List of emulators - Definition and Overview

This article lists software that emulates arcade and console game systems, as well as other computing platforms or CPUs.

Arcade Systems

• Daphne (emulator) [1] (http://www.daphne-emu.com/) - the laserdisc game [2] (http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/) emulator.
• MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
• Power Player Super Joy 3 [3] (http://www.superjoy3.com/) - classic arcade game emulator that also contains Atari and NES games.
• Raine
• Shark Emulator - emulator of mainly Toaplan arcade games for Windows.
• Xcade for the PalmOS
• XMAME - MAME for the X Window System

Console Systems

• Atari 2600
  • Atari Retro for the PalmOS
  • PC Atari
  • Stella
  • Z26 [4] (http://www.whimsey.com/z26/z26.html)
• Atari 5200
  • Virtual 5200 (DOS)
• Atari 7800
  • Virtual 7800 (DOS)
• Atari Jaguar
  • VirtualJaguar [5] (http://www.icculus.org/virtualjaguar/)
• ColecoVision
  • ColEm for PalmOS
  • Virtual ColecoVision
• Emerson Arcadia 2001
  • Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator (DOS)
• Mattel Intellivision
  • Bliss
  • Intv (requires Intellivision Lives! to run)
• Sega Dreamcast
  • DreamEMU [6] (http://www.dreamemu.net/)
  • Chankast [7] (http://www.chanka.org)
• Sega Genesis
  • Genecyst
  • Gens [8] (http://gens.consolemul.com/)
  • Kega
  • KGen
• Sega Master System
  • Chasms
  • MEKA
  • Wakalabis
• Nintendo Entertainment System
  • For Microsoft Windows
    • FCE Ultra FOSS
    • FCE Ultra Extended Debugger [9] (http://fceuxd.infinihost.net/)
    • Jnes
    • NESten
    • Nester
    • NnnesterJ
    • NESticle [10] (http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html)
    • Nestopia FOSS
    • olafnes [11] (http://olafnes.1emulation.com/)
    • RockNES [12] (http://rocknes.kinox.org/)
    • VirtuaNES [13] (http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com:8080/index.php)
  • For UNIX/Linux
    • FCE Ultra
    • fwNES
    • iNES
    • TuxNES
  • For PalmOS
    • NesEm (Only PalmOS 5 and up)
• Sony PlayStation
  • AdriPSX ILE
  • Bleem!
  • ePSXe [14] (http://www.epsxe.com/)
• Super NES
  • Snes9x [15] (http://www.snes9x.com/)[16] (http://www.lysator.liu.se/snes9x/)
  • SNEeSe
  • ZSNES [17] (http://www.zsnes.com/)
• Nec Turbo Grafx 16
  • Hu6280
  • Hu-Go! [18] (http://www.zeograd.com/)
  • Magic Engine
• Nintendo 64
  • 1964
  • Mupen64
  • Nemu64
  • Project64 [19] (http://pj64.emulation64.com/)
  • TR64
  • UltraHLE
• Microsoft Xbox
  • Cxbx
  • Xeon

Portable Systems

• Atari Lynx
  • Handy
  • MetaLynx
• Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Game Boy Color
  • BasicBoy
  • BGB
  • gnuboy
  • Liberty for PalmOS
  • NO$GMB
  • Phoinix for PalmOS
  • VisualBoyAdvance [20] (http://vba.ngemu.com/)
• Nintendo Game Boy Advance
  • BoycottAdvance [21] (http://boycottadvance.emuunlim.com/)
  • BoycottAdvance Online [22] (http://baonline.emuunlim.com/)
  • VisualBoyAdvance [23] (http://vba.ngemu.com/)
• Sega Game Gear
  • MEKA
  • Gizmo for PalmOS
• SNK Neo Geo Pocket and SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color
  • NeoPocott [24] (http://neopocott.emuunlim.com/)
• Bandai Wonderswan
  • Cygne
  • OSwan
  • WonderScott Online [25] (http://wsonline.emuunlim.com/)
  • WSCamp

Mobile phones and PDAs

• Siemens SMTK [26] (http://www.siemens-mobile.com/developer/)

Computer Systems

• Acorn Computers Ltd
  • BBC Micro
    • 6502Em for RISC OS [27] (http://www.borcherds.co.uk/murklesoft/)
    • modelb for Windows [28] (http://modelb.bbcmicro.com/)
    • BeebEm for Windows [29] (http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem)
    • B-EM for Windows, DOS [30] (http://b-em.bbcmicro.com/)
  • Electron
    • ElectrEm [31] (http://electrem.emuunlim.com)
    • Elkulator [32] (http://elkulator.acornelectron.co.uk/)
  • RISC OS
    • VirtualAcorn for Windows [33] (http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk)
    • Red Squirrel for Windows [34] (http://www.red-squirrel.org/)
    • ArcEm for X-Windows, Windows, RISC OS, Mac OS X[35] (http://arcem.sourceforge.net/)
• Amiga
  • Fellow [36] (http://fellow.sourceforge.net)
  • Unix Amiga Emulator (UAE) [37] (http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/)
  • E-UAE (exhanced/experimental/eggplant/etc. UAE)
  • WinUAE for Windows [38] (http://www.winuae.net)
• Apple II
  • AppleCE for the Pocket PC
  • Apple IIe Emulator for Windows
  • Catakig emulates an Apple IIgs
  • KEGS for Apple IIgs [39] (http://kegs.sourceforge.net/)
  • IIe for the Macintosh
  • PalmApple for PalmOS
  • XGS/32 emulates an Apple IIgs in Windows
• Atari XL/XE
  • Atari800Win PLus for Windows [40] (http://atariarea.histeria.pl/PLus/index_us.htm)
  • Atari800 portable emulator [41] (http://atari800.sourceforge.net/index.html)
  • Emulator list (http://atariarea.histeria.pl/PLus/links_us.htm) (few more)
• Atari ST
  • STonX for the X Window System [42] (http://stonx.sourceforge.net)
• Commodore 64
  • CCS64 [43] (http://www.ccs64.com)
  • Frodo
  • VICE [44] (http://viceteam.bei.t-online.de/)
• IA-64
  • NUE [45] (http://www.software.hp.com/products/LIA64/overview2a.htm)
  • Ski [46] (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/ski/)
• IBM mainframe
  • Hercules
• IBM PC
  • Bochs
  • DOSBox [47] (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/)
  • DOSEMU (Linux)
  • Qemu
  • Simics
  • Virtual PC
  • Win@
• Mac II/Quadra
  • Basilisk II
  • FUSION
  • Gemulator
  • Mace (http://www.macehq.cx/)
• Macintosh Plus
  • vMac
• Macintosh Classic
  • Basilisk
• MSX
  • BrMSX
  • fMSX
  • ParaMSX
• Sinclair QL
  • Q-emuLator [48] (http://users.infoconex.com/~daniele/winql.html)
  • QLAY [49] (http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/A.Jaw.Venema/)
• Sinclair Spectrum
  • Emulator list (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html) (there are many of these)
  • ArmZX for PalmOS 5
  • ZXPalm for PalmOS
• Sinclair ZX81
  • z81 [50] (http://rus.members.beeb.net/z81.html)
• Sinclair ZX80
  • z81 [51] (http://rus.members.beeb.net/z81.html)
• Tandy
  • Tand-Em
• Texas Instruments calculators
  • Virtual TI [52] (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/84/8442.html)
• TRS-80
  • TRS-80 Colour Computer Emulator
• Windows
  • Softwindows emulates Windows

Multi-system

• MESS - Multiple Emulator Super System
• Kega Fusion

CPU

• MOS Technologies 6502
  • A6502
  • M6502
• Intel Pentium
  • RealPC for Macintosh
• Motorola 68040
  • Mac OS for PowerPC Macintosh (see Mac 68K emulator)
  • Unix Amiga Emulator. The UAE emulation engine is commonly used in emulators of other 68K platforms, like the Macintosh.

A number of programs which provide compatibility for running programs designed for other operating systems on the same hardware are sometimes mistaken for emulators:

• FreeBSD and other BSD Unixes have system call translation allowing them to run Linux binaries compiled for the same platform
• iBCS (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard) allows a number of x86 Unix operating systems to run a common binary format
• LINE runs x86 Linux programs on Microsoft Windows
• Mac-On-Linux, ShapeShifter, Plex86, Virtual PC, and VMware run entire operating systems inside another. This is called virtualization. Basilisk II also supports virtualization on m68k platforms.
• SCO UNIX has a similar "Linux kernel personality"
• WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) runs Microsoft Windows programs on various Unix-like operating systems running on x86 machines