List of video game console emulators explained

The following is a list of notable video game console emulators.

Arcade

• Visual Pinball

Atari

Atari 2600

• Stella

Nintendo

See also: NES Classic Edition, Super NES Classic Edition and Virtual Console.

Home consoles

Nintendo Entertainment System

• FCEUX
• NESticle
• Nestopia

Super NES

• Snes9x
• ZSNES
• Higan^[1]

Nintendo 64

• Mupen64Plus^[2]
• Project64
• Project Unreality
• UltraHLE

GameCube/Wii

• Dolphin

Wii U

• Cemu

Handhelds

Game Boy

• Wzonka-Lad

Game Boy Advance

• VisualBoyAdvance (Also supports Game Boy and Game Boy Color)
  • VisualBoyAdvance-M

Nintendo 3DS

• Citra

Hybrid

Nintendo Switch

See also: Nintendo Switch emulation.

• Yuzu
• Ryujinx

SNK

Neo Geo CD

• NeoCD

Sony

Home consoles

See also: PlayStation Classic.

PlayStation

• bleem!
• bleemcast!
• Connectix Virtual Game Station
• ePSXe
• PCSX-Reloaded

PlayStation 2

• PCSX2

PlayStation 3

• RPCS3

PlayStation 4

• ShadPS4 (PlayStation 4 emulators remain experimental.^[3] A website promoting a supposed PS4 emulator, "PCSX4", is a scam.)^[4]

Handhelds

PlayStation Portable

• PPSSPP

Frontends

• RetroArch

Multi-system emulators

Multi-system emulators are capable of emulating the functionality of multiple systems.

• higan
• MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
• Mednafen
• MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), formerly a stand-alone application and now part of MAME
• OpenEmu

See also

• Emulator
• List of computer system emulators
• List of emulators
• Video game console emulator

Notes and References

1. https://github.com/higan-emu/higan
2. https://mupen64plus.org/
3. Web site: PS4 emulator makes incredible early progress with 3D games running . 2023-04-07 . Dexerto . en.
4. Web site: PS4 emulators on PC don't work yet, so don't get scammed by a fake. Fenlon. Wes. 15 January 2019. PC Gamer. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190919092844/https://www.pcgamer.com/ps4-emulator-pc/. 19 September 2019. 26 January 2020.