User:Diffycat/Video game console emulators

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for. While emulators themselves are not games in a strict sense, they provide users with the ability to play games and therefore have been included in this article.

Warning: Emulators provide users with the ability to run programs called "ROMS", which are copies of games. While owning an emulator itself is not illegal, downloading or sharing (and in some cases, creating) copyrighted ROMs without the copyright holder's permission is ILLEGAL. Using an emulator to run ROMs that you do not own the legal rights to is ILLEGAL. Use at your own risk and be sure to read the Terms of Service for the emulator. Arch Linux etc. is not responsible if you get in trouble.

First generation

TODO

Second generation

TODO

Fourth generation

Mega Drive/Genesis

• Gens — An emulator of Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X, built from the official Gens for Linux tree

http://gens.sourceforge.net/ || gens

• Gens/GS — An emulator of Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X, combining features from various forks of Gens

http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• DGen/SDL — Portable Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator

http://dgen.sourceforge.net/ || dgen-sdl^AUR

• Kega Fusion — An emulator of classic Sega consoles, including SMS/GG, Genesis/Megadrive and add-ons

http://www.eidolons-inn.net/ || kega-fusion^AUR

• FB Alpha — TODO

http://www.barryharris.me.uk// || TODO^AUR

Fifth generation (handheld systems)

Game Boy Color

• Visual Boy Advance — An emulator for Nintendo’s Game Boy, Color and Advance

http://vba.ngemu.com/ || visualboyadvance

• Gambatte — Accuracy-focused, cross-platform Game Boy Color emulator.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gambatte/ || gambatte^AUR

• Gambatte — A Qt4 frontent for the Gambatte emulator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gambatte/ || gambatte-qt^AUR

Neo Geo Pocket [Color]

• GnGeo — Command line Neo Geo emulator

http://gngeo.berlios.de/ || gngeo^AUR

• XGngeo — full-featured front-end (GUI) written in Python that provides toward end-users a practical and user-friendly GTK interface over GnGeo

http://xgngeo.choplair.org/ || xgngeo^AUR || xgngeo-hg^AUR

• NeoPop-SDL — SDL port of NeoPop, a portable NeoGeo Pocket emulator.

http://www.nih.at/NeoPop-SDL/ || neopop_sdl^AUR

• Neoraine — A NeoGeo CD emulator based on Raine

http://rainemu.swishparty.co.uk/ || neoraine^AUR

Sega Nomad

Status unknown

Sixth generation

Dreamcast

• Lxdream — An emulator for the Sega Dreamcast system

http://www.lxdream.org/news/ || lxdream^AUR || lxdream-hg^AUR

PlayStation 2

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator

http://pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2^AUR || pcsx2-bin^AUR || pcsx2-svn^AUR

Nintendo GameCube

• Dolphin — GameCube and Wii emulator

http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/ || dolphin-emu^AUR || dolphin-emu-git^AUR

• gcube — A GameCube emulator, part of the devkitPPC project (including various utilities)

http://devkitpro.org/ || gcube^AUR

Xbox

Windows only

Sixth generation (handheld systems)

Game Boy Advance / Advance SP / Micro

• Visual Boy Advance — An emulator for Nintendo’s Game Boy, Color and Advance

http://vba.ngemu.com/ || visualboyadvance

• VBA-M — Gameboy Advance Emulator combining features of all VBA forks - GTK GUI

http://vba-m.ngemu.com/ || vba-m-gtk-svn^AUR

N-Gage

Status unknown

Tapwave Zodiac

Status unknown

GP32

• GeePee32 — GP32 emulator (needs a GP32 firmware dump in order to work)

http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gp32/ || TODO^AUR

Seventh generation

Wii

• Dolphin — GameCube and Wii emulator

http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/ || dolphin-emu^AUR || dolphin-emu-git^AUR

Xbox 360

No emulators yet

PlayStation 3

No emulators yet

Seventh generation (handheld systems)

Nintendo DS / DS Lite / DSi / DSi XL

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator

http://desmume.org/ || desmume || desmume-svn^AUR

• iDeaS — Nintendo DS emulator

http://ciacin.site90.com/ideas.php || ideas^AUR

PlayStation Portable

• JPCSP — Java PSP Emulator

http://jpcsp.org/ || jpcsp^AUR || jpcsp-svn^AUR

Eighth generation

Wii U

Not Yet Released

Eighth generation (handheld systems)

Nintendo 3DS

Not available

PlayStation Vita

Not available