Emulators
Emulators for Nintendo (SNES/NES)
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- Nostalgia.NES (NES Emulator) (4.1@48,940) 8
LastUpdate: 2020-05-21 / Nostalgia.NES Pro (NES Emulator) (4.7@30; ~EUR 4.50) Ǥ 9
LastUpdate: 2020-05-19
- MultiSneS16 (multiplayer retro 16 bits emulator) (4@8,598) Ǥ 12
6
LastUpdate: 2020-07-14
- SuperGNES (4@65) 7 2
LastUpdate: 2018-11-28
- NES.emu (3.9@22; ~EUR 3.75) 7
- Lemuroid (3.8@6,634) 7
Github; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- SNESDroid (3.4@14,667) 5
2
LastUpdate: 2020-09-30
- Snes9x EX+ (3.4@14) 7
Video Howto 5/2019; Video Demo 1/2019
- Nesoid (3@9) 8
LastUpdate: 2012-06-21
Emulators for Nintendo (N64)
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- M64Plus FZ Emulator (4.6@103,724) Ǥ 13
14
/ Mupen64Plus AE (0@0) 6
Howto 8/2017; Video Intro 7/2019 / Github
- Super64 Plus (3.9@10,516) 11
2
/ Super64Pro Emulator (4.6@1,169; ~EUR 3.00) 9
- Mupen64+AE FREE (N64 Emulator) (3.8@46,754) 3
LastUpdate: 2014-01-22 / Mupen64Plus AE (N64 Emulator) (4.2@68; ~EUR 0.75) 3
LastUpdate: 2014-01-19
- Lemuroid (3.8@6,634) 7
Github; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- Tendo64 (N64 Emulator) (3.4@6,126) Ǥ 8
3
LastUpdate: 2019-08-01
Emulatoren for Nintendo DS
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- SuperNDS Emulator (4.6@24) 5
1 LastUpdate: 2020-07-16 / SuperNDS Pro (Emulator) (0@0; ~EUR 2.00) 3
LastUpdate: 2019-06-26
- Free DS Emulator - For Android (3.3@100,379) 8
3
LastUpdate: 2020-07-16
- nds4droid (3@116,789) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-05-17
- DraStic DS Emulator (3@55; ~EUR 4.50) Ǥ 10
LastUpdate: 2020-05-13
Emulators for Gameboy
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(GBA = Advanced, GBC = Gameboy Color)
- My Boy! Lite (4.5@57) 9
1
LastUpdate: 2019-03-16 / My Boy! - GBA Emulator (4.7@52,953; ~EUR 5.00) 10
LastUpdate: 2019-12-28
- John GBA Lite (4.3@272,682) 9
2
/ John GBA (4.4@245; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 5
- John GBC Lite (4.3@38,817) 9
2
/ John GBC (4.4@4,093; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 4
- GBA Emulator (4.2@94,441) Ǥ 17
1
- VinaBoy Advance - GBA Emulator (3.8@9,704) 4
1
LastUpdate: 2018-10-21
- Lemuroid (3.8@6,634) 7
Github; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- GBA.emu (3.8@24; ~EUR 4.75) 6
- GBC.emu (3.2@26; ~EUR 2.75) 7
- GBCC (0@0) 2
Github
Emulators for Amiga
2022-05-28
- Amiga Forever Essentials (4@573; ~EUR 2.00) 2
LastUpdate: 2019-09-28
- Uae4all2 (3.6@710) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-08-21 Github
- AnUAE4All (3.4@101; ~EUR 2.50) 3
LastUpdate: 2013-04-25
- UAE4Droid (3@2,383) 2
LastUpdate: 2013-07-06
Emulators for Atari
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- Hataroid (Atari ST Emulator) (4.3@972) 2
LastUpdate: 2018-09-27
- Colleen (4.2@524) 2
LastUpdate: 2014-10-31 Atari800: 8bit home computer series (400, 800, XL and XE)
- XEmu65 (Beta) (3.9@97) 3
LastUpdate: 2020-11-03
- 2600.emu (3.3@27; ~EUR 2.75) 6
Atari 2600 VCS
Emulators for the PlayStation
2022-05-28
- FPse for Android devices (4.6@64,511; ~EUR 3.25) Ǥ 11
- PPSSPP - PSP emulator (4.6@159) 8
/ PPSSPP Gold - PSP emulator (4.6@22,540; ~EUR 4.50) 8
Vorstellung 2/2015; Anleitung 11/2017; Howto 3/2019; Github
- ePSXe for Android (4.5@51,582; ~EUR 3.00) Ǥ 8
- Sunshine Emulator for PSP (4.4@16) 5
LastUpdate: 2019-01-12
- Enjoy PSP Emulator to play PSP games (3.1@4,970) 14
21
Emulators for the ZX Spectrum
2022-05-28
- Xpectroid ZX Spectrum Emulator (5@515) 3
LastUpdate: 2015-09-29
- PlayZX (4.9@502) 4
LastUpdate: 2020-09-11
- Spectacol (4.9@439) 4
- Spectaculator, ZX Emulator (4.4@952) Ǥ 5
LastUpdate: 2015-05-07
- USP - ZX Spectrum Emulator (4.1@2,077) 3
