Emulators
Emulators for Nintendo (SNES/NES)
2023-05-16
- NES.emu (4.7@2,656; ~EUR 3.75) 6
- Snes9x EX+ (4.2@109,923) 7
Video Howto 5/2019; Video Demo 1/2019
- NostalgiaNes (4.1@51,003) 8
2
/ NostalgiaNes Pro (4.5@2,942; ~EUR 4.50) 8
- Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7
Github; Video Review 7/2021; Check 9/2021; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- MultiSneS16 (multiplayer retro (4@9,619) Ǥ 12
6
LastUpdate: 2020-07-14
- SNESDroid (3.4@14,717) 5
2
LastUpdate: 2020-09-30
- Nesoid (3@9) 8
LastUpdate: 2012-06-21
Emulators for Nintendo (N64)
2023-05-16
- M64Plus FZ Emulator (4.5@116,559) Ǥ 13
14
/ Mupen64Plus AE (0@0) 6
LastUpdate: 2020-11-28 Howto 8/2017; Video Intro 7/2019 / Github
- Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7
Github; Video Review 7/2021; Check 9/2021; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- Super64 Plus (4@11,133) 11
2
LastUpdate: 2021-07-16 / Super64Pro Emulator (4.5@1,197; ~EUR 3.00) 9
LastUpdate: 2021-06-16
- Mupen64+AE FREE (N64 Emulator) (3.8@46,754) 3
LastUpdate: 2014-01-22 / Mupen64Plus AE (N64 Emulator) (4.2@69; ~EUR 0.75) 3
LastUpdate: 2014-01-19
- Tendo64 (N64 Emulator) (3.3@6,337) Ǥ 12
3
LastUpdate: 2019-08-01
Emulatoren for Nintendo DS
2023-05-16
- SuperNDS Emulator (4.6@250,122) 5
1 LastUpdate: 2020-07-16 / SuperNDS Pro (Emulator) (0@0; ~EUR 2.00) 3
LastUpdate: 2019-06-26
- DraStic DS Emulator (4.2@120,600; ~EUR 4.50) Ǥ 10
- Fast DS Emulator - For Android (3.1@103,613) Ǥ 11
3
- nds4droid (3@117,033) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-05-17
Emulators for Gameboy
2023-05-16
(GBA = Advanced, GBC = Gameboy Color)
- GBC.emu (4.8@1,107; ~EUR 2.75) 6
- GBA.emu (4.7@1,595; ~EUR 4.75) 6
- John GBA Lite (4.3@278,467) Ǥ 10
2
/ John GBA (4.4@14,128; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 4
- John GBC Lite (4.3@39,100) Ǥ 10
2
/ John GBC (4.4@4,164; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 4
- My Boy! Lite (4.1@581,144) 9
1
LastUpdate: 2019-03-16 / My Boy! - GBA Emulator (4.4@55,407; ~EUR 5.00) 8
- Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7
Github; Video Review 7/2021; Check 9/2021; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- GBA Emulator (4@103,699) Ǥ 18
- VinaBoy Advance - GBA Emulator (3.8@9,803) 4
1
LastUpdate: 2018-10-21
- GBCC (0@0) 2
Github
Emulators for Amiga
2023-05-16
- Amiga Forever Essentials (4@595; ~EUR 2.00) 2
LastUpdate: 2019-09-28
- Uae4all2 (3.6@736) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-08-21 Github
- AnUAE4All (3.5@103; ~EUR 2.50) 3
LastUpdate: 2013-04-25
- UAE4Droid (3@2,408) 2
LastUpdate: 2013-07-06
Emulators for Atari
2023-05-22
- 2600.emu (4.6@674; ~EUR 2.75) 6
Atari 2600 VCS
- Hataroid (Atari ST Emulator) (4.3@988) 2
LastUpdate: 2018-09-27
- Colleen (4.2@537) 2
LastUpdate: 2014-10-31 Atari800: 8bit home computer series (400, 800, XL and XE)
Emulators for the PlayStation
