The Best 113 RetroArch Alternatives

  • PlayOnLinux icon

    PlayOnLinux

    PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac.com ) is a tool to help Linux (and Mac) users run games and programs for Windows on Linux (or Mac, FreeBSD), via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Mac FreeBSD Wine

  • ZSNES icon

    ZSNES

    ZSNES is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Aside from emulation accuracy, many interface features first introduced in ZSNES have been adopted by other emulators.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • VisualBoyAdvance icon

    VisualBoyAdvance

    VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS

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    Snes9x

    Snes9x is a portable, Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator. It allows you to play most games designed for the SNES and Super Famicom Nintendo game systems on your PC. Main Snes9x mirror: http://snes9x.ipherswipsite.com

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ScummVM icon

    ScummVM

    ScummVM is a multi-platform interpreter that runs games using the SCUMM engine made by LucasArts which allows you to run classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you have their data files.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD Mac Windows Mobile S60

  • ePSXe

    ePSXe (enhanced PSX emulator) is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

    Free Windows Linux Android Android Tablet

  • Project64

    Project64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator for the Windows platform. It employs a plugin system that allows 3rd party developers to implement their own software.

    Free Open Source Windows Android

  • Mame

    MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS

  • Lutris

    Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Steam MS-DOS

  • PPSSPP

    PPSSPP is a PSP emulator written in C++, and translates PSP CPU instructions directly into optimized x86, x64 and ARM machine code, using JIT recompilers (dynarecs).

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Blackberry Mac

  • OpenEmu

    Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Kega Fusion

    Kega Fusion is an emulator for the Sega Genesis / Megadrive, Master System, Game Gear, 32x, SegaCD/MegaCD, SVP, Pico, SG-1000, SC-3000, and SF-7000 emulator for Win9x/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • higan

    higan was formerly known as bsnes. The project was renamed after becoming a multi-system emulator. higan is a Nintendo multi-system emulator that began development on 2004-10-14.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • No$GBA

    NO$GBA is a Nintendo DS emulator for Microsoft Windows.

    Freemium Windows

  • pSX

    PSX is an emulator of the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware. It is Windows and Linux compatible. The original game CDs can be used to play the games. ISO files are also supported.

    Free Windows Linux

  • Lakka

    Lakka is the official Linux distribution of RetroArch and the libretro ecosystem. Each game system is implemented as a libretro core, while the frontend RetroArch takes care of inputs and display.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Raspberry Pi Cubieboard Odroid

  • Snes9x EX

    snes9x ex is an snes/super famicom emulator written in c++ for android, ios, webos and linux. it uses the emulation backend from snes9x and is built on top of the imagine engine.

    Free Linux Android iPhone iPad

  • Gens/GS

    Gens/GS is a version of Gens maintained by GerbilSoft. The main goal of Gens/GS is to clean up the source code and combine features from various forks of Gens, as well as improving portability to other platforms.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux