Emulators

Emulators for Nintendo (SNES/NES)

2023-05-16

NES.emu (4.7@2,656; ~EUR 3.75) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Snes9x EX+ (4.2@109,923) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-11-28 Howto 8/2017; Video Intro 7/2019 / Github
Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-06-16
Mupen64+AE FREE (N64 Emulator) (3.8@46,754) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-01-22 / Mupen64Plus AE (N64 Emulator) (4.2@69; ~EUR 0.75) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-06-26
DraStic DS Emulator (4.2@120,600; ~EUR 4.50) Ǥ 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Fast DS Emulator - For Android (3.1@103,613) Ǥ 11 3
nds4droid (3@117,033) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
GBA.emu (4.7@1,595; ~EUR 4.75) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
John GBA Lite (4.3@278,467) Ǥ 10 2 / John GBA (4.4@14,128; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
John GBC Lite (4.3@39,100) Ǥ 10 2 / John GBC (4.4@4,164; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Video Review 7/2021; Check 9/2021; NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, SEGA
GBA Emulator (4@103,699) Ǥ 18 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
VinaBoy Advance - GBA Emulator (3.8@9,803) 4 1 LastUpdate: 2018-10-21
GBCC (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github

Emulators for Amiga

2023-05-16

Amiga Forever Essentials (4@595; ~EUR 2.00) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-09-28
Uae4all2 (3.6@736) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-08-21 Github
AnUAE4All (3.5@103; ~EUR 2.50) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-04-25
UAE4Droid (3@2,408) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-07-06

Emulators for Atari

2023-05-22

2600.emu (4.6@674; ~EUR 2.75) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Atari 2600 VCS
Hataroid (Atari ST Emulator) (4.3@988) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-09-27
Colleen (4.2@537) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
PPSSPP - PSP emulator (4.4@1,614,886) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ / PPSSPP Gold - PSP emulator (4.8@25,041; ~EUR 4.50) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Anleitung 11/2017; Howto 3/2019; Github
ePSXe for Android (4.4@54,020; ~EUR 3.00) Ǥ 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Sunshine Emulator for PSP (4.4@16) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-09-29
Spectacol (4.9@457) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
PlayZX (4.8@543) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-09-11
Spectaculator, ZX Emulator (4.4@968) Ǥ 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-05-07
USP - ZX Spectrum Emulator (4.2@2,138) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-04-05
ChipChip (4.2@8) 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-03-28
Chip8 (0@0) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-02-22

Emulators for C64

2023-05-22

C64 ASM LWP simple (4.7@130) 0 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2019-12-03 / C64 ASM LWP (5@10; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 1 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2018-12-23
C64.emu (3.5@611; ~EUR 3.75) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Mobile C64 (3.4@1,299) Ǥ 7 1
Frodo C64 (2.9@3,754) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-01-12
AnVICEx64 (2.4@73; ~EUR 2.50) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-04-06

Emulators for Apple II

2023-05-22

KEGS IIgs Emulator (4.1@1,560) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-07-13

Emulators for SEGA

2023-05-20

MD.emu (4.4@3,454; ~EUR 4.75) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
MasterGear - SMS/GG Emulator (4.4@636; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 8 1
Lemuroid (4.1@12,257) 7 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$

DOS-Emus

2023-05-23

Magic Dosbox Lite (4.3@1,712) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-08-07 / Magic DosBox (4.8@1,203; ~EUR 3.50) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Howto 8/2020
DosBox Manager (3.9@1,700) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 / DosBox Turbo (4.1@2,880; ~EUR 2.75) Ǥ 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-10-23 Tutorial 6/2013 (EN)
lDosBox (3.8@421) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-05-06
lBochs PC Emulator (3.7@1,169) 6 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2012-10-18
Limbo PC Emulator QEMU ARM x86 (2.7@14) 10 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Free42 (4.8@3,052) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Emulator for TI-59 Calculator (4.8@565) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
AlmostTI - TI Calc Emulator (4.7@313; ~EUR 4.75) Ǥ 7 1
FX-602P scientific calculator (4.7@195; ~EUR 5.50) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
Droid48 (4.6@15,330) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
FX-603P programable calculator (4.6@116; ~EUR 6.50) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$
WRPN 16c (4.3@188) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2021-11-14
Graph 89 Free (4@5,187) 3 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-12-10 / Graph 89 - (with TI84 support) (4.6@862; ~EUR 3.25) 4 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-07-20 Emulator for the TI-89 graphing calculator
HP-45 scientific calculator (4@115; ~EUR 4.25) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$

Various other Emulators

2023-05-21

BkEmu - BK-0010/11M emulator (4.7@301) 2 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
J2ME Loader (4.5@25,824) Ǥ 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; MIDP Java (J2ME) Emulator
ScummVM (4.1@12,926) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
RetroArch (4@43,773) 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ 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 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github; Intro 2/2020; Video Walk-Through 6/2020; Wikipedia DE | EN
Reicast - Dreamcast emulator (3.3@27,415) 8 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ LastUpdate: 2020-04-20 Github;
Limbo x86 PC Emulator (3.1@8) 11 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
PalmOS Emulator StyleTap (14-Tage-Trial, then ~EUR 50)
Wine

ROMs & ROM Archives

2023-05-22

UniPatcher (3.7@7,397) Ǥ 5 $Contains no trackers known to us \o/$ Github
NeonRom3r

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

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