2023-05-22
- FPse for Android devices (4.6@64,907; ~EUR 3.50) Ǥ 11
- PPSSPP - PSP emulator (4.4@1,614,886) 8
/ PPSSPP Gold - PSP emulator (4.8@25,041; ~EUR 4.50) 8
Anleitung 11/2017; Howto 3/2019; Github
- ePSXe for Android (4.4@54,020; ~EUR 3.00) Ǥ 8
- Sunshine Emulator for PSP (4.4@16) 5
LastUpdate: 2019-01-12
- Enjoy PSP Emulator to play PSP (3.2@5,601) 14
21
LastUpdate: 2020-12-13
Emulators for the ZX Spectrum
2023-05-22
- Xpectroid ZX Spectrum Emulator (5@526) 3
LastUpdate: 2015-09-29
- Spectacol (4.9@457) 4
- PlayZX (4.8@543) 4
LastUpdate: 2020-09-11
- Spectaculator, ZX Emulator (4.4@968) Ǥ 5
LastUpdate: 2015-05-07
- USP - ZX Spectrum Emulator (4.2@2,138) 3
- Speccy - ZX Spectrum Emulator (3.9@1,262) 7
1
/ Speccy+ ZX Spectrum Emulator (4.6@531; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 8
1
Emulators for Chip8
2023-05-22
- Chipfinity - Chip-8 emulator (5@29) 2
LastUpdate: 2020-04-05
- ChipChip (4.2@8) 1
LastUpdate: 2021-03-28
- Chip8 (0@0) 2
LastUpdate: 2018-02-22
Emulators for C64
2023-05-22
- C64 ASM LWP simple (4.7@130) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-12-03 / C64 ASM LWP (5@10; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 1
LastUpdate: 2018-12-23
- C64.emu (3.5@611; ~EUR 3.75) 6
- Mobile C64 (3.4@1,299) Ǥ 7
1
- Frodo C64 (2.9@3,754) 2
LastUpdate: 2015-01-12
- AnVICEx64 (2.4@73; ~EUR 2.50) 3
LastUpdate: 2012-04-06
Emulators for Apple II
2023-05-22
Emulators for SEGA
2023-05-20
- MD.emu (4.4@3,454; ~EUR 4.75) 6
- MasterGear - SMS/GG Emulator (4.4@636; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 8
1
- Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7
Github; Video Review 7/2021; Check 9/2021; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- GENPlusDroid (3.6@34,255) 5
2
LastUpdate: 2020-10-11
- SuperMD (MD/GEN Emulator) (3.3@9,555) 4
1 LastUpdate: 2020-06-28
- MasterEmu (3@815) 3
DOS-Emus
2023-05-23
- Magic Dosbox Lite (4.3@1,712) 6
LastUpdate: 2021-08-07 / Magic DosBox (4.8@1,203; ~EUR 3.50) 6
Howto 8/2020
- DosBox Manager (3.9@1,700) 6
LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 / DosBox Turbo (4.1@2,880; ~EUR 2.75) Ǥ 5
LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 Tutorial 6/2013 (EN)
- lDosBox (3.8@421) 8
LastUpdate: 2021-05-06
- lBochs PC Emulator (3.7@1,169) 6
LastUpdate: 2021-11-02 comes with FreeDOS included
- aFreeBox (3.6@2,750) 5
4
LastUpdate: 2015-05-08
- Bochs (3.1@4,322) 5
1
LastUpdate: 2020-02-26 can run Linux, DOS, Windows (x86, 32bit)
- AnDOSBox (3.1@298; ~EUR 3.00) 3
LastUpdate: 2012-10-18
- Limbo PC Emulator QEMU ARM x86 (2.7@14) 10
LastUpdate: 2018-03-29 Github; supports lightweight x86 systems, incl. FreeDOS and some Linux distris
- Limbo PC Emulator: even runs Windows 8.1 on Android; works with VirtualBox images
Emulated Calculators
2023-05-22
- Extended emulator of МК 61/54 (5@650) 1
- Free42 (4.8@3,052) 5
- Emulator for TI-59 Calculator (4.8@565) 4