- Speccy - Free Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator (3.9@1,181) 7
1
/ Speccy - Complete Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator (4.6@501; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 8
1
Emulators for Chip8
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- Chipfinity - Chip-8 emulator (5@29) 2
LastUpdate: 2020-04-05
- Batatinha v2 (5@1) 0
LastUpdate: 2018-07-29
- ChipChip (4.2@8) 1
- Chip8 (0@0) 2
LastUpdate: 2018-02-22
Emulators for C64
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- C64 ASM LWP simple (4.7@130) 0
LastUpdate: 2019-12-03 / C64 ASM LWP (3.8@10; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 1
LastUpdate: 2018-12-23
- Mobile C64 (3.5@1,217) Ǥ 7
1
- C64.emu (3.5@596; ~EUR 3.75) 6
- AnVICEx64 (3.3@68; ~EUR 2.50) 3
LastUpdate: 2012-04-06
- Frodo C64 (3@3,718) 2
LastUpdate: 2015-01-12
Emulators for Apple II
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Emulators for SEGA
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- MasterGear - MasterSystem & GameGear Emulator (4.4@627; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 8
1
- MD.emu (4.1@56; ~EUR 4.75) 7
- Lemuroid (3.8@6,634) 7
Github; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
- GENPlusDroid (3.8@16) 5
2
LastUpdate: 2020-10-11
- MasterEmu (3.6@743) 2
LastUpdate: 2020-03-02
- SuperMD (MD/GEN Emulator) (3.3@8,636) 4
1 LastUpdate: 2020-06-28
DOS-Emus
2022-05-10
- Magic Dosbox Free (4.3@1,594) 6
/ Magic DosBox (4.8@1,069; ~EUR 3.50) 7
Howto 8/2020
- lDosBox (3.9@376) 8
- DosBox Manager (3.8@1,689) 6
LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 / DosBox Turbo (4.1@2,869; ~EUR 2.75) Ǥ 5
LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 Tutorial 6/2013 (EN)
- lBochs PC Emulator (3.8@1,093) 6
comes with FreeDOS included
- aFreeBox (3.6@2,630) 5
4
LastUpdate: 2015-05-08
- AnDOSBox (3.4@297; ~EUR 3.00) 3
LastUpdate: 2012-10-18
- Bochs (3@4,041) 5
1
LastUpdate: 2020-02-26 can run Linux, DOS, Windows (x86, 32bit)
- 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
2022-05-28
- Extended emulator of МК 61/54 (5@600) 1
- Free42 (4.8@2,948) 5
- Emulator for TI-59 Calculator (4.8@525) 4
- AlmostTI - TI Calc Emulator (4.7@291; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 7
1
- FX-602P scientific calculator (4.7@192; ~EUR 4.75) 4
- Droid48 (4.6@15,253) 2
LastUpdate: 2016-12-26 Github
- FX-603P programable calculator (4.6@113; ~EUR 6.00) 4
- 15C Scientific Calculator (4.5@939; ~EUR 10.00) Ǥ 6 1 LastUpdate: 2013-08-29
- WRPN 16c (4.4@182) 3
- Graph 89 Free (4.1@5,157) 3
LastUpdate: 2016-12-10 / Graph 89 - (with TI84 support) (4.7@859; ~EUR 3.25) 4
LastUpdate: 2014-07-20 Emulator for the TI-89 graphing calculator
- HP-45 scientific calculator (4.1@113; ~EUR 3.50) 2
Various other Emulators
2022-05-28
- BkEmu - BK-0010/11M emulator (4.7@301) 2
Github
- J2ME Loader (4.5@23,546) Ǥ 10
Github; MIDP Java (J2ME) Emulator
- ScummVM (4.1@12,762) 5
Github
- RetroArch (3.9@41,638) 5
Video Howto 10/2018 | 5/2019; Guide 7/2019; various consoles, also available for Linux/Mac/Windows
- Dolphin Emulator (3.6@86,304) 5
Github; Intro 2/2020; Video Walk-Through 6/2020; Wikipedia DE | EN
- Reicast - Dreamcast emulator (3.5@27,136) 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
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Android Emulators:
- 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)
- 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 - 2/2021)
- The best Nintendo DS emulators for Android (4/2014 - 3/2021)
- Best emulators for Android (11/2013 - 6/2021)
- C64, Amiga und DOS: Emulatoren für Android (7/2013 - 2/2018)
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