArch is a way to run classic games on a wide assortment of Operating Systems and Consoles. Support the Developers on their Patron! https://www.patreon.com/libretro -
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VBA-M
A merge of the original Visual Boy Advance forks
The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator. -
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OpenEmu
Retro video game emulation for macOS
OpenEmu is a polished, open-source video game emulator designed specifically for macOS, bringing a true “it just works” experience to retro gaming. It makes it incredibly easy to add, browse, and organize your personal game backups (ROMs) within a single, unified library. OpenEmu automatically scans games as you drag and drop them, neatly sorting them by system and adding original box art for a clean, visual experience. The emulator works seamlessly with a wide range of USB and Bluetooth game controllers, offering automatic button mapping for popular devices. Built on a modular core system, OpenEmu combines many of the best emulation projects to support dozens of classic consoles. With its sleek macOS-native interface and simple setup, OpenEmu transforms retro gaming into an intuitive and enjoyable experience. -
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nestopiaue
Nestopia UE
This project is a fork of the original Nestopia source code, plus the Linux port. The purpose of the project is to enhance the original, and ensure it continues to work on modern operating systems. -
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POSROG
Try Customization Android-x86 OS is Faster, lighter than Emulator with
POSROG is Android operating system with x86 architecture based on Phoenix OS or AOSP. POSROG focuses on development for device support, performance, gaming and other features, You can also be a contributor to the development of our project This is an open source project non profit and also some components are licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 or later. If you like our project and work, you can support us by donating for further development of our project. -
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AetherSX2
PlayStation 2 emulator for Android
AetherSX2 is a powerful PlayStation 2 emulator for Android that allows users to play a wide range of classic PS2 games on mobile devices. It delivers strong performance across many titles, with particularly smooth results on modern mid-range and high-end hardware. The emulator requires a PlayStation 2 BIOS file to function, which must be obtained separately from a legitimate console. AetherSX2 supports extensive customization, letting users fine-tune controls, graphics settings, and resolution to match their device and preferences. It works well with both on-screen touch controls and external controllers such as PlayStation or Xbox gamepads. With its balance of performance, flexibility, and ease of use, AetherSX2 has become one of the most popular PS2 emulators available on Android. -
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Winetricks
Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
Winetricks is a helper script for the Wine compatibility layer that simplifies the process of configuring Wine environments, installing needed Windows components, and applying tweaks to make applications run better or at all under Wine. Wine itself provides a runtime for Windows applications on Unix-like systems, but when programs require specific DLLs, components like .NET frameworks, fonts, or special settings, users would traditionally have to manually fetch and configure them; Winetricks automates these tasks with an easy interface. It ships with a menu or command-line options that let you select common workarounds, install missing packages, or tweak settings like Windows version emulation without digging into registry edits yourself. This makes troubleshooting and preparing Wine prefixes more accessible for end users and reduces the frustration of missing dependencies, especially with games or legacy business software. -
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melonDS
DS emulator, sorta
melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation. While it is still a work in progress, it has a pretty solid set of features. Firmware boot (not direct boot) requires a BIOS/firmware dump from an original DS or DS Lite. DS firmwares dumped from a DSi or 3DS aren't bootable and only contain configuration data, thus they are only suitable when booting games directly. DS BIOS dumps from a DSi or 3DS can be used with no compatibility issues. -
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melonDS Android port
Android port of melonDS
melonDS Android is a mobile port of the melonDS emulator, designed to run Nintendo DS and DSi games on Android devices with a focus on performance and usability. It brings the accuracy and features of the original desktop emulator to smartphones, enabling users to play games and run homebrew software directly on mobile hardware. The emulator includes support for features such as save states, ROM loading, and integration with third-party frontend launchers. Performance is optimized through techniques like just-in-time (JIT) compilation and threaded rendering, allowing many games to run at full speed on modern 64-bit devices. The project also supports compressed ROM formats and flexible file handling through Android’s storage access framework. While some advanced features such as local multiplayer are still missing, the emulator continues to evolve with frequent updates and community contributions. -
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Remix OS
Remix OS for PC is a productivity focused, desktop version of Android.