- AlmostTI - TI Calc Emulator (4.7@313; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 7
1
- FX-602P scientific calculator (4.7@195; ~EUR 5.50) 4
- Droid48 (4.6@15,330) 2
Github
- FX-603P programable calculator (4.6@116; ~EUR 6.50) 4
- WRPN 16c (4.3@188) 3
LastUpdate: 2021-11-14
- Graph 89 Free (4@5,187) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-12-10 / Graph 89 - (with TI84 support) (4.6@862; ~EUR 3.25) 4
LastUpdate: 2014-07-20 Emulator for the TI-89 graphing calculator
- HP-45 scientific calculator (4@115; ~EUR 4.25) 2
Various other Emulators
2023-05-21
- BkEmu - BK-0010/11M emulator (4.7@301) 2
Github
- J2ME Loader (4.5@25,824) Ǥ 11
Github; MIDP Java (J2ME) Emulator
- ScummVM (4.1@12,926) 5
Github
- RetroArch (4@43,773) 5
Video Howto 10/2018 | 5/2019; Guide 7/2019; How-To 9/2020; Rezension 1/2021; Tutorial 3/2022; various consoles, also available for Linux/Mac/Windows
- Dolphin Emulator (3.9@94,137) 5
Github; Intro 2/2020; Video Walk-Through 6/2020; Wikipedia DE | EN
- Reicast - Dreamcast emulator (3.3@27,415) 8
LastUpdate: 2020-04-20 Github;
- Limbo x86 PC Emulator (3.1@8) 11
Github
- PalmOS Emulator StyleTap (14-Tage-Trial, then ~EUR 50)
- Wine
ROMs & ROM Archives
2023-05-22
Android Emulators:
- Anbox (Linux); Howto 7/2022
- The Android SDK has an Emulator included as well
- Android-x86 + VirtualBox (also see this article at Stack Exchange)
- Andro VM (improved Genymotion; Linux, Mac, Windows)
- AndY (Mac/Windows)
- ARChon (Chrome Extension)
- Bliss (XDA) (Chromebook, Linux, Windows; microG + F-Droid)
- BlueStacks is available for Mac/Windows
- dock-droid (Run QEMU Android in a Docker)
- docker-android (Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording)
- Genymotion (Windows)
- Jar of Beans (Java-based; also see: XDA – discontinued)
- KoPlayer (Gamer focused)
- MEmu (Windows)
- Nox App Player (Windows)
- Phoenix OS (Mac/Windows)
- Shashlik (Linux; Github)
- YourDroid (not an emulator: allows you to install Android to your PC or inside a VM as second OS (dual-boot))
- YouWave for Windows
- Windroy for Windows
- Xamarin has integrated emulator, like Android Studio
Run .jar
apps on Android:
Further Readings:
- How to Run Windows Apps on Android With Wine (12/2019)
- 15 Emulator-App für klassisches Retrogaming (NES, SNES, GBA, PS1, N64 und mehr) auf Android (7/2019)
- Best Android Emulators for PC and Mac (7/2019 - 1/2020)
- Best SNES emulators for Android (5/2019)
- 10 Best Android Emulators for Linux (5/2019 - 7/2021)
- The Best Android Emulator for Windows 10 (5/2019)
- Best SNES Emulators For Android (1/2019)
- Android-Apps auf dem PC: Mit diesen Methoden klappt es (2/2016 - 8/2019)
- The best N64 emulators for Android (4/2014 - 5/2022)
- The best Nintendo DS emulators for Android (4/2014 - 3/2022)
- Best emulators for Android (11/2013 - 2/2022)
- C64, Amiga und DOS: Emulatoren für Android (7/2013 - 2/2018)
2023-05-23