Given its lightweight size and system requirements, Remix OS for PC is well suited to be installed on a USB drive (8GB+) and used as a portable workspace securely containing the user’s documents and apps. This particular use case has significant advantages for users within emerging markets where shared PCs are more common. A key feature of Remix OS for PC is multiple window support, and this has been vastly improved in the migration to Marshmallow. Significant examples include: ● New button has been implemented that resizes a window to fit specifically to the app’s content - ensuring optimal layout is maintained ● Video-based apps now open up in full-screen when you maximize the video rather than staying in a small framed window ● Resizing windows manually can now be initiated anywhere along the edge of the window (other than the top edge), rather than just on the bottom right corner -
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decaf-emu
Researching Wii U emulation
Researching Wii U emulation. Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPLv3+). The latest Windows and Linux binaries are available via Actions artifacts. You must be logged into GitHub in order to download the artifacts. MacOS builds are currently not provided due to complications with Vulkan. Run the decaf-qt executable, it is recommended to run the emulator from the root git directory so that it is able to access resources/fonts/*. Alternatively, set resources_path in the configuration file to point to the resources directory. -
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Live Raizo - Linux for Virtual SysAdmin
Environment to experiment the system on simulated and real networks
- Live Raizo is a linux distribution based on Debian 13 (Trixie) to experiment the system administration on simulated networks and real devices. - GNS3 is the gui used to manipulate the simulators/emulators of networks and systems like QEmu, Docker, Dynamips. - With this GNS3, you can clone as many times as you want the templates of virtual linux machines named "Debian" and "DDebian" that contain many network tools and services. - The prompt and the output of several linux commands are colored to highlight the main informations and to be more userfriendly. - Live Raizo also includes tools to interact with real devices : minicom, putty, Wireshark, as well as DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, HTTP and SSH servers. Services are not started automatically. - It is used by the CFA UTEC of CCI in Seine et Marne in France for networking and Linux administration classes. - You can also open issues here : https://github.com/Raizo62/LiveRaizo Last 64 bits Release : v17.26.04.26i -
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An open source NES Emulator for Windows and Unix that features solid emulation accuracy and state of the art tools for power users. FCEUX's source code is now hosted at https://github.com/TASVideos/fceux/ win32 autobuilds @ https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromus/fceux/build/artifacts
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FEX
A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64
FEX allows you to run x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 host, similar to qemu-user and box86. It has native support for a rootfs overlay, so you don't need to chroot, as well as some thunklibs so it can forward things like GL to the host. FEX presents a Linux 5.0 interface to the guest, and supports both AArch64 and x86-64 as hosts. FEX is very much work in progress, so expect things to change. FEX has been tested to build and run on ARMv8.0, ARMv8.1+, and x86-64(AVX or newer) hardware. ARMv7 and older x86 hardware will not work. Expected operating system usage is Linux. FEX has been tested with Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, and 21.04. Also Arch Linux. AArch64 hosts require a rootfs for running applications. -
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DuckStation
Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. "Hack" options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues. A "BIOS" ROM image is required to to start the emulator and to play games. You can use an image from any hardware version or region, although mismatching game regions and BIOS regions may have compatibility issues. A ROM image is not provided with the emulator for legal reasons, you should dump this from your own console using Caetla or other means. DuckStation features a fully-featured frontend built using Qt, as well as a fullscreen/TV UI based on Dear ImGui. -
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Vanced MicroG
Seamless Google account support for modified apps
Vanced microG is a lightweight companion app designed to enable the seamless functionality of YouTube Vanced and other modified apps that rely on Google services. It acts as a replacement for the Google Play Services framework, allowing users to log into their Google accounts and sync preferences without compromising privacy. Vanced microG is essential for running apps like YouTube Vanced, providing authentication and push notification support without requiring the full suite of Google services. With its minimal resource usage and focus on user privacy, Vanced microG is an indispensable tool for enhancing the functionality of modified Android apps. -
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PearPC is an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. It includes a JITC for x86-Processors.
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Phoenix OS
An alternative way of running Android OS on a Windows system
Phoenix OS is an Android emulator and operating system that allows you to run Android apps and games on your Windows desktop. It's a free, lightweight desktop environment that includes a taskbar, desktop icons, file management, and multi-window support. Phoenix OS is designed to provide a desktop-like experience on a larger screen. It supports both Intel and AMD processors, but it's more compatible with Intel processors. You can install Phoenix OS to replace Windows or install it alongside Windows in a dual-boot setup. Phoenix OS is a fork of the popular Remix OS. It lacks Google Play Services, but you can easily find the apps you need through APK hosting sites. -
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